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News by Kaladan Press Burma along with seven other countries named as “countries of particular concern” on the International Religious Freedom Report of the US Department of State released on August 13. The US Department of State documents major developments with respect to religious freedom in 198 countries and territories from July-December 2010. The Secretary of State designates as Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) countries that have "engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom." Secretary Clinton designated eight countries as CPCs: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Uzbekistan. The Secretary applied CPC sanctions to six of these: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, and Sudan. The Burmese government refuses to recognize that the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority, are Burmese citizens,” the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, Michael Posner, told reporters after th

News By Kaladan Press Teknaf Bangladesh: A refugee woman from Nayapa camp who gave birth to twin babies at Chittagong Medical Hospital on August 10 after operation who were missing or not known where about, said the mother of twin babies. “I do not know whereabouts my newborn babies, but, doctors said the twin babies were dead.” “Ambia Khatun (35), wife of Abdu Shukur, MRC # 2454, Nayapara camp of Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, is the mother of twin and also mother of three children.”

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The authorities of Burma’s military backed civilian government has been giving soft-loan to the local villagers of Maungdaw Township since September 12, but in other hand, they forced people to buy mobile sets with huge money to extract money, according to a local elder from Maungdaw Town who denied to be named for security reason, said a local businessman from Maungdaw town. “The authorities of Maungdaw town went to the local villages and providing soft-loan to the villagers aiming to eliminate the poverty in the rural areas. But, the authority force the villagers to buy mobile sets each and every house with huge money. They offer villagers to pay Kyat 100,000 per set. In local market, it is very cheap to those of authority’s mobile sets.” “The local Nasaka (Burma’s border security officer) had already ordered to the villagers in Maungdaw Township to buy mobile sets if anyone is failed to buy it, he/.she will be punished. It makes poor villagers very difficult

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Part 1: The Rohingya Identity and Hatemongering by Rakhine Racists Khin Maung Saw’s article “Islamization of Burma through Chittagonian Bengalis as Rohingya Refugees” is a revisionist attempt by a deranged chauvinist Magh to rewrite the history of the Muslims of Arakan. Racism and bigotry are written all over the article. 1. Introduction In this post-9/11 era of hatemongering and Islamophobia, it is not difficult to understand his evil mindset that steered him to concoct such an absurd idea that the Rohingya Muslims are working towards Islamization of Myanmar (Burma). Forget about the fact that Burma is a military-ruled country with no democracy, how could a mere 2 to 3 million people impose the dictates of their faith on a nation of 50 million, especially when they are denied all basic rights – of movement, assembly, marriage, education, jobs, etc.? One has to be either mentally unstable or very high in mind-altering drugs to hallucinate such a ludicrous idea! A