Myanmar's state counselor urges for solving Rakhine issue in 3 ways
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Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has said there are three ways to solve the Rakhine crisis: Focusing on a diplomatic approach, reconstructing for development and providing security for the local people.
Aung San Suu Kyi, in her capacity of chairperson of the Committee of Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development (UEHRD) in Rakhine, made the call when meeting with local authorities at Sittway Airport as she was about to return to Nay Pyi Taw after a single-day inspection trip to areas in the northern part of Rakhine state affected by terrorist attacks over the past several months.
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar September 19, 2017. /Reuters Photo
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar September 19, 2017. /Reuters Photo
During her first ever visit to villages in Rakhine - Pantawpyin, Taungpyo Letwe and Kyikanpyin in Maungtaw - since the terrorist attacks in August that undermined the stability of the area, Aung San Suu Kyi urged the local people to cooperate in the long-term reconstruction and resettlement work, offering to provide vocational training and healthcare services to them and suggesting them to grow rice as well as other crops as the area contain fertile soil.
During the tour, she met with the Youth Humanitarian Coordination Group (YHCG), composed of young people from different races and religions who carry out voluntary services for the local people, as well as a group of Muslim religious leaders, urging them to live peacefully with the care of the government.
She also inspected an entry exit station in Maungtaw, the Myanmar-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge in Taungpyo Letwe and the campus of border guard police control team's headquarters in Kyikanpyin.
Myanmar's government has been implementing some short-term projects in northern Rakhine after the region regained security and stability destroyed by terrorists over the past three months.
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Sittwe airport after visiting Maungdaw in the state of Rakhine November 2, 2017. /Reuters Photo
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Sittwe airport after visiting Maungdaw in the state of Rakhine November 2, 2017. /Reuters Photo
On October 17, the government formed the UEHRD, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, for effective performance of long-term project of freedom from conflict.
The government also formed nine private sector task forces to join the Aung San Suu Kyi-led mechanism of UEHRD in northern Rakhine.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army extremist terrorists launched fresh attacks on police outposts in Rakhine on August 25, displacing residents from a number of areas in Maungtaw district.