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Kutupalong, Bangladesh : A general knowledge competition was held at Kutupalong Ideal Dream School (KIDS) where class 6 was introduced in both refugee camps for the first time in this year. Around 100 Rohingya children from class 6 of Kutupalong refugee camps as well as outside the camps were participated in the competition. The competition was organized to promote and increase the knowledge of student beyond the lessons taught at school. “We distributed a practice sheet to each students a week prior to the test comprising of questions about Arakan, Refugee camps, Bangladesh, general world facts, sports, Islam and many other which can help our young students to acquire basic knowledge of referred topics that we feel it is enormously important for the youngsters,” said a teacher of the KIDS. The Questions were based on the text books of their level including 35 percent from the practise sheets. They were MCQ system with some blanks to fill in one word. Results

Santipark Ramasutra The Nation July 26, 2013 Representatives from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Thailand provided relief bags to 102 Rohingya children and women yesterday at Songkhla's Children and Family Home. The representatives explained that they wanted to provide basic necessities to the refugees as they try to help look for a third country that would offer them refuge. They also thanked the government and officials at the shelter for taking care of them. The embassy officials also visited other shelters such as the one at the Sadao border to hear the refugees' problems, particularly their plea for refuge in a third country and not to be sent back to Myanmar.  The Rohingya are in temporary detention after they fled Myanmar in search for a "better life" in Malaysia and Indonesia via Thailand. 

Image credit: Flickr (foreignoffice) Mong Palatino The Diplomat  July 25, 2013 It is common for unpopular governments to be accused by their enemies of committing serious human rights violations such as murder and kidnapping, but it is not often that genocide is included in the charge sheet. Even notorious dictators who are assumed to be guilty of committing the most heinous crimes against humanity are rarely accused of genocide. When various groups denounce a government’s action or program as being genocidal, it immediately gets global and media attention. Something evil must be really happening to warrant the use of the term. Two Southeast Asian governments are currently facing such accusations. Myanmar is accused of committing genocide against the ethnic Muslim Rohingya minority. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, a former senator and the influential Catholic Church hierarchy have warned the government that it could be held liable for genocide if it implements the