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By KPN January 14, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State :  The authority divided the arrested Kila Dong villagers into two groups today about 3:00pm, said Halim, a Human Rights Watchdog said. The divided villagers are from Kila Dong who were brought to Maungdaw Police station today afternoon with three trucks for missing a police officer –Sergeant U Aung Kyaw Thein. Authority divided them into two groups – one only female and another one is only male, the Watchdog said. The authority said there are no space for all arrested villagers in Maungdaw police station. So, the police will send the female group to the Buthidaung jail. The male will keep in Maungdaw police station. The authority declared the plan to the officer at 3:00pm and load all the female – young girls, pregnant women and old women. All the children are also with their mothers or sisters, said Sadek, a school teacher from Maungdaw. The male are still kept in Maungdaw police custody where they were torture...

MYARF Report | Written by M.S. Anwar 14th January 2014 Rvisiontv.com Maungdaw, Arakan: Around 3AM this morning (on 14th January @014 morning), a joint force of Military, Security Force (Hlun Hteins) and Police started raiding the village of Anthala village of east Kilai-Daung (Du-Chira-Dan) village tract, southern Maungdaw. They opened fire at the people. They started carrying out mass-arrests regardless of age and gender. During the operation, many people were injured, some say few people have died as well. The whole account is as mentioned below. “In Southern Maungdaw at 11PM last night (i.e. 13th January 2013), Police from Kaye-Myaing station together with Rakhine extremists from the village of Kin-Chaung were carrying out robberies at a few Rohingya houses in the nearby village of Kilai-Daung (Du-Chira-Dan). As they called out for help, the villagers rushed to rescue them from the robbers. So, the robbers and the villagers had fierce fights. When the villagers realiz...

By Ibrahim Shah Editor of Burma Times 14 January 2014 Burma Times : Don’t confuse Rohingya Muslim with Rakhine Muslim! Another horrible step to tactfully operate to implement the remained genocidal procedures against Rohingya—method 2014: de-Rohingya by policy of Rakhinized Muslim. “Politically, the forced registration of Rohingya Muslim as Rakhine Muslim by Burmese genocidal government led by President Thein Sein for upcoming national census that would be carried out from 30 March to 10 April is another horrible genocidal step to utterly eradicate Rohingya. The main intention behind the forced Rakhinized Muslim instead of Rohingya Muslim is nothing except de-Rohingya Muslim” It is very significantly important to know differentially the incomparable difference between “ethnicity or ethnic group and ethno-religious group”. “Ethnicity or ethnic group” is a specific term to identify the ancestral background of each community who are eligible to belong an ethnicity—particular ...

[Top image: A burned Rohingya mosque in the town of Sittwe, Myanmar.] BY ANDREW STANBRIDGE Roads and Kingdoms Blog January 13, 2014  Of all the challenges that Myanmar’s Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has stared down in her life, the one she faces in 2014 may be the one she fails. She seemingly willed her country to democracy, but as a freed opposition politician she has so far been unable—or, her critics say , unwilling—to help the most vulnerable members of Myanmar society, the Rohingya minority. A year and a half ago, an outbreak of violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Sittwe, Myanmar, started a struggle that drove nearly 150,000 Rohingya from their homes and into poorly run Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps. Photographer Andrew Stanbridge made multiple trips to Sittwe amidst the continuing violence to document the Rohingya’s problematic situation and uncertain future in Myanmar. In the Muslim neighborhood of Aung Mingalar, securit...

Young Rohingya girls stay at a primary school several kilometers outside of Sittwe, where hundreds of Rohingyas took shelter from a storm in May. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) By Lawi Weng The Irrawaddy   January 13, 2014 RANGOON — Hundreds of Rohingya university students in Arakan State have been prevented from continuing higher education pursuits, with authorities saying their safety cannot be guaranteed more than a year after communal violence tore through the region. Universities in several Arakan townships were shuttered to all students in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 violence, but while Rohingya Muslims say their education has been put on indefinite hold, their Buddhist counterparts have since been allowed to continue their studies and some have gone on to graduate. Rohingya students from Sittwe and Buthidaung townships told The Irrawaddy on Monday that state authorities claimed that they could not provide security to Rohingya seeking to r...

By Wakar Uddin Myanmar Times January 13, 2014 Myanmar is uniquely rich with an array of cultures, traditions and linguistic attributes. While diversity can be one of this country’s strengths, it has also sowed the seeds of discord for too long. Instead of helping Myanmar become a leader in Asia, it has held the country back, stifling development and creating chronic insecurity for its people. A Rohingya man sits in a mosque in Sittwe township shortly after it was damaged by a Buddhist mob in October 2012. Photo: Kaung Htet The precise identity and the composition of ethnic minorities in Myanmar have always been quite vague and often arbitrary. Although the government has officially put the number of ethnic minority groups at 135, many have challenged this number and the official list of categories. Some claim they have been left off the list; others say there are too many categories. The citizenship of one particular ethnic group, the Rohingya – of which I am...

By KPN  January 12, 2014  Teknaf, Bangladesh : Eighty two Rohingyas, who illegally entered Bangladesh from Burma, were pushed back to their country by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday evening, according to BGB source.  “The Rohingyas were detained by the 42 Battalion of the BGB from border areas of Teknaf upazila under the Cox’s Bazar district on January 10 and 11. BGB source said, a mobile team of Teknaf BOP (Border Out-Post) detained 18 Rohingyas from border areas yesterday morning. Shapuri Dip BOP detained 64 Rohingyas including men, women and children on Friday night during another drive. The Rohingyas crossed the Naf River into Bangladesh using small boats and were heading for the Rohingya refugee camp, sources said. Teknaf BGB 42 Battalion Commander Lt. Col Abuzar Al Jahid said the detained Rohingyas were sent back to their country, after giving them humanitarian aid, yesterday evening. “We are facing ongoing discriminatory ...