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Floods after heavy monsoon rains displaced more than 16,000 people in Myanmar, local media reported yesterday. A total of 16,792 people were displaced by the floods, which began this weekend in southeastern Kayin state, the Myanmar Times reported on Wednesday, citing the disaster management department. Some 10,368 people were forced to flee their homes in the state capital, Hpa-an, because of the flooding of the Thanlwin River, he added. Many evacuation centers have been set up across the state to provide temporary shelter to the victims.
Monsoon rains affected much of the Philippines, Japan, and Southeast Asia this summer.
The loss of shelter due to monsoon rains and many infectious diseases due to polluted water sources. Aid agencies warned that the monsoon could trigger "an emergency in an emergency" for nearly one million Rohingyas living in temporary shelters in southeastern Bangladesh. Many hillsides have been cleared to make way for shelters, making the land very unstable. The region is prone to cyclones, landslides and devastating showers during the rainy season, which arrives in June and usually lasts three months.
About 700,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh since the crackdown on the army in Rakhine State. August. Myanmar accuses Rohingya militants of attacking security posts in Rakhine State on August 25, which triggered a fierce crackdown on the army. At least 9,000 Rohingyas were killed in Rakhine State from August 25 to September 24, according to Doctors Without Borders. In a report last December, the world's humanitarian group said the death of 71.7 percent, or 6,700 rohingyas, was caused by violence. The stateless Rohingyas have been the target of community violence and vicious anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar Buddhism for years. Last year, monsoon rains caused landslides at Cox's Bazaar and around Chittagong Hill Tracts, killing at least 170 people. More than 100 people died in the landslides in the region in 2012, and two years earlier, about 50 perished. An estimated 200,000 refugees are directly threatened by landslides and floods and need to be relocated, aid agencies working in the camps said
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