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By Huson Salm KPN  Zero tolerance dubbed puppet President U Thein Sein had promised many times international community to handle justly, impartially and honestly the local communal problems ‐‐ mostly between radical Buddhists and innocent Muslims—such kinds at most have remarkably been since his first inauguration as president in history. U Thein Sein, who is widely believed as nothing more than a live less puppet, is sternly controlled and madly driven by U Than Shwe whatever he wants to execute. U Than Shwe is inherited the legacy of the then general Ne Win’s all bad behaviors and state structural paperwork to run the country and who had been one of the sole brutal, atrocious and wicked dictators, crushing the democratic movements and political dissidents since the year 1989 to 2010. During these days, the matriculation examination will be over in Myanmar and there are already sorts of destructive elements, who are readily being positioned in targeted locatio

Rohingya women are pictured at a schoolhouse outside of Sittwe in May 2013. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) By Lawi Weng The Irrawaddy March 25, 2014 RANGOON — The Arakan State government has asked Muslim leaders in Sittwe to urge their fellow followers of Islam not to identify their “race” in Burma’s upcoming census, with authorities worried that allowing Rohingya Muslims to self-identify as such could spark a violent backlash from Buddhists in the troubled region. State authorities including police Col. Tun Oo met Muslim community leaders on Tuesday morning and told them that the request was intended to defuse tensions in the state, which has seen protests by Arakanese Buddhists against the census in recent weeks that continued in Sittwe on Tuesday. The census, Burma’s first in more than 30 years, will officially begin next week. The protestors oppose the UN-backed census because it allows Rohingya to identify themselves as they wish, conferring legitimacy on a

MYARF Report | Written by M.S. Anwar 25th March 2014 Rvisiontv.com Maungdaw, Arakan - “Rakhine 969 extremists are ultra-active nowadays in northern Maungdaw. They gather at the monastery of “Taung-Paw” in the village of Kyein-Chaung (Bawli Bazaar)” says an eye-witness. Similary, it has also been learnt that 969 Rakhine terrorists gather everyday at the monastery of Myothit village of Nga-Kura (Nagpura) village tract and at the monastery of Kyan-Pyin village, northern Maungdaw. These terrorists sneak into the nearby Rohingya villages at night. They throw fire-causing chemical powder on Rohingya homes, try to torch them (Rohingya homes) and also try to beat and kill Rohingyas. -On 18 th  March 2014 night, some of those terrorists attempted to torch Rohingya homes in the village of Ridhaa of Aung Sit Pyin village tract, in the village of Ywa Thit of the Kyein Chaung village tract and in the village of Chung-Gaung of Laung-Doong village tract. However, Rohingya people in ch

By Aung Aung  March 25, 2014 Today morning, Rakhine authority, head of State's Immigration and Police Commissioner went to Sanpya and Bumay villages of Rohingya. They told Rohingya not to fill race-column of 2014 Census, when Rohingya pointed out the Census law released by the Government which mentions everyone can answer freely, Police commissioner threatened them " You must do what we say, no UN and other countries can do anything here, this is our country, you must obey us. In Bumay, another Rohingya demanded that if State wants us not to fill race-column, State should announce it officially otherwise it can be a problem, we are Rohingya, and we won't accept Bangali for our name, never" Police Commissioner left the meeting angrily. All Rohingya in Arakan State are in fear, one side 969 Buddhists and Rakhine Extremists are threatening, and on the other side, authority itself has been threatening not to use the term Rohingya.  ” In the Burmese constitutio

By Burma Times March 24, 2014 Stockholm, Sweden :  Tomás Ojea Quintana, the Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in Myanmar visited to Stockholm where he briefed the grave human rights violations in Myanamr particularly in Kachin and Rakhine state. Moreover, he reiteratively briefed the precedented catastrophe of Rohingya internally displaced people in concentrated and squalid camps where they are confined, on the other hand, discrimination and persecution are increasingly taking place. “ It is to be worried and regretted how the Buddhist authorities in Rakhine state perpetrate crimes against Rohinya evidently imposing double standard policies where Rohingya families pass day and night in limbo in wet floor and the Rakhine families pass lives comfortably on the mat distributed by Buddhist monks ,added by him.” Eventually, he appealed to world for a swift sustainable resolution for the distressed Rohingya whose destiny is approached in limbo before

Photo: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun By  Emanuel Stoakes Al Jazeera March 24, 2014 The Myanmar government denies the latest report on violence against the Rohingya minority. When news broke in mid-January this year of an alleged  massacre of ethnic Rohingya  Muslims near the town of Maungdaw in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, it elicited widespread international concern. Shortly after the story made headlines in international media,  spokesmen  for the government of Myanmar, by contrast, issued a different account of the events denying that anyone had been killed. Questions remain as to why or how they arrived at such a conclusion so quickly. Following this, a number of NGOs and monitor groups released statements on the incident: The  United Nations ,  Human Rights Watch  and  Fortify Rights  augmented earlier press pieces on the reported slaughter, all of which strongly indicated that  dozens had been killed , while the local police did not attempt to pre