Ethnic Rohingya Committee of Malaysia

Source Phuketwan, 29 October. PHUKET:   A boatload of about 100 Rohingya men and boys was intercepted off the coast of Thailand yesterday, a senior Thai Navy source confirmed today. A regular patrol came alongside the vessel about nine miles north of the Thai island of Surin about 5pm yesterday,  Phuketwan  was told.    ''Those on board were given food and water and medical assistance,'' the source said, ''as human rights require.'' Thailand's ''help on'' policy was introduced to replace the ''pushbacks'' campaign, introduced in secrecy, which led to the deaths of hundreds of boatpeople in the sailing season of 2008-2009. Under the ''help on'' policy, the Thai Navy and onshore paramilitary volunteers intercept the Rohingya boats in open waters to provide passengers with food, water, medical assistance and mechanic help if required. But they will not allow the boats to land in Thailand.  With the

  Source   Presstv,   28 Oct     Here we have an entire community being wiped out, a genocide, a holocaust is taking place and people are still making simple statements." Adnan Rashid, a historian and Islamic Studies expert Related Interviews: 'West blind to Myanmar killings' Myanmar supports Muslim massacre Related Viewpoints: Rohingya Muslim community bleeds on The Western mainstream media have imposed a news blackout on the systematic "genocide" of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, an expert tells   Press TV . "It appears that the Western media and the Western governments have turned a blind eye to the plight of the Muslims in Burma," said Adnan Rashid, a historian and Islamic Studies expert, in an exclusive interview with Press TV.   "It was clearly seen that the mainstream media machines in the West failed to address this issue satisfactorily in the month of June when all this violence started

Source Independent, 28 Oct     Refugees accuse Burma's civilian government of standing by as dozens die in communal violence     When the fire truck arrived at his burning village in Burma's western Rakhine state late last Monday, local teacher Khin Maung Kyi thought help had finally come. Muslim villagers in Kyauk Pyu township had been battling the blaze for hours, after a petrol bomb attack by their Buddhist neighbours. But instead of dousing the flames with water, Khin Maung Kyi claims that the firemen sprayed the fire with petrol. "The firemen threw petrol on the flames, as if it was water! The authorities are one-sided. We can never trust them,"   he said. Last Wednesday, the entire Muslim community in Kyauk Pyu decided to flee in their fishing boats, joining thousands of others trying to escape a new outbreak of communal violence between the majority Buddhist Rakhine population and the Muslim Rohingya. "The first sign of trouble was whe

  By ERCA. According to Mr Rofiq, member of ERCA, Rakhine gangs began attackings of Lasaungkok (Barua Fara) and Auk Paiketay (Fishing village @ Fauktoli ) villages from today early morning 6:00am. In the attacks: 1) 14 houses burnt down and at least 2 Rohingyas involving a relative of Mr. Rofiq were died from Lasaungkok (Barua Fara) village ; and 2) 8 houses including two houses of Mr. Rogfiq's family members and 20 people wounded from Auk Paiketay (Fishing village @ Fauktoli) village. From afternoon 15:00pm, the gangs moved to the Radanapon (Nairaung) village and began attacking of the Rohingya villagers. Rohingya houses are still seen burning and most of the villagers are gone to hiding. Phone lines are cut off by the local authority thus no detail has been escalated. Another attack informed lately from Taungbwe (Mura Fara) village of Kyauktaw town took place from 15:00pm that caused 80 Rohingya houses burnt down, 2 Rohingyas and 15 Rakhine di

  Source Washinton post, 24 Oct By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins In this photo taken on Sept. 8, 2012, Muslims gather during a visit by a delegation of American diplomats including U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, unseen, at a refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Three-and-a-half months after some of the bloodiest clashes in a generation between Myanmar’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslims known as Rohingya left the western town of Sittwe in flames, nobody is quite sure when -or even if- the Rohingya will be allowed to resume the lives they once lived here. (AP) She came, she saw, she conquered. The photograph of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi standing proudly with America’s smiling political elite at her Congressional Gold Medal ceremony last month in Washington, D.C., provides a powerful image of this heroine of democracy. She has justifiably caught the world’s attention and earned its love. Arizon

Press Release MAPIM 24 th   October 2012   MAPIM URGENT CALL : FRESH     MASSACRE OF ROHINGYA -     ACT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE The Malaysia Consultative Council Od Islamic NGOs ( MAPIM)     call on all international agencies to immediately take action on the current deteriorating situation in Arakan , Myanmar .   With the recent killings ,and torching of thousand of houses and heinous fresh attacks continuing in all over Arakan , the international agencies have no option but to deploy troops to contain the attacks without delay. It is very clear that the ethnic cleansing program is in full gear . The Myanmar government is executing the planned extinction of the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan to the fullest when the world was deceived by the promise made by Presiden Thein Sein who spoke of his commitment to resolve the issue in the last UN General Assembly.   Reports of     fresh  heinous attacks with collaboration of local security police forces are continuously directed  

  By   NDPHR(exile), Fishing village   of   Kyaukpyu town   has been attacked by thousands of Rakhine terrorists. Houses are still burning from 21:00pm (local time).   Rakhine people are armed with guns, arrows and long knives and heavily attackings over the villagers. The villagers confirmed that the fire-bridge-car which expected to extinguished the fire poured patrols instead of waters therefore almost the whole village is burning.   The villagers those fled from villages were also shot dead by security forces while Rakhine people   follow up to the jungle to slaughter escapee villager muslims. The sources say the death toll could be more than 100. The villagers of   Kyauknimaw   village of   Rambre town   are also very much worry because communication lost with their families and villagers.   Rakhine RNDP party backed by the government have well planned to eliminate all remaining Rohingya, Kaman and Rakhine muslims all over Arakan state therefore the local forces

Source NDPHR(exile),  Rohingya, Kaman and Rakhine muslim houses in   Parein   village of   Mrauk U town   and   Paiketay Rwa (Fishing   village ), Tharak Rwa of Pann Mraung   village, Sudaine Rwa   village of   Minbya town , have been heavily attack from yesterday evening.   1) Parein   village consisting all more than 500 houses, has been set fire from today morning 4:00am and all have been burnt down; 2) Paiketay Rwa (Fishing   village )   consisting about 300 houses, was torched yesterday evening 22:30pm and about 50 houses were burnt down. 3) Tharak Rwa of Pann Mraung   village consisting about 190 houses within Rakhine dominated area, was   attacked from 7:00am today morning and all have been  burnt down; and 4)   Sudaine Rwa   village was also set fire today around 15:00pm today but how many houses burnt down was not yet known. Around ten thousands Rakhines involved in the attacked some of them used arrows and gun. The military guards did not stop Rakhine attackin

 Source, english.ruvr , 18 Oct   Myanmar military delegates attend a parliament session in Naypyidaw on October 18, 2012. Parliament resumed on October 18 with a session scheduled to focus on a stalled foreign investment law. Photo: AFP As reported by London's The Guardian , a delegation of more than 20 senior US defense officials has arrived in Myanmar (or, as it is still called in British and American media, Burma) to meet senior government ministers and members of the military, marking Washington's strongest overtures to the Myanman army in nearly a quarter of a century. The weird thing in the report is that the US military delegation headed by, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and South East Asia Vikram Singh, and head of the US army's Pacific command Lieutenant General Francis Wiercinski are taking part in the first US-Burma Human Rights Dialogue. Even before the US delegation left for Myanmar, the Defense Department spoke

    By  NDPHR(exile), Friday, 19 October 2012 On the Wednesday morning of 17 Oct, the Rohingya villagers of Anauk Pran (Anakpran), Rathedaung township were invited to the Town Peace and Development Council-TPDC office for food distribution that was came after the British Ambassador Andrew Heyn who is the first diplomat visited this region. On their arrival at the office, all of the villagers involving women and children were humiliated and beaten-up. 11 of them were harshly wounded and all of them were finally drove away from the office except some women and girls have been selectively kept in the office and taken to authorities' homes. They still face molestation plus sexual abuses by authorities. Buddhist monks hold a banner as they protest against the opening of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) offices in Myanmar, in front of the city hall in Yangon. -Reuters Photo  Moreover, the Rakhines and its monks have begun aggressively blocking an

RISE IN EXTREMISM AND THE CURRENT CRISIS IN ARAKAN Zaw Lwin  Oo  narrates the following about rise in extremism and current crisis in Arakan. He continues " Awakyunetha  is a name given by original Rakhine natives to those Rakhine who entered after 1974 when Rakhine was promoted Rakhine State. Their first leaders are Dr. Aye Chan, Dr. Aye Kyaw , Dr. Aye Muang and Ashin Nayaka. Those leaders trained a lot of students all over the world according to their mission. Their mission is clearly mentioned in their WebPages;  Arakan Army, Rakhapura Media Group, Narinjara, Arakan Media Group, Eleven Media Group, and Rakhine Bloggers . There is also Rakhine Myoromaha Web Page which means the best human race. They call Arakan Father Arakan like German Aryan, not like Rohingya; Rohingya call Mother Arakan. "Awakyunetha succeed to unify all Rakhine Buddhist including Marama because of their religion, Buddhism. They have their own authority, own police, Arakan Liberation Army, and t

Arakan's Buthidaung Jail Becomes Secret Rohingya Killing Center Note:  All reports have still poor calculation! Let say only about Sittwe town where about 90,000 displaced. Were they lived 22 persons per house as every report mentioned about 4,000 houses burnt down there? And how about 50,000 other displaced in 7 different towns- Maungdaw, Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Pauktaw, Rambre, Myebon and Ponnagyuan and how many thousand houses were destructed in these regions? Source  Salam news , 16 Oct Visit of International and Myanmar Investigation teams to this jail is a clarion call of Muslim Rohingyas. Buthidaung jail in Sittwe (DHAKA, Bangladesh) - (Editor's note: I just wrote a brand new piece last night about the recovery of the body of a police jail torture victim:  Tortured to Death  in Burma - Extremely Graphic! . Needless to say, there appears to be a strong relationship in this new article by Nurul Islam) The death of a Buddhist woman, Ma Thida Twe, T

Myanmar blocks OIC office after rallies: Racist democratic desire Note: It is very funny and tactical of how the racist democratic desire that would not even solve the current crises of Arakan. Source Bangkok post, 15 Oct Myanmar's president blocked a world Islamic body from opening an office in the country, an official said Monday, bowing to rallies against government efforts to help Muslims in unrest-hit Rakhine state. Myanmar Buddhist monks hold a banner as they take part in a demonstration in Yangon, against the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. Myanmar's president blocked a world Islamic body from opening an office in the country, an official said Monday, bowing to rallies against government efforts to help Muslims in unrest-hit Rakhine state. "The president will not allow an OIC office because it is not in accordance with the people's desires," said an official from Myanmar leader Thein Sein's office, after thousands of monks held