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Photo: Nyan Lynn/IRIN Ma Ei points to where her house once stood IRIN News September 20, 2013 MEIKTILA, 20 September 2013 (IRIN) - Close to 4,000 people in Meiktila remain displaced as residents of this otherwise quiet Burmese university town mark the six-month anniversary of one of Myanmar's worst incidents of sectarian violence in decades.  "We're desperate to learn when we can return to our homes," Yee Yee Win, a 40-year-old Muslim woman, told IRIN as she prepared dinner for her seven-member family in an overcrowded camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). The camp is set up within the grounds of the local water authorities and houses some 870 residents.  "We don't want to live in this camp any longer. We want to go back as soon as possible," her husband, Than Win, jumped in.  On  20 March 2013 , a heated argument between the Muslim owner of a gold shop in Meiktila, central Myanmar, and his Buddhists customers escala

Photo: Reuters Article writer By Ibrahim Shah Burma Times September 20, 2013   (Burma Times) Jeddah- Rohingya—the most persecuted victims on the earth surface, the most distressed people and the least wanted ethnic minority— are impoverished in their native land where they have been growing up generations to generations since immemorial decades. Since 1784, the master chains of strategies of Burmese chauvinists have been implemented perpetually and confidentially. The major deadly catastrophes that Rohingya encounters are 1784, 1942, 1977-78, 1990-91, 2012-13. All the infrastructures in Rakhine state were absolutely postponed by the central government since 1942 and it was stated by the higher authorities that the infrastructures would be postponed there until the final eradication of Rohingya from the Rakhine state soil. Perpetually, the eradication of Rohingya Muslims has been carried out by the Burmese chauvinists and some western Rakhine (Anoka mogh) who a

Report by MYARF and Sindhi Khan | Written by  M.S.Anwar RvisionTV.com September 20, 2013 1- On 17th September 2013 morning, seven poor Rohingyas from the villages of HaisshuRata (Alay-Than-Kyaw) and Kanpu, southern Maung Daw, went to the nearby forest for logging and woods. Meanwhile, seven military personnel from Mrawaddy Squadron chased them. Three out of seven people managed to escape. The military arbitrarily arrested the remaining four Rohingyas. The military severely tortured them and then, transferred them to the Mrawaddy Police Station. Now, Police are demanding that each family of the four Rohingyas have to pay Kyat 200,000 to the Police if they want to get their respective family members released. They are: 1) Noor Mohammed S/o Nazir Ahmed (Age 29) (From Kanpu) 2) Mohammed Yunoos S/o Amir Hamza (Age 32) (From Kanpu) 3) Shah Alam S/o Abdur Rahman (Age 10) (From Kanpu) 4) Abul Fayas S/o Abdur Rahman (Age 33) (From Mon Tula village of AlayThanKyaw)   2- An ele

By The Malay MailOnline September 20, 2013 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad raised the plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar as a cautionary tale for Muslims in Malaysia yesterday, at a time when Umno is again reaching out to PAS ostensibly for the sake of Islamic unity. In a posting titled “The Rohingyas” on his blog, the former prime minister said the troubles of the ethnic minority were not unique but representative of the predicament facing Islamic nations the world over. “Almost all Muslim countries and people are in trouble today. The latest are the Rohingyas of Myanmar,” he wrote in his latest blog entry.  “They are being forced to leave their own homes and country, to flee in leaky boats, overloaded and prone to being wrecked and they would be drowned (sic). All countries refuse to help these unfortunate creatures and they and their leaky boats get pushed back into the sea.” Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar ov