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By Ibrahim Shah / Mohamed Ibrahim Burma Times October 18, 2014 New Delhi: Today, on Saturday, 18thOctober, a peaceful demonstration regarding ‘the ongoing forced Bengalization over Rohingya through Rakhine Action Plan, arbitrarily detention, disappearance of Rohingya detainees from police custody and controversial Burma Census 2014’ was carried out by about four  hundreds exiled Rohingyas including female under authority of Rohingya Youth Union-India at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. In the demonstration, the participants disclosed that the exclusion of Rohingya national from controversial Burma census 2014 is one of the concealed plots of quasi-military regime led by President Thein Sein to persistently deprive of citizenship rights of Rohingya. Moreover,the demonstrators demanded that UN should be able to immediately prevent  Rakhine Action  Plan which is being conducted under 1982 Burma Citizenship Act drafted by Dictator Ne Win as the Burmese ...

By Ata Noor & Mukhtar Muhammad Rohingya News Agency WE ROHINGYA ARE DEMENDING MYANMAR GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY STOP GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEASING AND FORCING TO LEAVE BY BOATS We are very surprised that not taking any action of killing, burning and uprooting Kaman and Rohingya in Thandwe at the presence of U Thein Sien visit Arakan. Father more, resent killing and wounding to the Rohingya of Pawk Taw is unbearable and sorrowful things for the Rohingya. Some racist armed Rakhine and Police forces are fully masterminded that killing . Even one of the wounded Rohingya died due to mistreatment at Sittwe Hospital in this week. After Payktaw incident, Most of the Rohingya families of internal Displace Person (IDP) feel totally insecure and finally choose to flee by boat towards neighboring countries. Nearly one hundred Rohingya including women and children lost their lives in the sea in this week. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are preparing to escape from geno...

Killings in Burma lead to protest CAMPAIGNERS gathered at a peaceful protest in Oxford against the killings in Burma. The vigil at Oxford’s Carfax Tower on Thursday afternoon paid tribute to Muslims killed by Buddhists. The event was organised by the Oxford Islamic Information Centre, in Cowley Road. The director of the centre, Dr Hojjat Ramzy, said: “We want to know why there is this violence. “We believe Buddhists are very peaceful people, so it is very, very sad for these killings to be happening. “They have been living for thousands of years in peace and it looks like a few extremist Buddhists are killing these innocent people, which is totally against their beliefs as Buddhists.” He claimed about 70 to 100 people attended the vigil. Last month, at least 40 deaths were reported after violence between Muslims and Buddhists in the central Burmese town of Meiktila.

Bangkok Post: April, 11, 2013 Muslims and Rohingya in Thailand have called on the United Nations and the United States to intervene to stop violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. About 30 Rohingya and Muslims from Bangkok and the deep South travelled separately to the capital to submit letters to embassy officials from Myanmar and the US, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. They appealed to the Myanmar government to stop supporting what they called "genocide". They also asked the UN and US to intervene to protect the lives of Muslim people in Myanmar. At the embassies and the UN office, the protesters laid down plastic, cloth and paper banners depicting the recent killings inside Myanmar. Torchings, ambushes and deadly attacks have spread from Rakhine state to other places including Bago and Yangon. Currently, about 30,000 Muslim and Rohingya people are said to live in temporary shelters in the central Myanmar town Meikhtila and around Nay Pyi ...

SahilOnline News: April 10, 2013 Delhil: Indian Muslim organizations and human rights bodies today demonstrated near Myanmar embassy in the capital against the non- stop violation of human rights, atrocities and inhuman cruel activities meted out on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Indian Muslim organisations and civil society under the banner of an umbrella body of Muslim organisations All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) today condemned the Burmese government in the strongest terms for its inaction and collaboration to stop violence against, and expulsion of, its minority Rohingya population in the Rakhine [Arakan] state. The demonstration was planned in front of Myanmar Embassy in Chankyapuri Delhi but Delhi police stopped Muslim leaders and protesters at Teen Morti Marg, near Chankyapuri police station. Therefore, protesters were forced to express their protest merely in front of Chankyapuri police station near embassy, instead of Myanmar Embassy. -We ...

By AP News April 8, 2013 FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Members of one of the largest U.S. communities of Burma immigrants held a demonstration Sunday to call attention to sectarian violence targeting Muslims in the Southeast Asian nation. About 100 former Burma residents who resettled in the Fort Wayne area gathered outside the Allen County Courthouse to protest the violence in their homeland, officially known as Myanmar. Ex-refugee AyeMin Zaphun tells WANE-TV the protest was called to spread awareness about the Burma government and extremist Buddhists who are targeting Muslims. Dozens of people were killed last month when violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims shook the central Burma city of Meikhtila. And a pre-dawn fire Tuesday at a religious dormitory at a mosque complex killed 13 children. Authorities blamed the fire on an electrical short circuit, but some Muslims in Burma have said the fire was set intentionally. “We want the world to know t...

Members of The European Rohingya Council (ERC) peacefully demonstrated in front of European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium on January 21 at about 13:00 to 15:00 hrs. ERC along with other Rohingya organizations worldwide urged EU to urgently send a   special inquiry team to the affected areas in Arakan State and Humanitarian aids to rehabilitate the displaced Rohingya in their own villages and recognize Rohingya as Burmese ethnic group. ERC, in the Memorandum, mentioned that the systematic genocide against Rohingyas and Kamans is being carried out since 8 th  June 2012 by Burmese military regime together with Rakhine ultra-racists and extremists. Following are some instances of the atrocities being carried out against them. 2)      Rohingya   women   and under-aged girls were raped and gang-raped by government forces and Rakhine extremists. Their Properties are being looted and destroyed on daily basis and their mosques and re...