Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingya young people are distributing the 10 Muslims massacred pictures to the local Rohingya in northern Arakan –Maungdaw and Buthidaung- on June 6, according to a student from Maungdaw.
Bandarban, Bangladesh: Bangladesh authorities have been continuing conducted operation and arresting more Rohingyas along the Bangladesh border areas since May 2012, said a villager elder. “They were arrested by Bangladesh authorities in raided from the local areas where they live and work. Of them, some were pushed back to Burma by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), but nearly 80 Rohingyas were sent to jail by police.”
Aung San Suu Kyi has asked Burma’s majority Buddhist population to show “sympathy” with religious and racial minorities following an outbreak of sectarian violence in western Rakhine State. Two Muslim men wait to speak with Aung San Suu Kyi at the National League for Democracy office in Rangoon on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. They wanted to discuss the murder in Arakan State of 10 Muslims this week by a mob in the worse sectarian violence in recent years. Photo: Ye Min / Mizzima
Rohingya people gather at a local mosque before the Friday prayers in a village north of the town of Sittwe (Reuters) The government has formed a committee to investigate the deaths of ten Muslim pilgrims killed in a vicious mob attack on Sunday after religious friction in Burma’s Arakan state draws widespread condemnation.
Myanmar's reformist opens investigation into a sectarian violence which erupted in the northern Rakhine state and left ten Muslims killed Muslim leaders talk to protesters near Sule Pagoda in Yangon. (Photo: Reuters)