Three dead in fresh Myanmar violence:

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Three dead in fresh Myanmar violence:
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Three dead in fresh Myanmar violence:

TUESDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2012 AUTHOR / SOURCE: INDEPENDENT ONLINE/AFP
YANGON: Three people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of communal violence between Muslim Rohingya and Buddhists in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, a local official said Tuesday.


"We got the information that three people, an ethnic Rakhine man and two Muslim women, were killed at Pandeinkone village during yesterday's (Monday's) clashes," Hla Thein, Rakhine State chief justice told AFP.

Hundreds of homes were also torched in the clashes that affected two neighbouring villages, he said, adding: "The two villages were very close. More than 300 houses were burnt down."

Dozens were killed in Buddhist-Muslim clashes in June and tens of thousands displaced, prompting rights groups to warn of a humanitarian crisis.

More than 50,000 Muslims and up to 10,000 Buddhists are thought to be displaced across Rakhine state, where people from both communities were forced to flee as mobs torched entire villages in June's flare-up.

The stateless Rohingya have long been considered by the United Nations to be one of the most persecuted minorities on the planet.

Viewed as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh by the Myanmar government and many Burmese -- who call them "Bengalis" -- they face tight restrictions on their movements and limited access to employment, education and public services.

 

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Myanmar: New clashes between Muslims, Buddhists
(AP) – 5 hours ago

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...Nty66g?docId=f0c8c99b7d4343bf9b0f55086c9d9ca6

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — New clashes between Muslims and Buddhists have broken out in volatile western Myanmar, leaving at least two people dead and more than a thousand homes burned to the ground, authorities said Tuesday.
The information ministry said the violence was continuing and authorities were trying to restore law and order.
The unrest, which began Sunday night, is some of the worst reported between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists since skirmishes swept the region in June, displacing about 70,000 people.
Rakhine state Attorney General Hla Thein said the latest violence began in Minbyar township, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of the state capital, Sittwe. It later spread farther north to Mrauk-U township. Both areas are remote, reachable only by foot, Hla Thein said.
Authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the townships on Monday, Hla Thein said. He said both areas were calm Tuesday, but the Information ministry announced later in the day that the violence was continuing.
Hla Thein said one Buddhist man and two Muslim women died in Sunday's riots, but the ministry put the death toll at two — a man and a woman. It said 531 houses from six villages in Minbyar and 508 houses in two villages in Mrauk-U had been destroyed in arson attacks.
The unrest comes four months after members of the two religious groups turned on each other across Rakhine state in June after the alleged rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men in late May.
That violence left at least 90 people dead and destroyed more than 3,000 homes and dozens of mosques and monasteries. The two groups are now almost completely segregated in towns such as Sittwe, where the Rakhine are able to roam freely while the Rohingya are mostly confined to a series of camps outside the city center.
The last serious clashes in the state took place in August, when government officials said seven people were killed in the town of Kyauktaw. The United Nations said 600 homes were burned at the time.
The crisis in Myanmar's west goes back decades and is rooted in a dispute over where the region's Muslim inhabitants are from. Although many Rohingya have lived in Myanmar for generations, they are widely denigrated as foreigners — intruders who came from neighboring Bangladesh to steal scarce land.
The U.N. estimates their number at 800,000. But the government does not count them as one of the country's 135 ethnic groups, and so — like Bangladesh — denies them citizenship. Human rights groups say racism also plays a role: Many Rohingya, who speak a distinct Bengali dialect and resemble Muslim Bangladeshis, have darker skin and are heavily discriminated against.
The conflict has proven to be a major challenge for the government of President Thein Sein, which has embarked on democratic reforms since a half century of military rule ended in 2011.
Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Since when was this a part of Bangladesh defense?

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Since when was this a part of Bangladesh defense?

Do you have a very weak memory!!! Have you forgotten how many threads ran on rohingya in this section??/ You also participated on those!!!

 

[Zabaniyah]

Do you have a very weak memory!!! Have you forgotten how many threads ran on rohingya in this section??/ You also participated on those!!!

Just because there are Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, it doesn't mean that whatever goes on between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar should be posted here.

If the recent violence did indeed affect Bangladesh in any way, then yes - it would have been justified to post it here.

Better to post it on world affairs. The problem is rooted in Myanmar, not Bangladesh.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Just because there are Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, it doesn't mean that whatever goes on between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar should be posted here.

If the recent violence did indeed affect Bangladesh in any way, then yes - it would have been justified to post it here.

Better to post it on world affairs. The problem is rooted in Myanmar, not Bangladesh.

Previously it was also posted before it affected Bangladesh but not by me. Lets wait for the follow up news.

 

[kobiraaz]

Well now the Great Satan United States are with them, Myanmar is invincible! Die Rohingya Die!!

 

[Zabaniyah]

Well now the Great Satan United States are with them, Myanmar is invincible! Die Rohingya Die!!

It was just an exercise.

 

[kalu_miah]

USA has a lower tolerance for ethnic cleansing and human rights issues than other Burmese allies and neighbors. If Burma gets involved with the USA and USA has more influence then this kind of incident will reduce not increase, I am hoping, but I could be wrong.

 

[ebr77]

go Myanmar go. show the world how you are, wipe the Rohingya out. They are creating too much trouble for your Buddhist vote bank...and Aung su chi....you ***** surely you will get another peace prize for it...

 

[asad71]

Another Muslim Village, Kinipran, Burns Under Buddhist Flame - Salem-News.Com

Oct-28-2012 10:46
Another Muslim Village, Kinipran, Burns Under Buddhist Flame

Nurul Islam for Salem-News.com
Incident in Pauk Taw township work of Rakhines in collaboration of Nasaka forces. Is it not enough for UN to deploy its army in Arakan?

Scene from the last 48 hours in Sittwe, Burma

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - We have learned from reliable sources over the telephone that today the Rakhines from Pauk Taw township, torched a big Muslim Rohingya village of about 1200 homes with the collaboration of Nasaka (Burma's border security force) forces at 12.00 noon today. The name of the village is "Kinipran", in Pauk Taw.
The village is still burning and any report of casualties remains unknown at the time of this report. People on the scene are trying to collect casualties report .
Only 17 floating boats landed at Sittwe yesterday

Contrary to reports of large numbers of boat people being allowed to land at Sittwe, we have learned that only 17 floating boats of more than 50 that are loaded with Rohingyas landed at Sittwe and the rest are still floating on the Bay of Bengal.
Nobody could guess what their next destination would be, but the displaced Rohingyas in the floating boats are facing a food and medicine crisis. Most of them are starving. Pressure on the Myanmar govt. to rescue and allow the boats landing at Sittwe is extremely crucial.

According to Myanmar state news, 100 guns were traced from Kyaukpro and Minbya where communal strife erupted last Sunday. The guns reportedly belong to Buddhist Rakhines.

There are wide ranging accusations that the Rakhine`s RNDP (Rakhine Nationalities Development Party) and ALP (Arakan Liberation Party), with the collaboration of Rakhine State attorney general U Hla Maung Tin hired Rakhine terrorists with guns from near by country to attack Muslim Rohingyas in Arakan.

In fact, the Rakhines have a hidden policy to help achieve their real goal, an independent Arakan without Muslim Rohingyas.
So, they are desperate to evict Muslims from Arakan because they thought Rohingyas will be a barrier on way to "Independent Arakan" . But President U Thein Sein does not have wisdom to realize the hidden policy of Buddists in Arakan.
Deploying of UN army in Arakan is the only way left to normalize Arakan`s Situation

Sectarian strife is occurring in Arakan and other places here, one by one, and spreading throughout all of Arakan.
The Thein Sein govt said that it has taken measures to halt the situation in Arakan. But in practice, the current govt is indirectly encouraging Rakhines. In the future, a dangerous peril awaits in Arakan.
U Thein Sein head of the Myanmar government can control the tense situation in Rakhine state sincerely and impartially. But he clearly exposed his intention toward Rohingyas to Chief of UNHCR few months ago. This was to keep them in UN camps or to send them to 3rd country. Now only way left to make calm and stabilize the Arakan situation is deploying UN forces in Arakan.
Nurul Islam is a Human Rights Activist in Bangladesh

 

[Gyp 111]

Don't mind, this thread is not related with Bangladesh Defence

 

[sexy gun]

wrong section.. thread should be deleted with a warning to OP