Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Bangladesh on Friday to protest the killing of Rohingya Muslims in neighbouring Myanmar, police said.
At least 15,000 supporters of the Islamist Islami Andolon Bangladesh party chanted slogans against Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi as they demonstrated in Dhaka and the town of Tongi to the north of the capital after Friday prayers.
“Myanmar army is carrying out a genocide of the Rohingya with the help of Suu Kyi’s Government. She must be held accountable and tried,” said party spokesman KM Atiqur Rahman.
Earlier, several thousand supporters of Bangladesh’s main opposition political party formed a human chain to protest the treatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority.
The UN says 270,000 Rohingya have arrived in Muslim- majority Bangladesh in the last fortnight after fleeing Myanmar.