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( Burma Times ) BY Maung Hla Myint - According to the villagers of Atwin Nga Tay village tract, City peace and development council (Ma-Ya-Ka) and land registry has released notification to submit petition for the confiscated Rohingya land. The land was confiscated for the battalions and pagoda in 1988 and 1994. There were hundreds of acre land that was confiscated for battalions and one hundred acre for the pagoda that is located in Dom Pine village, a Buddhist village near the Kin Daung village tract. In fact it was belonged to Kin Daung villagers. The land which was seized for the pagoda was allocated two acre to every family of the Dom Pine villagers (Buddhists) in last may. Incredibly, the City peace & development council and land registry have sent letters to the village administrator of kin Daung about submitting petition for the confiscated land of kin Daung villagers before second December. The petition Is for those hundred acre land which are locating a

Report by Maung Thein Zaw, Sallam Oic Group  |  Written by M.S. Anwar November 21, 2013 Kyauktaw, Arakan:  Three innocent Rohingyas in Kyauktaw township were alleged of raping and killing a minor Rakhine girl and  subsequently  arrested on 18 th  November 2013. However, the actual criminal who  had  committed the crime was a Rakhine from the village of Kya-Nyo-Pin of the same township. The detailed account of the case and an interview with a Rohingya in Kyauktaw are mentioned below. Ma Mimi Nge (Age 6) Raped and Killed by a cruel Rakhine extremist. Extremist Monks are taking advantage of her unfortunate death and spreading propaganda to incite violence against Muslims. (Photo: FB of an Extremist Monk, U Nya Na) “At around 9PM on 18 th  November 2013, Shwe San Aung (Age 29) (from the village of Kya-Nyo-Pin of the Kyauktaw township) luredMa Mimi Nge (Age 6), fourth daughter of U Shwe Aung (father) and Daw Moe Moe San (father), and took her to the farm-landoutside thevilla

BY KPN November 20, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State : A team of immigration with security forces- Army and Hluntin- started removing Rohingya from their family lists who are not present at the time since November 18, Rofique told the Kaladanpress from Khonzabill village under Maundaw Township.  The security forces are seen as going to operation while the Immigration went to check the Rohingya family lists in the village. The Immigration officers with village admin called  and ordered the villagers to bring their family lists where the immigration officers removed the person from list who are not present  which seen the authority are doing systematic reducing Rohingya population in the area, said Halim (not real name) , a  Human Rights watch dog from Maungdaw. The security forces are opening a pathway to the Rohingya who want to go Malaysia by risky boat, taking tolls from them. It is a kind of program to reduce Rohingya population, harassing the Rohingya community to leave

By Esther Htusan November 21, 2013 A year after Buddhist mobs forced almost all members of the minority Rohingya Muslim community from this northwestern Myanmar city, creating a state-sanctioned sectarian divide, thousands of children while away their long, empty days in dusty displacement camps. Because Rohingya children are no longer welcome in many government schools, the so-called Rohingya Village Madrassa on the outskirts of Sittwe has opened its doors to some of those boys and girls, teaching not just Islamic studies, as it did in the past, but Burmese and English. In this Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a Muslim boy learns the Quran by rote at Rohingya Village Madrassa in The’ Chaung Village on the outskirts of Sittwe in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Because Rohingya children are no longer welcome in many government schools, the so-called Rohingya Village Madrassa has opened its doors to some of those boys and girls, teaching not just Islamic studies, as it did in the past, but Burmese