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Photo: Burmese authority  looted Rohingya homes  By KPN News January  27, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : The looted goods from Du Chee Ya Tan (Kila Dong) are selling In Maungdaw market- central market, Three miles market and six mile market- since January 25, said Mohamed Harrass, a trader from Maungdaw central market. The Kila Dong’s looted goods especially the foods items are carrying by tri-wheelers or motorbikes by Rakhine community from Kharaymine village every day, Harrass said. The Kila Bong’s goods were sold at first in the six mile market, tha n to three miles market. When the villagers and people become to know that the goods were looted from Kila Dong village by Rakhine villagers with the help of security forces when the security forces surrounded the village. The people stopped to buy the goods, then the Rakhine move to Maungdaw central market, said Habib, a school teacher from Maungdaw south. The Rakhine from Khayraymine village are selling 50 k

Dr. Habib Siddiqui January 25, 2014 The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations 65 years ago in December of 1948. The U.S. didn’t ratify the Genocide Convention for another 40 years. The late Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, took up the task in the 1960s of getting the convention ratified. He assumed it would be easy. But it was not. He ended up giving 3,211 speeches on the floor of the Senate, a different speech every day for 19 years, until it was ratified. It took two more years before President Ronald Reagan finally signed the measure into law on Nov. 5, 1988 — in a hangar at O’Hare Airport in Chicago.  After the Jewish Holocaust in Europe, the world said “never again,” but the list of genocides since then is long and sorrowful: Cambodia in the 1970s, nearly 2 million dead; Rwanda in 1994, 800,000 dead; Bosnia in the 1990s, 250,000 dead; Chechnya between the years 1994 and 2000,