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Photo Displaced Rohingyas  The Nation November 3, 2013  Fear of safety and communal strife is forcing the minority community to flee the country The UN refugee agency this weekend issued a statement warning about the possible exodus of boat people from Myanmar because of the outbreak of violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) pointed out that more than 1,500 people had left Rakhine state by boat last week and there were reports that some of them had drowned off the coast. Fear of personal safety and instability in Rakhine state are some of the reasons why a growing number of the people are leaving, according to the UNHCR. The ongoing tension between the Buddhist and Muslim communities in Rakhine state this past year has resulted in numerous casualties. More than 140,000 are internally displaced. The violence has been largely described as

By Burkely Hermann,  World War 4 Report November 01, 2013   It's not ethnic cleansing. The world needs to understand that the fear is not just on the side of the Muslims, but on the side of the Buddhists as well. No high-ranking US State Department official spoke these words. It was Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, in an  interview with BBC , dismissing credible claims of the genocide of Burma's Muslim Rohingya people, put forward by  Genocide Watch ,  Foreign Policy in Focus ,  UN Dispatch ,  Der Spiegel  writer Jürgen Kremb, the  Kassandra Project , Ramzy Baroud of the Pakistani publication  The Nation , and many others . Suu Kyi  continued , saying that she condemns "any movement that is based on hatred and extremism," that "the reaction of Buddhists is also based on fear," that the government should deal with these extremists so it isn't her responsibility, and finally that "Burma now needs real change…a democratic soci

M.S. Anwar  | November 2, 2013 rvisiontv.com Pauktaw, Arakan- Around 1PM on 2nd November 2013, Rakhine terrorists killed an internally diaplced Rohingya in the forest nearby the village of Sin-Htet-Maw (Sandama), Pauktaw township. Later, the shoot out by the Military and Hlun Hteins (Secuirty Force) at the crowd critically injured five more internally displaced Rohingyas. “Five Rohingyas from the IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps at Sin-Htet-Maw (Sandama) went to the forest to collect woods at 6AM on 2nd November 2013. After a few hours, around nine Rakhine terrorists appeared and attacked them using swords and daggers. They defended against the attackers with the falchions (a type of sword used to cut wood) they had. Hence, the Rakhine terrorists ran away. Unfortunately, at around 1PM of the day, another Rohingya going to the forest stream for fishing encountered with the terrorists. The terrorists inhumanely slaughtered the man and threw the body into the stream.

Rakhine state remains a seedbed of religious and ethnic hatred Photo  Reuters The Economist November 02, 2013   A SUNNI mosque looks as if it has seen better days. One of the minarets seems close to collapse. But the cool white floor-tiles are spotless, and the carpeted prayer-rooms well-kept. An elderly imam, whose features betray his Arabic ancestry, prepares for noon prayers. No muezzin calls; but the faithful in the town of Thandwe trickle in, some in prayer caps, others bareheaded but with long white shirts over their blue-checked longyis. Thandwe is in the south of Rakhine state in western Myanmar, once the kingdom of Arakan. The mosque is near its sprawling market, where Muslims, Indians and members of the ethnic-Rakhine majority sit side-by-side, trading fish and fresh vegetables, clothing, hardware and gold. It all looks peaceful. But a pagoda by the market now houses riot police and soldiers. And Thandwe is under dusk-to-dawn curfew. In early October