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Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) Source Mayu Press:  February 20th, 2013 Edited By Mohamed Farooq The Burmese government supplies ten guns to each Rakhine village on 16 February 2013 in Northern Maungdaw. The Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) and Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) formed a youth group having a leader to every Rakhine village who are under training with gun and long swords to attack Rohingya at any time. Rakhine can move and carry their activities openly as there are no barriers and attachments from government. The Rakhine terrorists target to rise up third massacre of Rohingya within their water festival will held in April. The president of RNDP and Member of Parliament, Dr. Aye Maung stated about the third violence in the Parliament of Burma. Rakhine terrorists are well trained up and ready to attack Rohingya again in their desired time. The Rakhine terrorists and Burmese authority aim to root out all the Rohingya from the land of Arakan an

Myanmar's warship Captain Aung Zaw Hlaing on Phuket today  Photo by phuketwan.com By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison  February 20, 2013 PHUKET: The issue of the Rohingya was being handled ''as humanely as possible,'' a senior Burmese Navy officer said today at the start of a historic goodwill visit to Phuket.  However, Captain Aung Zaw Hlaing quickly pointed out in a brief interview with  Phuketwan  that his preference was to call the Rohingya ''Bengalis'' and that his country's name is not Burma, but ''Myanmar.''  A brass band played and children waved the flags of Thailand and Myanmar as Captain Aung stepped ashore to be greeted by senior Thai officers and traditionally dressed dancers with garlands at the Royal Thai Navy base at Cape Panwa, on Phuket's east coast.  Captain Aung's two Myanmar frigates, with new grey paintwork freshly applied, will be anchored close to the base for thr

 Photo: Zee Bin Chaung(Sommoinnya) Source Mayu Press: February 20th, 2013 By Mohamed Farooq Some teams of Nasaka personnel entered the houses of Rohingya on 19.02.2013 night around 11 PM in Du Tan, Northern Maungdaw for family members checking way. Nasaka tied up with Nylon ropes to all respective males who are fathers and husbands of victims. In front of guardians (i.e. father or husband of victims), Nasaka gang rape females which caused them fatal affect to be alive. They also tortured severely both females and males. Today morning, the guardians went to complain the case about rapes to the officers of Nasaka. The authorities beat up and arrest the guardians instead of taking action to those Nasaka who committed rape last night. This is the life of Rohingya inside Arakan.  Security Forces like Nasaka, Lun Tinn (Paramilitary), Police, Sarapa (Intelligent Police) and Army can do anything anytime to Rohingya as there is no action against them.  They are kickin

Ninety-seven fleeing Myanmar for a better life died of starvation and dehydration on drifting boat, say survivors of two-month ordeal Men rescued from a drifting boat lie on the floor of the emergency room of a Sri Lankan navy vessel after being rescued at sea. Photo: EPA Myanmese asylum seekers rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan navy have told how they dumped nearly 100 bodies overboard, shipmates who died of starvation and dehydration during a nightmarish voyage, Sri Lankan police said. Sailors rescued 31 men and a boy, thought to be Muslim Rohingya, on February 16 when their wooden ship began to sink about 250 nautical miles off Sri Lanka's southeastern coast, Sri Lanka's navy said on its website. Their vessel had been drifting for weeks, its motors dead. "They said they had carried food and water for only one month and they had been at sea for two months after the ship engine stalled," police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said. They sa

A Rohingya woman displaced by the violence in Pauktaw, western Myanmar, sits by her sleeping child at Owntaw refugee camp for Muslims outside Sittwe early November 1, 2012. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun   Source: Alertnet February 20, 2013   BANGKOK (AlertNet) – The Myanmar government’s failure to protect aid workers from threats and intimidation by extremists in Rakhine State is “unconscionable,” Human Rights Watch told AlertNet following reports  that such action was impeding efforts to help  tens of thousands of displaced people . Sectarian clashes in 2012  between Buddhist Rakhines and stateless Rohingya Muslims  displaced more than 110,000 people  in western Myanmar, the vast majority of them Rohingya. Humanitarian needs are high and concern is rising over living conditions in some camps as the rainy season approaches, but some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) cannot deliver aid because of an “intimidation campaign” aimed especially at local staff , in the form of pamphl