Instead, the funds allocated for the festival will be donated to the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, leaders of Bangladesh Sammilito Boudhho Samaj said at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Monday. Probarona Purnima, the second largest festival of Buddhists in Bangladesh, is slated to be observed on Oct 5. The way Rohingyas are being subjected to torture in Buddhist-majority Myanmar is completely against the teachings of Gautama Buddha, said Suddhananda Mahathero, convener of Bangladesh Sammilito Boudhho Samaj. In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, an organisation of Buddhists alleged in a rally in Dhaka on Sept 8 that a 'vested quarter' was threatening the Buddhists over the Rohingya issue. Bangladesh Sammilito Boudhho Samaj handed a memorandum to officials of the Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka on Sept 10.

Source: bd News24 September 18, 2017 11:48 UTC