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UN Asks Myanmar to Refund Citizenship Rights of Muslims

Third Committee of UN General Assembly approves a draft resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar, urging it to prevent violent acts in the country.

(GENEVA) - Third Committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which is responsible for social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues, asked Myanmar to refund citizenship rights of the Muslim minority.

The third Committee consensually approved a draft resolution concerning human rights violation in Myanmar. The Myanmar government was called to provide Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state with equal citizenship rights and prevent violent acts against the Muslim minority by Buddhists in the country.

BURMA: Three Arrested for Attempt to Bomb Rangoon Religious Buildings

Several of the bomb blasts occurred in Rangoon. One explosion happened in the upscale Traders Hotel, where one American tourist was wounded.

(RANGOON) - Police said they arrested three men last week who were preparing to bomb religious buildings in Rangoon. Reportedly, the targets in Burma’s biggest city were mosques.

Min Aung, a police colonel at the Home Affairs Ministry, told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday that the suspects were Burmese nationals, adding that two suspects were ethnic Arakanese from western Burma.

Towards the Creation of a Fact-Finding Commission on Relations Between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar

Collaborating with local civil-society bodies inside Myanmar, this fact-finding commission would have three objectives.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) concluded its biennial conference on November 4 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, our first such meeting in a Muslim-majority nation.

The conference theme — Inter-Faith Dialogue for Peace and Sustainability — points to the interdependence of Buddhists and Muslims throughout Southeast Asia.

Myanmar Authorities Should Stop Sending Boatloads of Rohingyas to Sea

Women and children are sent to sea from Kunia Village in Maungdaw - too many are dying...

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - This is a request to the Myanmar Government Authority to stop sailing boats with Rohingya women and children to Malaysia.

It is learned from reliable sources that at least two boats a week sail loaded with not only Rohingya youths but also Rohingya children and women to Malaysia by risky sea route.

BURMA: Declaration to Submit Petition for the Confiscated Land of Rohingya

There are hundreds of villagers who have lost their land; they are from Kin Daung, Atwin nga tay, Sein Daung, Tankyak kan, Lay Myro, Dabru Chaung, Nanra Goon villages and so on.

(RANGOON Burma Times) - According to the villagers of Atwin Nga Tay village tract, City peace and development council (Ma-Ya-Ka) and land registry has released a notification to submit petition for the confiscated Rohingya land.

The land was confiscated for the military and for a Buddhist pagoda, in 1988 and 1994. There were hundreds of acres of land that were confiscated for battalions and one hundred acres for the pagoda that is located in a Buddhist village.

BURMA: OIC Chief Visits Rohingya Camps: `I Was Crying`

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi — who has said little in defense of the religious minority — declined to meet with the OIC delegation.

(RANGOON) - The secretary general of the world’s largest bloc of Islamic countries said emotional visits with members of the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community — chased from their homes in Burma by Buddhist mobs and arsonists — brought him to tears.

“I’ve never had such a feeling,” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said late Saturday, as he and other delegates from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation wrapped up a three-day tour to Burma that included talks with the president, government ministers, interfaith groups and U.N. agencies.

OIC in New Push to Set Up an Office in Myanmar

"OIC wants to open an office in Myanmar," MP Khin Saw Wai told RFA's Myanmar Service amid continuing protests against the OIC visit by Buddhist groups.

(RANGOON RFA) - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is pressing predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar to allow it to set up an office in the country to channel humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya Muslim minority who have borne the brunt of sectarian violence, lawmakers said.

A previous OIC request to set up a permanent office had been rejected by the Myanmar government following protests by Buddhists concerned over any international aid to the Rohingyas, most of whom are considered illegal immigrants.

BURMA: Police Harassment Northern Arakan State

The villagers were engulfed with fear of arbitrary arrest that police may start at anytime. Sometimes, the villagers have to pay extortion fees of 500kyats while going from the village to Maung Daw town.

(MAUNG DAW Burma Times) - Maung Hla Myint, A student of the village, U Shin kya (Bura-shida para¬) said, a group of police came to the village , U Shin Kya (Bura-shida para) under the Maung Daw township. The group said that they got information of a group of armed robbers who came to the said village.

So the group of police came to prevent the armed robbers from committing any kind of robberies inside the village and to avoid the any bad occurrence.

ERC Appeals World Bodies to immediately demand Burmese Regime Accountability for 70 Rohingya Drowned in Sea

Genocidal Burmese authorities are are sending the Rohingya populous into uncertain destinations.

(AMSTERDAM) - The Rohingya ethnic minority of western Burma have been suffering long discrimination since 1978.

The Burmese predominantly Buddhist genocidal rulers have been imposing double standard policies against the Rohingya to eradicate them from the soil of Arakan.

Myanmar Human Rights Panel Members Meet Rakhine Residents

Clashes between the two groups last year in the northwestern Myanmar state left more than 200 dead and 140,000 displaced, mostly Rohingya Muslims...

(SITTWE RFA) - Myanmar government human rights officials met community leaders and other residents of riot-torn Rakhine state on Wednesday.

They want them to help contain communal violence in a bid to uphold human rights following deadly clashes last year.