Bangladesh's interim government said Tuesday it was open to a UN aid corridor through its territory to reach starving civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
But the proposal, raised by United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on a visit to Bangladesh in March, has also sparked widespread criticism by politicians in Dhaka.
Around a million members of the persecuted and mostly Muslim Rohingya live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, most of whom arrived after fleeing a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.
Bangladesh, and the UN, want to provide stable conditions in Myanmar for Rohingya to eventually return -- but in their old homeland in Rakhine state, the anti-junta Arakan Army (AA) stands off against junta forces.
On Monday Myanmar marked one month since suffering its fiercest earthquake in more than a century, with . . .
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