OIC head urges UN to protect Myanmar’s Muslims

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OIC head urges UN to protect Myanmar’s Muslims

Ihsanoglu called for international action to stop violence on ethnic Rohingya.

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Head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Sunday appealed to the UN Security Council to intervene to protect Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims from ethnic violence.

“Security Council must protect rights and lives of Rohingya Muslims,” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a foreign ministers’ meeting of member countries in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The meeting brings together top diplomats of Turkey, Afghanistan, UAE, Brunei,

Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) is using new tactics to extort money from Rohingya villagers

The voice of Rohingya

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) is using new tactics to extort money from Rohingya villagers in Arakan State, said a local villager (Abdu, not real name). “A group of Nasaka personnel from Shilkhali Nasaka-out-post of Maungdaw south went to Khonza Bill (village) and arrested three villagers over the allegation that they crossed the Burma- Bangladesh border on April 5.”
The arrested were identified as— Habib Ullah (40), son of Mohameddu, Tazumuluk (55), son of Mohamed Amin and Jaker (50), son of Abu Shama. They all belong to Khonza Bill village under Aley Than Kyaw village tract of Maungdaw south.
The Nasaka personnel forcibly entered their houses at night after breaking the doors and arrested. After arrest, they were severely beaten up on the spot. It is the normal action by the Nasaka to show their relatives to get money quickly, said a relative of

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Former military intelligence chief ex-Let. Gen. Ye Myint (now head of the Mandalay Division) threatened and scolded the Muslim leaders

 

“The Muslims in Meikhtila have only themselves to blame for their own death and destruction in Meikhtila”

- former military intelligence chief ex-Let. Gen. Ye Myint (now head of the Mandalay Division)

Two former chiefs of Military Intelligence – Military Affairs Security – ex-Lt General Myint Swe (MAS Chief Oct 2004-June 2006) and Ye Myint (MAS Chief June 2006 – month? 2010) – are handling violence against the Muslims at the moment. Myint Swe is admin head of Rangoon and Ye Myint Mandalay (two strategic cities).

Here it is reported that Ye Myint who has overall jurisdiction over Meikhtila had ordered the security troops in Meikhtila ‘ to not even think about harming the Muslim killers,

Fear stalks Muslims in Myanmar

Fear stalks Muslims in Myanmar

Eyewitnesses to a massacre at an Islamic school say it was carried out by Buddhists, and many contend it stems from a coordinated effort with ties to the top  14 Apr 2013

Mon Hnin, a 29-year-old Muslim woman from Meiktila, in central Myanmar, spent the night of March 20 with her daughter and mother-in-law hiding in terror in the bushes on the fringes of her neighbourhood.

 

KILLING FIELDS: Right, the madrasa where more than 40 Muslims were killed on March 21.

A wave of murderous anti-Muslim riots led by Buddhist extremists had exploded earlier that day in the dusty town with a population of 100,000 people, located 130km north of the capital, Nay Pyi Taw. Like the houses of many other Muslims in the town, the one belonging

KILLING FIELDS: Right, the madrasa where more than 40 Muslims were killed on March 21

April 14, 2013

A local madrasa _ an Islamic school _ where one of the worst episodes of the violence took place. According to several eyewitnesses, that morning a Buddhist mob attacked the school killing at least 30 students and four teachers.

Mon Hnin said she saw about 30 policemen arriving in trucks about 8am. From her vantage point, she saw how the students and teachers of the madrasa gave up to police the weapons

Myanmar after fleeing communal unrest face “imminent danger” from looming monsoon rains, the UN warned

Tens of thousands of #opRohingya Muslims living in squalid, flood-prone camps in western Myanmar after fleeing communal unrest face “imminent danger” from looming monsoon rains, the UN warned on Friday. (AFP)
 
 
Myanmar's displaced Rohingya face rains threat: UN
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