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By KPN News  January 19, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State: “If we held the female of Kila Dong (Du Cheeradan), no need to wait here for the gun, said Maungdaw Hluntin director Colonel Than Ko Ko at the meeting which held today evening with villagers of Kila Dong neighboring villages,” said Kamal who attend the meeting. In the meeting, Hluntin director, Colonel Than Ko Ko, Maungdaw district Police officer Lt.Col. Shwe Than, Maungdaw civilian officers and Rohingya leaders with around 70 villagers join the meeting held at Sarkunborr Primary School today evening at 3:30pm and finished at 4:30, Kamal said. The Rohingya leaders are the collaborators of authority –Yousuf, the Block # 2, admin officer and two religious leaders- who tried to convince the villagers to support the authority to find the so-called missing sergeant Aung Kyaw Than and his gun, Kamal more said. The Hluntin director said to the Rohingya villagers to respect the speech of religious leader and he...

Rohingya Muslims at a camp in Myanmar (file photo) By PressTV Junuary 19, 2014 Sectarian violence, which has gripped Myanmar since the summer of 2012, is back in full swing, leaving an untold number of Rohingya Muslims, including at least 30 children, dead in this latest flare up near Maungdaw. Once again, they are being targeted by Rakhine Buddhist extremists, who are operating with local Buddhist political leaders. Earlier this week, Rakhine mobs and security forces known in Myanmar as Lun Htein, entered the settlement of Kiladaung Village East. According to reports, Rohingya people in Kiladaung initially believed they were being besieged by robbers. As it turned out, the men entering the village were police who didn’t wear uniforms. People of the village at first sought to protect their property, but were forced to flee. Around 12:30 a.m. on 15 January 2014, a sizable force entered Kilagaung again and opened fire on the Rohingya villagers. Witnesses say many ...

Popular norm to be presented in Parliament gains support and signatures. It places constraints on unions between Buddhist women and men of other religions, which must have approval. Added to this the intention to deny the Muslim minority the right to vote and to form a political party. By Francis Khoo Thwe AsiaNews January 18, 2014 Yangon - A petition in support of a law that places strong constraints on mixed marriages, especially between Buddhist women and men of other faiths is gaining support. Launched by a group of Buddhist monks it is due to be presented to Parliament. A conference was recently held in Mandalay attended by thousands of monks who have - at the same time - re-proposed a law to restrict the rights of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority, who live mainly in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The draft would greatly reduce their freedom to form a political party and increased restrictions on their right to vote. The meeting was held at the A Tu Tu...

Burma Times 19 January 2014 - On 16 th January 2014, at around 10:00 am, a delegation of European Rohingya Council met with high profile personalities— Mr. Maelbeck and Mr., Arts Loi of European Commission Europe Aid Development and Co-operation Directorate-General. As chief guest, Mr. Abul Kalam  ( Development and Welfare  secretary ERC) highlighted that since many decades, how  the Rohingya exodus have been  experiencing unprecedented distress created by Burmese quasi-civilian regime led by president Thein Sein shedding tears in foot-paths, in markets, in Mosques, in temples, in churches, in jungles, in boat — human trafficking, local thugs harass and government officials including security forces sexually assault the women and kidnap wherever they reached to find a place to live without life risk across the world, no country sympathize them as human beings adequately, Rohingya are imprisoned wherever they seek asylum despite every country has informatio...

By KPN News Junuary 18, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Police personnel from Maungdaw police station extorted one million kyat from a Rohingya family for not finding son-in-law in Gawdusara villager which is near Ducheeradan (Kila Dong) village –recently security forces and Rakhine destroyed- today morning, said Hla Min, a teacher  from Maungdaw. The police personnel who are stationed in Du Cheeradan village as security searched the house of Annis the son-in-law of former Military intelligence collaborator Shawbir, but they didn’t found Annis in his house of Gawdusara village, then the police went to the house of Shawbir  in Block #1 where the police again searched Annis , but the fail. After that police arrested Shawbir and his daughter –the wife of Annis- yesterday morning at about 6:00am, said Hla Min. The police didn’t give any information, why the police want the Annis , said Kalam , a relative of Annis. The police released Shawbir and his daugh...

By Sameera  Carbonated.TV  Junuary 17, 2014 Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are being slaughtered by Buddhist monks and the Military Junta In Burma, yet pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights activist, Aung San Suu Kyi, remains eerily silent over the issue.  Burmese authorities have waged a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims since June 2012. According to a Human Rights Watch  report , the Burmese government and local authorities are responsible for the forced displacement of more than 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims in the country. It also stated that the tens of thousands of the displaced people have been denied access to humanitarian aid and are unable to return home. What is most prominent apart from the atrocities taking place in the country is the silence of Suu Kyi. She has decided to avoid the issue and take a neutral stance over the blatant violation of human rights. Check out:  At...

MYARF Report |Written by M.S. Anwar 19th January 2014| Maungdaw, Arakan Rvisiontv.com Around 3AM on 14th January 2014, a joint force of Myanmar Military, Security Force (Hlun Hteins) and Rakhine terrorists made a brutal assault on a Rohingya village called Du-Chira-Dan (Kilai-Daung) in Southern Maungdaw, Arakan state. Since then, they have killed many innocent villagers, arrested many others and raped many women/girls. They have literally deserted the village. The village has been totally blocked and declared to be No-Entry Zone for Rohingyas and observers. The brutalities are beyond one’s imagination. I- Below-mentioned are the numbers of innocent Rohingyas massacred, gone missing and women/girls raped since the brutal military assault started. a) 30 women/girls, 6 men/boys and 5 children have been massacred. b) 200 Women/girls, 120 men/boys and 65 Children have gone missing since then. Some of the people massacred were: 1) Musana (Daughter of) Sayed Ahme...