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Humanitarian chief Valerie Amos (centre), on a visit in December 2012 to the the Ma Gyee Myaing camp in Sittwe Town, Myanmar, where displaced from Rakhine state are hosted. Photo: UNOCHA/David Ohana By   UN News January 23, 2014 The United Nations humanitarian chief on Thursday voiced deep concern about reports of alarming levels of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, including the killing of many civilians and a policeman, and called for an immediate investigation by the authorities. “I ask the Government of Myanmar to take all necessary measures to ensure the full protection of all civilians and to enable safe and continued access by humanitarian staff to the affected areas in order to assess needs and provide emergency assistance to all those affected by the recent violence,” Valerie Amos, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a  statement . “I also ask the Government to immediately launch an impar...

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw high level authority –  U Aung Myint Soe, district administration officer, U kyi san, Township administration officer, Lt.Col. U Shwe Than, district police officer and Colonel Tin Ko Ko, Hluntin director- had removed today evening the security forces and Rakhine – Natala villagers- who were surrounding Kila Dong (Du Cheeradong) before the inquiry commission visit the village, said an officer from Maungdaw who denied to name.The Maungdaw high level officers with Master Jangir (Aung Myo Min) – member of Region and state Parliment, Yousuf-Block # 2, admin officer- and Mawzullah went to the Maungdaw south-Kila Dong- and ordered the security forces and Rakhine Natala villager to withdraw their position from Kila Dong. Then U Aung Myo Min and other two Rohingya organized 30 Rohingya villagers from Gawdusara village and kept in the village of Kila Dong as the villagers of Kila Dong to meet the inquiry commission, the officer more added. The inq...

Press Release Ref. DE/002020  Date: 23th January 2014 ERC Sharply Denounces the On Going looting, sexual Assault, Murder, Arrest, Torture in Detention Centers by Burmese Security Forces and State Backed Extremists in Maungdaw, Western Myanmar (Burma) We, the European Rohingya Council sharply denounce the brutalities of Burmese quasi-civilian regime led by President Thein Sein over Rohingya ethnic minority of western Burma. Since last June, the regime itself triggered the violence which lead complete genocide against Rohingya with a high momentum and it stop some days when international community raises voice but resume when international community goes quiet. The most recent assault (since midnight of 13 th  January 2014) on innocent Rohingya from Ducheeyadan village, Maungdaw, Rakhine state by Lun Htein so called security forces absolutely affected those villagers that it is impossible to recover the loss. The Lun Htien is consolidated by Rakhine extrem...

The attacks were said to have taken place near the town of Maungdaw BBC News January 23, 2014 More than 30 Rohingya Muslims were killed in attacks by Buddhists last week in Burma's Rakhine state, the BBC has been told. Two international aid officials who were granted access to the area in the far west of the country said they had found evidence of a mass killing. Human rights group Fortify Rights claims a series of attacks took place over five days last week. The government and local officials have strongly denied claims of a massacre. Revenge attacks The latest development follows reports of clashes between Rohingyas and the police in the Maungdaw township over the past month. It is thought tensions initially arose amid reports that several Rohingyas had been killed trying to flee over the border into Bangladesh. Things escalated after a local policeman was reported missing, presumed killed. Local Rakhine Buddhists aided by the...

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA PRESS RELEASE (22 January 2014) ROHINGYA NEED SECURITY IN ARAKAN, URGENT HUMANITARIN INTERVENTION SOUGHT Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) strongly condemns the organized killings with impunity of the Rohingya villagers of Du Chee Yar Tan (Kelaidong) in Maungdaw township of Rakhine/Arakan State in Burma since 13th January 2014.   In continuation of the genocidal onslaughts that occurred and reoccurred against Rohingya from June 2012 killing many hundreds of Muslims and devastating their large settlements in Arakan and other parts of Burma, the Rakhine Buddhists with the security forces are once again carrying out genocide on the Rohingya population in spite of clamours for justice, tolerance and protection. This heinous plot has been masterminded by No.4 Police Battalion chief Col. Than Ko Ko and Maungdaw District administrator U Aung Myint Soe. On 7th January U Aung Phyu, the village administrator of...

Meeting in  Gudusara   school  By KPN News Junuary, 22, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State: A high level delegation led by Arakan State Chief Minister U Hla Maung Tin went to Gudusara village nearby Kilai Dong village today and held a meeting in school of Gudusara with inviting Rohingya villagers including women who fled from Kilai Dong village and neighbors, said a villager who participate in the meeting.  The members of the delegation went to village at about  2: 00 pm with 12 cars from Maungdaw Town.  After arrival, they held a meeting inviting Rohingya men and women from nearby villages and especially women from Kilai Dong village. Some villagers said, more than 200 female head to the delegation to inform their situation, but the security forces stopped the group of female to head to the delegation. Later, the group was leased to meet the delegation, said a school teacher from Maungdaw south.  In the meeting, mi...

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) Press Release January  21, 2014 Eyewitnesses report ongoing violence against the Muslim minority in Burma: The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) calls for an independent investigation of the alleged human rights crimes committed against members of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma. Eyewitnesses reported to the human rights organization about an incident during which 60 Rohingya were killed when Burmese security forces and Buddhist extremists attacked the village of Du Chee Yar Tan in Maungdaw district (Arakan State) on January 14, 2014. Most of the 4,000 inhabitants managed to escape. Burma's authorities deny the attack against the minority group – but are also trying to keep international observers and members of the Rohingya people away from the village. "If Burma's authorities are really trying to stop the circle of violence, they should allow human rights activists, foreign diplomats and United Nation...