Myanmar nationalists are calling for the US ambassador to be sent home

Buddhist nationalist demonstrators stepped up demands that the government recall the US ambassador amid a row over his use of the word ‘Rohingya’.

About 100 people, including monks, rallied in Yangon’s Bahan Township yesterday, shouting “No Rohingya in Myanmar”, the Myanmar Times reported.

“Former president U Thein Sein already announced there are no Rohingya in our country,” monk Pyin Nyein Da told the Times. “Now the NLD government has the duty to clarify the usage of the term ‘Rohingya’.” (Courtesy of yangon.coconuts.co)