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HRW says satellite images show violence against Myanmar Rohingyas

A group of Rohingya Muslims are seen at a camp in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. (File photo) Human Rights Watch says new satellite images reveal that Buddhist extremists in Myanmar carried out attacks against the Rohingya Muslims with the support of state security forces and local government officials in October. The rights agency said on Saturday that the local security forces killed Muslim villagers and assaulted people trying to flee the violence in the western state of Rakhine in late October. 

Arbitrary extortion money increased in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Arbitrary extortion money is being increased by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) from Rohingya villagers in Maungdaw Township is unbearable for the villagers, a Rohingya elder from Maungdaw north on condition of anonymity.    “On November 6, a group of Nasaka personnel from Aung Min Gala Nasaka out-post, under the Nasaka Headquarters or Nasaka area No.6 went to Maung Nama village tract of the same Nasaka area and arrested many villagers without any accusation and asked them to pay money to be released.”

A Protest for Rohingya repatraition and resistance Rohingya entry in Bangladesh

Ukhiya Cox's Bazar:  A Protest for Rohingya repatraition and resistance Rohingya entry in Bangladesh is held on 18-11-2012 by Rohingya Resistance Committee (RRC) in Kutupalong refugee Bazar wherein many media and channel were present.  During the meeting the leader of present govt Hamidul Hoque Chudary who is the p resident of Rohingya Resistance Committee (RRC) urged to government to resistance the entry of Rohingya and start the repatraition as soon as possible.