Joomla! site syndication http://www.rldb.org/rldb 2013-05-22T06:19:44+01:00 http://www.rldb.org/rldb http://www.rldb.org/rldb/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2012-10-18T14:36:22+01:00 http://www.rldb.org/rldb http://www.rldb.org/rldb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=27 On 18th October, 2012 (i.e. today), at 8:30am, four Rohingya youths from Buggone Nah, Maungdaw south, were captured by 22 Bengali Rakhine Natala villagers while the said youths went to nearby hill for cutting grass for their household cattle. Out of 22 Bengali Rakhine Natala villagers, 20 equipped with knives and daggers and the rest two were with M-16 guns. These two guns are possessed by Myanmar Police Force camped in Huta Bonnya, in the same village tract. After capture, the victims were first tied up with thick ropes and brought to the Natala Village. The victims were inhumanly tortured. As a preparation for killing these Rohingyas, the gang sat for a table of alcohol. While the gang was engaged in drinking alcohol, one of the victims luckily got eased in tie. After a long struggling, he himself untied his tie and could help another two victims to untie their ties. By the time, the gang realized the victims’ effort to escape themselves; the gang chased the freed victims. One victim is so unlucky that he could not escape from the tie. Nobody knows about the fortune of the remaining victim till the time of reporting. The freed three victims reached their respective homes at dusk. The parents and relatives of the remaining victim reported the issue to the Military camped in Nyaung Chaung. Military replied that it is none of their business and to solve the problem by own way. This incident report was collected from neighbors of the victims. The victims are identified as: 1. Mohammed Hasson (F) U Abul Hashim 26 years (the remaining victims in capture) 2. Iman Husson (F) U Lay Rhdu 22 years 3. Mohammed Roshid (F) U Abdullah 20 years 4. Mohammed Shah (F) U Abdu Malek 30 years text/html 2012-06-03T19:01:36+01:00 http://www.rldb.org/rldb http://www.rldb.org/rldb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=27 Radio AustraliaA government official in Burma says at least nine people have been killed by ethnic Rakhine residents in the country's west in an apparent sectarian attack in a region affected by simmering religious tensions. We heard nine people were killed by ethnic Rakhine residents in Taunggote town this evening. We do not know the details yet, a government official told AFP, adding that some of the victims were thought to be Muslims visiting Rakhine State from central Burma.Local residents, speaking to AFP by phone, said the recent rape and murder of an ethnic Rakhine girl had stirred sectarian suspicions in the area. AFP was unable to reach local police to confirm details of that case.One man from the village where the attack took place said a mob of ethnic Rakhines - who are mostly Buddhist - set upon a bus that they believed was carrying those responsible for the murder-rape. More than a hundred people beat and killed those people. The residents even torched the bus, he said, adding that the police arrived but were unable to control the baying crowd. There are not many people at the scene now, only dead bodies on the road. The senior town residents are trying to comfort the people, the man added. text/html 2012-04-24T10:11:02+01:00 http://www.rldb.org/rldb http://www.rldb.org/rldb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=290&Itemid=27 Christiantoday.comChristian Solidarity Worldwide has welcomed the European Union’s decision to suspend sanctions against Burma for a year.The EU’s Foreign Affairs Council moved to temporarily suspend economic sanctions against the country in light of recent reforms, including the release of political prisoners and a historic by-election which saw a landslide victory by the pro-democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi. “As a means to welcome and encourage the reform process, the Council will suspend restrictive measures imposed on the government, with the exception of the arms embargo, which it will retain, it said. “The Council will monitor closely the situation on the ground, keep its measures under constant review and respond positively to progress on ongoing reforms.”The EU said it still expects the unconditional release of remaining political prisoners and the removal of all restrictions placed on those who have already been freed.It also called for substantially improved access for humanitarian assistance, especially for those affected by the conflict in Kachin State and along the eastern border, as well as moves towards improving the welfare of the predominantly Muslim Rohingya people. text/html 2012-02-01T13:46:18+01:00 http://www.rldb.org/rldb http://www.rldb.org/rldb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=289&Itemid=27 Al Jazeera.com/30 Jan 2012Akbar AhmedAmbassador Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington. Millions of residents of western Myanmar have been stripped of citizenship and basic human rights. Will Suu Kyi help? This article is the first in a series by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, a former Pakistani high commissioner to the UK, exploring how a litany of volatile centre/periphery conflicts with deep historical roots were interpreted after 9/11 in the new global paradigm of anti-terrorism - with profound and often violent consequences. Incorporating in-depth case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Ambassador Ahmed will ultimately argue that the inability for Muslim and non-Muslim states alike to either incorporate minority groups into a liberal and tolerant society or resolve the centre vs periphery conflict is emblematic of a systemic failure of the modern state - a breakdown which, more often than not, leads to widespread violence and destruction. The violence generated from these conflicts will become the focus, in the remainder of the 21st century, of all those dealing with issues of national integration, law and order, human rights and justice. text/html 2012-01-23T08:02:32+01:00 http://www.rldb.org/rldb http://www.rldb.org/rldb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=287&Itemid=27 www.trust.org (http://www.trust.org/)BANGKOK (AlertNet) – More than 40,000 Rohingya children in western Myanmar have been deprived of rights to travel, go to school or to marry in future, because their parents had an unauthorised marriage or exceeded a two-child limit, a report saidRights groups say the Rohingyas, a Muslim minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, face some of the worst discrimination in the world, have suffered abuses and deprived of free movement, education and employment under the country's former military rulers and now under the current government. They are also denied Myanmar citizenship. These blacklisted children are refused birth registration, and so are not included in the family list and get hidden during the authorities’ population checks, said the report, which human rights organisation Arakan Project on Thursday submitted to the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child.“All Rohingya children suffer unmitigated discrimination with regard to education, health care and access to food,” the report said.The report say there are close to 750,000 Rohingyas in the country’s Northern Rakhine State and hundreds of thousands more scattered in Bangladesh, Malaysia and the Middle East following exoduses in the past few decades.