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Hundreds of thousands of Myanmar anti-government protesters have taken to social networking sites to display their black-and-white image in protest of the Rohingya, a minority group.

Since the overthrow of military leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, the militant anti-apartheid movement has grown to include the struggle for minority rights.

Muslims-Rohingya who are often seen as Bangladeshi and mostly Myanmar – have been beaten for citizenship, freedom, employment opportunities and freedom of movement.

In 2017, a bloody war in western Myanmar sent about 740,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh carrying news of rapes, massacres and arson.

The military has already said that the abduction was necessary to put an end to the insurgency, and Aung San Suu Kyi defended the military’s move to The Hague to protest the killings at the UN High Court.

The people of Myanmar did not sympathize with the plight of the Rohingya, while human rights activists and journalists who reported on the plight faced online violence.

On Sunday, freedom fighters and civilians took to the television to take pictures of themselves dressed in black and greeted them with a third-of-a-kind fingerprint, in letters labeled “#Black4Rohingya”.

“Justice must [be] served every one of us and every one of us in Myanmar, “said fellow Thinzar Shunlei Yi on Twitter.

Local media outlets also staged a small demonstration at a Myanmar shopping mall in Yangon, with black-clad demonstrators holding up Burmese posters that they say are “against Rohingya oppressed”.

By evening, the # Black4Rohingya hashtag was circulating on Twitter in Myanmar with more than 332,000 posts.

The weekly demonstration of many Buddhists, of many races, is very different from previous years when even the use of the word “Rohingya” was a lightning bolt in the controversy.

‘Cooperation is essential’

Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, told Al Jazeera that the # Black4Rohingya campaign “received a lot of encouragement and cooperation from our Burmese colleagues this year”.

“In the past, we only had international donors, but since the government took over, we have received apologies from individuals and organizations in Myanmar,” he added.

“The unity from our Burmese friends is very important to us. We had no friends in our own country, we were seen as enemies, intruders, intruders and ordinary people but now most of them have accepted Rohingya as their fellow citizens. Many of them realized that the soldiers had disturbed them.

“People who used to call us ‘Bengali’ now call us Rohingya. This means that they now respect human rights. ”

Rooh San Lwin, a well-known Rohingya in Europe, told AFP that the online campaign was an annual awareness campaign but Sunday was the “first time” to see Myanmar.

“I am very happy to see those in Myanmar who are sharing in this work. I really hope to have a strong relationship from them, ”he said.

The image of the National Unity Government (NUG) – created by Myanmar’s ousted advisers working on military recruiting – has also given the olive branch to a small group, inviting them to “join hands … a recent announcement.

NUG has been called “terrorist” by the military, while military leader Min Aung Hlaing has called “Rohingya” a “thoughtful word”.

Since the attack earlier this year, more than 860 people have been killed in brutal beatings by security forces, according to the monitoring team – the dead are terrified by outsiders.

On Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Myanmar had moved from a “weak democracy to a human rights crisis” – and expressed deep concern for the escalating violence in areas such as Kayah, Chin and Kachin.

The television program Sunday evening criticized Bachelet’s remarks, saying the international community “should not be biased”.