Uproar in Bangladesh over Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya
People in Bangladesh have reacted angrily to the Myanmar government’s crackdown on Rohingya minority group.
Many people have expressed their dissatisfaction on social media sites- facebook, twitter. Some of them have shared a petition that asks for taking back Aung San Suu Kyi’s Noble Peace Prize.
A facebook user Ferdous Alam wrote in a post: we are demanding to take back Aung San Suu Kyi’s Noble Peace Prize. He also posted a photo of the crackdown.
Another facebook user Imam Hasan wrote in a facebook post: “Stop killing innocent Muslims in Myanmar.
A group of Islamists also took street after Jumma prayer in Dhaka and urged the United Nations to action against the crackdown on Rohingyas in Myanmar.
Myanmar government has been conducting crackdown on Rohingya minority group for last couple of days. Hundreds of people from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar are trying to escape the military crackdown by crossing the border into Bangladesh, BBC reported.
The people attempting to flee include children.
Witnesses and Bangladeshi officials say that some people trying to flee have been shot and killed.
At least 130 people have died during a military operation in Rakhine state, where many of the minorities live, in just over a month.
The state has seen simmering tension between its Buddhist and Muslim populations following co-ordinated attacks last month that killed nine police officers, which police blamed on the Rohingya.
Since then, soldiers have closed down parts of Rakhine state and stopped aid workers and independent observers from entering.
The government says "violent attackers" and some members of the security forces have been killed.
Around 100,000 Rohingya people still live in camps after violence that flared up in 2012 forcing them to leave their homes.
Last year, images of hundreds of Rohingya people floating in fishing boats shocked the world. They were trying to escape by sea to Malaysia. Asian countries agreed to work together to try to stem the crisis.
