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Statement From Members Of The European Burma Network February 03, 2014 Members of the European Burma Network express their deep concern at reports of further massacres of members of the Rohingya ethnic group in Burma. The report by the United Nations that at least 48 Rohingya men women and children have been killed, and that police were involved, provides yet more evidence that the current approach by both the government of Burma and the European Union to address ongoing abuses against the Rohingya is failing. Members of the European Burma Network are concerned by the muted response of the European Union to the latest reported massacre. We are also concerned about reports of rape and mass arrests. No action has been taken by the government of Burma or the European Union in response to continuing and consistent reports of the use of rape in Rakhine State since the latest wave of violence began in 2012. The United Nations confirmed the deaths of 68 Rohingya in jail followi

By  Financial Express Bangladesh February 03, 2014 Observing that it will take time to initiate the safe return of Rohingya refugees to their homeland from Bangladesh, US Senior Adviser for Myanmar Judith Beth Cefkin on Monday sought the continuation of support they are getting in Bangladesh on purely humanitarian ground. Addressing a media roundtable at American Centre, the visiting US offi cial emphasised that security concerns related to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and the humanitarian issues in the regard need to be separated, and that Bangladesh should not detract from providing refuge to Rohingyas fleeing their country only on the ground of safeguarding the border. Myanmar is going through simultaneous reforms in different areas, including the democratisation in politics, dissolution of the centralised economy by the institution of open market economy and the move towards restoring peace and stability in society, and the US government expects Bangladesh’s cooperat