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Protesters in the western Burmese town of Maung Daw have clashed with police over a sectarian dispute. It was not immediately possible to confirm casualties. However, eyewitnesses told the BBC that police opened fire on demonstrators.

Breaking News Peaceful demonstration in Maungdaw, police killed two Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The riot police fired on more than 500 young Rohingyas who are going to demonstrate peacefully in Myoma Kayandan village of Maungdaw Town Today at about 2:00pm to give the respect to the massacred 10- Muslim in Taungup on June 3. The riot police fired more than 40 rounds   to the sky where two young Rohingyas died on the spot, some people injured and some houses are burning at this moment. The Rakhine surrounded the police station now and demanding, why the police fired to the young Rohingyas to death which will harm safety of the Rakhine community in Maungdaw. Detail news will come soon. Source 

Myanmar Muslim men hold up pictures of the recent sectarian attacks which took place in the western Rakhine state during a protest in Yangon on June 5. 2012.

Myanmar is a country which offers great potential for businesses and investors. Besides being rich in natural resources its people are educated and disciplined. It is an economic story waiting to happen. The culture and traditions in Myanmar are altogether different from other Indo-Chinese countries because it has a degree of affinity with our South Asian culture. 

မိမိတို႔တိုင္းျပည္သည္ လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံ ဘာသာေပါင္းစုံ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေပါင္းစုံျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ ျပည္ေထာင္စုႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ၾကီးျဖစ္၍ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ေအးအတူပူအမွ် ယွဥ္တြဲေနထိုင္လာၾကသည္။ ရန္းျဗဲကၽႊန္း မုဒိမ္းမႈသည္လည္းေကာင္း ေတာင္ကုတ္ လူသတ္ပြဲသည္လည္းေကာင္း လူမဆန္ေသာ ရာဇဝတ္မႈမ်ားျဖစ္္သျဖင့္ ျပင္းထန္စြာ ရွဳ႕ံခ်သည္။

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Rohingya young people are distributing the 10 Muslims massacred pictures to the local Rohingya in northern Arakan –Maungdaw and Buthidaung- on June 6, according to a student from Maungdaw.

Bandarban, Bangladesh:  Bangladesh authorities have been continuing conducted operation and arresting more Rohingyas along the Bangladesh border areas since May 2012, said a villager elder. “They were arrested by Bangladesh authorities in raided from the local areas where they live and work. Of them, some were pushed back to Burma by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), but nearly 80 Rohingyas were sent to jail by police.”