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Imprisonment Just For Being Rohingya Muslims
Monday, September 02, 2013 Ko_Naing, RB_Article No comments
By Ko Naing (Technological University) RB Article September 2, 2013 August 21st 2013, Yangon International Airport Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN human rights envoy has just completed his ten day visit. He delivered the brief of his findings at the press conference before he left from the Yangon International Airport. He expressed his gratitude towards the Burmese government for inviting him to survey the human rights…
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A “Three Insecurities Perspective” for the Changing Myanmar
Sunday, September 01, 2013 Analysis, Dr_Maung_Zarni, Kyoto_Review No comments
By Dr. Maung Zarni Kyoto Review September 2013 Issue Maung Zarni, a research fellow at the London School of Economics, argues that the best way to look at the current changes in Myanmar is through his “Three Insecurity Paradigms”, namely, national security, global security and human security. Zarni denounces the Thein Sein reforms as crude responses to the regime’s own needs and to the expectation of the world, with little account for the security…
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Myanmar and the politics of Asean slogans
Sunday, September 01, 2013 National_News, The_Nation No comments
By Kavi Chongkittavron The Nation September 1, 2013 BANGKOK: After a series of closed door discussions and numerous rephrasing by policy-makers including foreign experts, Myanmar has finally picked the theme “Moving forward in unity towards a peaceful and prosperous Community” for its engagement with Asean next year. Like previous Asean chairs, the title reflects Naypidaw’s agenda and priorities when it takes up the grouping’s…
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BRAJ Held An Event Of Rohingya Language School Opening Ceremony
Sunday, September 01, 2013 Activities, BRAJ, RB_News No comments
RB News September 1, 2013 On August 31, 2013, Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan (BRAJ) held an event of Rohingya Language School opening ceremony under the patronage of Education Department. The reformed BRAJ has adopted 5 different departments to work toward the wellbeing and development of Rohingya community in Japan. The ceremony was conducted in two different sessions the afternoon session for children and evening session…
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Human Rights Commission Rohingya-shooting report due ‘this month’
Saturday, August 31, 2013 Phuket_Gazette, Rohingya_News No comments
Ketsarin Tiawsakul, director of the HRC’s human rights infringement investigation office. Photo: Ketsarin Tiawsakul/Facebook By Chutharat Plerin Phuket Gazette August 31, 2013 PHUKET: The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) yesterday confirmed that the report on the case of the Royal Thai Navy opening fire on Rohingya refugees off the coast of Ranong in February, will be concluded this month. During the shooting,…
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More Than 70 Rohingyas Handed Lengthy Prison Sentences
Saturday, August 31, 2013 Irrawaddy, Rohingya_News No comments
Policemen move towards burning houses during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe in June 2012. (PHOTO: Reuters) By Lawi Weng & Paul Vrieze The Irrawaddy August 30, 2013 RANGOON — An Arakan State court reportedly sentenced 76 Rohingya Muslims to lengthy prison terms last week for their alleged roles in an outburst of deadly inter-communal violence in Maungdaw Township in June last year, according…
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Arbitrary Arrests And Abuses Continue In Maungdaw By Local Police
Friday, August 30, 2013 RB_News No comments
RB News August 30, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan – Arbitrary arrests and abuses are continuing in Maungdaw Township of Arakan State by the local police according to locals. Yesterday at about 3 pm, 15 police led by Hla Myint and Maung Shay from Maungdaw police station raided a house in quarter number five. A Rohingya youth was brutally beaten at his house by the police and was then arrested. “We don’t know why he was arrested….
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Govt extends migrants’ detention another 6 months
Friday, August 30, 2013 Bangkok_Post, Rohingya_News No comments
(Photo: TAWATCHAI KEMGUMNERD/Bangkok Post) By Bangkok Post August 30, 2013 The government has agreed to hold about 2,000 Rohingya migrants in detention centres nationwide for another six months, Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promnok said on Thursday. The migrants were originally due to remain in the centres for six months while the government assessed options for their relocation, but that initial deadline passed last month. The new…
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Bangladesh can’t take in more Rohingyas
Friday, August 30, 2013 Rohingya_News, The_Daily_Star No comments
By The Daily Star August 30, 2013 Dipu Moni tells new UNHCR representative Stina E Ljungdel; receives credentials from new UNFPA representative Argentina Piccin Stina E Ljungdel, newly appointed country representative of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, presents her credentials to Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at her ministry yesterday. Photo: Courtesy Dhaka yesterday reaffirmed its position that Bangladesh was already hosting a huge population…
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Bloody anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar must end
Friday, August 30, 2013 Bangkok_Post, Holly_Atkison, Opinion No comments
(Photo: AP) By Holly Atkinson Bangkok Post August 30, 2013 I am still haunted by the testimony I heard from a survivor of the March massacre of dozens of Muslims in the central Myanmar town of Meiktila. He told me how he saw his best friend, a boy of 13, doused with gasoline and burned alive by two Buddhist men who were part of an attacking mob, while police and community leaders watched from an embankment. This disturbing event…
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Myanmar Buddhist On Muslim Violence Is Government’s Fault, Says Physicians For Human Rights
Friday, August 30, 2013 Article, Huffington_Post, Richard_S_Ehrlich No comments
Residents walk past buildings burning in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar on March 21, 2013. By Richard S. Ehrlich Huffington Post August 30, 2013 (RNS) Buddhists are killing Muslims in Myanmar with impunity because the government failed to stop the attacks, New York-based Physicians for Human Rights reported amid fresh assaults that left more Muslims homeless. During the past year, scattered clashes across Buddhist-majority Myanmar,…
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Small grants make a big difference for Myanmar IDPs
Thursday, August 29, 2013 Article, Danish_Refugee_Council, Thomson_Reuters No comments
By Danish Refugee Council Thomson Reuters Foundation August 29, 2013 Tailor-made business grants enable IDPs in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to get back on their feet and resume livelihood activities. DRC’s recently launched livelihood programme will provide support to both Buddhist and Muslim communities affected by last year’s sectarian violence. This week DRC delivered the first round of small-business grants to Buddhist IDPs displaced…
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Anti-Muslim monk stokes Burmese religious tensions
Thursday, August 29, 2013 Article, BBC, Jonah_Fisher No comments
By Jonah Fisher BBC News August 29, 2013 Time magazine labelled Wirathu “The face of Buddhist terror” This week, religious violence has once again flared in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Hundreds of Muslim homes have been burnt to the ground in Sagaing region after being attacked by Buddhist mobs. In just over a year more than 200 people, mostly Muslims, have been killed and many more displaced as unrest has spread from Rakhine state…
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Fleeing Rohingya Muslims sent back by Dhaka
Thursday, August 29, 2013 Gulf_Times, Rohingya_News No comments
By Mizan Rahman (Dhaka) Gulf Times August 28, 2013 Bangladesh coastguards pushed back 11 Rohingyas to Myanmar early yesterday after they were held trying to cross into Bangladeshi waters in Teknaf sub-district of southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. Coastguard sources said a patrol team from the Teknaf Station detained the 11 Myanmar nationals as they were trying to enter Bangladesh in a small wooden boat at Niting around 9pm on Tuesday. The…
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The Hidden Genocide of Muslims
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Article, Diane_Weber_Bederman, Huffington_Post 1 comment
By Diane Weber Bederman Huffington Post August 28, 2013 (Photo: AFP) I’ve been reading about the war in Burma/Myanmar. It’s a conflict between the Buddhist Burmese majority and approximately 800,000 Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan (Rakhine) State. They are among the world’s least wanted and most persecuted people. I’ll try to explain what’s happening. The Media have been remiss in reporting the story. “Human Rights Watch accused authorities…
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The Genocide Happening Right Now That Nobody Is Talking About
By Dom Hammond Policymic August 27, 2013 Image via AFP Over the last two years, the positive news of a Myanmar embracing de…
Burma blacklists two US-based reporters for covering Rohingya crisis
By Hanna Hindstrom Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) August 28, 2013 Two US-based journalists have been blacklisted by the Bur…
The Hidden Genocide of Muslims
By Diane Weber Bederman Huffington Post August 28, 2013 (Photo: AFP) I’ve been reading about the war in Burma/Myanmar. It&…
An Ex Rohingya MP U Noor Ahmed Passed Away
An Ex Rohingya MP U Noor Ahmed Passed Away RB News August 28, 2013 U Noor Ahmed (a.k.a) U Tin Maung, an ex Rohingya MP and reti…
Police Inaction Blamed for Scale of New Myanmar Violence
Armed policemen stand on alert in the streets of Htan Gone village, Aug. 26, 2013. (Photo: AFP) By Radio Free Asia August 27, 2013…
More Than 70 Rohingyas Handed Lengthy Prison Sentences
Policemen move towards burning houses during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe in June 2012. (PH…
BRAJ Held An Event Of Rohingya Language School Opening Ceremony
RB News September 1, 2013 On August 31, 2013, Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan (BRAJ) held an event of Rohingya Language…
Small grants make a big difference for Myanmar IDPs
By Danish Refugee Council Thomson Reuters Foundation August 29, 2013 Tailor-made business grants enable IDPs in Myanmar’s Rakh…
Anti-Muslim monk stokes Burmese religious tensions
By Jonah Fisher BBC News August 29, 2013 Time magazine labelled Wirathu “The face of Buddhist terror” This week, rel…
Paradoxical roles of the nasty Burmese regime to tackle oppression against ethnic minorities
(Photo: AFP) By Ibrahim Shah RB Article August 27, 2013 Since 2012, authorities in Western Burma have been putting out mag…
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