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Suu Kyi Accused of Being `Too Authoritarian`

The party of Burmese Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Suu Kyi, has been accused of being too authoritarian, as Pro-Democracy activists quit.

(WASHINGTON DC The Fresh Outlook) - Around one hundred and thirty members of the National League for Democracy party have resigned, with hundreds more threatening to follow.

Breakaway members have established their own political organisation – a group called Democracy Network – focused on helping the local community.

Boat Sinks in Bay With 110 Job-Seekers

Today 2 dead bodies were found at Teknaf sea shore while 49 boat people remain missing. The coast guard filed case against 28 persons including 5 brokers (Dalal).

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - A mechanized fishing boat, with 110 job-seekers on board headed for Malaysia, capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Moheskhalia at Teknaf In Bangladesh early Wednesday.

Fifty-one of the people were rescued and 10 of them are in the custody of Border Guard Bangladesh, officials said.

Salem-News Human Ambassador Program Expanding Successfully in Asia

Due to William Gomes and Salem-News.com, Human Rights violators increasingly fear being exposed.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - He's making life tough for the people who scoff at legal structures designed to prevent torture, arbitrary detainment and arrest, and a host of other international law violations.

Salem-News has in William Nicholas Gomes, the prototype of a refined, polished 21^st Century Human Rights champion fighter. 'Fighter' is no stretch either.

Genocide of the Rohingyas of Myanmar: Part 1

Part one in a three-part series: Current Situation inside Arakan.

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) - Myanmar’s western state of Arakan (Rakhine) is again burning.

In Mrauk-U, the former capital of the independent kingdom of Arakan, hundreds of young Rakhine Buddhist men were on the march: packed on the backs of pickups, on motorcycles, on trishaws, tuk-tuks and bicycles, but mostly on foot.

Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingyas of Myanmar: Part 2

Part two of three: Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingyas of Myanmar

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) - The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people is a text book case.

It has become a national project that is led by the Myanmar state at the central level and the Rakhine state at the local level, supported by a good percentage of the Buddhist nation and its dominant Burman and Rakhine ethnic groups, and which employs large institutional and material resources.

Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingyas of Myanmar Part 3

Part three of three: All Over Arakan It’s Bosnia Again!

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) - The UN and other international human rights groups have called the Rohingya Muslims, and rightly so, the worst persecuted people in our planet.

Because of their race and religion, they are victims of genocide in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

Scores of Rohingya Refugees Feared Dead at Sea

Latest reports say that Myanmar is considering giving citizenship to its Rohingya Muslims.

(YANGON, Myanmar dw.de) - At least 3,000 Muslims who fled communal violence in their villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state by boat more than week ago remain missing.

Concern for their safety continues to grow.

Whole Rohingya Enclave Burned to the Ground: HRW

The United Nations, which considers the Rohingyas as of the most persecuted groups in the world, has warned that Burma's fledgling democracy could be “irreparably damaged” by the clashes.

(WASHINGTON DC Mizzima News) - The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has condemned the newest attacks on Muslim Rohingyas in Burma.

Reports state that an entire Rohingya section in Kyauk Phyu – up to 811 homes – was burned to the ground.

Another Muslim Village, Kinipran, Burns Under Buddhist Flame

Incident in Pauk Taw township work of Rakhines in collaboration of Nasaka forces. Is it not enough for UN to deploy its army in Arakan?

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - We have learned from reliable sources over the telephone that today the Rakhines from Pauk Taw township, torched a big Muslim Rohingya village of about 1200 homes with the collaboration of Nasaka forces at 12.00 noon today.

The name of the village is "Kinipran", in Pauk Taw.

Myanmar Refugees: Babies are Dying Aboard Boats that Can`t Come Ashore

It doesn't have to be this way... people in this world are calling for justice.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - In spite of fragmented efforts by the Burmese government to quell violence stemming from religious unrest, a long, systematic series of attacks from the Rakhine Buddhists continue.

Rohingya Muslims are suffering under the most brutal conditions while U.S. media and politicians turn a blind eye.