Suu Kyi asks Australia, Asean for help with Rohingya crisis

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The Guardian :
Aung San Suu Kyi has reportedly personally addressed Myanmar’s ongoing Rohingya crisis at a closed-door meeting of south-east Asian leaders, asking for help from Asean nations with humanitarian relief and Myanmar’s capacity to recover from the conflict.
At a meeting of leaders at the Australia-Asean summit in Sydney, Suu Kyi addressed the issue “comprehensively [and] at some considerable length”, the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said.
“Aung San Suu Kyi … seeks support from Asean and other nations to provide help from a humanitarian and capacity-building point-of-view. Everyone seeks to end the suffering.”
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More than 650,000 of the Rohingya ethnic and religious minority have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since August, fleeing systemic violence from the country’s military, including murder, rape and the deliberate torching of villages.
The UN has said the persecution “bears all the hallmarks of genocide” but Myanmar
The following month Baishakh marks start of the lunar calendar and the advent of hot summer. Although unusual, the phenomenon is not abnormal for the season, meteorologists have said. The fog started to engulf different areas in Dhaka around 8am. The situation remained unchanged till 11am. “This is not totally abnormal. Air pollution could have played a role,” said senior BMD official Ruhul Quddus.
Meteorologists term such fog as ‘mist’ that brings down the visibility level between 1,000 to 2,000 metres. Fog is when the visibility level goes below 1,000 metre. Fog occurs early in the morning if temperature drops at night, Quddus said. Amount of water vapour increases at the lower level of clouds creating foggy weather in dusty areas, said the Bangladesh Meteorological Department official.
“This is the month of March and clouds are visible at places. Mists are occurring due to dusts. We can conclude that air pollution is the reason in case the situation persists.”
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