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More than 15,000 Mray Bon Rohingya Villagers Trapped on Hillside While Rakhines Torch Hills

The terrified Rohingyas are calling for help.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Just a few minutes ago a reliable source informed us over phone that Some Muslims villages in Mray Bon township were burnt down by Rakhines.

We are told more than 15,000 displaced Muslim Rohingyas are now sheltering in hills area. From there it gets much worse.

Salem-News Report Referenced in Story About Spike in Muslim Killings in Burma

It is a dubious honor to have your agency referenced internationally over stories of widespread killing.

(SALEM) - Our Boston Bureau Chief, Agron Belica, caught this video on YouTube and sent it to our newsroom today.

It is about a report we published referencing a visit from the wife of the Turkish Prime Minister to Burma where Buddhist monks have been burning villages where Rohingya Muslims have lived for generations.

Former Tamil Tiger Fighters Become Sri Lankan Slave Labor?

Former soldiers of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) are working in the Vani, where well over 100,000 Tamils were killed during the intense fighting that ended in May 2009.

(THE VANI, Northern Sri Lanka) - Former soldiers of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) are working in the Vani, where well over 100,000 Tamils were killed during the intense fighting that ended in May 2009.

These former POW's/LTTE fighters are now working on an army farm about 200 acres in size.

Romney & Obama Tell Jim Lehrer: `Shut The F*** Up` (Jimmy Fallon)

Jimmy Fallon's sketch on the Obama-Romney debate and the verbal scuffles for control between Romney and Moderator Jim Lehrer is memorable and unforgettably funny.

(NEW YORK CITY) - During the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama found common ground on a basic idea: shutting Jim Lehrer up.

The whole thing sums up the comedic battle between the President and his challenger as we near the 2012 election.

Aggrieved Sri Lankan Families Request for UN Help Over `Abductions` of Relatives

Enforced disappearances stretch back to the 1980s.

(LONDON ANI) - Family members of missing people in Sri Lanka have urged the UN Secretary-General to intervene and help find disappeared relatives.

They have reportedly sent their appeal to Ki-Moon, marking 1,000 days since the disappearance of an anti-establishment cartoonist-cum-journalist, Prageeth Ekneligoda.

British `Channel 4` labeled `highly irresponsible` for `Big Fat Gypsy Weddings`

Television was a powerful medium and it could have been used in a more positive and educative way voicing European Roma apartheid.

(RENO, NV) - Hindus have blamed “Channel 4” of United Kingdom for acting highly irresponsibly in its smash hit documentary series “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings”.

They say it resulted in adding more misery to the lives of already maltreated European Gypsy (Roma) community.

The Entrenchment of a Fascist State

With The Sunday Leader silenced, there will be no more exposure of The stock market involvement was Sri Lanka's crooked dealings.

(MELBOURNE Sri Lanka Guardian) - On Friday 21 September 2012 was another ‘black Friday’, The Sunday Leader, the only newspaper critical of the Rajapaksa junta, was ‘killed’ (silenced).

The ‘body’ was quickly ‘cremated’ (handed over to one of Rajapaksa’s stooges), and the ‘ashes’ scattered in the President’s House (Palace) and ‘Temple Trees’ (so that the President and his brother can keep an eye on them to make sure they do not rise again...

America`s Anti-Muslim Ads Backfire

Muslim groups and activists did not organise protests but instead responded to the AFDI's campaign with ironic jokes on Twitter.

(NEW YORK) - Anti-Muslim posters in subway stations in New York and Washington, DC, have drawn muted reactions from Muslims, but Christian and Jewish organizations have countered with ad campaigns of their own.

And a United States congressman even called for a boycott of the capital's metro system.

U.S. Media and Press Are Guilty of Murder

People die every hour of every day because the media decides when ethnic cleansing is... and is not news.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Every day that passes without our so-called news media reporting the most dire problems in the world, is a travesty.

This is going on too long, in too many places, where people are being brutalized and raped and tortured and murdered and the stalwarts; ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN, FOX of course; they literally decide what people should know and that is how they produce their programming.

Press TV Ban Tantamount to Human Rights Violation

Sanctions against the Islamic Republic and exerting back-breaking pressures on people are per se illegal in the light of international laws.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - The recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel.

On Monday, UK-based Eutelsat, which is run by Michel de Rosen, a Zionist Israeli-French, stopped carrying Press TV and some 18 other channels from Islamic Republic of Iran.