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Written By Min Ko Ko Naing  | Edited by M.S. Anwar RvisionTV.com  | September 20, 2013 Aung Mingalar Quarter Fenced and Blocked [Photo: Tom Farrell] Aung Mingalar Quarter in Sittwe (Akyab) Township is one of the regions hit by worst form of violence during June 2012. Many Rohingyas became displaced and many other displaced Rohingyas from the neighboring places also sought refuge in the quarter. Myanmar Government does not provide sufficient relief aids to the Rohingyas in the quarter. Besides, the government has systematically created a circumstance under which the local Rohingyas have to leave the only remaining Rohingya quarter (in the downtown of Sittwe) on their own. On the other hand, Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP), Rakhine State Government and Monks have put up several barriers against Rohingyas’ access to the food rations and medical stuffs up until today. A Rohingya Man Holds Up a Sign in Sittwe’s Aung Mingalar Quarter [Lux Capio Photography] In late A

  An Indonesian police officer guides a Rohingya refugee from Burma to shore after his boat was intercepted en route to Australia (Reuters) By Hanna Hindstrom DVB News : September 19, 2013 Australia is set to deport over 100 Rohingya asylum-seekers to detention centres in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru in the coming weeks, in spite of accusations that the move would breach international human rights law. It follows a decision by the former government in July to redirect all asylum-seekers to its poorer Pacific neighbours in an effort to stem the influx of boat people to Australia – which the newly elected Conservative prime minister has vowed to uphold. All new arrivals – of which 1,585 were recorded in August – will be sent onwards to Nauru or Manus Island in PNG where they will be resettled if successful, despite allegations of mistreatment and abuse at local detention facilities. According to a local campaign group, at least 100 Rohingyas fleeing conflic

M.S. Anwar Op-Ed| RVisionTV.com September 18, 2013 The department of NaSaKa (the border security force in Arakan) was disbanded by the government of Myanmar on 12th July 2013. (My analysis immediately after the abolishment of NaSaKa can be read HERE.) Rohingya people in Arakan became happy thinking that they would have ease and relieves from the much restrictions imposed by NaSaKa. Their happiness proved temporary. Soon, the government of Myanmar announced that a new department called ‘MaKhaPha‘ (can loosely be translated as ‘Illegal Immigration Prevention Group‘) would replace NaSaKa. Rohingyas are afflicted with anxiety and sorrow again. However, the central of Government of Myanmar meant ‘MaKhaPha‘ departmentonly to look after the border affairs. That means that ‘MaKhaPha‘does not have such authority NaSaKa had over Rohingyas as restriction of movement and marriage, control on Rohingya families and population, licensing for their livestocksand other forms of persecution

Bangkok Post September 18, 2013 Fifteen Rohingya illegal migrants escaped from a police cell in Nong Khai's Sang Khom district early Wednesday, police said. Pol Col Sombat Nathaemploy, the Sang Khom police chief, said the 15 were in a group of 19 Rohingya migrants who were arrested for illegaly entry by the Nong Khai immigration police.  They had been detained at Sang Khon police station since Sept 7. Fifteen of them were found to have broken out of the police cell on Wednesday morning. According to police, the Rohingya migrants tied a blanket around two iron window bars, pulled them out of the sockets,  and slipped through the hole some time after midnight. When they realised the 15 detainees were missing, police went  to look for them.   At Ban Sakkali, about 5km from the police station, villagers told police they saw a group of men run across a road through the village about 4am and disappear into nearby rubber plantation adjacent to Phran Kaeng Ka