Bangladesh backs UN aid corridor proposal to troubled Myanmar

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.