Anti-Rohingya demonstrators to be charged with unlawful protest, say police

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Anti-Rohingya demonstrators to be charged with unlawful protest, say police

RANGOON: Hundreds of protesters assembled to condemn the US embassy’s use of the word in an April 20 statement offering condolences and expressing concern after 18 internally displaced Rohingya Muslims died when their boat capsized near Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State. One of the protesters’ rallying cries was, “There are no Rohingya in Burma.”

Zaw Win, deputy police chief for Kamayut Township, said that the protesters had violated the law governing the right to assembly by not getting permission first.

The police denied the group permission to protest in front of the US embassy, and offered a football field in Bahan Township as an alternative protest site. The group instead gathered first in front of Rangoon University, before marching to the nearby US embassy.

The term Rohingya, while widely accepted internationally, is highly contentious within Myanmar, where the Muslims minority is not accepted as one of 135 official ethnic groups recognized by a 1982 Citizenship Law.

The Thein Sein government, and Thursday’s protestors, referred to the group as “Bengali,” implying that they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, which borders western Arakan State. Many identifying as Rohingya trace familial roots to a life in Burma for generations.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) government’s position on the term remains unclear.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/161675

-- Thai PBS 2016-04-30

[Emster23]

For a moment I thought this may have happened in Thailand. Here we just quietly traffic them

[Jim walker]

Always someone moaning and protesting about something can every one not be deliriously happy like the thais in the land of smiles you never here the Thai people complaining about America or the junta here

[lvr181]

Always someone moaning and protesting about something can every one not be deliriously happy like the thais in the land of smiles you never here the Thai people complaining about America or the junta here

Maybe it is because Thai people are not interested or allowed to hear or SAY anything about America (or anywhere else in the world) or the junta? They just believe without question what is carefully fed to them?