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Desperate Pleas From Burma`s Dying Rohingya Population

Food shortages and continuing violence spell out one of the saddest stories in modern history.

(YANGOON / SACRAMENTO ) - Photos from our contacts on the ground in blood drenched Burma, tell the story in silence of the suffering of stateless people.

The rights of the Rohingyas were stripped away in '82 like the clothing of so many rape victims in this war of ethnic cleansing.

Statement by the Press Secretary on the President Traveling to Asia

Additional details about the trip will be released at a later date.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The following statement was released today, we had reported in recent days that Obama would visit Rangoon, and now that has been confirmed by the White House.

The President will travel to Bangkok, Thailand; Rangoon, Burma and Phnom Penh, Cambodia from November 17-20.

U.S. Gifts to Burma`s Dying Refugees: Silence, Indifference and the Marines

Photo from inside the killing zone shows a U.S. Marine Corps property sign.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - For many days, Pauktaw refugees have been languishing under the sun; alternately suffering from heat & cold.

These new photographs that have never been released, show the camps that many are living in and not surprisingly, the conditions are deplorable.

Medical Charity Says It`s Been Prevented from Helping Rohingyas

The U.S. makes deals with Myanmar as it blocks doctors from reaching critically injured and dying people.

(RANGOON, Burma) - Medecins sans Frontieres has been prevented from delivering much needed aid to people displaced by recent fighting in Myanmar.

Rakhine Buddhists threatened and intimidated MSF staff working among the vulnerable and abused Rohingyas who are political/religious refugees.

Breaking News: Obama to Visit Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has ignored mass ethnic killing in Myanmar, met with Obama recently in Washington.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Newly re-elected US President Barack Obama will visit Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon later this month.

A Myanmar government official released the news Wednesday, in the latest sign of Washington's support for reforms in the former pariah state that many contend is more dangerous today than before.

Myanmar: MSF prevented from Reaching most Communities Affected by Violence in Rakhine State

Scale up in provision of medical care urgently needed.

(LONDON) - As MSF medical teams work to reach communities affected by the violence in Rakhine State they face ongoing antagonism generated by deep ethnic divisions.

In addition thousands of patients benefiting from longer-term primary health care programmes are cut off from medical services as many of MSF’s activities have been suspended since June.

West Does NOT Want to Help Rohingya Muslims: Analyst

... you also look at the wars in Africa, it is to get China out of Africa. So, China has been identified as enemy number one...

(TEHRAN Press TV) - Press TV has interviewed Dr. Randy Short, with Dignity Human Rights and Peace Organization in Washington, about the Rohingya Muslims, who face potential genocide. have been abandoned by the West due to the imperial geo-strategic agenda of Western states against China, an analyst says.

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.