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Meeting in  Gudusara   school  By KPN News Junuary, 22, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State: A high level delegation led by Arakan State Chief Minister U Hla Maung Tin went to Gudusara village nearby Kilai Dong village today and held a meeting in school of Gudusara with inviting Rohingya villagers including women who fled from Kilai Dong village and neighbors, said a villager who participate in the meeting.  The members of the delegation went to village at about  2: 00 pm with 12 cars from Maungdaw Town.  After arrival, they held a meeting inviting Rohingya men and women from nearby villages and especially women from Kilai Dong village. Some villagers said, more than 200 female head to the delegation to inform their situation, but the security forces stopped the group of female to head to the delegation. Later, the group was leased to meet the delegation, said a school teacher from Maungdaw south.  In the meeting, minister of border affairs, three foreign

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) Press Release January  21, 2014 Eyewitnesses report ongoing violence against the Muslim minority in Burma: The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) calls for an independent investigation of the alleged human rights crimes committed against members of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma. Eyewitnesses reported to the human rights organization about an incident during which 60 Rohingya were killed when Burmese security forces and Buddhist extremists attacked the village of Du Chee Yar Tan in Maungdaw district (Arakan State) on January 14, 2014. Most of the 4,000 inhabitants managed to escape. Burma's authorities deny the attack against the minority group – but are also trying to keep international observers and members of the Rohingya people away from the village. "If Burma's authorities are really trying to stop the circle of violence, they should allow human rights activists, foreign diplomats and United Nation

Arab News January 22, 2014 I am surprised at the criminal silence of the international media over the atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. If one browses the Internet, he/she could find hundreds of reports on the plight of the poor Muslims in Rakhine province of Myanmar. Many of those reports correctly call it a slow-burning genocide. Unfortunately, the international media and the toothless champion of the human rights the United Nations is keeping mum over this issue.  The UN appears satisfied by paying a mere lip service.  According to some reports available on the Internet and reported by a few media outlets, a group of extremist Buddhists with the connivance of local authorities is butchering innocent unarmed Muslims. They attack Muslim villages in an organized manner and conveniently carry out their operation cleanup without facing any problem from the authorities. There are some reports claiming that Myanmar forces are forcing Muslim women in