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Salem-News Human Ambassador Program Expanding Successfully in Asia

Due to William Gomes and Salem-News.com, Human Rights violators increasingly fear being exposed.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - He's making life tough for the people who scoff at legal structures designed to prevent torture, arbitrary detainment and arrest, and a host of other international law violations.

Salem-News has in William Nicholas Gomes, the prototype of a refined, polished 21^st Century Human Rights champion fighter. 'Fighter' is no stretch either.

Memorandum of an Urgent Intervention to Stop to Ethnic Cleansing Towards Ethnic Minority Rohingyas in Myanmar`s Arakan State

Update with large number of photos.

(KUALA LUMPUR ) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) strongly condemned the continuous ethnic cleansing policy towards ethnic minority Rohingyas by the Myanmar government.

Recent violence caused thousands of Rohingyas to being killed and thousands of their houses have been burnt down by Rakhines, police and military.

Myanmar Unrest Could Develop into `Terrorism` Govt

Communal bloodshed in western Myanmar risks developing into "armed terrorist acts", the government said Wednesday, after homemade firearms were used in the latest deadly fighting.

(YANGON, Myanmar RNW) - The government said 180 guns were seized during the new wave of conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state, which has killed dozens and seen whole neighbourhoods razed.

It said several people had been arrested on suspicion of making the weapons.

Myanmar President Declines Tripartite Talks on Arakan Violence

Talks proposed between the ASEAN, UN and Myanmar's reformist government.

(KUALA LUMPUR AFP) - Myanmar rejected an offer by the ASEAN to open talks aimed at quelling deadly communal violence there.

Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said he proposed setting up tripartite talks to prevent the violence having a broader regional impact.

Call for an Emergency OIC Meeting for Rohingyas by Sheikh of Al-Azhar

The Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar demanded emergency OIC Meeting for Muslim Rohingyas of Burma

(CAIRO AlamatOnline.net) - The Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar issued a statement Tuesday.

He is calling upon the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to hold an emergency summit of foreign ministers of Islamic countries; to discuss the implications of what is happening to Muslims in Myanmar.

Myanmar is Behaving Inhumanly Toward the Rohingya Muslims

Buddhist monks are supporting the plan of exterminating the whole Rohingya ethnic community from Arakan.

(FRANKFURT) - I do not agree with the views of international media and their various news articles, for the last few months, on the conflicts between Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims.

It is true that Rohingyas are majority in Maungdaw and Buthidaung while they are not more than 10% in Mrauk Oo , Minbya, Kyauk Phyu, Myae Bon and Pauk Taw.

Save the Arakan Muslim Population from Genocide in Arakan-Burma

Hundreds of Muslim girls and women were attacked by rogue Buddhist mobs who also burned villages.

(LONDON) - Members of the Rohingya Diaspora strongly denounce and condemn and we express our serious concern over the current news that Buddhist Rakhine extremists started mass killings again.

They're targeting th Muslim population of Arakan and burning and destroying Muslims villages and houses...

US State Department Must Stop Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing in Burma: Initiate Sending UN Peacekeeping Force

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(WASHINGTON DC) - Since October 21, organized mobs of Rakhine Buddhist extremist headed by fanatic monks declared a campaign to wipe out ethnic Rohingya Muslim from their ancestral lands of Burma.

The local, state and national government of U Thein Sein are supporting crime against humanity to achieve their dream of Muslim free Arakan and Burma.

President Debates

No one raised the issue of the illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, or the problem of the Mexican civil war and drug lords, nor was the problem of immigration addressed.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - The coming U.S. elections have monopolized the attention of the American mainstream media and voters.

Economic issues held sway over the first of two presidential debates, and foreign policy governed the second.

Burma`s Political Prisoner Issue Pivotal to US Policy, Says Congress

Important ethnic groups are unlikely to discuss terms for national reconciliation until their leaders are freed from jail- report authored by Michael F. Martin

(WASHINGTON DC) - No single issue may play a more pivotal role in Burma’s possible transition to a free and democratic country than the release of its political prisoners.

A US Congressional report says progress in this regard is likely to figure in any Congressional consideration of US policy on Burma.