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BY  M.S.Anwar   |   RvisionTV September 7, 2013 Immigration Resumes Population Census in Sittway 1) On 6 th   September 2013, immigration department in Sittway resumed population census on Rohingyas in Aung Mingalar Quarter, Sittway (Akyab). A few details that the authority inquired from house to house were name of the head of the household and family numbers (i.e. numbers of males and females). However, they didn’t ask anything about name of the race nor did they fill up the blank regarding that. But people are worried whether authority will fill up as “Bengali” by themselves. (A source on the ground reported) Atrocities by the Authority Continue in Maung Daw 2) Hlun Htein (Security Force) at the station by the Pandaw Pyin (Lal Boinna) Bridge, Southern Maung Daw, severely beat Salimullah S/o Abdul Hoque (22) from the village of Nurullah of Bagguna village tract at 4PM on 5 th   September 2013. He is a shopkeepr and was on his way to the downtwon of Maung Daw to buy shop sup

NBCNews    September 07, 2013 Andrew Stanbridge Mamuda, right, sits with her two children next to the body of her husband, Nasir, who had been fatally shot by police after clashes in an internally displaced person camp in Myanmar. "I cannot stay here in the camp, I must go," said Mamuda, who hopes to flee to Malaysia. By Danny Gold, NBC News contributor SITTWE, Myanmar -- Driven from their homes by mob violence, many members of one of the world's most persecuted minorities face a harrowing dilemma: to tolerate horrendous conditions in sites likened to "prison camps" or to risk their lives  fleeing aboard rickety boats . "I cannot stay here in the camp, I must go," said Mamuda, a Rohingya Muslim, as she sat in a threadbare bamboo shelter, cradling her young children and watching her husband Nasir’s body be prepared for burial. "He came home with a bullet wound," said the 27-year-old, who plans to make the perilous more th

By Rachel Pannett The Wall Street Journal  September 7, 2013 This account of a boat journey by a young couple from Myanmar offers a close-up look at a major issue facing the Asia-Pacific region today: the swelling tide of ships carrying refugees toward Australia. The trip is one of the longest, and most perilous, immigration journeys in the world. Yet the numbers keep rising, as more and more people from Asia’s poorest countries seek refuge in a nation many associate with freedom, wealth and a better life. How to deal with the thousands of migrants on Asia’s seas will be a key dilemma for  the new conservative government in Australia, which won office in a national election Saturday, ending six years of center-left rule. Chapter One: Rising Tide The rickety fishing boat lurched in the dark as big sea swells rose and fell around it. It was about 11 p.m. one night in late June. On the open wooden deck huddled the men, including a phone seller, a student, a pharmaceut