Malaysia summons Myanmar ambassador over violence in Rakhine State

“However, if the current situation in Rakhine is not addressed judiciously, it would result in the fleeing of more Rohingyas to neighbouring countries, including Malaysia”.

Bangladesh was home to around 400,000 Rohingya refugees before the latest crisis – majority living in already crowded camps that are struggling to cope with the influx. I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same.

How can any government in a democratic republic that is still ruled by its Constitution turn back people who are facing sure death – either by bullets, or starvation, or by being hacked, or by being burnt down, or by drowning – in their homeland which refuses to call them their own?

In addition to the Rohingya, at least 11,000 Rakhine Buddhists and Hindus have fled arson and attacks by militants to camps inside Myanmar, according to the last government update. But even before the most recent developments, Suu Kyi had displayed a disconcerting sensibility regarding Muslims in Myanmar. They “create an environment where (the insurgent group) can increase its legitimacy and recruiting base among local communities and more easily intimidate and kill Rohingya who disagree with it and lack any real protection from the state”, the International Crisis Group said in a statement recently.

Besides Rohingya Muslims, the report further examines the broader portrait of Muslims of various ethnic groups throughout Myanmar following waves of communal violence against them in 2012 and 2013. The right wing rhetoric in Myanmar is a familiar one – danger of Buddhism being overtaken by fast-breeding Muslims, in a state that is nearly 90 per cent Buddhist.

“So no one should teach India the lesson on how to deal with refugees”, he said.

Anifah on Monday told AFP he was “dissatisfied” with Myanmar s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi s silence on the crisis.

On his official Instagram account, Kadyrov labeled attacks on Rohingya as “genocide”. “Rohingya people should be given citizenship in Myanmar, the country where they were born”, she added.

The message was conveyed by deputy secretary-general for bilateral affairs Raja Nushirwan Zainal Abidin to the Myanmar ambassador during the meeting at Wisma Putra in Putrajaya.

The Centre and the Assam government on Tuesday made it clear that Rohingya immigrants from Myanmar have to return to their native country. On Monday, some 200 people, including women and children, protested the violence at the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, with some holding placards urging the government to stop the killing.

The military’s response was slammed by the United Nations for human rights violations.

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest victor of the Nobel Peace Prize, on Monday called on Suu Kyi to condemn the “shameful” treatment of the Rohingya, saying “the world is waiting” for her to speak out. They are clearing forest to create new settlements.

In the phone call with Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner of Myanmar’s junta, Erdogan said growing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims “deeply concerned” the entire world, sources from his office said.