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Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Hassan Cheruppa Saudi Gazette November 10, 2013 JEDDAH — Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will lead a high-level OIC delegation to Myanmar on Tuesday.  The delegation, which  will include seven foreign ministers and senior officials from the OIC member countries, will meet top government officials as well as political leaders of Myanmar. In their bid to find a lasting solution to the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-dominated Asian country, the Muslim leaders will also hold talks with Buddhist parliament members and leaders of Rohingya community, according to OIC sources. The delegation will also make field visits to the riot-torn regions in the Rakhine region to take stock of the conditions of Muslims living there. Ihsanoglu said the issue of Rohingya Muslims was one of the most pressing issues he addressed during his nine-year tenure as the secretary-general

By  PressTV November 10, 2013 Ahmad Irshad along with his family fled Myanmar at the age of 14, because they feared being killed by extremist Buddhists. Living in Jammu region of Indian-controlled Kashmir, he believes the life they live now is no less than a punishment for them.  Working in a walnut packaging factory is the only chance of survival for thousands of refugees -- young and old.  India is not a signatory to the United Nations convention relating to the status of refugees. Since there is no law that deals with foreign refugees, the government will decide whether or not to grant the Rohingyas, refugee status on a case-by-case basis.  Asylum seekers can be given the UN refugee cards instead, which the agency says could also take time.  Rohingyas are believed to be the most persecuted community of the world. Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees living across the Indian sub-continent hope their lives will one day change for the better. 

Report by Sindhi Khan | Written by M.S. Anwar November 11, 2013 rvisiontv.com Maung Daw, Arakan : A Rakhine extremist (who is also the leader of Rakhine Hitler Gang of Maung Daw) together with his friends vandalized a Rohingya shop at Quarter 2, Maung Daw, at around 8: 45AM on 30th October 2013. “At 8:45AM on 30th October 2013, Maung Chay (son of) U Maung Phru, a Rakhine extremist, from the village of Bohmuu (Rwa), Ward 4, Maung Daw, turned up at a Rohingya grocery shop named “Plaza” located nearby Maung Daw Clock-Tower in Ward 2. The shop was owned by Abdur Razzak (Age 29), a Rohingya hails from Ward 2 as well. Upon arriving, the Rakhine extremist asked for chewing betels. The shopkeeper (i.e. Abdur Razak) gave it to him. While the shopkeeper was serivng the next customer, the extremist asked for cigarette. The shopkeeper gave cigarette to him after seriving the said customer. However, the Rakhine extremist suddenly got angry and was about to punch the shopkeeper accu

The daughter of Daw Aye Kyi, a partly paralyzed 94-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in the village of Thabyu Chaing. (Photo: David Hogsholt for The New York Times) By Thomas Fuller The New York Times November 09, 2013 THABYU CHAING, Myanmar — Paralyzed from the waist down, Daw Aye Kyi was too heavy for her daughter and granddaughter to carry into the surrounding jungle when a Buddhist mob stormed through this rice-farming village hunting for Muslims. Three men brandishing machetes and knives ignored pleas for mercy and lunged at Ms. Aye Kyi. Her daughter and her granddaughter fled. Several hours later, Ms. Aye Kyi’s body was discovered, slumped next to the smoking cinders of her wooden house. The police say she was stabbed six times. She was 94 years old.  Ms. Aye Kyi was one of five Muslims killed in the attack on Thabyu Chaing last month, a rampage that also destroyed more than a dozen homes. So far, in a year and a half of sporadic Buddhist-Muslim viole

Controversially projected onto the DC museum, photographer Greg Constantine’s black and white shots focus on the plight of the country’s persecuted minority Muslims BY  MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press November 6, 2013 Photographs by Greg Constantine showing the plight of Burma's Rohingya people, projected on the exterior walls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a few blocks from the White House where Myanmar’s president was feted for working for democracy, another side of his country is now on display at a more haunting Washington landmark: the plight of its most beleaguered people, the Rohingya Muslims, depicted in photos projected at night onto the external walls of the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The stark, black and white images by American photographer Greg Constantine combine searching portraits with pictures of the scorched settlements the Rohin