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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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Government wrong to turn away Rohingya refugees
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It is tragedy that the Government has turned away 40 people who were picked up by a ship off the coast of Myanmar who, from media reports, are Muslim Rohingya. They were seeking refuge in Singapore.
These persons, many of them women and children, are fleeing persecution from the authorities in their own country which observers warn could lead to a genocide campaign.
BANGLADESH: NGO ban hurting undocumented Rohingya
COX’S BAZAR, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) – Some 40,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees are being adversely affected by a government ban four months ago on NGOs working at two makeshift sites in southeastern Bangladesh. “If we get some rice, we eat. Otherwise, we don’t eat,” Anowara Begum, an undocumented Rohingya refugee and 40-year-old mother-of-four at the Leda makeshift camp outside Nayapara, one of two makeshift sites outside two official government camps for Rohingya refugees told IRIN. “Since the NGOs stopped coming our kids don’t get medicine. They don’t get treated for what they need.
Dire condition of Rohingya camps, need to improve: Valerie Amos
Valerie Amos, the co-coordinator for United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, told the UN News Centre that conditions for thousands of displaced Rohingya IDPs camps in western Burma are “dire” and called on the government to do something about it. Amos released a statement after visiting camps in Arakan State on Dec.5.
PETITION: Rohingya Muslims: murdered, starved, silenced
Days ago, 7 year-old Fatimah died of dehydration, cast out and neglected by her home country of Burma because she is a Muslim. And she’s not alone — thousands of Rohingya Muslims are starving to death or even murdered because of their religion and ethnicity. But we can force Burma’s President to save the Rohingya.
ROHINGYA in Arakan, Burma, Ethnic cleansing in Burma, By Channel 4 Investigates
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Burma’s displaced Rohingya suffer as aid blocked
By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Rakhine state, Burma
Six months of sectarian violence has driven more than 100,000 people from their homes in western Burma.
Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim communities that have lived separately for generations are now forcibly segregated.
Barriers have been erected across roads in the state capital and thousands of Rakhine have had their homes destroyed.
But its the Rohingya who endure the worst conditions. Rejected as citizens by both Bangladesh and Burma, they continue to be victimised in the camps where they sought shelter.
Myanmar: Rohingya in Burma: Spotlight on Current Crisis Offers Opportunity for Progress
Source: Refugees International
Country: Myanmar
Despite an abundance of natural resources, Rakhine State is the second-poorest state in Burma. The simmering tension that exists between the Rakhine and stateless Rohingya communities has been stoked by poverty for decades. However, in June 2012 that tension boiled over. What began as inter-communal violence was followed by a wave of state-sponsored persecution of the Rohingya, along with a refusal to allow humanitarian agencies access to the northern part of the state, where the majority of Rohingya live. In October, Rohingya and other Muslim communities were attacked again, resulting in the destruction of thousands of houses, the displacement of tens of thousands of people, and an unknown number of deaths. In the state capital, Sittwe, tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya are now living in segregated, squalid camps outside of town and cut off from their livelihoods. The conflict has brought much-deserved international attention to the long-neglected situation of Burma’s Rohingya. The fact that it is taking place during a period of dramatic change in the country’s governance presents the world with a chance to finally put an end to discrimination against the Rohingya and restore their citizenship.
The Rohingya suffer Ethiopian-like starvation
Burma (MNN) ― It’s a situation that is being ignored by the international media and governments around the world.
According to a team member with Partners Relief & Development (PRAD), sectarian violence broke out in Arakan State, Western Burma in May 2012 between the Buddhist Rakhine people and the predominately-Muslim Rohingya.
Burma’s Displaced Rohingya Muslims Suffer As Aid Blocked
Jakarta, 1 Shafar 1434/14 December 2012 (MINA) – Six months of sectarian violence has driven more than 100,000 people from their homes in western Burma, said BBC News Asia in a byline story by Jonah Fisher received by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) here, Friday.
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