The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Dhaka, May 5 (bdnews24.com) – US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has urged all political actors to settle difference through dialogue.  "I am really urging all political parties, not just the government, to do everything necessary to support democracy and find a plan to have free and fair election," she said at a joint press briefing at the Prime Minister's Office on Saturday.

Burma president Thein Sein, center-right, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, center-left, pose for the photo with Burma ministers and UN officials after their meeting at president's house in Naypyitaw, Burma, on April 30, 2012. (EPA Photo)

It has become a pattern. Whenever the ethnic Muslim Rohingya boat people from Myanmar reach Thai shores, the authorities arrest them as a matter of course, then provide them with water and food before pushing them out to sea again so they can go to their intended destination.

ကုလားတန္ (ေမာင္ေတာ)။   ။  မုိးၾကိဳးပစ္၍ေသဆုံးသြားေသာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ လူေသအေလာင္း ႏွစ္ ေလာင္းကုိ ေငြေပးမွသာ ျမွဳပ္ႏုိင္ခြင့္ေပးမည္ဟု ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႕နယ္အပုိင္ရွိ ရဲအရာရွိတဦးမွ ဧျပီလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ေျပာဆုိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕၀င္တဦးက ေျပာဆုိသည္။

ငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း ခရီးစဥ္အတြက္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ကို ေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္နဲ႔ ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ဟာ ဒီကေန႔ ေရႊေညာင္၊ ေညာင္ေရႊ၊ အင္းေလး ေဒသေတြကုိ သြားေရာက္ျပီီး ေဒသခံေတြ၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

YANGON: A state-run newspaper in Myanmar on Friday said recent battles between government troops and Kachin ethnic rebels had killed 31 people, as the ongoing fighting threatens the country’s reform and reconciliation process.