Ethnic Rohingya Committee of Malaysia

Source  Tricycle , 22 Mar Just hours ago, Burmese President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in central Burma due to killing, destruction of property, and general rioting in the streets of the town of Meikhtila. Violence erupted following  a dispute between a Muslim gold shop owner and Buddhist customers.  After four nearby gold shops were burnt to the ground, a 1,000-strong mob of Buddhists ran riot through the Muslim neighborhood. The death toll is currently being reported at at least 20, but this number will likely rise.  TIME  reports: Journalists attempting to report in the area have been threatened. A photographer for the Associated Press reportedly had a foot-long dagger placed against his neck by a monk who had his face covered. The confrontation was defused when the photographer handed over his camera's  memory card .  Late on Friday, the Burmese government said that nine reporters trapped amid the unrest had been rescued by...

Source  Mayu Press , 17 Mar   The Burmese authority had imposed curfew only to Rohingya not to move one place to another since June 2012 racial violence in Arakan state. It causes Rohingya facing difficulties with hygienic foods, proper treatments, and necessary house hold materials and so on. Amongst the suffering people shortage with daily survival food stuffs, three Rohingya men from Sinn Gyi Pyan helmet of Barbutaung village, Minbya Township leaved with engine boat to buy foods for the own villagers towards Letmagye , Nagaya Village on Thursday, 14 March 2013. Those three Rohingya were brutally killed on their water way by the Rakhine extremists. The dead bodies were found near Maroung Bwe Chaung Bridge of Bu Talonk village under the track of Mauk Oo on 16 March 2013. There were also some security personnel based in Myauk Oo Ka-ma-ya (380) when the dead bodies picking up from the water to the land. They got the dead bodies with many injures and wounds of kn...

by Abid Bahar,   A Rakhine sponsored seminar took place in Bangkok at Mahidol University on March 9, 2013. The objective it says was: " the introduction of Rakhine history to the international community, to correct a continued description of Rohingya by international media that is not recognised by successive Myanmar governments, and to bring reliable references of Rakhine history from international historians," said Kyaw Thaung, one of the seminar's organisers."  So far so good but a detailed understanding shows the seminar wanted to prove that there were no Rohingya in Arakan. In dealing with this issue several items need additional focus: (1) The point is, if there were no Rakhine in Arakan why the racist Military junta by Ne Win had to pass the 1982 law? Why lately Arakanese historic Rohingya names had to be changed into Rakhine Mogh sounding names? Why there are historic Rohingya mosques and monuments in Arakan? Why UN was involved in dealing with...

Source  webindia , 2 Mar   Indian Coast Guard Ship C-145 and Aruna Asaf Ali in a precise and crisp operation rescued 108 precious human lives during an operation which lasted night of February 28 and early hours of March 1 from high seas. 'The operation was initially launched, in response of panic calls requesting CG assistance raised by M/s Punj Lloyd, Mumbai complaining illegal  entry  by some unknown people onboard barge Gunpati, which was being towed from Myanmar to Mumbai,' Commandant SSN Bajpai, Chief Staff Officer (Operations) of A & N Coast Guard region told UNI today. Commandant Bajpai added that Tug Star Jakarta which was towing unmanned barge Ganpati from Myanmar to Mumbai reported illegal entry of about 15 people onboard barge Ganpati and presence of some boats in vicinity on February 28 at 1620 hours. 'On receipt of the  information , Interceptor Boat C-145 under the command of Comdt(JG) SR Nagendrgan was pressed into action and ship...

Source Kaladan Press, 2 Mar Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Secrete killings of Rohingya community is going increased in Maungdaw since beginning of 2013, according to an officer from Maungdaw, who didn't want to named. The dead body of Sayed Ullah on the ground "There are more than 13 Rohingyas and one Rakhine were killed by unknown miscreants, but most of Rohingya believed the killing was made by security forces, Natala villagers and case-fire arms group – Rakhine." The authority also didn't able to find out or arrest, the killers of innocence people- Rohingyas and Rakhine-and the situation in northern Arakan seen, Rohingyas are sufferer and facing so many harassment but some Rohingyas stand to fight for their rights and some leaves their home land, the officer said. Sayed Ullah (35), son of Mohamed Siddique hailed from Udaung village under Burma border security force (Nasaka) area 8, Maungdaw is a Rohingya – betel leaves farmer – was killed in his betel leaves ...

Source extracted from FB, 2 Mar  Written by Goshal Lay No diplomat opens their hearts and mind to point out Myanmar's presidential tour of five countries in Europe recently about the deadlocks to change in Myanmar is conscripting children to become soldiers serving in Myanmar armed forces by building 432 children shelters (Ye Moon Camps) through the country. Myanmar tricky government laid the children saving projects around the country since 1965 to now and the children who are cored and threaded to follow military force collectors or recruiters are suffering for lack of education and social relationship knowledge during military rehabilitation centers, where most of kids are fatherless and motherless from around the country because of famine, civil war and rough weather as Cyclone Nargis in Irrawaddy delta and Giri in Rakhine State. But the Myanmar military released two dozen children from service as part of a pledge to end conscription practices, a U.N. before the Pre...