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Burma Times December 14, 2013 According to a teacher from Wa Ma Kya village said on the condition of anonymity, the authority of buthidaung township and village administrators of the Takan Kwa Sone village, Maw Taw biz village, Boon Gyi village (Sayed bawli fara), Kwa Son Village(Fatayma fara) and Wa Ma Kya village of the Takan Kwa Sone Village tract under Buthidaung Township have restricted the villagers going to the nearest mountain and one village to another village, etc.  Usually most of the villagers survive by selling fire woods that bring from the nearest mountain. At present they couldn’t go to bring the firewood from it as they were warned by the authorities not to go to the mountain.  So many villagers are in serious troubles.The mountain is about 10km far away from the Rohingya villages and they have to cross the Rakhine villages to go to the mountain. Besides the Rohingya villagers cannot go from one village to another village without the written prior perm

Dr Tun Aung is serving a 17-year prison sentence after being convicted of multiple criminal offences, including inciting a riot. By   Amnesty International  December 14, 2013  At a Glance Take action as part of Amnesty's Write for Rights 2013 campaign: Dr Tun Aung: Imprisoned for trying to help “ Dr Tun Aung should be released immediately so that he can return to being a family man, a community leader and a doctor. I firmly believe that Amnesty International members around the world will play a vital role in securing his freedom. ” An Amnesty International Southeast Asia Campaigner recently explained how a passion for Myanmar led her to become an Amnesty International activist, and why Dr Tun Aung needs your help. I’ve had a strong interest in civil and political rights since I was a teenager in Ireland. My father was a lifelong member of Amnesty International, so I was always aware of the organization. At university

Rohingya are a native ethnic Muslim minority from Arakan, a western state of Burma, living many centuries. Before Rohingya became the stateless in own soil, they have encountered many operations of dehumanization from various Burmese governments starting in 1963 up to now. Rohingya have lost their history, nationality, dignity, home, land, property and faced human rights abuses such as restriction on religion, marriage, education, travel, arbitrary taxation, arrest, rape, etc..  2012 has been the greatest disaster for Rohingya as Rakhine extremists and government forces launched the grass-root killing of Rohingya throughout Arakan making hundred thousands displaced, killed and missing, while the international community has been silently neglecting the suffering state of Rohingya. Rohingya the Victims of Ethnic Cleansing  

Tim King  Salem-News Rohingyas in Burma are under constant tyranny and persecution living in sub-human condition, worse than apartheid era of South Africa. (SACRAMENTO) - Rohingya people in Burma saw another massive fire sweep through illegal Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps today. It happened at 2:00 p.m. Burma time In Ngat Choung (Keraggiri) IDP camp, Pauktaw, Arakan. A fire quickly broke out, it reportedly started in a kitchen and 42 shelters burnt into ashes, killing a small baby. People on the ground stress that it is just one of many IDP camp fires that has taken place. The Muslim citizens of Myanmar in these camps are displaced because their government aided radical violent Buddhists in driving them from their homes in the first place. When the smoke began to clear today, ten children remained unaccounted for, and one 15-day old baby, Nur Khatu, daughter of U Huson Ahmad and Daw Kunsuma, died of burn injuries in Kayagyi village, Pauk Taw township