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(A WORKING PAPER ON ARAKAN HISTORY) Abid Bahar Abstract (Several issues has come to the surface from the present research on DHANNAWADI and VASALI period of ancient Arakan; (1) That DHANNAWADI and VASALI were Indian dynasties with Hindu and Mohayana Buddhist religious followers

THE United Nations expert on human rights in  Burma  has arrived in the country, days after the UN voiced fears that efforts to end unrest in Rakhine state had turned into a crackdown on Muslims. UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana flew into the main city of Rangoon late on Sunday for a visit set to include a trip to the restive western state as well as meetings with Burma's president and civil society.

AMMONNEWS-The Lower House Arab and International Affairs Committee on Sunday condemned the "brutal" massacres against Burmese Muslims which left more than 1,000 Muslims dead. The panel said in a statement it was following up with profound concern the violence and brutality which were perpetrated ruthlessly by Buddhists against the Muslim community in Burma.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:   Police officers in Maungdaw Township increase harassment against the Town dwellers and villagers of Rohingya villages. Every day, the police officers arrest the innocent Rohingya villagers to extorted money. The police surveillance officer U Aung Kyaw Than of Maungdaw Town went to Baggona village and arrested two villagers— Mohamed Zuhar and another one today and brought to Maungdaw police station where they were severely tortured to extort money.

By Syed Zubair Ahmad, The recent ethnic clashes between the Rohingya Muslims and the Buddhist community in the Rakhine (or Arakan) province of Myanmar have attracted global attention though late – the latest is the UN’s decision to probe into the killings and human rights violation there. An ugly incident of rape and murder of a Buddhist woman allegedly by three Rohingya Muslims in the end of May this year turned into a disaster for Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar.

Far away from the borders of their home land hundreds of displaced rohingyna Muslim families are living under the plastic tents in the Jammu region of Indian administered Kashmir. The mass exodus of Muslim community in Myanmar has insisted thousands of young old and small to leave their country and live with a status of refugees, having that they enjoy least of the rights to live. 

It’s nearly two months since the Muslim’s massacre ignited in Arakan, the western  province  of Burma ( Myanmar ). It all began on 3rd June 2012 when 11 Muslims were killed by the extremist Buddhists with an alleged assistance of Burmese Army after bringing them down from a bus. The Muslims of Burma are losing hopes for a better future as they do not see any sort of help, now, from the International community specifically from the Muslim Ummah who have done nothing other than the lip service.