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Photo Credit: Christophe Reltien EU/ECHO January 2013 By KPN News  January 17, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Security forces – Police, Hluntin and Army- arrested four Rohingyas from Gawdusara village near Kila Dong village which was destroyed recently by Rakhine community with the help of security forces, on January 17, at about 3:00am, said Hamid Husson from Maungdaw south.  The security forces  surrounded the village – Gawdusara – after Maungdaw high level authority officers and Kila Dong village administration officer and members ( especially Sayeim gone –Ten houses leaders) at Gawdusara village school yesterday evening at 4:00pm, Hamid said. The Maungdaw officers took sign from Village administration members on Blank paper to inform the detail list of Rohingyas who involved on 13 January night event. The officers also asked to find out the missing sergeant Aung Kyaw Thein and his gun, said a members of village admin office. The miss...

Burma Times January 17, 2014 The media and information secretary of European Rohingya Council Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim met with London’s Green Party MEP Mrs. Jean Lambert and head of Asia team (Society for Threatened People, STP) Mr. Ulrich Delius at European Parliament Strasebourg. H.E. Mr. Ulrich Delius highlighted one thing that is most crucial for Rohingya at this present time, as follows. The upcoming Myanmar census 2014 which would be carried out  from 30 March to 10 April will never be free and fair as the designated workers to accumulate data for precise census in northern Arakan state is almost all Rakhine but not Rohingya. It is the Rakhine who denies absolutely the existence of Rohingya in Arakan more hatefully than the Buddhist majority Burmese regime. The former dictatorial rulers put Islamophobia mindset to almost every Rakhine so it is out of imagination to predict or to think that the precise total population of Rohingya will be emerged in Myanmar census 2014....

By Jared Ferrie Reuters Junuary 17, 2014  The United States on Friday urged Myanmar to investigate reports that security forces and Buddhist mobs attacked members of the Rohingya Muslim minority this week, killing as many as 60 people. Rights groups reported attacks by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs against Rohingya in a village in the Maungdaw township of western Rakhine state over the past three days. "The United States is deeply concerned about reports of fresh violence in Rakhine state, including reports that security forces may have committed abuses," a U.S. embassy official told Reuters. "We urge the government to thoroughly investigate such reports." Chris Lewa, director of Rohingya advocacy group Arakan Project, said the numbers of unconfirmed dead ranged from 10 to 60. She said the violence appeared to have started when Rohingya villagers clashed with police on the evening of Jan 13. Rakhine state government sp...

Photo: Victim  Kala Mia Kutupalong, Bangladesh:  January 15, 2014 a Rohingya refugee man, named Kala Mia, resident of block B, kutupalong registered camp, has wounded by attack of local thugs at Kutupalong Bazar. The victim was coming out of Bazar area completing his shopping at that time. He was stopped by the thugs' leader Zafor Alam ( known as Bosta Zafor). And he was supposed to coming elsewhere getting down from car. Later, Bosta Zafor with along with his 11 thugs  looted his goods which he bought from Bazar for his family members and beat seriously. AFterwards, he was sent to camp-hospital. He was also sent to Cox's Bazar Sadar hospital. Doctor's reports said that his backbone is broken.  It will not be cured to its natural position. He is still at Kutupalong camp-hospital.  This sorts of inhumanely torturing become a common figure for the Rohingya refugees of Kutupalong refugee's camp nowadays. They want to get rid of Rohingya refugee by su...

MYARF Report | Written by M.S. Anwar 16 th  January 2014, rvisiontv.com Southern Maungdaw, Araka n:  A joint-force of Military, Security Force (Hlun Hteins) and Police made a full-fledged assault on a Rohingya village called Kilai-Daung (Du-Chira-Dan) in southern Maungdaw on 14 th  January 2014  morning . (Read the earlier report here:  http://www.rvisiontv.com/breaking-news-a-whole-rohingya-village-under-the-assaults-of-authority-military-and-security-force-open-fire-plunder-the-village-and-carry-out-mass-arrests-say-locals/   )” During the assault, till date,  we  believe more than 50 innocent Rohingyas have been massacred by the joint-force. Many  women/ girls were  raped.  More than 30 people were arrested. The remaining people of the village escaped and are still on the run.  And the families have been displaced, dispersed and lost contact from one another.They are hiding wherever possible” exclaimed a elder...

Photo: kutupalong makeshift camp Refugees forced to flee Myanmar are living in camps without adequate access to food or health services. By Jack Goodman Al Jazeera January 16, 2014 Rohingya refugee  Shajida Begum , 18, has lived in northern Britain for four years, and 2014 will be the year she finishes high school and hopefully begins a university degree in accountancy.  It is a very different life from the one she left in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, where she was born and spent her first 14 years. Shajida is grateful for her new existence in the UK, but is constantly reminded of those she left behind. "We still miss the people who live in the refugee camps. We are happy, we have rights, we have got everything, but people who are still back home have got absolutely nothing," she told Al Jazeera. "I was worried about leaving them because I can imagine how difficult it is to stay there. There is no electricity, no facilities, n...

By KPN News January 16, 2014   Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Burmese security forces—police, Hluntin and army— are still hunting and committing serious human rights abuses against the Rohingya villagers of Kila Dong East village of Maungdaw south  since yesterday, said Malik (not real name), a village elder of Kilai Dong. “They also deliberate targeting of civilians— arbitrary killing, detention, torture, injures, looting, destruction of properties and houses of Rohingyas. Nobody is allowed to enter the village. At least 100 houses and one mosque have been destroyed and the entire paddy, rice, grains and other valuable goods had been taken away by the Rakhine villagers,” Malik said. Some dead or slaughtered bodies of women, girls and children have been found in the houses of the village. It is very difficult to confirm what is happening inside the village as the villagers are not allowed to enter their village.  Most of the male villagers fled from the vil...