US urged to act against violence toward Rohingya

FAIRFAX, USA - NOVEMBER 17: Robert Marro, who runs a U.S.-based non-governmental Burma (Myanmar) Task Force, and Anadolu Agency’s Washington correspondent Safvan Allahverdi, who recently visited the refugee camps in Bangladesh, speak at an event held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA on November 17, 2017. Americans should pressure the U.S. government to act against the ongoing violence toward Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Marro said. Speaking at an event held at George Mason University in Virginia on Friday, Robert Marro, said everyone has to be informed about the injustices in Rakhine State in order to stop “genocide”. Since Aug. 25, an estimated 620,000 Rohingya have crossed from Myanmar's western state of Rakhine into Bangladesh, according to the UN. The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched Rohingya villages. According to Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali, around 3,000 Rohingya have been killed in the crackdown. (Footage by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)