The Foreign Minister of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has flown to Burma for emergency talks as pressure mounts on Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's leader, to resolve a humanitarian crisis in her country.
The Nobel peace prize laureate is facing severe international criticism over her Government's treatment of about 1.1 million Rohingya, one of the world's most persecuted groups, in her country's restive Rakhine state.
Retno Marsudi, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, arrived in Burma's capital, Rangoon, as protesters in her own capital, Jakarta, launched a Molotov cocktail at the Burmese embassy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President, said at the weekend that violence against the Muslim Rohingyas amounted to genocide, while British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned Suu Kyi that the oppression of the minority was "besmirching" her country's reputation.
About 73,000 Rohingya refugees have fled across the border from Burma, which is also known as Myanmar, to Bangladesh over the past week, with aid workers warning that relief camps can take no more. Nearly 400 people have died since the exodus began on August 25 after Rohingya insurgents attacked Burmese paramilitary posts, in what they claimed was an attempt to protect their Muslim minority from persecution.
