Thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Agartala on Thursday to protest the alleged atrocities on Rohingya in Myanmar. The protestors slammed the State Counselor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi for allowing oppression and persecution against the religious minority.
“Hang Suu Kyi for ongoing genocide, mass rape and forceful eviction of Rohingyas”, they shouted. They held placards with pictures on the plight of the evacuees who now number up to 300,000 in southeast Bangladesh.
Traffic came to a grinding halt in the city for an hour due to the huge rally organised by the Tripura State unit of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind. Protestors from across the State joined in.
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“Our central body already expressed serious concern over coordinated atrocities against Rohingya people and appealed for intervention of world powers to save Muslims in Buddhist majority Myanmar”, said a local leader of Hind.
There was huge deployment of security forces in the city for the protest programme which ended peacefully. Besides Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, some other organisations planned protests over violence against Rohingya in Myanmar.
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Meanwhile, Tripura police said there has not been any report of Rohingya infiltration through any border route in the State. “There were detection of Rohingyas under Passport Act in the past, but none was found in recent days”, a senior police official told The Hindu .
He said most of the detainees earlier sneaked into the State from Bangladesh for their onward journey to Delhi or Jammu where a sizeable number of Rohingya refugees live.