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Maungdaw, Arakan State : The concerned authority ordered to destroy a mosque accompanied by 14 other houses in Maungdaw south on May 24, according to our correspondent. On that day, at about 12 noon, U Than Htun, an officer of Maungdaw Township administration office (Mayaka) summoned the Khonza bill village Administration officer— Sayed Alam and other village elders to Aley Than Kyaw police station and ordered to destroy a mosque and 14 houses because of renovation. “The officer also said that the order came from high level office”, said one of the participants on condition of anonymity. The authority also targets religious buildings. Though the Burma claim itself as religious freedom country, but not for Rohingya community, said a Rohingya youth Jalil from the Maungdaw south. Some owners of the  houses have been identified as— Ms Azida (35), wife of Abdul Hanan; Abdullah (30), son of Dawat; Abdu Sukkur (30), son of Abul Hakim; Abdullah (45), son of Mohamed; Sayed Alam

A Rohingya Woman and her Child in Sinthay Pyin (Haati Fara); Crying Out as She Lost Her Home during the Blaze (Photo: Rq/ Rohingya Vision) Report by Khan S/ Written by M.S. Anwar Burma Times/ RvisionTV May 27, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State - A group of authority from different concerned quarters arrived at the village of Sinthay Pyin (Haati Fara), northern Maungdaw, around 11AM on 25th May 2014, but only to let people know that they (authority) would back out of their promise to provide shelter homes to displaced Rohingyas in the region. Besides, on 26th May 2014, Maungdaw police arrested Rohingya woman possibly in relation to fire that broke out at her house in the village on 10th March 2014. “More than 100 Rohingya homes were burnt down by Rakhine extremists in northern Maungdaw between 9th March 2014 and 20th March 2012. Rakhine extremists caused the fire throwing fire-causing chemical powders (in flying-balloons) on Rohingya homes. Villages such as Sinthay Pyin (Haati Far

By Dawn May 26, 2014 WASHINGTON : The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged the Burmese government to take immediate steps to end the persecution of Rohingya Muslims. In a letter to Myanmar’s President Thein Sein, the committee’s chairman Robert Menendez expressed deep concern over the worsening humanitarian crisis affecting Rohingyas. “I urgently request that your government take immediate steps to end the persecution of the Rohingya, ensure the security of international aid groups and facilitate their immediate access to Rakhine state,” he wrote. The committee noted that recently the United States and Myanmar had made progress in building ties and cooperation between the two countries, yet several critical human rights and humanitarian concerns threatened to impede further progress, with the situation in Rakhine State and Buddhist-Muslim communal violence highest among them. Senator Menendez reminded the Burmese leader that the Rohingyas were faci

By Tin Soe KPN News  May 26, 2014 Chittagong, Bangladesh : Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) organized an international seminar on Enhancing Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations at BIISS auditorium on 21 May 2014 to discuss “the problems in the bordering area” under the Dhaka’s proposal of “security dialogue” and Naypyidaw agreed it, said Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque. The Secretary said under the security dialogue “we will focus discussion on security issues which is hurting the relationship including irregular movement of people in that area”. “Once we have security dialogue, we would have close, intense discussion between two bordering forces,” Haque speaking at seminar that he said Bangladesh and Myanmar are set to break the ice in their relations by narrowing the decades-old “trust deficit” between the two neighbors. Dhaka had allowed Burmese frigate for the first time last year to use Naaf River to go into their part of the l