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Human Rights Physician Says Burmese Government is Doing Nothing to Stop Rohingya Killing

Attacks on Burma's Rohingya Muslims are a growing world concern.

(CHICAGO) - Growing violence against Burma's minority Rohingya population has left at least 60 people dead in the last week.

Physician Nora Rowley lived in Burma and worked with the Rohingya. She explains what she thinks the government needs to do to respond.

Burmese Boat People Flee Genocide Increasingly Compared to Bosnia

Government forces are now killing Buddhists also; demand an end to the violence in Myanmar!

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - People who share my heart wrenching concern for the tragedy taking place in fledgling democracy Myanmar, need to help this cause by writing to their U.S. Senators and Members of Congress.

We must compel them to participate and save the lives of human beings who are suffering miserably with no answer in sight.

Boats with Dying Rohingya Refugees Rejected From Bangladesh Shoreline

Refugees prohibited from landing at either border; Maungdaw or Shapardip. They are facing starvation.

(YANGON, Myanmar) - After floating for 3 consecutive days, Rohingya boat people finally attempted to land near Shamapura Island of Bangladesh.

But the Bangladeshi border security forces blocked them from landing on their soil.

Many People Killed and Wounded in Army Shootings Across Arakan

At least 10 Arakanese have been killed in an army crackdown on the fresh violence across Arakan state, according to relatives of the deceased.

(RANGOON, Burma Narinjara) - On the morning of 25 October, around 6 am, three people were killed during a clash between Arakanese Buddhists and Muslims in Kyauk Taw Township, located at Upper Kaladan River.

Of the deceased, two were killed by security forces while the other was killed in the clash.

Burma`s Political Prisoner Issue Pivotal to US Policy, Says Congress

Important ethnic groups are unlikely to discuss terms for national reconciliation until their leaders are freed from jail- report authored by Michael F. Martin

(WASHINGTON DC) - No single issue may play a more pivotal role in Burma’s possible transition to a free and democratic country than the release of its political prisoners.

A US Congressional report says progress in this regard is likely to figure in any Congressional consideration of US policy on Burma.

More than 15,000 Mray Bon Rohingya Villagers Trapped on Hillside While Rakhines Torch Hills

The terrified Rohingyas are calling for help.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Just a few minutes ago a reliable source informed us over phone that Some Muslims villages in Mray Bon township were burnt down by Rakhines.

We are told more than 15,000 displaced Muslim Rohingyas are now sheltering in hills area. From there it gets much worse.

Salem-News Report Referenced in Story About Spike in Muslim Killings in Burma

It is a dubious honor to have your agency referenced internationally over stories of widespread killing.

(SALEM) - Our Boston Bureau Chief, Agron Belica, caught this video on YouTube and sent it to our newsroom today.

It is about a report we published referencing a visit from the wife of the Turkish Prime Minister to Burma where Buddhist monks have been burning villages where Rohingya Muslims have lived for generations.

Anti-Rohingya Rally in Myanmar

Longtime residents of Burma, the Rohingya are viewed as 'illegal immigrants'.

(BANGKOK) - Hundreds of Buddhist university students rallied on Wednesday against Muslims in a flashpoint city at the centre of communal tensions in western Myanmar, a protest leader told AFP.

The protest in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state, followed overnight violence in nearby towns as a fresh outbreak of unrest between ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya stretched into a third day.

U.S. Media Mostly Silent as Buddhist on Muslim Violence in Myanmar Spirals Out of Control

If U.S. news outlets covered this burning world story fewer people would die.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - As the Burmese Rohingya Muslims are being slaughtered in a Genocide sweeping 'Myanmar' U.S. media coverage has nearly vanished from the page.

This is a very serious and deadly world conflict; it is genocide, pure hardcore ethnic cleansing by mobs of militant Buddhist monks.

Renewed Communal Violence in Rakhine State Claims more than 600 Homes in Western Burma

The UN has called the Rohingya a stateless people and one of the most persecuted groups in the world.

(YANGON, Myanmar Mizzima News ) - Renewed communal violence in Rakhine State has now claimed more than 600 homes.

They were burned in western Burma as violence between Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists spread to six villages, authorities said on Tuesday.