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Maungdaw, Arakan State:   A clash between police and villagers was occurred yesterday at Maungdaw north as police forcibly took away beef from the villagers, Dilu, a villager said from the locality. “On that day, at about 10:00 am, in Maung Nama village of Maungdaw north, villagers slaughtered a cow for beef for religious festival – Laylatul Qadr (the Night of Power) – after getting permission from the concerned authority.” At around 11:00 am, a group of police from Aung Mingala police out-post of Maungdaw north led by police officer U Kyaw accompanied by present village Admin office U Thein Tun and ex-village Chairman U Thein Maung Gyi went to Maung Nama village and asked villagers to give them five- Visses (one Viss=1.66 kg) of beef, but villagers refused to pay them beef without money. However, in one stage, police and Admin officer snatched away about 7 Visses of beef from the villagers, but the villagers re- took it again from their hands. As a result, there was a clash be

By Mainul Islam Khan Anadolu Agency July 27, 2014 DHAKA, Bangladesh : As Eid-al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, nears, just around the corner, it does not affect Seno Ara in any way. She is busy with her paddle sewing machine, fashioning clothes for the other Rohingya women - refugees, like her and many others, in the camp in Kutupalong of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Seno Ara, 27, lives in a tiny shack made of bamboo sticks and poly sheets, with a five-feet-high and two-feet-wide door, and no window. Since there is no electricity in the camp and no light inside her home, she must find the light of day on her doorstep, to sew. “We have neither Eid, nor pleasure,” says Seno Ara. “We do not have money to have even new cloths for Eid.” She has been living in this unofficial Rohingya camp for six years. (The unofficial camp takes in all the refugees that the nearby official UN-run one, at full capacity, cannot). She was forced to migrate a