Ethnic Rohingya Committee of Malaysia

Source  Tribune , 16 Aug 2012 Secretary General of Oraganisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu speaks to media during a press conference at the end of an extraordinary summit of OIC, held in Mecca, on August 15. PHOTO: AFP/FILE MECCA:  The Islamic summit decided Thursday to take the issue of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingyas, displaced by deadly sectarian violence, to the United Nations. At a meeting in the holy city of Mecca the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned “the continued recourse to violence by the Myanmar authorities against the members of this minority and their refusal to recognise their right to citizenship.” “The summit has decided to bring this matter before the General Assembly of the United Nations,” it said in a final statement. The OIC announced on Saturday before the summit that it had received a green light from Myanmar to assist displaced Rohingya. It said Myanmar gave its agreement following talks i...

Source Irrawaddy news, 14 Aug 2012   A distraught Rohingya man is comforted by a Bangladeshi border guard. (Photo: Reuters) WASHINGTON DC—Prominent Muslim American groups have come together to launch  Burma  Task Force USA with the objective of raising the profile of the Rohingya issue while speaking out against alleged atrocities and human rights violations which have forced thousands to flee and seek refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. “We demand that those responsible for the mass rapes and mass murder of thousands of Rohingyas be charged with crimes against humanity and genocide by the International Court of Justice,” Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairperson of Burma Task Force USA, demanded on Monday. The Burma Task Force is based on a previous successful effort of American Muslims, the Bosnia Task Force, where its members worked with the interfaith leadership and women’s rights organizations against the genocide of Muslims in the former Yugoslavia. Mu...

Source  Jakarta Globe , 18 Aug   President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , left, receives former vice president Jusuf Kalla at the presidential office in Jakarta. Yudhoyono wants Kalla to serve as Indonesia’s special envoy for the Rohingya issue. (Antara Photo/Widodo S. Jusuf) President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Thursday he hoped that former Vice President Jusuf Kalla would be willing to become the country’s special envoy on the Rohingya issue.  “I hope that Mr. JK, with his extensive experience, can become our special envoy, so that Indonesia’s solidarity and attention on the humanitarian issue of the Rohingya is accurate, does not give rise to misunderstanding for Myanmar but also helps our Rohingnya brothers and sisters,” Yudhoyono said.  The president spoke after meeting Kalla, who came as chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to discuss the Rohingnya issue.  Kalla had last week visited Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Thursday’s meeting was to...

17 August 2012,  Kaladan Press Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The security force –Burma border security force (Nasaka)-  and Rakhine  killed more Rohingya recently  in Maungdaw, said a village admin from Maungdaw. “Oo Daung Nasaka camp officer Pyro Way Aung and Oo Daung village administration officer Thein Aung  ( Rakhine) with other Nasaka personnel went to  Salim Ullah home in  Oo Daung  village at about 10:00pm on August 16.  The Nasaka officer and his group went to Salim home with a plan of attempt to rape his daughter where Salim Ullah family has three members – he, his wife and his daughter (young lady).” The Nasaka officer and Village admin enter to his house for checking of family list without calling any village admin member expect the village admin officer. When the officer went near to young lady to attempt to rape but, the father block the officer to reach his daughter. The officer was drunk and shot to old man with his gun....

Source Kaladan Press , 14 Aug 2012 N asaka commits suicide in Maungdaw Township Maungdaw, Arakan State: A Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) of Nasaka area No. 5 of Maungadw north, Arakan State committed suicide on August 13, at about 10:00 pm while sitting in a house of Rakhine village named Aukpruma, according to a Nasaka aide. He was one of the members of a petrol group from the Nasaka camp. After patrolling a long time along the villages, they took rest at the house of U Hla Sein (45), son of U Aung San of Kasari Bill (Auk-prua) village. Before suicide, he and his colleagues were over drinking in the house. After that, suddenly a bullet was fired from his gun, but it hit his jaws and a few minutes later he was dead on the spot. Hearing the sound of the firing, a group of Nasaka from nearby the camp rushed to the spot to see the incident. It is learnt that who committed suicide was very disappointed as the officers discriminate the soldiers. Later, the dead body w...

Source from  (ERCA) A group of six Rohingya wearing "Save Rohingya" T-shirt detained on 3 Aug 2012 have been released on 13 Aug 2102. They are recognized Rohingya refugees and identified as Abdul Hanif, Hussein Ahmed, Boshir Ahmed, Amir Ahmed, Md Tarek, Hafez Ahmed. They were nabbed from the street of Kota Raya at round 17:00pm of the day and handed over to police by a gang of Rakhine involving Chinese people affiliated with a Rakhine businessman, the owner of 'Myanma Uyin' shop. The six Rohingya were laid with false charges of damaging the accessories of Myanam Uyin shop and detained ten days in the police lock-up of Daungwangi. "None of us were entered into the shop but we were grabbed and punched by members of Rakhine gang and then detained 10 days in harsh situation. As a result of they have good relation with police like other businessmen in Kota Raya." One of the six victims said. Under the Malaysian laws, the suspect should be sent for just...

Bringing Myanmar killers to justice tops summit agenda The Star , 12 Aug 2012 PETALING JAYA: The Putera 1Malaysia Club is calling for contributions from Malaysians for its humanitarian mission to help the Muslim Rohingya refugees affected by sectarian violence in Myanmar. Club  president Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim  said the club plans to visit Bangladesh to visit about 40,000 Rohingya refugees who escaped the violence and are now staying in three camps – Kutupalong, Nayapara and Teknas. “We are asking all Malaysians to give a helping hand to the victims, especially the elderly, the women and children there,” he said at a press conference yesterday. Riots, believed to have been triggered after 10 Rohingyas were killed following the rape and murder of a Rakhine woman in late May, erupted and a state of emergency was declared on June 10. Some 1.6 million Rohingyas have fled the country with some 30,000 of them now in Malaysia. Azeez said the club will pass aid to the ot...

Bringing Myanmar killers to justice tops summit agenda Arab News , 12 August 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah being received by Crown Prince Salman upon his arrival in Makkah. (SPA) The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is one of the key issues to be discussed at the Islamic solidarity summit convened by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in Makkah on Aug. 14-15. With just two days to go for the conclave of the world’s most important Muslim leaders in the most holy city, pressure is mounting on Myanmar’s military junta to allow international and Islamic relief agencies access to the besieged Muslim population of the Arakan province. Two important delegations to Myanmar — one led by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the other by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — this week have revealed signs of panic and desperation among the junta’s top leadership. “They have been caught out and have no...

Rohingyas’ loss of inheritance The Nation  | August 12, 2012 | The heart-wrenching photographs of dinghy borne Rohingya families begging for their survival from the maritime patrols of Bangladesh, to let them through and to safety of refugee camps are powerful enough to melt hearts of stone. Yet, there is a stunning silence commanding the global podiums and the countries claiming to be the torchbearers of human rights. The migratory wave of these wretched Muslims, primarily inhabiting the Arakan province of Burma, has been caused by a large-scale orgy of killing, rape and mass arrest, involving the Rakhines inhabitants and the Burmese security forces, following widespread sectarian violence that broke out in June this year. A human tragedy of stupendous magnitude is in the making, as Bangladesh has refused to accept the refugees from across the border and has ordered three international aid agencies - the French aid agencies ‘Doctors Without Borders’, ‘Action Against...

16 guns, huge explosives seized from Rakhine people Up to dated news of Maungdaw Township on August 12, 2012 August 12, 2012  by  kaladanpress Sub Inspector Aye Tun Sein and its group arrested Enayet Ullah son of Fazal, hailed from Nurrullah para and other four persons, while they were going to market today morning, said a trader from Maungdaw. 16 guns, huge explosives seized at Kyauktaw August 12, 2012  by  kaladanpress Kyauktaw, Arakan State:  Burmese Army seized 14 automatic rifles, two pistols and huge of exclusives from Rakhine villages of Kyauktaw Township, about five miles away from Kyauktaw Town on August 9, said a villager elder from. Kyauktaw Township, on condition of anonymity. Read more: Police personnel gear up harassment of Rohingyas in Maungdaw 11 August 2012, Kaladan Press Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Police personnel gear up its harassment on Rohingya community in Maungdaw after visiting of UN envoy, according t...

11 Aug 2012, Todays Zaman Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davtoğlu departed for  Myanmar  on Wnesday with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wife and daughter to deliver aid to the province of Arakan, where a massacre of Rohingya Muslims is being carried out by extremists. A Turkish delegation led by Davtoğlu and including Erdoğan's wife Emine and daughter S�meyye , left for Myanmar on Wednesday afternoon in a plane loaded with aid supplies. The delegation will visit camps where Rohingya Muslims have taken shelter and distribute humanitarian aid to them. The aid from Turkey will be the first foreign aid accepted by Myanmar besides UN aid. The Prime Ministry has also recently launched an aid campaign for Rohingya Muslims and the donations collected so far have exceeded $1.2 million. A statement from the Foreign Ministry said apart from its significance in addressing the situation of the Rohingya Muslims, the -historic- visit will also be a chance to improve mutual rel...

The Daily Star , 8 Aug 2012 by Barrister Harun Ur Rashid, During the past two decades, Bangladesh accepted and sheltered more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees, who not only stayed back but also put heavy economic and social burden on the world's most densely-populated nation. After violence erupted in the Rakhine state in early June, Bangladesh refused giving shelter to any Rohingya. Although the refusal drew criticism from human rights activists, it has attracted the attention of the international community to the Rohingya issue. It is worthwhile to note that the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has launched a major international campaign to put an end to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Rakhine state of Myanmar and protect their legitimate rights. OIC offices in Geneva, New York, and Brussels are making intense efforts to foster international intervention in the issue. The OIC is believed to be in touch with the United ...

Source from NDPHR(exile), The muslim people of Arakan are continue to face starvation and instant attacks in all over Arakan particularly for homeless people those in the isolated regions of Kyauktaw, Rambre, Pauktaw, Rathedaung and Rambre towns. Rakhine gangs involving a few monks begin crossing into  Aungmingala  village and shouting to leave the remaining muslim from their homes in good time. Lawyer Kyaw Hla Aung, the nominee MP of 1990 for Sittwe   who is also a senior staff of MSF,   is not yet released despite the government replied during Quintana visit that he has been released along with some political prisoners including  Phyo Wai Aung  who was sentenced to death. Myebon town In Myebon town, the muslims live in only two villages known as Alay Baine Quarter in central area and Taungbaw Rwa (mountain village) and most of them are Kamans and Rakhine muslims. Four muslim houses in  Alay Baine Quarter have been destructed by a group of Rakhi...