A Muslim Woman Beaten By a Monk in Pa-an

April 28, 2013
M-Media
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M-Media learns that a Muslim woman was beaten by a monk in the town of Pa-an, Karen state, on April 28 morning.

In the morning at 8 AM, Daw Ma Khin (aka) Daw Shakira, age 50, stood aside on the street as she saw the scores of monks walking down for the morning elms. A monk accused her of crossing the street while the monks were marching for elms. Beaten with the bowl carried by the monk, the woman fell to the ground and her head bleed.

People nearby saw the incident, but no one helped her as she was beaten by the monk.

She was taken to the hospital by her daughter awhile later.

Although local authority came to see her, there is no action taken.

The monk responsible for this act is from Thitsa Mandaing monastery.

This is not the first incident of this kind. Last year, an elder Karen Muslim man was beaten by the monks in the morning. He died a few days later.

M-Media learns that there have been no less than 10 incidents of this kind, but no one has been charged.

In Pa-an, Wirathu's 969 sermon was held between April 20 and 22. As usual, his sermon was about anti-Muslim.

Arakan Report Angers Rohingya Leaders

By SIMON ROUGHNEEN / THE IRRAWADDY| Monday, April 29, 2013 | 

 

 Arakan Commission member Aung Naing Oo, of the government-backed Myanmar Peace Center, holds up a copy of the executive summary of the official Arakan investigation commission’s report. (Photo: Simon Roughneen / The Irrawaddy)

 

 

 

RANGOON — Rohingya leaders have reacted angrily to the findings of the official investigation into a wave of brutal violence that hit Arakan State in 2012, slamming the report findings as selective and slanted.

Speaking after members of a commission formed last year to investigate the violence presented a summary of their report today in Rangoon, Myo Thant, a Rohingya representative of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, told The Irrawaddy that the report did not present a completely accurate picture of the Arakan situation.

“This report has some good suggestions, but in ways it is biased and incomplete,” he said.

Commission members, including former political prisoners Ko Ko Gyi and Maung Thura, better known as Zarganar, launched the summary of the commission’s findings today at the Myanmar Peace Center.

The commission recommended that the Burmese government increase security in the troubled western region and said that resettlement of more than 100,000 displaced people should be held off until reconciliation measures are implemented.

Long Standing Residual Cases in Two Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh

U Ne Oo
April 28, 2013

From the latest Human Rights Watch report, it is shocking to find that there are still Rohingya refugees who are from initial 1991 influx, have still been residing at these two refugee camps, i.e. Nayapara and Kutupalong. I have written a note about these two camps in 1997 (http://www.netipr.org/uneoo/rohingyas_resolving_residual_cases). As record stands, in 1997 there were 21,000 Rohingya residents where Burmese IMPD (Immigration and Man Power Department) give clearance to '7500' as of belonging to Burma.

Ghosts of Myanmar's past refuse to be buried

Saturday, April 27, 2013

These past few weeks have been somewhat hectic for the government of Myanmar. First, there was the prestigious peace award given to President Thein Sein by the International Crises Group, recognizing his work toward a peace that can be achieved.

Then came the lifting of all sanctions by the European Union, except for its arms embargo. Afterward the government released 100 prisoners, 56 of whom were said to be political internees. More than 800 political prisoners have been freed in amnesties between May 2011 and last November.

But later the mood among the country's political leaders wasn't so festive, nor among Western countries.

A 153-page report from the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) entitled “All You
Can Do is Pray: Crimes against Humanity in the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma's Arakan State” quickly re-established a sense of reality about Myanmar.

New leaders are emerging on Capitol Hill to draw a line on Congress’s acquiescence to the White House’s rush to lift comprehensive sanctions on Burma.

• Congressmen Trent Franks (R–AZ), Rush Holt (D–NJ), and Trey Gowdy (R–SC) are pressing for strict conditionality on the provision of military assistance to Burma. In a letter to House appropriators, they have requested bill language that would withhold military assistance for Burma unless the Administration certifies that:
  
  The Burmese military is no longer committing “widespread human rights abuses and violations of the laws of war in Burma” and is cooperating with civilian investigations of human rights violations;
  
  “The Government of Burma has amended its constitution and laws to ensure civilian control of the military and implemented reforms to increase the transparency and accountability of the military’s budget and operations, and the Burmese military has taken substantial and meaningful steps to divest itself from ownership of commercial businesses”; and

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ARU APPEALS TO OIC MEMBER STATES TO STEP UP THEIR EFFORTS BY USING BILATERAL RELATIONS FOR FINDING A SOLUTION TO THE CRISIS FACED BY ROHINGYA AND MYANMAR MUSLIMS IN MYANMAR

Thursday, April 18, 2013  Activities, ARU  

ARU Director General, Dr. Wakar Uddin, with Turkish Foreign Minister, Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu, at OIC Ministerial Contact Group Meeting.

RB News

April 17, 2013

On behalf of Rohingya community in Myanmar and various regions around the world, the Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union, Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin, expressed his deepest gratitude to the Secretary General of OIC, His Excellency Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, for convening the emergency OIC Ministerial Contact Group meeting at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 14, 2013, to find a solution to the crisis faced by the Rohingya and Myanmar Muslim population in Myanmar. Dr. Uddin echoed what the Secretary General Dr. Ihsanoglu and the Political Officer Ms. Dina Madani have spoken about

Muslims must be made to feel secure: Suu Kyi

TOKYO: Myanmar’s charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Wednesday that the estrangement of minority Muslims in her country was “a very sad state of affairs” and the community must be made to feel secure.

Sectarian violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar killed 43 people last month. Thousands, mostly Muslims, were driven from their homes and businesses as bloodshed spread across the central region of one of Asia’s most diverse countries.

Suu Kyi, a devout Buddhist, has been mostly reserved in her comments on the violence and the failure of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner to defuse the tension appears to have undermined her image as a unifying moral force.

But in a news conference on a visit to Japan, she said: “I’ve met some Muslim leaders very recently. It is very sad, because none of them has been to any other country apart from Burma (Myanmar). They did not feel that they belonged anywhere and it was sad for them that they were made to feel that they didn’t belong in our country either.

“This is a very sad state of affairs. We must learn to accommodate those with different views from ours.”

She also said the government should review Myanmar’s citizenship laws, although she again failed to directly answer a question on whether she considered the Rohingyas to be citizens.

Around 800,000 Muslim Rohingyas live in Rakhine State in the west but are effectively stateless, denied citizenship both by Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh. Many Burmese consider them to be illegal immigrants.

At least 110 people were killed and 120,000 left homeless, mostly Rohingyas, by sectarian violence in Rakhine State in 2012.

“Every country has the responsibility to consider the possibility that the (citizenship) laws are not in keeping with international standards. And this is what the Burmese government should have the courage to do. To face the issue of citizenship fairly,” Suu Kyi told reporters.

Earlier, addressing students at Tokyo University, Suu Kyi said she was “not a magician” and will not be able to solve long-running ethnic disputes.
“I’ve said that the most important thing is to establish the rule of law…(it) is not just about the judiciary, it’s about the administration, it’s about the government, it’s about our police force, it’s about the training that we give to security forces,” said Suu Kyi.

A Short Historical Background of Arakan: Mohammed Ashraf Alam

Mohammed Ashraf Alam

Introduction
ARAKAN, once a sovereign and independent State, is now one of the states of the Union of Burma. The Arakan State comprises a strip of land along the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal from the Naf River to Cape Negaris and stretches north and south touching Bangladesh on the Northwest. The river Naf separates it from Chittagong region of Bangladesh.1 It is cut off from Burma by a range of near impassable mountains known as Arakan Yomas running north to south, which was an obstacle against permanent Muslim conquest. The northern part of Arakan, today called the “North Arakan,” was point of contact with East Bengal. These geographical facts explain the separate historical development of that area – both generally and in terms of its Muslim population until the Burmese king Bodaw Paya conquered it on 28th December 1784 AD.2 Under different periods of history Arakan had been an independent sovereign monarchy ruled by Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.
The Etymology of Arakan and Rohang
The word Arakan is definitely of Arabic or Persian origin having the same meaning in both these languages. It is the corruption of the word Arkan plural of the word Al-Rukun. There exists some controversy about the origin of the name of ‘Arakan’ on which traditional and legendary sources differ. In fact, the name of Arakan is of much

OIC head urges UN to protect Myanmar’s Muslims

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17:05, 14 April 2013 Sunday

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OIC head urges UN to protect Myanmar’s Muslims

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

World Bulletin / News Desk

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

How to live in rainy season , Nowadays Rohingya Refujee Camp, Arakan, Burma

 

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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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