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Maungdaw High School's photos By KPN Maungdaw, Arakan State: Village administration officer of Gora Khali of Maungdaw south has been collecting money from the local villagers to support schoolteachers since November 3, said Hassan (not real name) from the locality. On November 2, Abdu Rahim, the village Administration officer invited some local elders and held a meeting and discussed, regarding the collection of money. In the meeting, they decided to collect money from the villagers to support the schoolteachers; otherwise, the lives of students will be destroyed, said Hassan. Government gives salaries to the teachers and is taking responsibility by government to run the schools. Why do we have to pay money again?, said Jalal (not real name), a local from the village. “We have no money, no jobs to support the teacher.”  The government doesn’t support the schoolteachers of Rohingya who are appointed by local villagers. The government only supports the Rakhine teacher...

ERC Press Release  Date.08.11.2013 ERC Appeals World Bodies to immediately demand Burmese Regime Accountability for 70 Rohingya Drowned in Sea. The Rohingya ethnic minority of western Burma have been suffering long discrimination since 1978. The Burmese predominantly Buddhist genocide rulers have been imposing double standard policies against the Rohingya to eradicate them from the soil of Arakan. Increasingly, Rohingya face atrocities amid the ongoing democratic transition led by President Thein Sein. Concurrently, Rohingya are facing— discrimination, incrimination, arbitrarily arrest, gangbang, threats to flee giving up own homes, forced Bengalization, unexpected death by poisonous injection of Buddhist doctors in government hospitals, slaughter, confinement in squalid camps, marriage restriction, displacement, starvation due to confinement in movement and no permission to travel in work available areas, violence and so on. Setting up border guard camps alo...

MYARF Report | Written by M.S. Anwar November 7, 2013 rvisiontv.com Maung Daw, Arakan- At around 7AM on 5th November 2013, Rakhine authority at Maung Daw General Hospital denied a pregnant Rohingya woman of admission to the the hospital. She was about to deliver her baby at the time and the denial of admission caused her to face untimely demise around 10AM of the day. “At around 7AM on 5th November 2013, Abdul Ghafur S/o Ghani Meah took his pregnant wife, Rashidah (Age 39), to Maung Daw General Hospital as it was his wife’s pregnancy due time. They are from Quarter (5) (eastern part), Maung Daw. The authority and the nurses (most of them are Rakhine extremists) at the hospital didn’t allow her to get admitted to the hospital. Rather, they abused saying “this hospital is not for Kulars (the derogatory term used against the people of Indian descends and also Muslims nowadays) like you. Go and get her admitted to the clinics of your Grand-fathers and Grand-mothers, Kular-...

By  Sydney Morning Herald   November 06, 2013  A JOINT APPEAL TO THE PRIME MINISTER ABOUT THE USE OF THE TERM 'ILLEGAL MARITIME ARRIVALS' Dear Prime Minister, On behalf of the many Australians who believe in the importance of protecting people fleeing persecution, we write to voice our objection to the Australian Government's recent decision to refer to asylum seekers who enter Australia by boat as "illegal maritime arrivals". You and members of your Cabinet are well aware that seeking asylum is not illegal under Australian or international law. Article 31 of the Refugee Convention makes it clear that contracting states, including Australia, must not impose penalties on people who arrive without authorisation to seek refugee protection. This Article recognises that very few of the world's refugees get the opportunity to cross borders with prior permission and that rules which regulate normal migration flows must be suspended where those cross...

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...

By KPN  November 05, 2013   Ukhiya, Bangladesh: Local gangsters have been collecting tolls from unregistered Rohingya refugee while the refugee went to collect firewood from the forest since November 1, said Kala Meah from the Kutupalong refugee camp.  The refugee from Kutupalong unregistered makeshift camp always go to the forest nearby camp to collect firewood for their survival as they are not getting foods or support for not recognizing by Bangladesh government and UNHCR, Meah said. The refugee sale the firewood in the local market near the camp and arranged for their family survival, but some local gangsters near the camp become greedy on the business of refugee firewood and started to collect tolls from refugee, said  Abul Hussein, an elder from the camp. At first the gangsters collected per head 10-50 taka depend on their collecting. Later, the gangsters hijacking refugee and demand hug amount of money as; 1000-5000 taka. The refugee complain ...

Rohingya men who were shot by the police during a riot on Friday rest in Dapaing district clinic, outside of Sittwe, on 11 August 2013. (Reuters) By Naw Noreen Democratic Voice of Burma November 04, 2013 The Burmese government on Monday gathered a group of international humanitarian agencies working in the restive Arakan state to remind them that they must distribute aid “fairly” to local communities. It follows the latest eruption of violence in the western state, where communal clashes between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims have claimed hundreds of lives since last year. On Saturday, at least four people, including three Rohingyas, were killed in Pauktaw township, an area about two hours northeast of the state capital Sittwe. Local Buddhists later accused Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) of “bias” for taking three injured Muslim men to hospital. Government spokesperson Hla Thein told DVB that a group of 18 major aid groups, including UN agencies, were subse...