More than 500 people protested on Friday in Myanmar's northern city of Mandalay, demanding that the government officially denounce the U.S. government's use of the term "Rohingya" to describe western Myanmar's Muslim minority group.
About 50 Buddhist monks from the nationalist organization Ma Ba Tha and members of the Mandalay nationalist Saturday Group led a march along one of the main roads in east Mandalay, shouted slogans, and carried placards condemning the U.S. embassy's use of "Rohingya."
About 1.1 million Rohingya live in western Myanmar's Rakhine state where they are persecuted and stateless, and live in squalid displaced persons camps. (Courtesy of bignewsnetwork.com)
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