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Burma border guard police (BGP) forcefully collecting money from Rohingya villages under the areas of BGP through village admin officer in the name of football tournament which started since December 5, said Kafayat, a football player from  Maungdaw .The BGP forcefully collecting 1000 kyat from a Rohingya family even the family is poor or widow and there are eight BGP areas in Maungdaw where BGP had gotten more thousands of kyats from Rohingya villages, Kafayat more said. The football tournaments have been starting in Maungdaw Township under all BGP areas since December 5, said an officer from Maungdaw who denied to be named. The BGP will not use the money they collected in their areas for tournament, it is just collecting money from Rohingya indirectly for them in the name of football tournament, the officer more said. “It is indirectly extorting money from Rohingya community, even the BGP treat  Rohingyas  as foreigners and harassment on their daily life ...

By   European Rohingya Council  Date: 11 December 2015 Since the start of December, murders of Rohingya Muslims have increased suddenly creating fresh fears of large scale ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya population is small, and diminishing each day as increasing numbers of people flee Arakan. In such a small community, the murder of four people in a single week is creating panic and will hasten the exodus of the Rohingya people which serves the purposes of the military backed regime and their Buddhist nationalist allies. The government of Myanmar has long formulated a blueprint for a Rohingya free Arakan state. Since 2012, the plans for the final solution have been finalised by Thein Sein’s government. The first involved the riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Muslims. Since then, the government had relied on a subtler approach, a means of committing slow burning genocide designed to escape international uproar. Following the riots, the entire Muslim po...

Life after the Ethnic Cleansing

By Aye Myint ׀ RvisionTV November 07, 2014 Kyauktaw, Arakan State : An innocent Rohingya youth was shot by some unknown armed Rakhine terrorists in Kyauktaw Township tonight and is now said to be in critical condition, according to the reliable sources. The youth is identified to be 26-year-old Shakir (son of) Ali Johar hails from Let Saung Kok village, Kyauktaw Township. He earns his livelihood as a fisherman and was attacked while he was fishing in Kaladan River. “Shakir (son of) Ali Johar, age 26, went for fishing in Kaladan river (also called Kissapa Nadi) yesterday (on 7th November) evening. He hails from Let Saung Kok village. While he was fishing in the river around 11:00PM, some unknown armed terrorists from a Rakhine village from the other side of the river called Kyauk Dan village started shooting at him using guns. One of the bullets hit at the lower part of his neck resulting him in critical condition. Fortunately, he didn’t die but it has become too...

Tomas Munita for The New York Times By  Jane Perlez New York Times November 7, 2014 SITTWE, Myanmar  — The  Myanmar  government has given the estimated one million Rohingya people in this coastal region of the country a dispiriting choice: Prove your family has lived here for more than 60 years and qualify for second-class citizenship, or be placed in camps and face deportation. The policy, accompanied by a wave of decrees and legislation, has made life for the Rohingya, a long-persecuted Muslim minority, ever more desperate, spurring the biggest flow of Rohingya refugees since a major exodus two years ago. In the last three weeks alone, 14,500 Rohingya have sailed from the beaches of Rakhine State to Thailand, with the ultimate goal of reaching Malaysia, according to the  Arakan Project , a group that monitors Rohingya refugees. The crisis has become an embarrassment to the White House ahead of a scheduled visit by  President Oba...

Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing delivers a speech at a parade in Naypyidaw to mark Armed Forces Day, the anniversary of Burma taking up arms against the occupying Japanese. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) By Emelina Perez November 7, 2014 [JURIST] An investigation [report, PDF] conducted by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School [official website] determined three Myanmar Army commanders committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Thandaung Township, Kayin State, between January 2005 and December 2006. The study explains that beginning in 2005, the Myanmar Army engaged [press release] in human rights violations when they fired mortars, killed villagers, burned homes and laid landmines in the village, displacing more than 42,000 residents. Military policies authorized targeting civilians, according to the report, through methods such as armed tactics and destruction of property. The evidence collected by the clinic includes witness accounts of the...

The government plans to shift the Rohingya refugee camps from Cox's Bazar's Khutuppalang and Nayaparha.   Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting with the officials of the disaster management and relief ministry on Thursday said the camps would be shifted to a 'better location', according to her press secretary AKM Shamim Chowdhury. Rohingya refugees would be shifted to a bigger area as they now live in a very inhumane condition in slums, Chowdhury further quoted her as saying. The prime minister said the area to be vacated near the beach in Cox’s Bazar would be used for developing tourism. According to official statistics, there are 34,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, but unofficial figures suggest it to be somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000, according to bdnews24.com