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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.

`Withholding Information is the Essence of Tyranny`

The government of Rwanda has a long and consistent history of diabolizing and harassing any dissident voices inside and outside the country.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.”

On October 25, 2013, former Rwandan Presidential bodyguard and RDF soldier, Lt. Joel Mutabazi, was abducted from a UNHCR safe house in Uganda where he was in hiding from the Rwandan government. He was under the protection of the UNHCR.

Myanmar Peace Talks Fail to Nail Down Cease-Fire Agreement: RFA

The government had aimed to hammer out details of the cease-fire at a meeting this week.

(RANGOON RFA) - Myanmar’s government and armed ethnic rebel groups failed to hammer out details of a nationwide cease-fire accord at the end of landmark peace talks Tuesday, putting off further discussions until next month.

The government delegation and representatives from more than a dozen rebel groups will hold their next meeting in southern Myanmar’s Kayin (Karen) state capital Hpa-An in December, the two sides said in a joint statement after a two-day meeting in Myitkyina, the capital city of Kachin state.

Our Walls Bear Witness: The Plight of Burma`s Rohingya

US Holocaust Memorial Museum honors Burma's Rohingya Muslims; victims of ongoing Genocide.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Denied citizenship and rendered stateless by the Burmese government, the 800,000 Rohingya lack basic rights, including the right to work, marry, and travel freely, and they routinely suffer severe abuse.

Following violent attacks in 2012 that destroyed numerous Rohingya communities, more than 100,000 are now confined to displacement camps and segregated areas, where they continue to be subjected to violence, including crimes against humanity.

Boat Carrying 70 Muslim Rohingya Sinks Off Myanmar

A boat carrying 70 Rohingya Muslim refugees capsized Sunday off Myanmar's coast.

(SITTWE World Bulletin) - A boat carrying almost 70 Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing sectarian tensions capsized Sunday off Myanmar's coast, police said, leaving dozens missing in treacherous seas.

The boat was believed to be taking the Rohingya from Myanmar's western state of Rakhine to Malaysia, where thousands of members of the Muslim minority have sought sanctuary since violent clashes with Buddhists erupted last year.

Rohingya Belong to Burma

"Muslims of Arakan certainly belong to one of the indigenous races of Burma....In fact, there is no pure indigenous race in Burma, if they do not belong to indigenous races of Burma, we also cannot be taken as indigenous races of Burma" - Sao Shwe Thaike, the first elected President of the Union of Burma.

(DHAKA) - Like other indigenous races of Burma, the Muslims of North Arakan inhabit a sufficient contiguous territory in sufficient numbers in a defined geographical area having all necessary characteristics of an indigenous race which can never be denied by any right thinking person uninfluenced by feelings of racial and religious hatred.

That different races have different names, but the Muslims specially the orthodox type throughout the world to what ever nationality they may belong keep, on their birth, the Islamic names in Arabic language.

BURMA: Military MP Says Army Chief Could Become Candidate for President

The 60-year-old Ming Aung Hlaing took over as commander of Burma’s Armed Forces after long-time military junta leader Than Shwe retired in June 2010.

(RANGOON) - The leader of Burma’s military lawmakers has said the group wants to nominate current Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing for president following the 2015 elections. The plan is possible because the country’s president is elected by Parliament, where military officers hold a quarter of the seats.

Brig-Gen Wai Lin, an officer with the Southern Command and a Lower House MP who leads the military lawmakers, told The Irrawaddy that he expects Sen-Gen Ming Aung Hlaing to be a leading candidate for the presidency.

UN Envoy Condemns Myanmar Violence on Muslims

A United Nations envoy in Myanmar has condemned the violence taking place against Muslims in Myanmar, saying that it threatens reforms in the country

(RANGOON ) - Violence against a Muslim minority in Myanmar is feeding a wider anti-Muslim feeling that poses a serious threat to the country's dramatic economic and political reforms as it emerges from half a century of military rule, a U.N. envoy said on Thursday.

The government says at least 192 people were killed in June and October 2012 clashes between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, most of whom Myanmar deem illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite roots going back generations.