embassy had insulted Myanmar's sovereignty by using the term Rohingya instead of Bengali. Win Ko Ko Lat, leader of the Myanmar National Network, which organizes demonstrations, said the U.S. The previous government considered them illegal immigrants, although many have lived in Myanmar for generations. embassy that there is no such ethnicity as Rohingya in our country."Ībout 1.1 million Rohingya live in Rakhine state where authorities have imposed harsh restrictions on their movement and access to social services such as health care. "I want to declare something here to all foreign countries through the U.S. "International diplomats should study Myanmar's history," he said. "They used the term Rohingya instead of Bengalis – illegal immigrants from Bangladesh." embassy should take care using such controversial terms," said Pamaukkha, a prominent monk from the nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha. embassy's use of Rohingya in a statement issued on April 20. AFPĪbout 300 Myanmar nationalists on Thursday publicly excoriated the United States for using the term Rohingya to refer to the stateless, Muslim, ethnic minority group that has long lived in the western part of the country, despite the Buddhist majority's view that they are illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.īuddhist monks and other protesters marched from Yangon University to the American embassy in the commercial city, where some made speeches opposing the U.S. Myanmar protesters and monks from the hard-line Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha rally outside the U.S. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
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The Myanmar Now news portal said 64 people had been killed in total across the country by 2.30 pm (0800 GMT).Radio Free Asia, Myanmar nationalists protest U.S. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in parts of Myanmar on Saturday.Ī boy reported by local media to be as young as five was among at least 13 people killed in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay. The deaths on Saturday, one of the bloodiest days since the coup, would take the number of civilians reported killed to nearly 400.
"Today is a day of shame for the armed forces," Dr Sasa, a spokesman for CRPH, an anti-junta group set up by deposed lawmakers, told an online forum. Protesters against the February 1 military coup came out on the streets of Yangon, Mandalay and other towns, defying a warning that they could be shot 'in the head and back', while the country's generals celebrated Armed Forces Day. Meanwhile, Myanmar's security forces shot and killed at least 64 people - including a young boy - on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, even as the ruling junta's leader said the military would protect the people and strive for democracy. We are investigating the incident," embassy spokesperson Aryani Manring said. "We can confirm that shots were fired at the American Center Yangon on March 27. The United States has been strident in its criticism of the junta that seized power in Myanmar on February 1 and the killing of hundreds of anti-coup protesters by security forces. Gunshots were fired at the US cultural centre in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon on Saturday but caused no injuries, an embassy spokesperson said.
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