Arakan seeks India's help for food, meds to tackle Myanmar monsoon challenges

FLOOD-ravaged Arakan (Rakhine) region in Myanmar has sought assistance from India and other neighbouring countries for essentials like medicine, drinking water, food supplies and even agricultural products to tide over the monsoon challenges.

- YESHI SELI

"Monsoons in Myanmar are always intense and the Arakan region, which houses 3 million people in an area of 14,200 sq km, is submerged - whether its highways, paddy fields, villages, towns. There is a threat of an epidemic, besides the people are stranded. The Arakanese people through the ethnic rebel group the Arakan Army have sought help from India and other neighbouring countries and also international relief organisations to come to our rescue,"