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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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Bangladeshi expert granted permit to set up first commodity exchange in Myanmar Published : Sunday, 23 June 2013
Raihan M Chowdhury
Myanmar government has invited a Bangladeshi expert to set up the first commodity exchange in Myanmar.
According to a letter, the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration under the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development of the Government of Myanmar has granted a permit to launch Myanmar International Commodity Exchange Limited, an initiative by Bangladeshi expert on capital market Wali-ul-Maroof Matin.
Mr Matin is currently the Managing Director of Dhaka-based Alliance Capital Asset Management Limited. Mr Matin left Dhaka Friday for Myanmar.
Once operational, this would be the first commodity exchange in Myanmar, a resource-rich Southeast Asian country of about fifty five million people and which is preparing to chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2014.Anti-Islam Movement Growing in Myanmar
The New York Times published a rather one-sided article about the growing anti-Islam movement in Myanmar. Muslims are a minority there and the country’s Buddhists monks are voicing a growing concern about the Muslim residents.
‘You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,’ Ashin Wirathu said, referring to Muslims.
‘I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers,’ Ashin Wirathu told a reporter after his two-hour sermon. ‘I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist.”
The Times describes Ashin Wirathu as having a “rock star” following and goes on to describe:
But over the past year, images of rampaging Burmese Buddhists carrying swords and the vituperative sermons of monks like Ashin Wirathu have underlined the rise of extreme Buddhism in Myanmar — and revealed a darker side of the country’s greater freedoms after decades of military rule. Buddhist lynch mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes.ILO lifts remaining restrictions on Myanmar
102nd International Labour Conference
The restrictions were related to the country’s non compliance of the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29).
Press release | 18 June 2013
GENEVA – In a historic move, delegates attending the International Labour Conference (ILC) have voted to lift all remaining ILO restrictions on Myanmar.
The remaining restrictions, imposed by the Conference in 2000, included the need to discuss Myanmar’s application of the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29) at special sittings of the ILC, and a recommendation to ILO constituents to review their relations with the country.
The ILC had already suspended some restrictions on Myanmar when it met last June.Rohingya: Security as ‘Self-Defense’
Mohamed Ibrahim for Salem-News.com
It is time for Rohingya Muslims, abandoned by their government, slaughtered by Buddhist nationalists, to take up arms and fight back.
(BERLIN Mayu Press) – For many decades, Rohingya Muslims have been persecuted in Burma, continuously, but the world is ignorantly silent with no answers for the Rohingya’s plight or crisis.
The international media groups highlighted the suffering of the Rohingyas, who are experiencing what can only be described as genocide. The perpetual atrocities carried out by the Burmese chauvinist government, terrorizing local police and mobs belonging to Buddhist nationalists in NW Arakan state made unambiguous attempts to eradicate all Rohingyas from the country.Rakhine sectarian violence – one year on
SITTWE, 13 June 2013 (IRIN) – One year after Myanmar’s worst sectarian violence in decades, tension between the Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in the country’s western Rakhine State remains high.
An estimated 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), mainly Rohingya Muslims, are spread across some 80 camps and makeshift sites, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Many more who were not directly affected by the violence have lost their livelihoods as a result of movement restrictions imposed by the authorities.
IRIN visited the Rakhine State capital, Sittwe, scene of much of the violence, to ask members of both communities about the prospects for peace and reconciliation.Limited health options for Myanmar’s Rohingya IDPs
SITTWE, 31 May 2013 (IRIN) – Aid workers are calling for better health access for an estimated 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, most of them Rohingya Muslims.
Although a number of NGOs and government mobile clinics are providing basic health services inside the roughly 80 camps and settlements, they are limited, and emergency health referrals remain a serious concern, they say.
According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), conditions inside the camps, combined with the segregation of ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya and ongoing movement restrictions, are having a severe impact on health care.Nurul Islam President of ARNO with RVision
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Joint Statement on the Official Report of the Rakhine (Arakan) Investigation Commission
Date: May 4, 2013
We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows:
- The Rakhine Investigation Commission formed on 17 August 2012 by President Thein Sein included representatives from various religious and political parties and democracy groups except Rohingya representatives, who have been actual and potential victims of deadly violence and genocidal attacks. Haji U Nyunt Maung Shein and U Tin Maung Than, the two prominent Muslim leaders were purged from the Commission seeing that they were most insistent on the truth.
Press Release: Rebuttal to Eleven Media false report
Date: May 6, 2013
Our attention has been drawn to the news item appeared in Eleven Media, Yangon, dated 05/05/2013 under caption, “ Three Rohingya organizations are reportedly masterminding a religious war against Myanmar” accusing that “Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), and Rohingya National Security Council (RNSC) are reportedly supporting and manipulating the plot. Their members have already collected weapons for the war. The Muslim living in Myanmar, especially hardcore members are campaigning for enlisting for their conspiracy……”
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Burma: State of fear
Evan Williams (Frontline/ world reporter)
It's nighttime and FRONTLINE/World reporter Evan Williams is on a tense drive along the Thai/Burma border with members of the Karen National Union guerrilla army. The guerilla group has offered to take Williams into Burma, where they are working with a humanitarian group called the Free Burma Rangers to dispense aid. Several hundred thousand displaced people from Burma are hiding out in the jungle, driven from their villages by the country's brutal military regime.
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