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Maungdaw, Arakan State: Two Rohingya girls-sisters- were ganged raped by Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) on February 18, at Ludaing village Maungdaw, according to a village Admin from Maungdaw Town on condition of anonymity. “The two sisters were raped by a group of Nasaka personnel from Nasaka area No.5, in front of their mother yesterday, at about 10:00 pm in the house while their father was not present in the house.” The victims were identified as Begum (18), not real name  and Shamima (14), not real name (14), daughters of Ali ( not real name), hailed from Ludaing village of Maungdaw north. A group of Nasaka personnel from Loungdon out post under Nasaka area number 5, went to the victims’ house to arrest their father –not in the house at that time – on February 18 and taking advantage of his absent, the security personnel forcibly ganged rapped the two sisters in front their mother and tried to attempt to rape the victims’ mother, but failed for her resistance.

Mohamed Farooq      Source    Bangla Times February 19, 2013  The Burmese Government banned all the Religious High School termed as Maddarasa since sectarian violence of last June, 2012.  Nobody can acquire and teach religious study. There are also so many Religious Basic Education Schools called Maqtab where children learn how to read Quran, how to perform five times prayer in a day and learn all the obligatory points of a Muslim in Islam. Unless proper basic education of Islam, no one can know what is Islam.   Burmese authority banned all the Religiuos Basic Education Schools in Saheb Bazar, Fokira Bazar, and all belonging villages of Nasaka Areas number one and two under the tract of Maungdaw Township, Arakan. The Burmese authority is going to demolish all the Muslim Religious Activities in the soil of Arakan, Burma. There is no permission to perform prayer in the Mosque unlike the global countries.   The Border Security Forces, Nasaka kill, rape, mass arrest, harasses

Photo Reuters Asylum seekers from Burma rest inside a naval ship after being rescued in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 17, 2013 World Time: February 19, 2013 Thirty-two asylum seekers rescued by the Sri Lankan navy say they went without food for 21 days and were forced to throw dozens of dead overboard after their wooden vessel failed at sea. The survivors, who identified themselves as Muslims from near the Burma-Bangladesh border, told local officials that they set out to seek refuge in Indonesia or Australia, but instead spent two months languishing on the water. By the time they were plucked from the sea, they’d thrown 98 bodies to the waves. The nightmare of shipwreck may sound like a relic of another time, but what happened off the coast of Sri Lanka this week is alarmingly commonplace. The U.N. estimates that at least 13,000 people fled the borderlands between Burma and Bangladesh by boat in 2012. Of them, 485 are known to have drowned. This deadly tide looks unlikel

Photo Rohingya Village  Keramotta Fara, Akyab Akyab, Arakan State : Eleven starved Rohingya Muslims died at Keramotta Fara , Moloi bíça, Sáafarang and Kúsum Fara respectively in Akyab Township. These neighboring villages are surrounded by Rakhine villagers and an army’s cantonment. These villagers did not attack in the violence of last June 2012, but they are facing the worst situation now as most of inhabitants of those villagers are poor. They have to use to work in the town to support their families. Being lost of their ways to work, they have not only been restricted by authority and Rakhines, but they are also kept in threat of been attack. It’s confirmed on phone that the villagers cannot go out for work, shopping food, and collecting daily comedies, even those villagers cannot get any medical facility for their treatment. If anyhow anyone leaves from their villages to buy something he/she is looted and beaten by Buddhist Rakhines. An old man who talked on phon