UN assembly concerned about Kachin conflict and Rohingya

UN assembly concerned about Kachin conflict and Rohingya

A resolution passed on Monday by the 193 member third committee of the United Nations General Assembly reiterated the International community's growing concern about human rights abuses in Kachin and Arakan (Rakhine) state.

Rohingya Americans Praise Obama’s Speech

BURMA

By LALIT K JHA / THE IRRAWADDY|

US President Barack Obama gives a speech at historic Rangoon 

University on Monday. (Photo: The Irrawaddy)

WASHINGTON—The Rohingya community in the United States on Monday welcomed US President Barack Obama’s speech in Rangoon and, along with other Burmese communities and rights bodies, urged him not to ignore human rights issues in the country.

Rakhines again set on fire Rohingya village in Maungdaw south

Maungdaw, Arakan state:  A group of Rakhines from Kanbay Natala –news shelter villager- together with Burmese border security force (Nasaka) are setting on fire to Horsara under Zaw Matet village tract – a   Rohingya village, today, according to a village elder.

“The Horsara village is situated near the Maungdaw- Aley Than Kyaw highway and beside a new shelter village (natala) and Nasaka outpost under Nasaka area number 7. The Nasaka always harass the Rohingya villagers and the travelers on this road. With them, the new shelter also giving trouble to Rohingya community who pass this point.”

Burma: Satellite Images Show Widespread Attacks on Rohingya

Obama Should Press Thein Sein to End Sectarian Violence

November 17, 2012

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  Town of Pauktaw, Pauktaw Township, on 8 November 2012: Post-attack overview of the two zones of building destruction. .
  Damage Analysis: Human Rights Watch; Satellite Sensor: Pléiades-1; Image © ASTRIUM 2012; Source: SpotImage

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Damage analysis, Pauktaw Township

Damage analysis, Yan Thei, Mrauk-U Township

Damage analysis, Myebon Township

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“The Government Could Have Stopped This”

NaSaKa Tortured Rohingya Family to Sign as Bangali on Forms in Pauk Taw Tsp

         Myanmar government organized a commission which includes Immigration, Nasaka(Boarder Security Force), Military, etc to investigate Rohingyas if they are citizens of Myanmar according to the 1982 citizenship law or not. They are using three questioning forms (papers).

           According to a local Rohingya from Pauk Taw, on 10^th of Nov 2012, the commission went to the house of Soyod Hussein @ Dudu Meya s/o Abdu Sothor in Anauk Yway @ Aanu Raing village tract, Pauk Taw town ship and forcibly asked Soyod Hussein and his son Emam Hussein to sign on the form (mentioning their ethnicity and religion as Begali and Islam).

 The Rohingyas denied to sign saying “we are not Begali, we are Rohingyas”. Then they were seriously beaten, at the end they were made to sign on the forms by torturing.


Source: Here

BROUK Speaks at British Parliament Press Conference

Tun Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, spoke today at a press conference held in British Parliament on the Rohingya crisis. The press conference was organized by Rushanara Ali MP, Labour shadow minister for International Development. The main speakers at the press conference are Rushanara Ali MP Jonathan Ashworth MP, Baroness Kinnock Chairman of All Party Parliamentary Group Democracy for Burma, Sadiq Khan Shadow Justice Secretary, Baroness Uddin from House of Lords, Tun Khin President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Mark Farmaner from Burma Campaign UK. At the Press conference MP’s office staffs, NGOs, Foreign Common Wealth Office staff and Medias were attended.

Foreign aid workers burned by Myanmar’s ethnic fires

Angry anti-Muslim factions threaten United Nations, Doctors Without Borders.

Patrick WinnNovember 12, 2012 06:21

 

Satellite imagery published by Human Rights Watch in October shows the devastation of an arson spree in Kyauk Pyu, one of several areas afflicted by ethnic violence between the Muslim Rohingya and local Buddhists in Myanmar's coastal Rakhine State. According to the UN, roughly 28,000 people, most of them Rohingya, have been displaced into fields and temporary camps. (Human Rights Watch/Courtesy)

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