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By Ei Ei Toe Lwin   Myanmar Times Thura U Shwe Mann says country should recognise the efforts of Rakhine people to safeguard the country’s borders and culture. Thura U Shwe Mann speaks at a meeting with Rakhine civil society leaders in Yangon on September 29. Photo: Boothee Parliamentary speaker Thura U Shwe Mann has praised ethnic Rakhine people for safeguarding Myanmar’s western border, as Rakhine representatives called for temporary ID cards to be scrapped and the right to form a people’s militia. During a meeting with members of the Rakhine community in Yangon on September 29, Thura U Shwe Mann said parliamentarians have a responsibility to “support” the Rakhine people. “It’s not enough to praise [Rakhine people] with words. Let’s cooperate to carry out our duties for the development of Rakhine State, and to physically and mentally support the people,” Thura U Shwe Mann said. He also urged respect for the efforts of the Rakhine people to safeguard the

U.S. President Barack Obama waves after giving a speech at the University of Yangon November 19, 2012.  Credit: Reuters/Minzayar Saudi Gazette October 07, 2013   US President Barack Obama spoke of the “crushing poverty and persecution” being faced by Burmese Muslims, known as Rohingyas, on his trip to Burma last year. “This is a very serious problem for the world community,” former US President Jimmy Carter said last month referring to the continuing violence against Muslims in this Buddhist nation of 60 million. During their visit to Burma, Carter and two other world leaders — former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland — also called for “an end to impunity“ to those who indulge in “these senseless, destructive, repeated acts of brutality.” Last Wednesday we saw an extreme manifestation of this brutality in Thandwe, a township in western Rakhine state where four days of violence left five Muslims dead, forcin

Muslim women in Arakan state's Sittwe hold ID cards while they wait to cast ballots during the 2010 general elections. (Reuters)  KPN News October 07, 2013  Maungdaw, Arakan State: U Aung Myint Soe, District Administration Officer said the participants not to say Rohingya, otherwise will serve two years jail term at village administration officers meeting held in Maungdaw District Administration office hall on October 3, at around 2:00pm, said a village Administrator officer who attended the meeting preferring not to be named.  “The Township Administrative Officer called a meeting in Maungdaw town, inviting all Village Administrative officers and Assistant Admins across the Township. Not more than five people met on place – inside the mosque or out of the mosque - for prayer purpose, they will be punished according to the law and the mosques will not open till the emergency Act 144 was imposed, said  the district admin officer said in the meeting. The district admin

Report by Sindhi Khan |  Written by M.S. Anwar RvisionTV.com October 7, 2013 Just a Tragic Account of Rohingyas’ Lives! High School Maung Daw. A Neo-Apartheid System in practice in the institution. Rakhine students and Rohingya students are segregated. No Rakhine teacher teaches anything Rohingya students and no Rohingya teachers are given permission to teach at the school. What immediately comes to your mind when you hear terms such as “a travel permit ” or “a stay or residence permit?” A travel permit may be a document that a citizen of a particular country requires to travel to a foreign country. Similarly, a residence permit is a permit document issued to a foreigner for stay in a particular country. Except for travelling to some restricted zones, hardly does any citizen of a country in any a part of the world need a travel document to travel other parts of his/her own country and stay-permit to stay within the country’s border. Nevertheless, since 1990, Myanmar autho

KPN News  October 06, 2013 Teknaf, Bangladesh: Vitamin A plus capsules were fed to the refugee children in Rohingya refugee camps on October 5, Hsahim, a refugee said from the Kutupalong camp. According to refugees, “We are very happy that the government feeds vitamin A capsules to our children. It is good for our children to be prevented from various diseases.” National vitamin A plus capsules campaign was observed across the country on October 5 (Saturday) with an aim to prevent --- childhood blindness, reduce child mortality and strengthen their immune system, according to campaign leaflet.  The government set target of feeding high-powered vitamin A capsules to the children aged between six months to five years under national vitamin A plus campaign.A Community Health Worker from the Nayapara camp said that the health staffs were working in different immunization centers at camps and feeding the children due to rain.Secretary MM Niaz Uddin inaugurated the ca