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By BD news24 ,  May 29, 2014 Bangladesh has summoned Myanmar’s ambassador in Dhaka to protest against the detention of a border guard by Burma’s border police. Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) remained missing since Wednesday morning following “an indiscriminate firing by the Myanmar Border Guard Police”, the foreign ministry said. Dhaka has demanded his release and also “a thorough investigation” into the incident to prevent a repeat. Secretary (Bilateral) Mustafa Kamal handed over a “note verbale” to envoy Myo Myint Than on Thursday. He also protested against the indiscriminate firing along the border. The BGB member was patrolling along the Bangladesh-Myanmar international border with the team when he went missing amid indiscriminate firing. According to the foreign ministry, the Myanmar ambassador promised that the matter would be immediately conveyed to the Myanmar authorities. He also said “he would revert back to Bangl

Minura Begum. Credit Nicholas Kristof/The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof The New York Times May 29, 2014 SITTWE, Myanmar — Minura Begum has been in labor for almost 24 hours, and the baby is stuck. Worse, it’s turned around, one tiny foot already emerging into the world in a difficult breech delivery that threatens the lives of mother and child alike. Twenty-three years old and delivering her first child, Minura desperately needs a doctor. But the Myanmar government has confined her, along with 150,000 others , to a quasi-concentration camp outside town here, and it blocks aid workers from entering to provide medical help. She’s on her own. Welcome to Myanmar, where tremendous democratic progress is being swamped by crimes against humanity toward the Rohingya, a much-resented Muslim minority in this Buddhist country. Budding democracy seems to aggravate the persecution, for ethnic cleansing of an unpopular minority appears to be a popular vote-getting strat

Rohingya Dies as she was deprived of right to medication. By H Kyaw Rvision TV May 28, 2014 Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan - A 35-year-old internally displaced Rohingya woman hail from Kyauktaw Township died in Sittwe Hospital on 24th May 2014. She was suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding and was not able to receive medical treatment in time. “Daw Azarah Khatun, Age 35, (daughter of) Abdu Sattar and (spouse of) Mohammed Yunose, was from the village of Kanbaw, Kyauktaw Township. She was suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding. Her relatives tried to admit her to Kyauktaw Government hospital on emergency. But there is no admission for Rohingya patients to the hospital. Therefore, her relatives, having spent more than Kyat 100,000, brought her to Sittwe Hospital. She was admitted to the hospital around 10:00AM on 24th May 2014. But by then, it was too late. She passed away two hours after she had been admitted to Sittway Hospital. And the hospital authority did postmor

By Burma Times May 29, 2014 Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Today Wednesday, on 28th may, around 9 am, 7 Bangladesh Border Guards (BGB) were attacked by Burmese Border Patrols. The Burmese patrols premeditatedly attacked the BGBs entering Fansori territory in Bangladesh crossing the Border post 52 at Bendula( Aantala Bottala in Rohingyalish) in Burma. According to source from Bangladesh, the Burmese border patrols killed one BGB, and seized two guns and abducted one BGB personnel.Afterwards, the BGB Sector Commander Farid contacted the responsible personnel of Burma Border Patrol Department to set free the abducted BGB personnel with the seized guns unconditionally. According to local news, the border area of Burma and Bangladesh is in tense situation and armed units are deployed in both sides. The Rohingya residents from Bendula territory dread the tense situation because the Rakhine thugs might could trigger violence in the name of protection border from attack by

Muslim Rohingya women are pictured at the Thae Chaung camp for internally displaced people in Sittwe, Myanmar, on April 22. The stateless Rohingya in western Myanmar have been confined to the camps since violence erupted with majority Buddhists in 2012. The camps rely on international aid agencies, but still lack adequate food and health care. By  Anthony Kuhn WNYC May 28, 2014 Thirteen-year-old Zomir Hussein lives with his family in a simple wooden home in a village outside the city of Sittwe, the capital of western Myanmar's Rakhine state. Not long ago, he accidentally overdosed on medicine he was taking to treat his tuberculosis. Now he lies on the floor, his hands curled into claws, his eyes staring vacantly. He cries out to his parents for help. His mother cradles him, and for a moment, he seems to smile. Zomir was getting treatment at the main hospital in downtown Sittwe. Then, in June 2012, violence between Buddhist Rakhine people and Muslim Rohingya