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Photo: Natala village, Maungdaw   Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Natala villagers from Udaung, Maungdaw south are looting the crop fields – chili and potato- recently while the owners of crops were not available, said a villager on condition of anonymity. Some owners of crop fields are identified as Kobir Ahamed (60), son of Oli San, Sayed Akbar (50), son of Abdu Rahaman (50) and Sayedullah (35), hailed from Udaung village under the Nasaka area No.8 of Maungdaw south. According to sources, mostly Rohingya farmers worked hard for the crops in the winter season, spending more money to stock chili and potato for their survival in the next raining season and summer. “My family is poor and will face shortage of chili in future because my chili crop feild was looted by a group of Natala villagers on March 24,” said one of the victim. ”Many chili crops fields are being looted by Natala villagers.” Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) and Natala villagers fre

By Mayu Desk    March 29, 2013 Since there is a lot of sanctions and more pressing over  Myanmar  amid martial law from international super powers, eventually the military junta had to  give up unwillingly the chair of state chief after five decades. And in  2010 under supervision of military higher officers, elected dramatically by prejudice constitutional law a civilianized democrat president among military higher officers .As a result of reform process, only aiming to show  international  governments,INGOs,media,journalists the pseudo reformist, so called president  Thein Sein  developed some Myanmarese populous areas , released some political and social prisoners  including convicted guilty of death penalty among Buddhists by presidential amnesty , and  it is reportedly announced that he is relentlessly making  efforts to  establish a true democracy country. According to the attention of  HRW,UN,OIC,US,EU,ASEAN  over  the democracy rules  of  Myanmar regime, independen

This condition Rohingya settlements. When the scorching heat, cold wet when it rains. Photo ACT Agence France-Presse March 29, 2013 Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in squalid, flood-prone camps in western Myanmar after fleeing communal unrest face "imminent danger" from looming monsoon rains, the UN warned on Friday. An estimated 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims have languished in insanitary camps since violence flared last year with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, leaving scores dead and whole neighbourhoods in ruins. They "are now in imminent danger of yet another tragedy when the monsoon rains hit.... We must act immediately to prevent a predictable tragedy," said John Ging of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. With the monsoon expected to start in May, Ging called on the government to release new land for camps and to help rebuild shattered community relations, highlighted by the deadly outbreak of anti-M

Photo Credit: Nora Rowley--Rathidaung Bayside Small Village Center Rathedaung, Arakan State : The Rathedaung Juma Mosque (Zedi Pyin)’s brick fence was totally destroyed on March 28, night by local Rakhine villager ( anti-Rohingya), according to a local leader said on condition of anonymity. “A group of mob went to the Mosque and destroyed the brick fence of it on March 28, at about mid-night, where police, Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) and army camps are stationed near by.”  Nearby Mosque, there are only 25 Rohingya houses are existed; but the villagers were not able to protect the Mosque. It is only a big brick building Mosque in Rathedaung Township. Earlier, the houses were driven out to other village, but later, some Rakhine elders brought them again and re-settled there, said a village administration officer. Villagers believe the Mosque will be demolished by the local Rakhine villagers with the help of security forces tonight (March 29), said a village

A man walks among debris of buildings destroyed in Myanmar’s central city of Meiktila, March 25, 2013. PressTV: March 29, 2013 The United Nations says there are reports showing the government of Myanmar has been involved in recent deadly violence against Rohingya Muslims On Thursday, the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar human rights Tomas Ojea Quintana issued a statement saying that “I have received reports of State involvement in some of the acts of violence.”  “The military and police must now be held to account for human rights violations,” he added. At least 40 people have been killed in central Myanmar after a fresh wave of attacks against Muslims broke out on March 20, prompting government officials to impose emergency rule and curfews in several areas.  Quintana went on to say that the government should take “immediate action to stop the violence from spreading to other parts of the country and undermining the reform process.”  The new escalation

A man salvages items in the courtyard of a partially-destroyed mosque after sectarian violence spread through central Myanmar, in Gyobingauk. (Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP) Eric Randolph The National March 29, 2013 BANGKOK // He emanates the soft-spoken calm expected of a Buddhist monk, but the venom that Sayadaw Wirathu directs at Myanmar's Muslim population has led many to see him as one of the chief instigators of the violence that has convulsed the country in the past two weeks. Wirathu, a monk based in the northern city of Mandalay, has described himself as "the Burmese Bin Laden", even though he is stridently and noxiously anti-Muslim. The misnomer notwithstanding, Wirathu has become a key figure in a growing movement of extremist Buddhists who have taken advantage of increased freedom in Myanmar to foment communal tensions. A video that circulated on the internet this week shows Wirathu addressing a crowd and declaring, "We Buddhists let