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Photo Credit: Christophe Reltien EU/ECHO January 2013 By KPN News  January 17, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Security forces – Police, Hluntin and Army- arrested four Rohingyas from Gawdusara village near Kila Dong village which was destroyed recently by Rakhine community with the help of security forces, on January 17, at about 3:00am, said Hamid Husson from Maungdaw south.  The security forces  surrounded the village – Gawdusara – after Maungdaw high level authority officers and Kila Dong village administration officer and members ( especially Sayeim gone –Ten houses leaders) at Gawdusara village school yesterday evening at 4:00pm, Hamid said. The Maungdaw officers took sign from Village administration members on Blank paper to inform the detail list of Rohingyas who involved on 13 January night event. The officers also asked to find out the missing sergeant Aung Kyaw Thein and his gun, said a members of village admin office. The missing sergeant was an alle

Burma Times January 17, 2014 The media and information secretary of European Rohingya Council Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim met with London’s Green Party MEP Mrs. Jean Lambert and head of Asia team (Society for Threatened People, STP) Mr. Ulrich Delius at European Parliament Strasebourg. H.E. Mr. Ulrich Delius highlighted one thing that is most crucial for Rohingya at this present time, as follows. The upcoming Myanmar census 2014 which would be carried out  from 30 March to 10 April will never be free and fair as the designated workers to accumulate data for precise census in northern Arakan state is almost all Rakhine but not Rohingya. It is the Rakhine who denies absolutely the existence of Rohingya in Arakan more hatefully than the Buddhist majority Burmese regime. The former dictatorial rulers put Islamophobia mindset to almost every Rakhine so it is out of imagination to predict or to think that the precise total population of Rohingya will be emerged in Myanmar census 2014. The cu

By Jared Ferrie Reuters Junuary 17, 2014  The United States on Friday urged Myanmar to investigate reports that security forces and Buddhist mobs attacked members of the Rohingya Muslim minority this week, killing as many as 60 people. Rights groups reported attacks by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs against Rohingya in a village in the Maungdaw township of western Rakhine state over the past three days. "The United States is deeply concerned about reports of fresh violence in Rakhine state, including reports that security forces may have committed abuses," a U.S. embassy official told Reuters. "We urge the government to thoroughly investigate such reports." Chris Lewa, director of Rohingya advocacy group Arakan Project, said the numbers of unconfirmed dead ranged from 10 to 60. She said the violence appeared to have started when Rohingya villagers clashed with police on the evening of Jan 13. Rakhine state government sp