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Burma Times – A religious teacher from Kin Daung Village said on the condition of anonymity that the military personals from battalion 551 under the Dabru Chaung brigade, village administrator and their abettors are extorting, threatening and harassing to the villagers in different area inside and out side the kin  Daung village tract under Buthidaung Township. The administrator of kin Daung village who lives in Dum Pine Buddhist village is collecting money 2000 or 3000 or 5000kyats from the villagers according to their status today on 30 NOV 2013. In this case his some puppets are helping to him in collecting the cash. Cunningly The administrator shows different reasons to the villagers when collecting cash from them such as district peace & development council (Ka Ya Ka ) and City peace and development council ( Ma Ya Ka) ordered to him to provide some cash or something etc. in deed they are selling the higher authorities name to for the extortion. If anybody try to ref

By M-mediagroup DEMNATION ON INSULT TO ISLAM IN MYANMAR AND DEMAND FOR RETRACTION AND APOLOGY  by  Stateless Rohingya

By IHRC November 28, 2013   Comment piece on Myanmar by Yaseen Omar, UK based commentator. The continued denial of citizenship to Myanmar’s Rohingya lies at the heart of their status as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities. However despite international pressure on the former communist country to introduce democratic reforms, the future for the Rohingya continues to look bleak and bloody, according to Yaseen Omar. One of the first steps to resolving any political crisis is to acknowledge that the object of thatcrisis actually exists. Unfortunately that recognition still seems a distant prospect for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority despite mounting international concern about their plight and the hopes engendered by – as yet unfulfilled - promises of democratic reform. Last week a resolution passed by the human rights committee of the United Nations General Assembly demanding that Yangon grant citizenship to the approximately 1.5 million Muslim Rohingya and