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OIC Organizing Donors Meeting for Burma`s Rakhine State

About 46 per cent of the displaced people are children.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC ) and Qatar Charity are organizing a meeting with about 30 regional and international organisations to coordinate humanitarian services to Rakhine State in Burma, the Gulf Times reported on Wednesday.

The event follows the first consultative meeting held in Kuala Lumpur earlier last month.

Burma Task Force Protests Suu Kyi Visit

Myanmar refuses to recognize its estimated 800,000 Rohingya Muslims as an ethnic group and denies them citizenship.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Among the crowds gathered at the University of San Francisco to greet Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi last week was a small coterie of Muslim and Burmese activists.

They were there not to celebrate the visit by the veteran human rights campaigner but to press her on one burning question.

Rohingya Vehicle Attacked in Maungdaw South

All the victims were inhumanely tortured and all the properties, goods and cash money that they had was looted by the mob

(RANGOON, Burma) - Now in Burma Rohingya Muslims travelling down the various roads are in danger of being overtaken and kidnapped as one group learned in recent days.

Justice in Myanmar

Opponents of Rohingya claim they are 'illegal immigrants from Bangladesh' when history shows them living there for hundreds of years. Recent violence in Arakan State has shows injustice defining the attitude of Myanmar's leaders.

(SITTWE AKYAB, Myanmar) - Justice is foundation of all religions and laws; without justice, no one can build a society. Justice is the right thing to do for every solution; no one can solve a problem without Justice.

To implement justice in a society, the intention of a leader should be right and effort should be right. True Justice never depends on the norm of “Might is Right”, it needs the norm of “Right is Might”.

Aung San Suu Kyi Misses an Opportunity on Rohingyas

The United Nations calls the Rohingya one of the world’s most persecuted groups.

(RANGOON, Burma) - One by one, the members of a large group of students approached a microphone to tell Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi that she had been an inspiration to them.

“I’m very proud to say you have been our hope,” said a Pakistani student. “It is a great honor for me to hear my personal hero speak,” said another.

Thein Sein Leaves Door Open for One More Term, Praises Suu Kyi

Thein Sein acknowledges slaughter of Rohingya Muslims

(RANGOON Mizzima News ) - Burma’s reforms are “irreversible” and the country’s ethnic conflicts, including the Muslim Rohingya issue, will be resolved according to “international norms,” President Thein Sein told the 67th UN General Assembly in an address on Thursday.

Myanmar`s Maungtaw Refugees in Need of Food, Clothing

The people are undergoing hard times due to lack of job opportunities and need help, sources report.

(RANGOON, Burma) - Many of the refugees, who have been sent to back to their places from Maungtaw rescue camps, are in dire need of food and clothing, according to volunteers.

The resettlement of 2,286 refugees from 549 households began in the first week of September and ended on September 19.

A Home for the Rohingyas

The Rohingyas whom the Myanmar authorities will not accept for whatever reason, will have no choice but to be assisted for third country resettlement.

(PETALING JAYA, Malaysia) - HAVING had the opportunity, as part of the UN multi-agency assistance programme, to extensively interact with the Rohingyas in Myanmar and in the refugee camps, I have come to know the Rohingyas as a highly resilient, intelligent, skilful and hard-working people.

They have survived for many years on meagre resources, extreme limitations and in the face of danger and exploitation.

The Rohingya Problem: Why? - Speech

It is necessary that we learn of this greatest tragedy of our time so that we can work towards finding a lasting solution to it.

(BANGKOK Eurasia Review) - I have been writing for the past 32 years since my days as a university student on a plethora of issues, which include history, culture and civilization of the peoples of the South Asia and the Middle East.

I have also studied and written on international politics, human rights and terrorism.

U.S. Directly Encourages Destruction of Muslim Culture in Burma

Into the depths of despair: Burma's Human Rights violators given clean bill by Clinton; it is all about money and not saving lives, being legal or even decent.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - This should be satire, but it is not.

As a Genocide rages in Burma against Rohingya Muslims from Arakan state, the United States government announces the end of sanctions on Myanmar leaders.