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More education centres for refugee kids in Malaysia
Monday, June 17, 2013 New_Straits_Times, Rohingya_News No comments
Ahmad Azam Ab Rahman (fifth from left) launches the Penang Rohingya Education Centre Sports Day at the Sony Sports Complex in Seberang Jaya. Rahmat Khairulrijal New Straits TimesJune 17, 2013 ESSENTIAL: A non-governmental organisation is setting up three more Rohingya Education Centres in Kedah, Pahang and Johor in the next three years BUKIT MERTAJAM: THE Future Global Network Foundation (FGN) will be setting up three more Rohingya Education…
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Police continue search for missing Rohingya children
Monday, June 17, 2013 Phuket_Gazette, Rohingya_News No comments
(Photo: Phuket Gazette) Orawin Narabal Phuket GazetteJune 17, 2013 PHUKET: Police continue to search for the missing 22 Rohingya children who have run away from the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families on Koh Sireh. The children have been missing since early April, says Phuket City Police Chief Sermphan Sirikong. “I have notified the investigation team, and from time to time we patrol Muslim areas to look for them and ask villagers if…
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Rushanara Ali MP calls on the UK Government to exert pressure on Burma to end discrimination against the Rohingya and find an urgent resolution to their citizenship status
Monday, June 17, 2013 Press_Release, Rushanara_Ali No comments
For Immediate Release Following her recent visit to Rakhine State with Refugees International, Rushanara Ali MP, Shadow Minister for International Development, spoke in a Westminster Hall debate to call for an end to the discrimination against the Rohingya community in Burma and an urgent resolution to their citizenship status. The humanitarian situation Since inter-communal violence broke out a year ago in Rakhine State, Rohingya Muslims…
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Co-operate to solve the religious conflict: Win Tin
Monday, June 17, 2013 Mizzima, National_News No comments
NLD veteran Win Tin speaks out against the continuing religious conflict in Myanmar. Photo: Mizzima Mizzima News June 17, 2013 Veteran dissident Win Tin on Friday called for the people of Myanmar to work together to solve continuing communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists across the country. “If we see conflict, we must solve it with the given law,” said the National League for Democracy co-founder at an event organized by the…
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Repatriation after stability?
Monday, June 17, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Daily_Star No comments
(Photo: Matias) The Daily Star June 17, 2013 MYANMAR would start repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh but only after the situation in that country became stable. The conditional assurance came at the latest round of foreign office consultations held in Myanmar, between June 14 and 15. There are presently 25,045 registered Rohingya refugees residing in two camps at Kutupalong and Noyapara waiting to be repatriated to Myanmar….
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Burma is changing but Human Rights is still an issue: Münster Conference
Sunday, June 16, 2013 RB_News No comments
RB News June 16, 2013 Münster, Germany: On 15th of June, Amnesty International Münster has organized a penal discussion on Burma Human Rights situation by the theme of “How to improve Human Rights in Burma” at Münster Community College. More than 50 persons attended the penal discussion including some Burmese nationals with various ethnic backgrounds. The penal was moderated by Dr. Ludger Weckel, co-founder and member of the Institute…
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Speakers demand halt to Rohingyas’ killings
Saturday, June 15, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Nation_Pakistan No comments
(Photo: Pakistan Observer) Amir Jalil Bobra The Nation PK June 15, 2013 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan should approach International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the United Nations (UN) to stop the brutal genocide of peaceful Muslim community in Myanmar (Burma) while OIC and Muslim Ummah should also play their due role in this regard. This was demanded at a roundtable organised by Nazria Council of Pakistan (NPC) on Friday. NPC Chairman Zahid Malik,…
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Rohingya Refugee issues raised at UNHCR Annual Consultations Conference in Geneva
Friday, June 14, 2013 Activities, BROUK, RB_News No comments
RB News June 14, 2013 Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK President Tun Khin raised the issues of Rohingya IDPs inside Burma as well as about the Rohingya refugees living abroad particularly in Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Malaysia at the UNHCR annual consultations Conference which was held in UN International Conference Center Geneva on last Tuesday and Wednesday. During the consultation, Tun Khin asked the conference to address…
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Continuous Robberies by Burmese Military in Maung Daw
Friday, June 14, 2013 Maung_Aurther, RB_News 1 comment
Maung Auther RB News June 14, 2013 Maung Daw, Arakan – Captain Htaik Soe of Military Light Infantry Unit 355 and U Tin Tun, head of Police Base, at Kayemyaing, Southern Maung Daw and their comrades are continuously beating and robbing Rohingyas in Southern Maung Daw. According to the reports, they had robbed three Rohingyas in Southern Maung Daw on 11th June 2013. Besides, “between 9:30AM and 1PM on 12th June 2013, they robbed money…
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Parliament chief says discrimination banned in Myanmar
Friday, June 14, 2013 AFP, National_News No comments
(Photo: AFP/Soe Than Win) AFP June 14, 2013 WASHINGTON — Myanmar’s influential parliament speaker vowed Thursday to press forward with democratic reforms but said the country already had laws against discrimination amid a furor over anti-Muslim violence. Shwe Mann, a former general who is a key architect of reforms and is eyeing the presidency, was visiting Washington, where he said he hoped to study the US democratic system including…
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Rohingya diaspora calls for probe into Myanmar ‘genocide’
Friday, June 14, 2013 Interview, Radio_Australia 1 comment
Radio Australia June 14, 2013 European MPs have jointly condemned the violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, and called on the government to do more to protect them. The European Parliament has passed a motion saying it condemns the grave violations of human rights against the Muslim minority in Rakhine state. The motion says it “deplores the failure of the Myanmar government to protect the Rohingyas against organised violence.” The…
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EU to provide 200,000 euro to assist Rohingya refugees in Thailand
Friday, June 14, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Nation No comments
(Photo: Phuket Wan) The Nation June 14, 2013 The European Union is committing 200,000 euro to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees being detained in Thailand, the EU Delegation to Thailand announced Friday. The help will be directed to Rohingya men at detention centres and Rohingya women and children at social welfare facilities. TheInternational Organization for Migration (IOM) will take charge of…
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Myanmar to screen Rohingya refugees
Thursday, June 13, 2013 Bangkok_Post, Rohingya_News No comments
Bangkok Post June 13, 2013 BALI – The Myanmar government will next week begin a process of screening the nationalities of about 2,000 Rohingya migrants now being sheltered in Thailand, Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said on Thursday. Mr Surapong said Myanmar Foreign Minister Wanna Muang Lwin had informed him that Nay Pyi Taw had set up a working group, led by Myanmar ambassador to Thailand Myo Tint, to begin examining the nationalities…
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EU Parliament calls for end of human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims
Thursday, June 13, 2013 KUNA, Rohingya_News No comments
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)June 13, 2013The European Parliament Thursday passed a resolution condemning the “grave violations of human rights and the violence perpetrated against Rohingya Muslims in Burma/Myanmar.” The resolution urges the government and the whole of Burmese/Myanmar society ” to act immediately to end the human rights abuses against the Rohingya Muslims and to bring the perpetrators of the violent attacks and other related abuses…
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Claim Thai military trafficking Rohingya refugees
Thursday, June 13, 2013 ABC_News, Interview No comments
(Photo: YATEEM TV) Zoe Daniel ABC News June 13, 2013 There are new allegations that the Thai navy is involved in the human trafficking of Rohingya Muslims trying to flee religious violence in western Myanmar. The ABC has tracked down Rohingya Muslims in Malaysia who claim they were intercepted, brutally beaten and then sold to traffickers by the Thai military. ASHLEY HALL: There are new allegations that the Thai navy is involved in the…
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Rakhine sectarian violence – one year on
Thursday, June 13, 2013 Interview, IRIN No comments
IRIN News June 13, 2013 SITTWE – One year after Myanmar’s worst sectarian violence in decades, tension between the Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in the country’s western Rakhine State remains high. An estimated 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), mainly Rohingya Muslims, are spread across some 80 camps and makeshift sites, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Many more who were not directly…
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Malaysia warns Myanmar immigrants fearing sectarian clashes
Thursday, June 13, 2013 AP, National_News No comments
Fighting in several neighborhoods around Kuala Lumpur earlier this month triggered worries in Malaysia that tensions between Myanmar’s Buddhists and Muslim minority had spilled over to a country that hosts hundreds of thousands of Myanmar nationals. (Reuters) Associated Press June 13, 2013 Malaysia’s government on Thursday warned immigrants from neighboring Myanmar not to restart sectarian clashes that recently killed four people. The…
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Burma Muslim jailed for petrol attack on Buddhist woman
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 BBC, National_News No comments
Parts of Lashio, such as this market, were destroyed in the unrest BBC News June 12, 2013 A Burmese Muslim man has been sentenced to 26 years in jail for an attack on a Buddhist woman that led to at least two days of violence in Shan State in May. Nay Win, 48, was convicted for setting the woman alight at a petrol station. After the attack, Buddhist youths armed with sticks roamed the streets in the town of Lashio in search of Muslims. In…
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UK MP: ethnic cleansing of Rohingya needs investigating…
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Karen_News, Rohingya_News No comments
(Photo: Reuters) Karen News June 12, 2013 Britain’s Foreign Office Minister says investigation into ethnic conflict in Burma is needed. Britain’s Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi noted in parliament that “independent investigative work” is required for “an informed assessment as to whether ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been committed” in Burma. The statement came on Wednesday, 5 June, in which Baroness…
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US Voices Concerns Over Proposed Two-Child Limit For Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Rohingya_News, RTT_News No comments
(Photo: Phuket Wan) RTT News June 12, 2013 The United States on has expressed concern over reports that the Myanmar (formerly Burma) government is planning to implement a population control regulation that restricts ethnic Rohingya Muslims in the country’s west to having a maximum of two children. The U.S. reaction came after Myanmar’s Immigration Minister Khin Yi publicly supported the controversial two-child limit on the Rohingya Muslim…
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Rohingya Refugee issues raised at UNHCR Annual Consultations Conference in Geneva
RB News June 14, 2013 Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK President Tun Khin raised the issues of Rohingya IDPs inside Burma as well…
11-years-old Rohingya girl killed by Rakhine extremists
RB News June 11, 2013 Mrauk-U, Arakan – The Rohingyas living in Mrauk-U Township have been facing difficulties to lead normal lives …
Q&A: “The U.N. Is Too Slow to Respond to Crisis”
Inter Press Service June 10, 2013 UNITED NATIONS – As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the cou…
Burma is changing but Human Rights is still an issue: Münster Conference
RB News June 16, 2013 Münster, Germany : On 15th of June, Amnesty International Münster has organized a penal discussion on Burma…
Speakers demand halt to Rohingyas’ killings
(Photo: Pakistan Observer) Amir Jalil Bobra The Nation PK June 15, 2013 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan should approach International Cour…
Continuous Robberies by Burmese Military in Maung Daw
Maung Auther RB News June 14, 2013 Maung Daw, Arakan – Captain Htaik Soe of Military Light Infantry Unit 355 and U Tin Tun, head …
Parliament chief says discrimination banned in Myanmar
(Photo: AFP/Soe Than Win) AFP June 14, 2013 WASHINGTON — Myanmar’s influential parliament speaker vowed Thursday to press fo…
Ethnic-based clashes in Myanmar spill over to streets of Kuala Lumpur
Rashvinjeet S. Bedi The Star Online June 11, 2013 PETALING JAYA : For the past two weeks, Myanmar national Muhammad Sadek, 41, …
Rohingya diaspora calls for probe into Myanmar ‘genocide’
Radio Australia June 14, 2013 European MPs have jointly condemned the violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, and called on …
Burma Muslim jailed for petrol attack on Buddhist woman
Parts of Lashio, such as this market, were destroyed in the unrest BBC News June 12, 2013 A Burmese Muslim man has been sentenced…
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