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Silent Revolution in Myanmar census

                            Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims around 1 million.  [Reuters] By Aung Aung The Stateless March 30, 2014 Sittwe : Rohingya have been being deprived of fundamental rights. Myanmar regime has been trying to make us Bangali since 1965 as they wrote 100s of fake histories, articles and documentaries against us as an effort to change Rohingya’s name into Bangali but they failed in their 60 years’ non-stop struggle against Rohingya. According to Rohingya proverb “A duckling is never changed into chick because whenever a duckling sees water starts swimming, on the other hand, chick is always scared of water. All revolutions in the World were started by the impotent persons; every human being was the most powerful on Earth when he or she was a baby. A baby’s cry can change the parents’ life. As Rohingya have been living under persecution since 1960s, they have nothing to start a revolution for their salvation from cruel persecution of Burmese

No Rohingya joins census process for race term “Rohingya”

Authority & Media left without collecting data in Sanpya Sittwe, Photo Soe Thu Moe Twitter By KPN March 30, 2014 Maungdaw,Arakan State : The census processing groups – Enumerators , Supervisor, Immigration officers, village admin officers and security personnel- are not allowing the term Rohingya in the column of race, then all the Rohingya community in Maungdaw Township and Buthidaung township stop to join the census process today morning, said Halim, a Human Rights Watchdog from Maungdaw. The villagers welcome the census processing group when the census processing groups arrived in the villages where they will collect the data of all the villagers. Before processing the data collecting, the villagers first asked to the group, to use the term Rohingya in the column race – code number 914(Other) – where the processing groups denied to fill the term Rohingya. So, the villagers denied to join the census processing, Halim said. The census processing group with som