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Arab News:  March 20, 2013   A ceremony to normalize the status of the Burmese community in Saudi Arabia will be held Saturday and be sponsored by Prince Khalid Al Faisal, governor of Makkah. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold the ceremony to inaugurate the establishment of the Jeddah Media Center, which is the media arm of the Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU). Abdullah Marouf, head of the International Rohingya Center, said that the ceremony is testimony to the Kingdom’s desire to normalize the status of the Burmese community to allow the people to live in a good environment. “Saudi Arabia works on all levels to help our people achieve their rights in going back to their homeland and regain their national identity and their constitutional rights in Myanmar,” he said. Ma’rouf also said that the tense situation in Arakan has now reached Yangon, where many Muslims have been killed. “These acts committed against Muslims living in Yangon are a sign

Mayu Press:    March 20, 2013 By Ibrahim Shah It is informed from a reliable source that in  Matella,  Shops of Muslim  from eastern  shed of  jewellery are destroyed   by Buddhist crowd  and  they  are motivating with great attempts   congregationally to initiate religious collision. It is learnt that the cause of  initiation riot is  due to dispute between  the  gold seller and buyer . Details of initiation riot: a Buddhist  girl came to Muslim gold shop and disputed with the niece of the shop owner  because  that Buddhist girl tended to sell imitation gold and later returned home, and that girl again disputed  coming with villagers then fixed their matter simply. After a few while,  the villagers of that girl destroyed the gold shop  and also another shops of belonged to Muslim  and right now local  police, traffic police and fireman divided the crowd of Buddhist families.  Apparently, it is terrible that the Buddhist racist of Buddhsim  led by devilish B