Victoria Park: Noel Knockwood and Myanmar

victoria park: Speakers including Mi'kmaq elder Noel Knockwood, HRM Coun, according to The Chronicle Herald. Richard Zurawski and poet El Jones. About 60 people gathered in Victoria Park across from the Halifax Public Gardens to decry the brutal oppression inflicted upon Rohingyas by the Myanmar military. Jones recited a poem she wrote for the occasion that angrily condemned Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for calling the Muslim minority group terrorists and denying that they have been massacred, raped and tortured. About 615,000 of Myanmar's roughly one million Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh, where they are living in squalid refugee camps with little food, fresh water or shelter. The crimes of genocide over which you preside are now what your legacy provides, you stood in front of the world and you lied, Jones recited, moving some in the crowd to tears. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.