International communities living in Finland on Saturday staged a demonstration in front of the parliament building in Helsinki protesting the ongoing oppression of the Myanmar army on Rohingya people.

The speakers at the demonstration, led by Bangladeshi expatriates also demanded that the Myanmar government should take back the Rohingya refugees to their own country from Bangladesh immediately.

They also urged the international communities to create pressure on the Myanmar government to stop the inhuman activities and save the lives of the millions of Rohingya people.

About one hundred people from different strata bearing various banners and festoons joined the demonstration for about an hour and brought out a procession at the nearby roads before ending the programme, the organisers said.

The number of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since late August has reached 480,000, challenging efforts to care for them, according to UN.

With this 480,000, the total number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh reached to more than 700,000, said the UN sources.

A crackdown by Myanmar's army, launched on August 25, has pushed vast numbers of refugees from the stateless Muslim minority across the border with Bangladesh.

The violence has incubated a humanitarian crisis on both sides of the border.

The latest refugees, mainly women and children, have been telling authorities they were chased from their homes by vigilantes after a deadly rebel raid on August 25 on security posts in northern Rakhine State. Their homes were then set ablaze.