Ethnic Rohingya Committee of Malaysia

UNITED NATIONS —  UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Saturday that Muslim-Buddhist unrest in  Myanmar 's Rakhine state could hit the country's landmark reforms and spill across borders, a UN spokesman said. Muslim leaders have made prominent calls at the UN General Assembly for action over the deadly unrest which Ban raised in talks with Myanmar's President  Thein Sein  and the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Thein Sein, who has embarked on fast-paced reforms in Myanmar, promised Ban he would tackle fallout from the unrest, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. But Ban later told Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the 57-nation OIC, the Rakhine troubles must be "treated carefully because of the potential wider implications of the Rakhine issue on the overall reform process in Myanmar as well as on other countries." Fighting between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine erupted in June. According to an official toll, about 90 peo...

Source form Sittwe ERCA.  Just what is it that forces human beings to behave like the most savage beasts? Here are a couple of insights I am gleaning from my work. First, when committing war crimes, be sure to do a really thorough job of destroying the person or people you attack. Make their final appearance 'unacceptable' to the photo editors and then  your murders of civilian innocents will never be seen by anyone! For example, I have photos from the Sri Lanka government Genocide against Tamils in 2009 where part of a fetus is sticking out of the slain mother's belly. It is just too grotesque to use, so the public never sees it because even hardened human rights and war reporters like myself are too squeamish to do so. War Crime lesson 2... when your vaunted political heroes show us they are not who you thought they were, give them a big award for doing nothing, such as Barack Obama who stated he would close Guantanamo Bay and instead failed to keep his word ...

Source  ERCA The Rakhines about 3,000 with long swords, knives, and catapults and involving hundreds of monks from the front surrounded the  Aungmingala (Mole Fara)  Quarter until additional 400 military forces deployed there. According to internal sources, Rakhines are frustrated with the government for not fulfilling their 18 demands made in Mayu Conference  held in Rathedaung town on 25-26 Sept. The demands include to remove the muslim villages along the main communication streams in the Rakhine state that requires the removal of the surrounding muslim villages beside the both Sittwe Universities. However, gathering of such large number of Rakhines was with false incitement by Rakhine leaders that one of the Rakhine boy (Aung Naing Oo) missing was killed in Rohingya village etc.. (Photo sent by Thuya) In Maungdaw, several villages- Mraung Fara near  Kiladaung, Quarter 3, Quarter 4, Quarter 5, Dil Para  and  Hawabil were surr...

26 Sept, Source  Malaymail Sinar Bima carrying 500 tonnes of relief items for victims of Myanmar conflict by Azril Annuar Location:  KLANG HIGH SEAS: The Sinar Bima, with the Jalur Gemilang on its bow, leaving Port Klang for Myanmar after it was flagged off by Muhyiddin yesterday - Pic: ASHRAF SHAMSUL AZLAN KELAB  Putera 1Malaysia's humanitarian aid trip to Rakhine, Myanmar, was finally flagged off when the cargo vessel Sinar Bima left Port Klang's North Port yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin flagged off the vessel at 10.50am. It carried 500 tonnes of food, medical supplies, medication and other relief items in 40 containers. Muhyiddin said that as an Asean member, Malaysia has a commitment to assist its neighbours involved in any conflict. "This humanitarian trip will assist everyone regardless of whether they are Muslims or Buddhists. It's a honourable mission and it's not an easy task," he said. ...

Source  Gulf Times , Foreign Minister  Dr Dipu Moni has urged the member-states of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to contribute to addressing of the root causes of the Rohingya problem. She urged the OIC to help in the rehabilitation of the internally displaced Rohingya popupation and reconciliation between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the North Rakhine State of Myanmar. She was speaking at the first meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Rohingya Muslim Minority held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Wednesday on the sideline of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, a foreign ministry official in Dhaka said yesterday. She said that Bangladesh has been extremely sensitive and supportive to Myanmar’s Muslims from North Rakhine State. In strict compliance with the principle of non-refoulement, Bangladesh has been hosting hundreds of thousand of Rohingya refugees on Bangladesh soil, in co-operation with UNHCR, the offi...

source  Gulf Times , 23 Sept QRC  representatives extending support to the displaced Rohingya Muslims   An emergency response team from the Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has reached the Rohingya camps established by the Government of Myanmar near Sittwe, the city where violence broke out between Alrakain Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim groups in June.  The violence has resulted in more than 300 people being killed, over 3,000 homes burned and 70,000 people displaced and scattered in dozens of camps in several villages in Rakhine province, according to reports by the United Nations.  Other human rights organisations suggest that the number of refugees might be bigger, though it is hard to find out the exact number of displaced people due to the absence of a recording system and the restrictions imposed by the local authorities in the province. QRC’s emergency response team has identified immediate humanitarian needs in the camps. Initial information indica...

Source  Khaleej times , 26 Sept UAE  Foreign Minister  Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan has held meetings with Singaporean Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Muliana Natalegawa Panamanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Henriquez and Myanmarese Foreign Minister Wunna Muang Lwin on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly session in New York. The meetings discussed relations of cooperation and ways of enhancing them in various fields in addition to exchanging views on a number of political and security issues of common interest, particularly relating to the Middle East, including the Syrian crisis. Shaikh Abdullah  at a meeting with Myanmarese Foreign Minister Wunna Muang Lwinon on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York. — Wam The Myanmar FM briefed Shaikh Abdullah on the latest security situation in his country especially on the violence against Muslims in Rohingya stressing that ...

FINDING RESOLUTION: Conference seeks solutions rather than to apportion blame, says Global Peace Foundation president Perdana Global Peace Foundation president Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad giving a keynote address at the International Conference ‘Plight of the Rohingya: Solution?’ international conference in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Pic by Mustaffa Kamal KUALA LUMPUR: THE violence and conflict surrounding the Rohingya community can only be resolved when the Myanmar government recognises the group as citizens, Tun Dr Mahathir  Mohamad said.  The former prime minister said yesterday the country's inability to accept the Rohingya as an indigenous group had led to years of discrimination, oppression and sectarian clashes, most recently seen in this year's ongoing riots between the predominantly Muslim ethnic minority and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. "When one group is denied their rights, there will be clashes, there will be oppression. "It is very unfortunate tha...

September  17,  kaladanpress Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burma border security force( Nasaka) personnel from three miles checked post have been harassing Rohingyas’ vehciles driver and Rohingya travelers , according to an elder from Maungdaw.   “ The Nasaka from checked post have been asking the drivers to bring their ID ( White card) to go to the Buthidaung with passangers ( Rohingyas). The drivers have to bring back the ID card from their home. It need them to return back to Maungdaw and go again with ID to go with vehciles to Buthidaung.” “It is only need the Rohingya drivers , not for Rakhine drivers .” The system which the three miles checked post is using not to travel with Rohingyas owned vehciles. Today, the three miles checked allowed only eight Rohingya vehciles to go Biuthidaung, saida driver from Maungdaw.   “Most of Rohingyas are using Rohingyas’ owned vehciles and the Rakhines vehciles are not getting passengers for their v...

Source New Straits Times, Sep 17 PUTRAJAYA - THE  Burmese Rohingya  Association in Thailand (BRAT) wants the international court to take action against those who have persecuted, raped and killed its people in  Myanmar . Its president, Maung Kyaw Nu, will also call for the setting up of an inquiry by the international media to look into the number of victims in the latest flare up between the ethnic minority and the state, as well as a plea for the United Nations to lend a hand at the Plight of Rohingya Solution Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur today. The conference is organised by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation. "We are here together to seek justice, to find the killers and haul them to the international court. This is the only solution. Punishing the wrongdoers with the law," he said at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday. The one-day conference, to be held at the Islamic Arts Museum, will also feature speakers such as the Palestine ...

Source  Kaladan Press , 15 Sept Maungdaw, Arakan State :  After ex-Western Command Commander Major General Maung Oo’s visit to the north Arakan, the persecutions are increased against the Rohingya community in Maungdaw Township, said a local trader on condition of anonymity. “General Maung Oo is also the present USDP secretary of Arakan State and accompanied by upper house Parliament member U Aung Zaw Win of Maungdaw constituency, U Shwe Maung, the upper house parliament member of Buthidaung constituency and others parliament members from Rangoon visited to the northern Arakan (Maungdaw) on September 12. After their departure, the security forces such as— Nasaka, police, Hluntin and army increased arresting the Rohingya people with false and fabricated cases against the Rohingya people, tortured and some were released after taking money.” The followings are some of the arrestees identified as —-Mohamed Alam (35), son of Shaffi Rahaman, hailed from Mangala ( Tharat Oo) ...

September 10,  Roghingyablogger BURMA  TASK FORCE-USA (NEW YORK CHAPTER) SPEARHEADS RALLY IN NEW YORK CITY; BRANA AND SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS SPEAKS AT THE RALLY Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin, Chairman of the Burmese Rohingya Association of North America and the Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union addresses before the rally organized by the Burma Task Force-USA (New York). On the Right: Dr. Shaikh Obaid of the Burma Task Force-USA (New York).   A large really in support of Rohingya political and human rights in Burma/Myanmar, took place in front of the United Nations building in New York City on September 8, 2012. The event was organized by the New York chapter of the Burma Task Force, in coordination with its members, the Burmese Rohingya Association of North America (BRANA) and Free Rohingya Campaign based in New York City. The major driving forces behind the rally in the organization by the Burma Task Force (NY) were Islamic Circle of North Am...

Source from  NDPHR(exile) , Sittwe town Former political prisoner lawyer Kyaw Hla Aung (senior staff of MSF), is gone into hiding after the town chief police followed by dozens troops came to hunt in  Thakkaybyin (Sakki fara)  village, for his speaking with recently visited U.S. Envoy Mr. Derek Mitchell with others on 9 Spet 2012. {The old man (center) beside the U.S. Envoy Mr.Derek Mitchell is Kyaw Hla Aung who was released after two months placed into hidden by police} The source also told that a number of the Rakhine photographers took pictures of Rohingyas who met with foreign delegates and soon after police authority follow to hunt those Rohingyas.. Yangon based anti-Rohingya organization call Myanmar Resources Foundation(MRF) guided by military generals, came to organized muslim community in Sittwe on 9 Sept 2012 and invited meeting with graduate Rohingya youths at  Aungmingala (Mole fara)  village secretary's home. In the meetin...

Burmese gov’t should eliminate discrimination: British MPs source from mizzima news 13 sep. British MPs this week said the situation in Rakhine State in Burma is an issue of human rights, justice and desperate humanitarian need, and called for the British government to respond. Speakers said that reports indicated that some members of the Burmese security services have been directly engaged in violence towards the Rohingya, with allegations of mass killings, mass arrests and looting. Responding to the debate, Tun Khin, president of BROUK, said, “The Burmese Government must be held to account for how they are treating the Muslim people. Injustice is being done to the Rohingya people.” “It has been three months since Rohingya have not been able to leave their homes in Kyauktaw, Min Bya, Puaktaw  Pone Nar Kyun and Mrauk Oo,” he said in a statement issued by the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK). Many Rohingyas do not have any food and are afraid to leave their homes, ...

of Arakan    Source from NDPHR(exile), Side by side with international pressure,   t he genocidal attacks by Rakhines are still going on through various ways in various areas therefore urgently solving the matter through;-Intervention by intl judicial body, Mediation by restoration of laws and orders on the Rakhines and those involved Rakhines to be brought into account ,  Normalization by   urgently relocation of all homeless Rohingyas in their lost lands and rebuilding their houses, Establishing safeguard for Rohingyas by  implementing   the constitution to recognize the existence of Rohingya, and An intl body to guard them. As, no oral statement will be assured in long term. The death toll is more than (10,000) people, burned and destructed about (16,000) houses plus (57) mosques from 70 muslim villages across 8 different towns of Arakan state  ( Sittwe/Akyab,    Maungdaw, Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Pauktaw, Rambr...