South Africa, Senegal, Ghana march against Rohingya violence in Myanmar

Suu Kyi invited members of the worldwide community to visit Rohingya villages, and said a central committee had been constituted to enforce the rule of law and spur development in Rakhine.

“Hate and fear are the main scourges of our world”, she said in a speech to a gathering of diplomats and journalists in Naypyitaw.

Myanmar’s military alleges that Rohingya militants attacked army bases in the state, however, has come under widespread criticism for targeting civilians.

She did not address this but insisted the country is committed to a sustainable solution to the conflict.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate said she was “concerned to hear the number of Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh” and felt “deeply for the suffering” of all groups in Rakhine.

“Burma’s senior military commanders are more likely to heed the calls of the worldwide community if they are suffering real economic consequences”, said John Sifton, HRW’s Asia advocacy director. Suu Kyi did not address that but said her government was committed to the rule of law.

The Rohingya crisis is both a humanitarian and security issue, Bangladesh minister Mohammed Shahriar Alam today said and did not rule out the possibility of links between Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and “foreign terrorist organisations”. “Are we looking at a million people arriving before end of this year?” the IOM official said. “Burma is a complex nation”.

Nobel Prize victor and defecto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, has drawn criticism for not condemning this military action against this ethnic minority.

More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled western Rakhine state into Bangladesh since a new outbreak of violence at the end of August, according to United Nations figures. The Rohingyas who are mainly Muslims speak a dialect of the Bengali language. “I said “it’s doing very well, but the only problem that we have is the refugees from Myanmar”, Hasina told Reuters in an interview.

“We don’t want Myanmar to be a nation divided by religious beliefs or ethnicities”.

One of the organisers and spokesperson of the Freedom & Justice Group Irbard Ibrahim said they will deliver a petition to the Israeli Embassy in Ghana to end the sale of weapons to Myanmar.

They have accused world leaders of turning a blind eye to the happenings in Myanmar hence their action.

The Buddhist-majority in Burma tend to be hostile to the Rohingya and they are dismissed as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh even though most Rohingya have ancestors who have lived in the country for centuries.