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ERC and Egypt delegation Mohamed Farooq Mayupress: April 15, 2013 (Frankfurt) International Society for Human Rights Germany (IGMF) held 41st Annual Conference on April 12 – 14, 2013 at Gustav-Stressmann Institute in Bonn, Germany. About 200 persons have participated from different countries of the world; Cuba, China, Turkey, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Iran, USA, UK and Burma (Myanmar) etc. In the Conference, the human right expert participants specially discussed over human rights violations against ethnic minorities across the world, persecution, extra judiciary killing, abusing, harassment, rapes on women, imprisonments, free of speech, religious activities restriction. They tried to find out remedy and prevention of minor communities with democratically reforms having equal right in the society. Mr.Ibrahim, the Secretary of Media and Informationand Mr.M.Hussain Azmi, the Deputy General Secretary have been welcomed on behalf of the European Rohingya Council (ERC) for

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A house of Rohingya people was completely burnt down into ashes by Natala villagers with the help of Nasaka (Burma border security force) yesterday night, at around 10:00pm, a close relative of the victim who did not identify his name. “The victim is identified as Dil Mohamed, hailed from Kilaidaung village (Dou Chee Yartan), under the Nasaka area No.7 of Maungdaw north, Arakan Sate.” Besides, two men —father and son from Aley Than Kyaw village tract of Maungdaw Township had been stabbed by the Natala villagers yesterday while they were sleeping in a hut at night out of the village. They have a vegetable farms nearby a Mountain and they have to watch their farm at night for guard of being stolen. They were sent to local clinic for medical treatment but they were not allowed to admit there. As a result, the victims are taking treatment from the village quack doctors. It is not possible to send the victims to Maungdaw general hospital as the roads ar

Saudi Gazette April 15, 2013 JEDDAH — Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Sunday warned against widening of the circle of violence against Muslims in Myanmar to neighboring areas, in reference to the outbreak of violence committed by Buddhist extremists against Muslims in Sri Lanka. In his speech at the emergency OIC Contact Group meeting on Rohingya Muslim minority, Ihsanoglu reiterated that the violence against Muslims in Myanmar was unacceptable and should not continue. “Such violence is a clear indication of the government’s negative approach in dealing with ethnic and religious tensions that erupted last summer,” he said. Ihsanoglu called on member states of the Contact Group to take action through communication with the international community to implement recommendations of the OIC Islamic Summit held in Makkah. He also suggested requesting OIC member states which are members in the Contact Group and which have

Mohamed Farooq Mayupress: April, 15, 2013 The Rakhine mob had flogged barbarously five Rohingya and pushed to Burmese army sentry post near Bandulla Bridge of Mrauk U at about 3 am on 14th April 2013. The victims Rohingya are hailed from Paunn Doke village in Mrauk U. They were coming back passing a Rakhine village from the market getting household bazaar and rice for their family. Impetuously, a Rakhine mob appeared towards them and squeezed all their belonging consisted of money. The Buddhist Rakhine racists stroked them unconscious to put down flat in the ground. The Rakhine racists tied those Rohingya with steel chain in one line. As usual falsified allegations against vulnerable Rohingya minority, the extremists also made them carrying gallons and rubber containers of Diesel and matches as the Rohingya entered Rakhine village to be blazed the houses. A crowd of Rakhines dragged those Rohingya to the nearest Army personnel with a complaint of suspiciou

OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, 2nd right, addressing the OIC Contact Group meeting in Jeddah on Sunday. (AN photo) Arab News: April 15, 2013 Waqaruddin, director general of the Rohingya Arakan Union, called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group to persuade China to put pressure on the Myanmar government to stop acts of violence and targeted killings of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. “It is well-known that China has strong relations with the Myanmar government and has big economic and political interests there. So we asked Chinese officials to try to persuade Myanmar to stop violence against and acts of systematic killing of the peaceful Rohingya Muslim minority,” Waqaruddin told Arab News. He was speaking to journalists on the sidelines of an urgent meeting of the OIC contact group here yesterday. “Arab and Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have strong relations with China, and we hope that these countries come togeth

Rohingya refugees arrive in Hyderabad, India, where well-off Muslims welcomed them during the month of Ramadan. Photo: SCMP By Bushra Baseerat Times of India:  April 15, 2013 HYDERABAD Looking at least 10 years older than his age, 27-year-old Mohammed Shaker can pass off as a north Indian settled in Hyderabad but for his broken Hindi. Shaker is actually a Rohingya Muslim who fled Myanmar for safety and sought refuge in Hyderabad four months ago to escape the sectarian violence and bloodshed that is rocking the Southeast Asian nation. Ask him how he landed in Hyderabad, and Shaker recalls his three-day long arduous journey on foot through a rough mountain terrain in the dead of the night to reach the Myanmar border from where he was made to board a boat run by smugglers to reach the Bangladesh border. Hours later, he reached the shore and was stowed in a truck to be finally dropped near the West Bengal border. And it took him 9 days to finally land in Hyderabad. Th

OIC Calls On Int'l Community To Stand Up For Rohingya Muslims (Photo RvisionTV) AFP April 14, 2013 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the world's top pan-Islamic body, pushes for a delegation to investigate violence against Muslims in Myanmar The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Sunday urged authorities in Myanmar to allow a ministerial delegation to visit the country to discuss deadly violence against Muslims. The world's top Islamic body, in a statement following a meeting in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, also urged the UN Human Rights Commission to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Myanmar. The statement called on "Burmese authorities to strongly respond to the organisation's appeal and allow a ministerial OIC delegation to visit" Myanmar. Last year at least 180 people were killed in the western state of Rakhine in clashes between local Buddhists and Rohingya -- a Muslim minority treated with hostility by most Burm