Thousands of monks took to the streets in Myanmar’s two main cities on Monday to protest against a world Islamic body’s attempts to help Muslim Rohingya in unrest-hit Rakhine state, organisers said. Around 3,000 maroon-robed clerics, some shouting and holding banners reading “No OIC”, marched through downtown Yangon, in the latest rally against the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. Thousands more protested in the country’s second-largest city Mandalay and in a further demonstration in the town of Pakokku in Magway region in central Myanmar, according to organisers.