Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the "global community" needs to intervene to protect Myanmar's Muslim minority. She urged Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for the Rohingya. "We can't be silent right now. The number of people who have been displaced is hundreds of thousands," Malala told the BBC.
The human rights activist is about to become a student at Oxford and admitted to "nerves" about her new life. Speaking in Oxford, she called for an international response to the violence in Myanmar. "I think we can't even imagine for a second what it's like when your citizenship, your right to live in a country, is completely denied," said Malala.
"This should be a human rights issue. Governments should react to it. People are being displaced, they're facing violence. "Children are being deprived of education, they cannot receive basic rights - and living in a terrorism situation, when there's so much violence around you, is extremely difficult. "We need to wake up and respond to it-and I hope that Aung Sang Suu Kyi responds to it as well," she said.
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