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Urgent Alarm! Another Possible Wave of Rohingya Genocide

Rohingya have been facing state backed atrocities since 1978. The most recent assault by Lun Htein forces vandalized a Rohingya village of 4000 inhabitants in southern Maungdaw.

(MAUNGDAW Burma Times) - The Myanmar military backed regime led by former high rank military officer president Thein Sein with power of 2014 ASEAN chair is busy in preparation to get rid of Rohingya within a short time in upcoming days before completion of Myanmar census 2014 that will be carried out from March 30 to April 10.

Undoubtedly, another wave of Rohingya genocide is about to trigger in western Myanmar according to reliable source from inside Burma. There is a standing order from central government Naypyidaw administration to round up all Rohingya males and boys above aged 10.

BREAKING NEWS Order for Arrests of all Rohingya Males Over 10 Years

This is a critical stage in this event that experts say is a Genocide. The Rohingya have always been persecuted, but the news of literally rounding up all Rohingya takes this event to a new level.

(RANGOON) - Two international people have been contacted from inside Maungdaw that an order from NayPiDaw has been given to arrest all Rohingya males over 10 years old. Mass arrests have started in Maungdaw.

One of these witnesses has said that arrests have already started in Maungdaw. It is not clear if these arrests have occurred in the last 24 hours or include the Jan 14-17 mass arrests in Kiladaung and nearby villages last week.

Myanmar Forces Kill, Rape Rohingya Muslims

Rohingya Muslims have been denied citizenship rights since an amendment to the citizenship laws in 1982 and are treated as illegal immigrants in their own home.

(CAIRO IINA) - Human rights activists have accused the Burmese police forces of killing at least 16 Rohingya Muslims and kidnapping 100 more in a village located in an isolated corner of Burma to cover-up a recent discovery of a mass grave, International Business Times UK reported.

“The villagers were shocked because a worker had found the bodies of eight Rohingyas in a dump,” Tun Khin, human rights activist and president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the UK, said.

US Urges Myanmar to Probe Attacks on Muslims
Numbers of Unconfirmed Dead Ranged from 10 to 60

The United States said that it is deeply concerned about reports of fresh violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

(RANGOON World Bulletin) - The United States on Friday urged Myanmar to investigate reports that security forces and Buddhist mobs attacked members of the Rohingya Muslim minority this week, killing as many as 60 people.

Rights groups reported attacks by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs against Rohingya in a village in the Maungdaw township of western Rakhine state over the past three days.

PRESS TV: No End in Sight to Rohingya Muslims Plight

Dozens of children reportedly killed by Buddhist extremists in Burma...

(SALEM) - Sectarian violence, which has gripped Burma since the summer of 2012, is back in full swing, leaving an untold number of Rohingya Muslims dead in this latest flare up near Maungdaw. They are being targeted by Rakhine Buddhist extremists, who are operating with local Buddhist political leaders.

Earlier this week, Rakhine mobs and security forces known in Burma as Lun Htein, entered the settlement of Kiladaung Village East. As it turned out, the men entering the village were police who didn’t wear uniforms.

OIC`s Response to Rohingya Massacre in South Maungdaw (English and French)

The Secretary General urged the government of Myanmar to adhere to the framework it agreed to, to enforce the rule of law and to keep it's assurances to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms.

(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) - Iyad Ameen Madani, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the OIC, expressed deep concern regarding the recent events of 14th January, 2014 in which looting, raping and killing of Rohingya Muslim civilian citizens in southern Maungdaw, Rakhine State took place.

These events, stressed The Secretary General, violate the basic rights of the Rohingya Muslims to be protected as citizens and as a minority by their own government.

At Least 8 Rohingyas Shot Dead at Kiladon village near Maungdawin in Latest Round of Sectarian Strife

We will carry more information on this development, for now the severe tense situation is still prevailing in the area.

(SALEM) - Sources in Myanmar report that police shot and killed eight Rohingya people in a new round of sectarian strife in Kiladon village near Maungdaw. Sheerrsha News in Dhaka and The BBC report that a meeting is taking place in Godusara today.

Nurul Islam with Grassroots Welfare Association, Bangladesh (GWAB), says they received news from a reliable source from Maungdaw that the exact death toll could be higher. At this point, people Kiladon village are still trying to determine the number of casualties.

Urgent Press Statement: Stop Continuous Genocide on Rohingya - Deal with Myanmar`s Cruel Government

This time many women were raped, tortured and killed.

(KUALA LAMPUR) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) strongly condemns the Myanmar government for the new attack on the ethnic Rohingya in Kela Daung Village, Maungdaw Township.

The information received by MERHROM reveals that the attack started on 13 January 2014. Within 2 days more than 250 Rohingya women, men and children has been killed by the Myanmar security forces, namely Loonthing, and police together with ethnic Rakhine.

Let Rohingya Fill Up the Ethnicity by Rohingya in Myanmar Census 2014

Burma Times: Don’t confuse Rohingya Muslim with Rakhine Muslim!

(RANGOON) - Another horrible step to tactfully operate to implement the remained genocidal procedures against Rohingya—method 2014: de-Rohingya by policy of Rakhinized Muslim.

“Politically, the forced registration of Rohingya Muslim as Rakhine Muslim by Burmese genocidal government led by President Thein Sein for upcoming national census that would be carried out from 30 March to 10 April is another horrible genocidal step to utterly eradicate Rohingya. The main intention behind the forced Rakhinized Muslim instead of Rohingya Muslim is nothing except de-Rohingya Muslim”

Myanmar Security Force (Lun Htin) Arrest Rohingya Women After Failing to Arrest Male Villagers from Kiladaung

The unrest is taking place in villages south of Maungdaw.

(MAUNGDAW, Burma) - According to a reliable news source from Maungdaw, some Rohingya women have been taken to Maungdaw Lun Htin Headquarters from the Kiladaung village (Du Chiradan village), located six miles south of Maungdaw, after Lun Htin (Govt. security forces) failed to arrest male villagers.

It is alleged that last night, a Lun Htin, along with his other Rakhine Buddhist associates, entered the village, reportedly for the purpose of looting.