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Channel4 : May 31, 2013 For a nation on the mend, a one-time pariah shuffling towards responsible, representative government, there was weary, depressing familiarity about events in a place called Lashio this week. This Burmese city, reluctant host to the latest outbreak of violence and bloodshed between Buddhists and the minority Muslims. This episode started with a fight at a petrol pump. A few hours later, however, Buddhist mobs were patrolling the streets, burning Muslim homes and businesses and handing out vigilante justice. A man was hacked to death, a mosque and orphanage were destroyed and hundreds of Muslim families are now sheltering in a heavily guarded Buddhist monastery. The city is relatively remote – more than 400 miles north of the country’s city Yangon (Rangoon) – but the brutality and destruction in this city of 130,000 demonstrates just how quickly anti-Muslim violence is spreading throughout Burma. As tensions build nationwide, an increa

The Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) and People in need foundation, cried to stop “two-child-policy” on Rohingya and called for current attack on Muslim in Burma with EU officials during their two days joint advocacy trip, according to BROUK information. “The advocacy trip was organized by People in Need foundation. In joint delegation – Tun Khin, the president of BROUK, Marek Svoboda head of People in need foundation and his Program manager Anna Kunova.” The joint delegation met MEP Eduard Khan, MEP Plilip Kaczmarek Ph.D, Ranieri Sabatucci head of Southeast Asia Division from European External Action Service and other high level officials of European Union where the delegation highlighted Rohingya two child limit policy and recently attacking on Muslin in Lashio, Burma who were sheltering in a Buddhist monastery – more than 12000 Muslim, according to Tun Khin, the president of BROUK. “European Union has to take immediate actions to stop attacks against Muslim in Lasho

By Chutima Sidasathian  Phuket_Wan,  May 31, 2013 PHUKET: Residents of a district in the province of Nakkorn Si Thammarat have protested all night long against a camp for Rohingya refugees being established there. Locals added their names to a petition and invited others to sign in protest at the possibility of a camp for the unwanted boatpeople from Burma being housed nearby.  About 2000 Rohingya men, women and children are being held in Thailand while Thai authorities consider their status and their future.  The Rohingya - Muslims who have fled Burma in fear of their lives because of ethnic cleansing - were rescued from boats or freed from human traffickers' camps.  A decision on their fate is supposed to be made by Thai officials before the end of July, when a six month deadline expires. Today the district leader of Cha-Uat in Nakkorn Si Thammarat province, Sakchai Chai Cher, told  Phuketwan  that the Army used a camp over about 20 rai in the area 30 or 35 years ag

A mother swings her baby in a cradle in a room in the Rohingya refugee camp at Kutupalang of Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar. — Indrajit Ghosh Akbar Ahmed & Harrison Akins Dhaka Tribune May 31, 2013 The "forgotten Rohingya" are one of the most persecuted minority groups in the world Every breath the young orphan girl took brought pain to her body and tears to her eyes. She had been abused by the family she worked for as a servant, probably sexually molested, according to her doctor, and then, pushed into a fire to make her death seem accidental.  They knew she had no official papers and therefore could not complain to the authorities. She was unceremoniously dumped at the gate of the Lada refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, where doctors in the camp cared for her.  Horrible as her case was, the doctors knew she was but one of many similarly burnt young women they would see that month and were realistic about her slim chance of survival, lacking money for