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BBC News: 8 March 2013   Burmese opposition party, the National League for Democracy, is holding its first party congress since it was formed more than 20 years ago. Delegates from across the country are gathering in Rangoon to set out new policies and to select new members for its ageing leadership. Meanwhile, the Burmese president Thein Sein is finishing his trip across Europe and will return home to a country whose recent reforms have been rewarded by the lifting of sanctions, but where ethnic populations are suffering violent assaults. Troops continued a raid on rebels in Kachin state in the east over recent months, despite the president's orders to cease. And in the western Rakhine state, tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been displaced amid clashes with Rakhine Buddhists, violence in which some say the state is complicit. Lucy Hocking's was joined on BBC World News by Baroness Cox, the founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust charity and by Nuru...

UN human rights envoy for Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana speaks to reporters following a meeting with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2012. (Photo: The Irrawaddy) Irrawaddy News: March 8, 2013  GENEVA — The crisis in Burma’s Arakan State, where sectarian violence erupted last year, risks spreading and endangering democratic reforms undertaken since military rule ended in 2011, a UN investigator said on Thursday. Burma should also release its remaining 250 political prisoners, end torture by police and address root causes of ethnic conflicts, the independent investigator Tomas Ojea Quintana said. “There remains a large gap between reform at the top and implementation on the ground,” he said in an annual report to the United Nations Human Rights Council. “Rakhine [Arakan] State is going through a profound crisis that threatens to spread to other parts of the country and has the potential to undermine the entire reform process in Myanmar.” ...

By Ibrahim Shah Generally, it is more important globally to focus on “ how did Rohingya reach at statelessness from indigenous state of  since before 8th century ,how double standard rules have been perpetuated ,who carried out perpetually the antagonism against Rohingya where both Rohingya and Rakhine Buddhists are passing their lives with peaceful co-existence and how they  are impoverished though there are several resources in western Myanmar, Arakan while the rest communes of respective races around the world are enjoying comfortably in this 21st century of technology era. During the dictatorship of General Ne Win, he passed strategic master planning  with his chauvinist Burma  armies how to permanently capture the state power and soon  he focused which ethnic group could dominate earlier then  finally he found that the utter  terrible disaster to tackle against  the martial law  is the only one race , Rohingya who are the oldes...

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma border security force (Nasaka) personnel arrested and kept in detained seven Rohingya villagers on March 4, over allegation of involving in March 1, Rohingya murder- known as Natala murdered, according to a businessman from Alay Than Kyaw.  “The arrested have been identified as--- Yakub (45), son of Erashed, Ataullah (25), son of Yasin, Monu Meah (60), Esa Ali, Md. Younus (20), son of Kalu, Abdul Kader (45), son of Kala Meah, Mohamed Siddik (50), son of Kala and Sayedullah (43), son of Ahar Zaman.  They all hailed from Udaung village of Maungdaw Township.” Two Rohingyas were arrested from the village and others five were arrested from the paddy filed – grow winter paddy where the water is available - by the Nasaka personnel of Nasaka area No. 7 when the villagers were supplying water to their paddy fields in the morning, said a relative of one of the victims. . The arrestees are innocent people and daily workers. ...

Alders Ledge: March 6, 2013 The Screamer's Response To Burma (Screamers Post) For almost a year now the world has ignored the genocidal ambitions of the Burmese government. World leaders in the West have turned a blind eye to blatant ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Arakan state. When faced with a "civil war" in the Kachin region the government of Myanmar has established a campaign of genocide to wipe the Kachin people off the map. A clear pattern of expulsion and annihilation has been laid out by the history of Burma's Junta when dealing with Myanmar's ethnic minorities.  The leaders of Europe were among the first to swoon over Burma as it slowly cracked its doors and started to allow foreign eyes into the dark abyss the Junta had created. And yet the Europeans did not focus upon the wholesale slaughter of "undesirables" or the indiscriminate use of slave labor throughout the country. Instead the European leadership began to droo...

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Arbitrary squeezing money is being continued in Maungdaw Township by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) from Rohingya villagers, according to a local leader who denied to be named. “On March 2, at about 10:00 pm, a group of Nasaka personnel from camp No. 14, under the Nasaka area No.6 went to Shwe Zaar village of Maungdaw Township and arrested Khaled (22), son of Mostaque Ahmed and Saley Ahmed (32), son of Sultan over the allegation that they were involved in the violence of June 8, 2012. Both of them belong to Shwe Zaar village of Maungdaw north.” “The violence between Rakhine and Rohingya communities was occurred nine months ago. So many Rohingya people were killed, arrested and jailed with this allegation. But, the concerned authorities are still arresting innocent Rohingya villagers to extract money in the guise of maintaining laws and orders.” The Nasaka officer demanded Kyat one million per each from the arrestees to be released. But, ...

Photo by phuketwan.com  Phuket_Wan,  March 6, 2013 PHUKET: Thai security forces opened fire on defenceless Rohingya boatpeople north of Phuket, killing at least two and as many as 15, according to detailed accounts by three survivors and Thai villagers who are sheltering them. The killings, which are said to have occurred on February 21, came during a botched attempt by the military to transfer about 20 would-be refugees from the large boat on which they arrived from Burma (Myanmar) with 110 others, to a much smaller vessel. When some feared they would be separated from family members, they jumped in the water and the military men opened fire during the predawn incident, the witnesses said. Survivors Habumara, 20, Rerfik, 25, and Jamar, 16, said yesterday that they swam for their lives when the shooting broke out. They are currently being sheltered by sympathetic villagers. Two fresh graves, said to contain Rohingya, were seen by a Phuketwan repo...