Dalai Lama: Help the Rohingya

epa04693369 The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama , greets the audience upon his arrival at a symposium on environment in Tokyo, Japan, 06 April 2015. The 79-year-old spiritual leader is currently on a 13-day visit to Japan to give lectures and attend symposiums accross the country. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON

SYDNEY: The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to help Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority amid a worsening migration crisis.

Despite thousands of Rohingya fleeing on harrowing boat journeys to South-East Asia to escape poverty and discriminatory treatment by the country’s Buddhist majority, opposition leader Suu Kyi is yet to comment.