Rohingya demonstration in downtown London, Ont. calls on Canadian government to do more to stop genocide

CTV News
Bryan Bicknell
CTV News London Reporter
Published May 26, 2024 

Members of London, Ont.'s Rohingya-Canadian community demonstrate at Victoria Park against genocide in Myanmar on May 25, 2024. (Bryan Bicknell/CTV News London)
 

Approximately 100 members of London’s Rohingya-Canadian community demonstrated at Victoria Park in London Saturday, trying to bring awareness to what they said is a second wave of genocide on Rohingyas in Myanmar.

An Escalating Rohingya Refugee Crisis Calls for a Renewed Canadian Response

ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION
Authors: Pia Silvia Rozario, Suyesha Dutta
Published: September 15, 2023 

As the 2023 Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit concluded in Jakarta, Indonesia, in early September, Southeast Asian leaders “strongly condemned” the continuing violence against civilians in Myanmar, one of ASEAN’s member states. In a 19-point statement, leaders called on the Myanmar Armed Forces to reduce violence and cease deliberate attacks on civilians, residences, and essential public infrastructure. One of the most visible examples of such violence carried out by the Myanmar military pre-dates the current civil war: the persecution of the Rohingya, a majority-Muslim ethnic group, many of them from Rakhine State in the west.