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  BROUK President Tun Khin at US State department BROUK President Tun Khin expressed deteriorating situation of Rohingya in Arakan State, Burma to US Senate, State Department, US Assistant Secretary, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, National Endowment for Democracy and many NGOs in Washington DC on September 22 and 23, the information said. “I expressed to all high level US officials about Rohingya deteriorating situation in Arakan State, Burma before President Barack Obama will be visiting Burma for the second time in coming November, 2014. He will be going to Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, to be held in Burma,” the President Tun Khin said. Tun Khin raised humanitarian crisis and healthcare issues for Rohingya community after MSF kicked out from Arakan and Burmese government imposed restrictions on education, healthcare, marriage and movement. The Burmese government forcefully pushing the Rohingya community to accept Bengali in the place of Rohin...

By Tun Khin Huffington Post May 5, 2014 Last week the London School ofEconomics hosted a conference on the Rohingya, with academics, legal experts and human rights advocates from all over the world attending. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma also addressed the conference. What might surprise some is the main subject which dominated the conference, whether genocide was about to happen, or whether it had already started. It is a sign of just how bad things have got since the latest waves of attacks began in 2012 that this is the issue now being discussed. Legal experts, academics, and NGOs working in Burma identified key elements of genocide which are taking place there. These included denying Rohingya legal existence and right to nationality; access to medicine, food, and other basic necessities to sustain life; policies of extensive structures of discrimination, and allowing and facilitating hatred and popular violence against the Roh...