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KPN News November 04, 2013   Maungdaw, Arakan State: Buthidaung court has convicted 69 Rohingyas sentencing to 5-2 year prison terms last week of October, Halim (not real name), a human rights watchdog from Maungdaw said. Those convicted were arrested after the violence of June 2012, in Maungdaw Township, with allegation of listed in so-called warrant list issued from Maungdaw court by requested of Maungdaw Township and district admin officers, police officers, Halim more added. “They were severely tortured and kept in Buthidaung jail without inadequate food and other facilities after arrested.” Muslim men and boys were allegedly arbitrarily detained in Buthidaung prison, were subjected to three months of systematic torture and ill-treatment by prison guards and up to 20 prison inmates, who appear to have been brought into the prison for the specific purpose of administering beatings to Muslim prisoners, according to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human ri

photo MYMetro BBC News November 03, 2013 Dozens of people are missing after a boat carrying refugees from ethnic conflict in western Burma (Myanmar) sank in the Bay of Bengal. About 70 Muslims from the Rohingya minority, inc luding women and children, were aboard, police in Burma said. They are thought to have left a camp around the Rakhine state capital. Aid agencies have warned of a growing exodus of Rohingyas, who have been displaced by communal violence, attempting the dangerous sea journey. The boat was thought to be bound for Malaysia, where thousands of Rohingyas have sought sanctuary since violent clashes with Buddhists erupted last year. Over the past two years, hundreds of thousands of minority Muslims have been forced to flee Burma. Many Rohingya Muslims are living in tents or temporary camps. Aid agencies say the relentlessly grim conditions will push record numbers out to sea, in flimsy boats, where they are very vulnerable to

M.S. Anwar | November 4, 2013   rvisiontv.com You have earlier been reported on the killings of internally displaced Rohingyas [from Sin-Htet-Maw (Sandama) IDP camps, Pauktaw Township] by Rakhine terrorists, Myanmar military and Security Force (Hlun Hteind) on 2nd November 2013 (Report HERE). Below are the updates: 1- The person inhumanely slaughtered by Rakhine terrorists in the forest on 2nd November 2013 morning was Noor Hussain (Son of) Saleh Ahmed (Age 40-55). He was from Sin-Htet-Maw Camps, Pauktaw. 2- Later, many people from Sin-Htet-Maw IDP camps went to pick up his dead body. Myanmar Military and Hlun-Hteins-Security shot at the crowd around 2PM of the day. The military are under Battalion 233 in Pauktaw. 3- Due to the shoot out, another internally displaced Rohingya from Nget-Chaung IDP camp called Mohammed Syed (Son of) Ali Ahmed (Age 25) died instantly. Four other injured. 4- The four injured Rohingyas were admitted to the Sittwe General hospital wit