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Authorities` Failure to Control Provocations May Lead to Further Violence

“It is certain that the violent attacks will occur for third time if the government will neglect to take decisive actions...” - U Aung Mra Kyaw.

(RANGOON, Burma Mizzima News) - Arakanese villagers in Mrauk-U Township have repeatedly reported unscrupulous destruction of their cultivations to authorities.

However the authorities have still neglected to look into the destruction.

Rohingya Crisis is Bangladesh`s Responsibility Too, Says Suu Kyi

The UN has called on all countries in the region to open their borders to Rohingya boatpeople—many of whom are fleeing the violence

(RANGOON, Burma Mizzima News) - Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described the sectarian violence in Burma’s Rakhine State a “huge international tragedy”.

She said illegal migration from Bangladesh to Burma had to be stopped.

OIC: Save Myanmar Muslims from `Genocide`

“We would like the international community to act immediately to stop the ethnic cleansing,” - Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf

(DJIBOUTI Agency France Presse) - The world’s top Islamic body urged US President Barack Obama to look into the plight of Muslims in Myanmar’s unrest-hit Rakhine state.

Both Obama and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton are making a landmark trip to the Southeast Asian country.

USCIRF Letter to President Obama on his Trip to Burma

Rohingya Muslim minorities in Burma have been targets of appalling communal violence... Over a thousand have died.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sent the following letter on Wednesday to President Obama.

USCIRF urges the President during his trip to Burma to raise issues of religious freedom and the abuses that continue to arise from ongoing ethnic and communal violence.

France: Activists in Paris Support Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

Rohingya Muslims have faced torture, neglect and repression in Myanmar since it achieved independence in 1948.

(PARIS Ahlul Bayt) - Activists in Paris have staged a demonstration to mark the global day of action against the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar by extremist Buddhists.

The event in the French capital was organized with the aim of drawing international attention to the brutal killing of hundreds of Muslims and displacement of thousands more in recent attacks by extremist Buddhists...

Sri Lanka to be Tried for Genocide Against Tamils: How Will Cuba and its Allies Respond?

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal was initiated in 1979 by the left socialist and anti-fascist resistance fighter Senator Lelie Basso.

(HAVANA TIMES) - An unprecedented move by internationalists and activists for human rights and justice, one that could inspire controversy among left oriented governments and peoples’ solidarity committees, will take place next spring.

Since the time of the resolution, Cuba has stepped up closer ties with the Mahinda Rajapaksa family government...

The White Minority of Post-America, The Obama Phenomenon and The Indigenous World Court

The Post-America world of minorities is a fitting backdrop for the larger picture of the world's indigenous people.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - On the 5th of November, a day before the Presidential election, Jim McTague, a discerning columnist in Barron's Magazine, wrote a brilliant piece.

The writer predicted a stunning victory by Mitt Romney...

Suu Kyi Calls for More Troops in Myanmar`s Rakhine State

A 1982 law stripped citizenship from 800,000 Rohingya people.

(RANGOON, Burma Mizzima News) - Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and parliamentarians from ethnic minority parties are calling for more troops in Rakhine State.

Suu Kyi has until now remained largely silent on the issue...

Breaking News: Obama to Visit Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has ignored mass ethnic killing in Myanmar, met with Obama recently in Washington.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Newly re-elected US President Barack Obama will visit Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon later this month.

A Myanmar government official released the news Wednesday, in the latest sign of Washington's support for reforms in the former pariah state that many contend is more dangerous today than before.

CSW calls for International Action to Rnd Violence in Arakan State, Burma

CSW calls for international action to end violence in Arakan State, Burma

(WASHINGTON DC) - Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is calling on the international community to invoke the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principle, in light of the Burmese Government’s failure to end the conflict in Arakan State, western Burma, between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims.