South African Muslims March to Parliament Over Myanmar Killings

Over a thousand demonstrators led by the Muslim Judicial Council have marched to Parliament in Cape Town demanding that the Myanmar ambassador be summoned by the South African government to account for the reported ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in the Asian nation. This comes after Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on de facto Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out about the crisis.

Over a thousand people marched to Parliament to protest against the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

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