DHAKA: Several hundred Buddhist nationalists protested in Yangon on Wednesday against mounting international pressure for Myanmar to stem the exodus of Muslim Rohingya migrants and aid those still stranded at sea.

Demonstrators, including Buddhist monks, shouted ‘Don’t insult our country!’ and ‘There are no Rohingya in Myanmar’ in angry chants aimed mainly at the United Nations.

The migrant crisis in southeast Asia has shone a spotlight on the dire conditions and discrimination faced by the roughly one million Rohingya in western Myanmar, a group widely seen as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

‘This 1.3 million people are not from our country. I do not accept there is a Rohingya ethnicity here,’ said protester Kyaw Htet, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1556 HRS, MAY 27, 2015
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