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KPN News September 29, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw district authority announced today to support and participate in the culture and dance competition which will hold in Thiremangala hall of Maungdaw on October 1-3, 2013, according toan officer from Maungdaw.  The competition will hold under Maungdaw district – Maungdaw and Buthidaung – and the Maungdaw officials are organizing to support and participate in the culture and dance show of Maungdaw group. The officials are announcing around the town with car and through the village admin offices in rural areas, the officer said. But, Arakan State Chief Minister Hla Maung Tin said on September 22 at meeting with Maungdaw Rohingya community that there are emergency Act 144 is still impose, so no more than five persons are not allow to gather and no religious institutions will open till emergency Act 144 is imposed. How the Maungdaw authority are organizing to support and participate the culture and dance show in Thi

M.S. Anwar and Aung Aung (@aungaungsittwe) RvisionTV.com Septemeber 29, 2013 Tha n dwe, Arakan :  On 29 th  September 2013 evening, a Muslim House in Thandwe Township have been burnt down by Rakhine terrorists. Another houses is still on fire, while a mosque is also said to have been set ablaze. “Yesterday (on 28 th  September 2013) morning, a 969-inspired-Rakhine extremist parked his lorry in front of the shop of U Kyaw Zan Hla at the Municipal Market in the downtown of Thandwe. Since the vehicle was causing hassles to the customers coming to the shop, U Kyaw Zan Hla asked the Rakhine man to drive the lorry away. So, just for that, the Rakhine man started scolding and abusing U Kyaw Zan Hla instead of driving the lorry away. U Kyaw Zan Hla also scolded the Rakhine man back. Afterwards, the Rakhine extremist went to the police station to lodge a complaint against U Kyaw Zan Hla alleging that U Kyaw Zan Hla burnt down Sarsana (religious) flag and also abused 969 movement. Th

Photo: Rohingya Village KPN News September 29, 2013   Maungdaw, Arakan State: Five brothers of a family have been arrested by police of Kayin Chaung police out-post on September 11, of them one was killed in police custody, said a closerelative of the victims.  “The arrested brothers had been identified as-----Shom Moluk,44; Noor Hashim,42; Mohamed Hashim,35; Mohamed Amin and Mohamed Salim,27.  All are sons of Abu Taher, hailed from Oo Shaikya (Borashidar Para) village of Maungdaw Township.”  Regarding the matter, on September 10, at about 1: 00 am, a house of one Iqbal,52; hailed from Ngan Chaung, area No.5 of Maungdaw north was robbed by a group of Rakhine armed group. They took away cash and gold ornaments from the house. So the house owner Iqbal went to nearby police station and logged a file about the robbery, the relative more added. As a result, the police arrested the said five brothers on suspicion of that they had involved in the robbery. The brot

Reports by Aung Aung (@aungaungsittwe) and Saman Leesanee Compiled by M.S. Anwar RvisionTV.com  | September 29, 2013 Ming-Byaa Township, Arakan State : 27th September, 2013 1)  Around 2PM on 27th Septemeber 2013, two Myanmar  military   raped a 18-year-old Rohingya girl named Zaitun Bahar @Gulubi daughter of Habibullah at the village of Sangyi Pyin in Min-Byaa Township, Arakan state. 2)  Around 3PM of the day, the same Myanmar  military  personnel arrested innocent Rohingya named Ba Kyaw @Ahmed Sayed S/o Mohammed Amin (Age 27) from the same village. 3)  At 3:30PM,  Military  called up the girl’s parents to their camp and forced them to say that Ba Kyaw had raped their daughter. The military officer tortured Ba Kyaw and forced his family to pay a ramsom amount, Kyat 800,000, to let him be released. However, despite the extortion of humungous amount of money, the military have not freed Ba Kyaw yet. Then, the military paid Kyat 500,000 to the girl’s parents and treatened

By  Emirates News Agency  WAM NEW YORK, 28th September 2013 (WAM)-- The UAE has expressed concern over the acts of violence which target the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, and demanded the international community encourage the government of Myanmar to carry out its duty to put an end to these acts which contradict the basic principles of human rights, as well as to help the Rohingya restore their rights as a Muslim Minority in Myanmar.  The UAE also re-affirmed that it will continue to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of violence in Myanmar and to defend the legitimate rights of the Muslim minority in the country. This came in the UAE's statement at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Rohingya, held in New York, USA, under the chairmanship of Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of OIC, on the margins of the 68th United Nations General Assembly.  The UAE's statement at the OIC meeting i

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Asian Tribune  September 29, 2013 The U.S. Congressional panel recently had a hearing to examine the current political environment inside Burma (Myanmar), the growing human right abuses among its ethnic groups, and assess U.S. policy towards the country. Amongst other dignitaries Professor Wakar Uddin of the Arakan Rohingya Union was invited to answer a series of questions on the above subject. Hearings of this kind do show that the U.S. Congress is mindful of Myanmar and is interested to better the situation for all inside the country. I welcome such an initiative. In my opinion, the changes that have happened in the state of Myanmar in the last couple of years are mostly cosmetic and not genuine. I wish I could have sounded more optimistic. But I can’t and I shall share why I feel this way. 1.On the positive side, hundreds of political prisoners have been released from the prisons where once they had been rotting for years. A notable example i