Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have held rallies in camps to mark the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown in Myanmar that forced them to flee.
Refugees from children to the elderly waved placards and chanted slogans on August 25 in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, demanding an end to violence and their safe return to Myanmar.
Many also wore ribbons bearing the words “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance.”.
The Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority, have long been a target of discrimination and ethnic violence in Myanmar.
In 2017, at least 750,000 Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh after the Myanmar military launched a crackdown that is now the subject of a genocide case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
In recent weeks, thousands more Rohingya have reportedly fled western Myanmar’s Rakhine state to Bangladesh as fighting escalates between the military regime and the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic armed group that recruits from the Buddhist majority.
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