Japan will contribute $19 million (around ¥2 billion) in emergency grant aid via international organizations to support Myanmar's Rohingya people, who have fled homes in the country's Rakhine State to escape persecution and violence by the military, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Japanese officials said Tokyo will maintain humanitarian assistance to Myanmar even as it condemns the military coup on Feb. 1 that ousted a democratically elected government and saw State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders detained.
The grant aid will be used to supply medical and sanitary goods to a total of 58 hospitals and health care facilities in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, where many of the Rohingya have taken refuge, and to provide food to a total of 600,000 people in both countries, the ministry said.