Arakan News Agency
A coalition of 20 political parties led by the Myanmar Solidarity and Development Party called on the government to inform the international community of the lack of an ethnic group called “Rohingya” in the country.
The parties’ representatives signed a statement containing four demands: improving public security in the region, providing more security for government officials, implementing the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2014 and refusing to recognized about one million Muslims as “Rohingya” in Arakan.
The Myanmar government considers the Rohingya ethnic group to be an outsider, although they have been there for hundreds of years and call them Bengalis, meaning they are immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.
