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International Rohingya Conference in the USA Calls for Stopping Genocide in Myanmar

The Rohingya people, who mostly live in the western Rakhine state of Myanmar, are the most persecuted people in our time.

(MILWAUKEE) - The first international conference in the USA on the plight of the Rohingya people of Myanmar – “Stop Genocide and Restore Rohingya’s Citizenship Rights in Myanmar” - was held in the campus of University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee on December 14, 2013.

It was jointly hosted by the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) and the Rohingya Concern International (RCI).

SRI LANKA: More Skeletons to be Exhumed from Mass Grave in Mannaar

The excavation of mass grave was carried out with Mannaar Justice Ananthy Kanagaratnam present at the site on Saturday and Sunday. The work was expected to continue on Monday.

(MANAAR TamilNet) - Medical experts from Colombo must be present in order to further excavate the recently located mass grave in Mannaar, Sri Lankan police officials said as the work was suddenly stopped on Monday after 11 full human skeletons were recovered from the site at Thirukkeatheesvaram.

Northern Provincial Council minister of fisheries Mr Deinswaran, who witnessed the excavation, said the bones bore marks of torture.

Myanmar`s Religious Segregation and Apartheid Policy Against Minority Muslims

In 2012, two eruptions of violence between Rohingyas and majority Buddhists in Rakhine State in western Myanmar killed at least 192 people and made 140,000 homeless.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - The Rohingya Muslim population is mostly concentrated in the three northern townships: Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung. The Rohingyas speak a Bengali dialect.

They suffer from several forms of restrictions and human rights violations. The vast majority of them have effectively been denied Myanmar citizenship.

New Mass Grave Found in Sri Lanka

At least 154 people had been buried in the grave at the central district of Matale, a hotbed of an anti-government uprising between 1987 and 1990.

(COLOMBO Sky News) - An unmarked mass grave has been found in Sri Lanka's former war zone, the first discovery of an unmarked gravesite since troops defeated Tamil rebels more than four years ago, police say.

Construction workers in the coastal district of Mannar stumbled on at least 10 skeletal remains buried at a location where they were laying a new water pipe, said police spokesman Ajith Rohana.

Mra Raza Linn`s Racism Strike Again; Words Ignite Violence, Baby Dies in Fire

Rohingyas in Burma are under constant tyranny and persecution living in sub-human condition, worse than apartheid era of South Africa.

(SACRAMENTO) - Rohingya people in Burma saw another massive fire sweep through illegal Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.

It happened today at 2:00 p.m. Burma time In Ngat Choung (Keraggiri) IDP camp, Pauktaw, Arakan. A fire quickly broke out, it reportedly started in a kitchen and 42 shelters burnt into ashes, killing a small baby.

Burma Times Editorial interview at Sahar TV2

No soul on the planet knows how many Rohingya people are disappeared and massacred in this fourth ethnic cleansing of Rohingya by state backed Burmese Buddhist radical monks and Rakhine extremists.

(FRANKFURT) - On 10th December 2013, world popular Sahar TV2 Insight hosted a show on editorial interview of Burma Times concerning the ongoing atrocities against the Rohingya ethnic minority in western Burma, Arakan, Rakhine state.

During the Insight Show of Sahar TV2, Our Chief editor of Burma Times Mr. Ibrahim Shah responded to the curious questions of the reputable Anchor of Sahar TV2 in accuracy according to what is taking place in the western part of Burma against Rohingya by Burma's genocidal regime.

11 Arakanese Charged for Thandwe Violence Released on Bail

Rohingyas can expect neither true justice or a fair verdict from Myanmar's government due to severe religious discrimination and the divide and rule policy of Myanmar's quasi Military backed govt.

(DHAKA) - Eleven ethnic Arakanese Buddhists have been released on bail after they were detained in connection with violence in Thandwe, Arakan State, in October, DVB reports.

The consensus on the ground is that the Rohingya Murder suspects (Rakhine Buddhists) were released because the victims were Muslims.

Ex-Kagame Escort Tortured, Threatened; US Urges Fair Trial

“I am afraid he’ll be beaten some more,” the wife said, crying. “He thinks he will die next time.”

(WASHINGTON, DC) - A Rwandan refugee who was illegally returned to Rwanda to face trial on rebellion charges has pleaded guilty after being severely beaten in detention, his wife and a rights activist have confirmed.

Joel Mutabazi -- a former escort of President Paul Kagame that was kidnapped in October from Uganda where he had been living in a UN safe house -- had originally pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism, planning an uprising against the state, and murder.

Does a Bengali Automatically Become Bangladeshi?

I believe that Myanmar will see true democracy if it would choose the path of love, trust, education, multi-nationalism, communal interaction by openness of freedom of wishes of the people.

(KUALA LAMPUR) - There is a saying or belief in people of Bangladesh that ‘all Bengalis are Bangladeshi but all Bangladeshi are not Bengalis’(Eade, 1994). It has been assumed that Bengalis are the sons of the soil of Bangla. On the other hand, Bengalis refer to Muslim population of Bangladesh uniquely and specifically and they are superior to other ethnic minorities.

According to this theory, all those Bangladeshis who are not Muslims, they are not Bengalis but they are Bangladeshis.

Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) Begins 2nd Parliamentary Term

The Inaugural Session on December 6th.

(LONDON) - ransnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) is a new political concept, formed after the mass killing of Tamils in the final months of the war in 2009.

It is a new political formation based on the principles of nationhood, homeland and self-determination. The raison d’etre for the TGTE is lack of political space inside the island of Sri Lanka for the Tamils to articulate and realize their political aspirations fully due to Constitutional impediments, racist political environment and military strangulation; and the coordination of diaspora political activities based on democratic principles and the rule of law.