"Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: No one has died because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program."
"Taher is one of 145,000 people forced to live inside squalid, prison-like camps in the state of Rakhine by the ruling military. Most, like Taher, are members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, which was attacked by the military in 2017 in what the U.S. declared a genocide. After their food rations evaporated, Taher's family meals shrank from three a day to one. Taher, his wife and his five children grew so weak, there were days they could not walk. Little Hashim faded."
A two-year-old Rohingya boy died after food rations stopped arriving at his family's internment camp in Myanmar, leaving the child weakened by diarrhea and hunger. Meals for the family fell from three per day to one, and family members became too weak to walk. Soldiers barred residents from leaving the camp to find food, and medical care was unaffordable. Approximately 145,000 people, mostly Rohingya, remain confined in squalid, prison-like camps in Rakhine. U.S. foreign aid reductions are blamed by camp residents for worsening hunger, malnutrition, and preventable deaths.
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