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In This Issue:
- Editorial: Myanmar’s Federal Vision Hinges on Rohingya Inclusion
- Myanmar’s Draft Law and Women Under Arms
- Independence Promises and the Systematic Stripping of Minority Rights in Myanmar
- The Arakan Army’s Divide-and-Rule Tactics Against the Rohingya
- Rohingya Security and Peace in Rakhine
- IIMM Shares Evidence of Crimes Against Rohingya with International Courts
- Dhaka Declaration: Rohingya Speak with One Voice
- A Mosque Reopens in Maungdaw but What Does It Really Mean?
- Rohingya Women are Forced into Arakan Army Ranks
- On the 8th Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide the Crisis Continues, the World Must Act
- ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
- Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
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CSW visits Bangladesh-Burma border,
Interviews Rohingya refugees, saffron revolution monks and SPDC defectors. 09/09/2008Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) returned this week from a fact-finding visit to the Bangladesh-Burma border and is now calling on the international community to intensify...
Press Release:Statement of ARNO on the report of CSW: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border
September 29 2008
We express our full support to the report of Christian Solidarity World Wide, Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border, released on 9 September 2008. This report is based on first hand information on the plight of the Rohingya people in Burma. It substantiates the fact that the Rohingya are living in a hostile environment in their ancestral homeland of Arakan. As the report says “it is first-hand account of the oppression of Muslim Rohingya people in Burma, including denial of full citizenship rights, severe restrictions on freedom of movement, marriage and religion, forced labour, rape, land confiscation, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings and extortion on a daily basis.”
UN rights expert wraps up visit to Myanmar
7 August 2008 –The independent United Nations expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has wrapped up a four-day visit to the South-East Asian nation, his first since taking up the post in May.
Special Rapporteur Tomás Ojea Quintana, who was appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, had constructive meetings with the Government, including with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Home Affairs, according to a news release issued today in Yangon.
Increase of Beggars in Arakan
8/6/2008
Sittwe: As rice and other commodities have jumped in price in Arakan recently, the number of people begging for food has also increased in Sittwe and other areas of the state.
A witness from Sittwe said, "Most beggars are old women and children, and they are roaming from one house to another to ask for leftover rice."
In Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, most ordinary people, including day laborers, have been facing hunger recently as rice prices are increasing by the day. This trouble is made worse by the fact that most day laborers are unable to find work and have no income.
"I have never seen so many beggars on the streets of Sittwe before, but now everywhere we can see the beggars with ruined plates asked for leftover food," the witness said.
A housewife from Sittwe said, "Some Muslim women near my ward are going outside their homes to look for work because they are facing hunger. Some Muslim women have asked to serve as housemaids in my home."
At the same time that food prices are increasing, the unemployment rate is increasing in Sittwe. The number of people working as rickshaw pullers to earn money has also increased in the city.
According to a local source, the number of rickshaws and other vehicles for hire in Sittwe is far greater than the number of actual travelers.
The witness said, "You can see many rickshaw pullers at the Sittwe inland water jetty when the Buthidaung-Sittwe ferry ship harbors there in the evenings. There are only around 100 passengers on the ferry, but there are over 200 rickshaw pullers looking for customers."
The competition has led to incidents of rickshaw pullers assaulting each other in their effort to win customers coming off the ferry ships harbored at the jetty.
0HH to help starving Arakan refugees
Turkey’s Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH) has started an aid campaign for refugees in the Teknaf area of Bangladesh who have fled the oppression of Myanmar’s generals.“We have started a humanitarian aid campaign to help Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh,” announced İHH President Bülent Yıldırım in a statement made yesterday.
Press Release: Statement of ARNO on 8888
8th August 2008
Twenty years ago, on this day of 8th August 1988, millions of Burmese people took to the streets across the country demanding an end to long military rule, restoration of democracy and human rights in Burma. But the military started brutal crackdowns and killed an estimated 3000 peaceful demonstrators nationwide. Till today there has been no independent investigation conducted against the military for these brutal acts.
Myanmar Muslims stay put despite Bangladesh misery
TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AFP) — Shansida Begum finally has a home with four relatively sturdy walls and a roof to keep out southern Bangladesh's heavy monsoon rains.
The bamboo hut is nothing fancy, but it's a world of comfort compared to the flimsy makeshift shelter she and her family have called home for the past 10 years.
One of about 12,000 Burmese Muslims living in an unofficial camp in southern Bangladesh, Shansida says she barely remembers life in the country of her birth.
Her family, ethnic Rohingyas, fled Rakhine state across the border i
Individual ID Cards To Improve Conditions For Bangladesh Refugees
New York, NY (AHN) – New individual identification cards will improve conditions for 22,500 refugees in Bangladesh, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday.
"With these cards, refugees will be able to identify themselves as people legally permitted to reside in Bangladesh if they meet law enforcement officials," Pia Prytz Phiri, country representative for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said, stressing that the cards are recognized as valid identity documents by the government of Bangladesh.
MESSAGE OF FELICITATIONS TO FIRST INTERNATIONAL BURMESE MUSLIM CONFERENCE
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