Africans march against Rohingya violence in Myanmar

In the spirit of solidarity with global citizens, Africans across some countries in the continent have risen in protest march condemning violence against Muslim community in Myanmar.
Protest marches took place in some African countries including Senegal, South Africa, and Ghana against the violence by Myanmar security forces targeting the Rohingya Muslim-minority.
Myanmar (Burmese) officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state located in the Southeast Asian region.
Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast.
Many religions are practiced in Myanmar but there is gradual religious and ethnic cleansing for which Muslims are the most targeted and persecuted by the Buddhist majority government.
Agency reports said that thousands came out in the streets of Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Dakar and Accra in solidarity with the over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh to escape a seeming ethnic cleansing.
South Africa’s march was held last Wednesday and Friday with protesters demanding the intervention of the Myanmar government to end the violence
One of the organisers of Wednesday’s Cape Town protest Hajji Allie told the media that they are also demanding the return of the Myanmar ambassador to South Africa to his country.
The protest in Pretoria on Friday was held outside the Myanmar Embassy.
In Dakar on Friday, the protesters from various religious organisations carried banners in solidarity with the Rohingya people as they marched from the central mosque in Dakar to the Obelisk Square.
The leaders read statements in French, Arabic and English denouncing the violence and demanding action by the international community as well as the prosecution of the anti-Muslim Burmese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu whom they want to be tried by the International Criminal Court for preaching violence.

“He has destroyed the humanist teaching of Buddha and has transformed it into a racial persecution, mass murder and ethnic cleansing,” one of the organisers Mame Mactar Gueye read from a joint statement by the Jamra and Mbagn Gaccé Muslim groups in Senegal.
They also called for Aung San Su Kyi to be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize for her complicity
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