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By Dhaka Tribune 15 Rohingyas also sustained injuries in the the head-on collision  At least six Rohingyas were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision between two jeeps on the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf road near Ukhiya Degree College in the district  on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Ali Ahmmod, 45, Abul Boshar, 30, Nurul Haque, 26, Belal, 35, Mohammad Alam, 30, and Saydul Alom, 25. Quoting witnesses, Ukhiya police station Officer-in-Charge Gias Uddin Miah said: “A Cox’s Bazar-bound public jeep, locally known as Chander Gari, collided head-on with another jeep coming from the opposite direction near Ukhiya Degree College around 8am, leaving five people dead on the spot and injuring 16 others.” Later, one person succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, police said. Earlier, the OC said three injured died in hospital, but later Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital and Ukhiya police station source confirmed that only one person died in t...

M.S. Anwar   |  November 13, 2013 rvisiontv.com   1-Young Rohingya Student Become Prey of Treble Victimization (Report by Sindhi Khan, Maung Daw, Arakan) Around 8:00 AM on 31 st  October 2013, Anwar Sadek S/o Aman Shariff (Age 15) hails from village of Khadir Bil (Nyaung-Chaung), was going to the downtown to buy some necessary stationeries before school time. He is a 8 th  Standard Student at Maung Daw High School. On the way on his bicycle, he was hit by a rushing Rakhine motor-cyclist and injured badly. Instead action against the motorcyclist over-speeding his bike, the traffic police including Saya Tin Aye at Myoma Kayintan post detained him the whole day. And they were asking Kyat 25,000 from him for his release. He is a poor student. In the evenning of the day, he borrowed Kyat 5,000 from his friend going back home after school and finally got him released. “This is called “Treble Victimization.” He got hit by motorcycle and injured, detained...

By UNHCR November 11, 2013 BANGKOK, Thailand - Growing numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers are being detained in the Asia-Pacific region as states increasingly use detention to deter irregular migration, UNHCR and its partners have warned. These concerns were raised at a regional consultation on immigration detention for south and south-east Asia held last week in Bangkok. Co-hosted by UNHCR, the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APPRN) and the International Detention Coalition, the Thursday-Friday meeting brought together members of the region's civil society, national human rights institutions as well as other UN agencies and other partners. As a principle, the UN refugee agency opposes the detention of people seeking international protection. It believes that detention should only be used as a measure of last resort where it is determined to be necessary and proportionate in each individual case. In the Asia-Pacific region, rough estimates put the...

Reports by MYARF   |  Written by M.S. Anwar November 12, 2013 | Maung Daw, Arakan rvisiontv.com 4) Maung Daw Police Squeezed Money from a Rohingya Under False Accusation Around 3PM on 2 nd  November 2013, Mohammed Kasim (son of) Ishaaq hails from Dael Fara of Myo Kayintan (Shiddafara) village tract, was having tea at a cafe at the village. Menawhile, four police personnel from Maung Daw police station appeared and forcibly took him the office of the village administration. There, the police arbitrarily extorted Kyat 500,000 from him under a false accusation that they had found “Illegal Drugs” in his pocket. It is ridiculous how the police found drugs when everything was happening in public and others didn’t see anything ——————————————————————— 5) Military Prevent Rohingyas from Fishing Military at the village of Shil-Khali (Chin-Khali) in southern Maung Daw region banned the villagers from fishing at Naff river and in the bay of Bengal without t...

Buddhist monks in Mandalay protest last year against an attempt by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to open an office in Burma. (Photo: Man Thar Lay / The Irrawaddy) Irrawaddy News By Lawi Weng November 11, 2013 RANGOON — Hundreds of  Buddhists  in Rangoon and the Arakan State capital of Sittwe are planning to protest against a visit to Burma by a high-level delegation fro m the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) this week. The 57-member alliance of Muslim countries is planning to investigate the conditions in which displaced Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State are living. Tens of thousands of Rohingya are have been in temporary camps for more than a year, after they fled outbreaks of violence between Buddhists and Muslims. Tensions in the area remain high, and rights groups say the stateless Rohingya continue to face abuses and restrictions. Tun Hlaing, an Arakanese activist, said he is organizing a protest against the OIC when they arrive...

Maung Daw ( Burma Times ) Maung Hla Myint, A student of the village, U Shin kya (Bura-shida para¬) said, a group of police came to the village , U Shin Kya (Bura-shida para) under the Maung Daw township. The group said that they got information of a group of armed robbers who came to the said village. So the group of police came to prevent the armed robbers from committing any kind of robberies inside the village and to avoid the any bad occurrence. The police are provisionally staying at a shop near the U Shin Kya river bank closed to the village. Until the student reporting, none of the police enter to the village and disturb to any villager. The villagers are worrying a lot though there was no any report of harassment by the police to the villagers. It is because the police and military personnel carried out arbitrary arrest to the villagers by making false charge since the violence outbreak in the region. That is why many villagers are hiding and leaving the village keepin...

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Hassan Cheruppa Saudi Gazette November 10, 2013 JEDDAH — Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will lead a high-level OIC delegation to Myanmar on Tuesday.  The delegation, which  will include seven foreign ministers and senior officials from the OIC member countries, will meet top government officials as well as political leaders of Myanmar. In their bid to find a lasting solution to the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-dominated Asian country, the Muslim leaders will also hold talks with Buddhist parliament members and leaders of Rohingya community, according to OIC sources. The delegation will also make field visits to the riot-torn regions in the Rakhine region to take stock of the conditions of Muslims living there. Ihsanoglu said the issue of Rohingya Muslims was one of the most pressing issues he addressed during his nine-year tenure as the secretary...