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Up to 15 years for 7 Buddhists in Myanmar Islamic school massacre that left dozens dead
Thursday, July 11, 2013 AP, National_News No comments
Associated Press July 11, 2013 YANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar court sentenced seven Buddhists to between three and 15 years in jail for their roles in a massacre at an Islamic boarding school that left dozens of students and teachers dead, while a Muslim convicted in one related killing received a life sentence. In all, 24 Buddhists and five Muslims have been sentenced to jail this week for their roles in sectarian rioting March 20 and 21…
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Muslim nations press UN over Myanmar Rohingyas
Thursday, July 11, 2013 AFP, Rohingya_News No comments
AFP July 11, 2013 Islamic nations on Wednesday called on UN leader Ban Ki-moon to do more to halt the “tyranny” they say Muslims are enduring in Myanmar. (Photo: AFP) UNITED NATIONS: Islamic nations on Wednesday called on UN leader Ban Ki-moon to do more to halt the “tyranny” they say Muslims are enduring in Myanmar. Religious riots in Buddhist-majority Myanmar have cast a shadow over heralded political reforms since military rule ended…
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UN Chief Tells Myanmar to Make Rohingyas Citizens
Thursday, July 11, 2013 AP, Rohingya_News No comments
Peter James Spielmann Associated Press July 10, 2013 The U.N. chief on Wednesday warned Myanmar that it must end Buddhist attacks on minority Muslims in the Southeast Asian country if it wants to be seen as a credible nation. Sectarian violence against Rohingya Muslims in the predominantly Buddhist nation has killed hundreds in the past year, and uprooted about 140,000, in what some say presents a threat to Myanmar’s political reforms…
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Jakarta Pressing Burma on Rohingya Legal Rights
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Rohingya_News, VOA No comments
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa attends the opening session of the 46th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, June 30, 2013. Ron Corben VOA News July 10, 2013 BANGKOK — Indonesia is pressing Burma’s government to grant legal status to the country’s Muslim Rohingya. As more Rohingya seek asylum in Indonesia and elsewhere abroad, Ron Corben reports from Bangkok that Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty…
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Assailants kill Muslims with impunity across Myanmar: Rights activists
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Press_TV, Rohingya_News No comments
Rohingyas are seen at a camp for displaced people in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State Press TV July 10, 2013 Several human rights groups and activists have strongly criticized the Myanmar government for its silence over growing violence against the Rohingya Muslims across the Southeast Asian country. Several international rights groups and activists warned in a joint statement on Monday that impunity for the Buddhist assailants will further…
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Rohingyas do not want to return to Myanmar
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 IANS, Rohingya_News No comments
Alok Singh IANS July 10, 2013 Jasmine, 20, dreads going back to Myanmar where she says people of her community are treated like pariah and subjected to atrocities. She is among the 195 Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar who are languishing in a deplorable state in in the Jaitpur shantytown in the southeastern periphery of the capital for the past year. “We would die but won’t go back to Burma (Myanmar). Life is a virtual hell there. Though…
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Discourage rumours on Bodh Gaya blasts, urge religious leaders, activists
Tuesday, July 09, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Hindu No comments
The Hindu July 9, 2013 The attack could be used to target Muslims in the country in order to gain political polarisation before the coming general election, and unleash a new wave of violence against Muslims in Myanmar Religious leaders and peace activists across the country have appealed to people to view the terror attack in Bodh Gaya as an act of misguided criminals and not to speculate — that it could have been a retaliation…
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Rohingyas in Hyderabad live in fear
Tuesday, July 09, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Times_of_India No comments
Burmese refugees being briefed at the relief and rehabilitation committee meeting in Hyderabad’s Old City on Sunday. — (Photo: G. Ramakrishna/The Hindu) Syed Mohammed The Times of India July 9, 2013 HYDERABAD: Though no stranger to harassment, hundreds of Rohingya refugees who have made the city their own, are apprehensive about policemen knocking on their doors once again in the wake of serial blasts in Bodh Gaya. “The locals told…
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Rohingyas in NCR are safe but miserable
Tuesday, July 09, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Times_of_India No comments
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar will receive new residency visas and rights from the Indian government after a month long standoff that saw them take up residence outside New Delhi’s Sultan Garhi tomb, above. (Photo: Simon de Trey-White for The National) Ambika Pandit The Times of India July 9, 2013 NEW DELHI: Off the busy Gurgaon-Sohna Road, in a village called Firozepur Namak, stands a cluster of huts housing Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s…
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The Mad Monks of Myanmar
Tuesday, July 09, 2013 Article, The_Diplomat No comments
The Diplomat July 9, 2013 In this photo essay, The Diplomat offers a close-up look at the anti-Muslim 969 movement on the rise in Myanmar today. Myanmar is home to a growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment, as seen in the troubling 969 movement. The numerical significance of the digits is rooted in Buddhism’s Three Jewels (Tiratana), which comprise 24 attributes: nine special attributes of Lord Buddha, six core Buddhist teachings, and nine…
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Myanmar jails two Buddhists for riot murders: Official
Monday, July 08, 2013 AFP, National_News No comments
(Photo: AFP) AFP July 8, 2013 YANGON: Myanmar has sentenced two Buddhist men to seven years in prison for murders during religious violence in March that left dozens of people dead, a local official said on Monday. The defendants were convicted after separate trials at the district court in Meiktila for their part in deadly rioting in the town, which mainly targetedMuslims and sparked waves of religious unrest across the country. Meiktila…
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Riyadh exerting all efforts to support cause of Rohingyas
Sunday, July 07, 2013 Arab_News, Rohingya_News No comments
The Arakan Rohingya Union Conference is being held at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah. (Ph Nadim Al-Hamid Arab News July 7, 2013 Under the direction of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia is making all-out political and diplomatic efforts to support the cause of Rohingyas on the international level. “The Kingdom is exerting pressure on the world community,” said Abdullah Maaroof, president of the International…
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Little peace in our Time over religious fight
Sunday, July 07, 2013 Andrea_Vance, Article, Fairfax_NZ_News No comments
Andrea Vance Fairfax NZ NewsJuly 7, 2013 The line of crimson-robed monks snaked in a line along a dusty road in downtown Yangon. However, these devoted Myanmar Buddhists weren’t queuing up last Sunday with their alms bowls, in time-honoured religious tradition. Waving placards, they were chanting their ire at a Time magazine cover,which dared proclaim Ashin Wirathu, a senior monk who preaches an anti-Islam message, the ”face of Buddhist…
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Myanmar welcomes Iran’s proposal for Muslim-Buddhist dialogue
Sunday, July 07, 2013 Rohingya_News, Tehran_Times No comments
Tehran Times July 7, 2013 TEHRAN – Myanmar has welcomed Iran’s proposal to hold a dialogue between Muslim and Buddhist religious scholars in order to help ease sectarian strife in the south Asian country. Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi put forth the proposal during a meeting with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin on Friday. Araqchi expressed grave concern over the ongoing clashes between Buddhists…
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A Rohingya Minor Arrested and Badly Beaten in Alay-Than-Kyaw
Saturday, July 06, 2013 RB_News No comments
RB News July 06, 2013 Maung Daw, Arakan- On 2nd July 2013, about 2:30 pm, SB-2 (Special Branch 2) arbitrarily arrested an under-aged Rohingya in the village of Haisshu Rata (Alay-Than-Kyaw), Southern Maung Daw. “At 2:30PM on 2nd July 2013, Hafiz Sana Ullah S/o Zafar Alam, a 15-year-old minor, was arrested on his way to the market of Alay-Than-Kyaw with the false accusation of involving in the last-year-violence. He was very badly beaten in…
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In Myanmar It’s Free Beer But No TIME
Saturday, July 06, 2013 Article, Luke_Hunt, The_Diplomat No comments
Luke Hunt The Diplomat July 5, 2013 As Myanmar continues its reform process, the politics is throwing-up a bevy of contrasts – some welcomed and others not. One tour company is offering free beer while the government has banned the recent issue of TIME Magazine, featuring a cover of a Buddhist monk blamed for the recent carnage against Muslims in the country’s north. The July 1 edition of Time carried the cover photo of Burmese monk Ashin…
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AP Impact: Massacre of Muslims in Myanmar ignored
Saturday, July 06, 2013 AP, Report, Todd_Pitman No comments
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, JULY 7 AND THEREAFTER – In this May 25, 2013 photo, partially burned Islamic religious books rest among the debris of Himayathul Islamic Boarding School in the Mingalar Zayone neighborhood of Meikhtila, Myanmar. On one of the country’s single darkest days since its post-junta leaders promised the dawn of a new, democratic era two years ago, 36 Muslims, most of them teenagers, were slaughtered there on March 21, 2013, before…
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OIC conference on Rohingyas in Jeddah next week
OIC chief Ihsanoglu says targeting of Muslims in central Myanmar in March and April has been a particularly worrying development. (Photo: …
Riyadh exerting all efforts to support cause of Rohingyas
The Arakan Rohingya Union Conference is being held at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah. (Ph Nadim Al-Hamid Arab News July 7, 2013 …
UN Chief Tells Myanmar to Make Rohingyas Citizens
Peter James Spielmann Associated Press July 10, 2013 The U.N. chief on Wednesday warned Myanmar that it must end Buddhist attacks…
Myanmar welcomes Iran’s proposal for Muslim-Buddhist dialogue
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Little peace in our Time over religious fight
Andrea Vance Fairfax NZ News July 7, 2013 The line of crimson-robed monks snaked in a line along a dusty road in downtown Yangon. …
The Mad Monks of Myanmar
The Diplomat July 9, 2013 In this photo essay, The Diplomat offers a close-up look at the anti-Muslim 969 movement on the rise in My…
Myanmar jails two Buddhists for riot murders: Official
(Photo: AFP) AFP July 8, 2013 YANGON: Myanmar has sentenced two Buddhist men to seven years in prison for murders during religiou…
A Rohingya Minor Arrested and Badly Beaten in Alay-Than-Kyaw
RB News July 06, 2013 Maung Daw, Arakan- On 2nd July 2013, about 2:30 pm, SB-2 (Special Branch 2) arbitrarily arrested an under-aged …
Jakarta Pressing Burma on Rohingya Legal Rights
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