Rohingya leaders appeal for aid mon

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Subject: Rohingya leaders appeal for aid monks join movement against Burma  junta

Winston Lee@SHI
03/20/97 12:55 PM



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                  Copyright 1992 The British Broadcasting Corporation

                        BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
                           March 4, 1992, Wednesday

         Part 3 The Far East; A. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS; 3. FAR EASTERN
                     RELATIONS; FE/1320/A3/ 1; ; 164 words

                               SOUTH ASIA
 Rohingya leaders appeal for aid monks join movement against Burma junta




Leaders of the Rohingya Muslim refugees in Cox's Bazaar made a passionate
appeal today [2nd
March] to [the] Bangladesh government and the international community,
including the United
Nations, to compel Myanmar military junta to immediately stop mass
expulsion of Rohingya
Muslims from their ancestral homes in Arakan. They also called upon the
international community to
condemn and boycott Myanmar military government for gross violation of
human rights by
perpetrating atrocities on innocent Muslims in Myanmar.

The Buddhist monks in Arakan have been continuing their movement against
the Myanmar military
junta, despite arrests and torture. The president of Burmese [word
indistinct] Monks' Union told
[the Bangladesh news agency] BSS at Cox's Bazaar that monks have joined the
 anti-junta
movement in order to restore basic rights of the people. He said the monks
will continue their
movement along with the people to oust the military junta from power.





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