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Aung San Suu Kyi tiptoes around Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim crisis

Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addresses a room of journalists at the International Media Conference in Yangon, Burma on March 9, 2014 (Photo: Brian Pellot) By  Brian Pellot Regional News Service March 9, 2014 “A politician thinks of the next elections. A statesman thinks of the next generation.”  Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s most famous citizen, politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, made this distinction to a packed room of journalists at the International Media Conference in Yangon Sunday afternoon. Daw Suu, as she’s known in Myanmar (Burma), is an internationally recognized and revered stateswoman. She’s also an active politician, thinking about  running for president  in the country’s 2015 elections. Suu Kyi’s  continued silence  on the Rohingya situation in western Myanmar begs the question: Are political priorities overshadowing her concern for the next generation? Myanmar is one of the world’s  worst countrie

Myanmar census: risk or reward for Rohingya Muslims?

By  AFP March 09, 2014   SITTWE Myanmar — In the desolate camps of western Myanmar many homeless Muslims are determined to assert their identity as Rohingya after years of persecution, in a census some fear will spark further turmoil. Myanmar’s first census in 30 years — which starts at the end of March with United Nations help — will provide new data on the country, until now relying on figures from a flawed population tally in 1983. But observers warn that controversy over rigid official definitions of ethnicity and entrenched mistrust of authorities after decades of junta rule risk damaging the country’s fragile peace efforts and further inflaming religious tensions after waves of anti-Muslim violence. Questions of identity go to the very heart of divisions in Rakhine State, where long-held animosity between Buddhist and Muslim communities erupted into bloodshed two years ago, leaving scores dead and displacing 140,000 people — mainly among the stateless Rohingy

These Buddhists Terrorist Swarn Arr Shins are allowed by USDP Government to roam the roads

By Dr. Ko Ko Gyi These Buddhists Terrorist Swarn Arr Shins are free to roam the roads. Muslims who keep the defensive and non aggressive or much less lethal weapons are arrested by Bama Police.  Kindly allow me to suggest a campaign… Please compile the pics of Buddhists with weapons on the road. Ask Thein Sein Gov what action they take on them. Why Muslims who keep the less lethal weapons in their house were arrested. Please shared the pics below. Now I started with one picture>>> Pics and videos of Buddhists: Bamas, Rakhines and Monks with Knives, machetes, sticks publish again and ask the gov and police…to trace and arrest them and the persons behind them…If fail to arrest, take to court …Police Chief, Military Commanders, Administrative Authorities (All Local, Divisional and Federal level) would be held responsible for OMISSION of DUTIES.