The Myanmar embassy should be shut down and its citizens deported if its government continues to intensify violence against the Rohingyas, said red-shirts leader Jamal Md Yunos today.

He was at a protest alongside members of the Rohingya community, who marched from the Tabung Haji Building to the Myanmar embassy to protest the violence in the Rakhine State.

Jamal said that the Home Ministry would be justified in closing the embassy and deporting Myanmar citizens due to the “silence” of the Myanmar government over the conflict, which has killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands...