More than 18,000 Muslims in Bangladesh condemn persecution against Rohingyas in Myanmar
A great number of Muslim demonstrators gathered on Monday Myanmar's embassy in Bangladesh to reacted to mass killings and rapes in Myanmar against Rohingya people.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 18 September 2017
- Modified Date: 04:03 | 18 September 2017
More than 18,000 Muslims in Bangladesh have marched toward Myanmar's embassy to protest the country's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
More than 412,000 ethnic Rohingya have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar in the past month and are living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh. Many say their homes were burned by Myanmar's military and by Buddhist mobs.
* Members of Islamist groups gather to siege Myanmar embassy for the recent violence against Rohingya Muslim in Myanmar, in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on September 18, 2017. (AFP Photo)
The protesters chanted slogans and waved Bangladesh's flag as they marched through the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. One banner said "Stop killing Rohingya."
* Supporters of the Hefazat-e-Islam march towards Myanmar Embassy to protest against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. (AP Photo)
The march, organized by the hard-line Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam, began from Bangladesh's main mosque but was stopped by police well before the protesters reached the embassy.
* Bangladesh police braced on September 18 as around 20,000 Islamist hardliners marched on the Myanmar embassy to protest against the violence driving the Rohingya Muslim minority out of the Buddhist-majority nation. (AP Photo)