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Protest rallies held in Pakistan, Malaysia, Bangladesh

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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Pakistan’s major cities on Friday to condemn a crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Some rallyists wre carrying placards reading “Shame on Aung San Suu Kyi.”
The largely peaceful rallies were spearheaded by the Jamat-e-Islami (JI) organization, but several other groups including mainstream political parties also joined in.
Leaders including JI chief Siraj ul Haq called for an end to the “genocide” of the Rohingya and for Pakistan to break off relations with the government in Myanmar.
Pakistan has previously expressed “deep anguish” at the violence.
Many protesters also slammed Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, over her silence. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has faced criticism for failing to condemn the violence, leaving her global reputation in tatters.
A senior UN representative told AFP Friday that more than 1,000 people may already have been killed in the military-led crackdown, which has seen 270,000 mostly Rohingya civilians flee to Bangladesh in the last two weeks alone.
Others have died trying to flee the fighting in Rakhine State, where witnesses say entire villages have been burned since Rohingya militants launched a series of coordinated attacks on Aug. 25, prompting the crackdown.
In Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, which hosts one of the largest Rohingya populations outside of Myanmar, more than 2,000 people demonstrated outside the Karachi Press Club.
“If our leader gives the call, we will lay down our lives for the Burmese Muslims,” one protester, Maulana Ahmed, told AFP.
In the capital Islamabad a similarly sized crowd gathered at the entrance to the diplomatic enclave, inside which the Myanmar Embassy is situated.
Many carried placards reading: “Why are these Muslims being killed? What is their crime?” as chants of “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is the Greatest,” reverberated.
There were also some sporadic calls for “jihad,” or holy war.
Security forces with protective riot gear stood nearby and containers blocked off access to the enclave, with some small scuffles.
But police appeared relaxed as the demonstrators, some armed with batons, showed no signs of trying to go further into the diplomatic area.
Protests were also held in several other countries including neighboring Afghanistan, Malaysia and Bangladesh on Friday.
The Rohingya have long been subjected to discrimination in mostly Buddhist Myanmar, which regards them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship.
The death toll given to AFP by Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, is far higher than official tolls totalling 432.

New fires ravage Rohingya villages
Meanwhile, up to eight villages were burned down on Friday in a part of northwest Myanmar where large numbers of Muslim Rohingya had been sheltering from a wave of violence engulfing the area, a witness and three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The fires were blazing in the ethnically mixed Rathedaung township, where populations of Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists live side by side.
“Today around 4 p.m., I saw the smoke coming from where the villages were burning ...I saw it from the Chin village where I am staying now,” said a villager from the area contacted by Reuters by phone.

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