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Nazi-type protests are never peaceful

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Asian Tribune  September 08, 2013   Most news reports coming from Myanmar are bad, often atrocious and painful to read or watch in video. But once in a while some good news reports are also showing up in the media these days. Thanks to the world-wide condemnation of one-sided, anti-Muslim justice in this Buddhist country that has seen unfathomed savagery and crime by the Buddhist mobs, often aided and led by Buddhist monks, security forces and political leaders, in recent days, the Myanmar government has put some criminal elements within its Buddhist community behind the bar. They have been found guilty for crimes that have resulted in internal displacement of some 140,000 Rohingya Muslims inside the Arakan (Rakhine) state, and tens of thousands of other Muslims in other parts of Myanmar, let alone wholesale destruction of Muslim-owned properties, including mosques, schools, orphanages, and hostels. Nothing was spared by the racist savages with

Police seize relief goods of Rohingya community at border

Photo : Rohingya children sleeping on floor unregistered refugee camp Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar. KPN News September 07, 2013 Teknaf, Bangladesh: A team of police seized 60 sacks of rice and other commodities which will be to distribute it among the Rohingya people who have been living in Shamlapur village, under Teknaf police station on September 7, said Hussain, a local leader from the village. On being tipped off, a group of police personnel from Shamlapur police camp went to a local businessman’s house and seized the relief on that day, at about 8:00 pm, after being an operation where the sacks of rice were stocked by an organization, according to police official. According to police sources, the relief was to be distributed through a local leader of present government named Aziz Uddin from Shamlapur village under the Teknaf police station, Cox’s Bazar district. Sources also said that many Rohingya refugees have been living at Shamplapur illegally, but thei