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Burma: Genocide against Ethnic Minorities |
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 |
20 July2010-UNPO(Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
 Several academics and think tanks have pointed out that the Burmese Junta meets most of the criteria for crimes against humanity or genocide in its treatment of ethnic minorities. However there a few options for the international community to prevent further escalation, the most promising might be the investigation of the International Criminal Court.
Below is an article published by the Democratic Voice of Burma: Readers of this website should need no convincing of the seriousness of ongoing human rights violations against minority ethnic groups in Burma. Medicins Sans Frontieres has described Burma’s ethnic Rohingya minority has one of the world populations “most in danger of extinction” and leading scholars, including William Schabas, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, have suggested that the Muslim group may be victims of crimes against humanity, a sentiment that has been echoed by multiple other bodies. |
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Rains inundate in northern Arakan |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
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Kaladan Press Network
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Many areas under Maungdaw Township and Buthidaung Township of northern Arakan are inundated after heavy rainfall yesterday night, said a source from Maungdaw.
People from Maungdaw municipal areas were shifted to the high school and middle school, the source said.
"Only the main road, market and Maungdaw big mosque were not flooded. But, numbers two, four, five quarters of Maungdaw and surrounding villages of Maungdaw were inundated by heavy rainfall," said a school teacher from Maungdaw.
In the rural areas of Maungdaw and Buthidaung people moved to high ground, the teacher said.
The townships are under water and people are unable to move from their village, said a student from Maungdaw south.
27 people died in Buthidaung Township and 10 people from Maungdaw north and the general hospital also under water, so people are not able to get medical facility, said a village authority. |
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A Letter to OIC Secretary General |
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 |
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In the Name of Allah, the most Merciful and the most Gracious Secretary General
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
PO Box (178), Jeddah-21411
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Date: June 10, 2010
Ref: CEC-04/RLDB-HQ/2010
His Excellency,
We do like to say utmost thanks to H.E, the Secretary-General of OIC for his good offices and submitting a report (Report No. OIC/CFM-37/2010/MM/SG.REPS, regarding the Muslim community in Burma) to the Thirty Seven Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of member nations (Session on Shared Vision a More Secure and Prosperous Islamic World) that held on (18-20) May, 2010 in Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan. Our RLDB is very much pleased upon H.E Secretary-General for his victory over adopting "Resolution 4/37-MM" on the Muslim community in Burma at the session along with series of other resolutions under the section of resolutions on Muslim Communities and Minorities in Non-OIC Member State. |
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US: Burma Engagement Not Ending Despite 'Disappointing' Envoy Visit |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 |
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voanews,10 May 2010
The State Department says the Obama administration is not giving up on engagement with Burma, despite what it called a "disappointing" weekend visit there by a senior U.S. envoy. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell was allowed to meet with detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Campbell had made a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi a condition for visiting Burma. Although he was allowed to meet the detained Nobel Peace laureate at a government guest house, he apparently made no headway in changing Burmese plans for an election that U.S. officials warn will have no credibility. |
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FM requests refugee agency to move on Rohingya return |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
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 Dhaka, March 07 (bdnews24.com)—Foreign minister Dipu Moni has requested the UN refugee agency to resume the repatriation process of "all Myanmar refugees in the soonest possible time", rejecting all options for their rehabilitation in Bangladesh.
The minister made the call Sunday as newly appointed representative in Bangladesh of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Steven Craig Sanders, presented his credential to the minister at her office.
Dipu Moni's call comes in the wake of international media reports on the plight of the Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh. Some alleged human rights violations by Bangladesh authorities and urged the government to allow their integration with the local people.
"She (Dipu Moni) put emphasis on resuming the repatriation process at the soonest possible," said a foreign ministry press statement on the meeting.
The foreign minister also urged the UNHCR to work for improving the conditions in Myanmar's northern Rakhain state of the Muslim minority Rohingyas, who face persecution and hard conditions in their homeland, to discourage entry into Bangladesh.
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