Arakan history expert Dr. Jacques P. Leider gives an exclusive interview to The BNG in light of the recent sectarian strife in western Burma. Leider has been conducting research as well as contributing articles to academic journals on Arakan State for more than two decades. He has worked with SEAMEO-CHAT, the regional center for history and tradition in Rangoon, and is currently head of the French School of Asian Studies in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Myanmar's president Thein Sein told impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas
Myanmar president asks UN to look after 'illegal' Rohingya
YANGON: Myanmar's president Thursday told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country.
Thein Sein, who had previously struck a more conciliatory tone during fighting that left at least 80 people dead in Rakhine State last month, told the chief of the United Nations refugee agency the Rohingyas were not welcome.
"We will take responsibility for our ethnic people but it is impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our ethnicity," he told UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, according to the president's official website.
YANGON: Myanmar's president Thursday told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country.
Thein Sein, who had previously struck a more conciliatory tone during fighting that left at least 80 people dead in Rakhine State last month, told the chief of the United Nations refugee agency the Rohingyas were not welcome.
"We will take responsibility for our ethnic people but it is impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our ethnicity," he told UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, according to the president's official website.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
နိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္တိုင္းရင္းသားမဟုတ္ဘဲ ခိုးဝင္လာသည့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို လက္ခံရန္ မည္သို့မ်ွ မျဖစ္နိုင္ေၾကာင္း႔ေျပာၾကား
"ဘဂၤါလီမ်ားကိစၥ
ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၁
ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ
ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၁
ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ
Friday, July 6, 2012
HRW Want The Burmese government Stop killings police military to Rohingya
Burma: Mass Arrests, Raids on Rohingya Muslims,
Brutal and Biased Police Response to Sectarian Violence in Arakan State,
(New York) – Burmese security forces have responded to sectarian violence in northern Arakan State with mass arrests and unlawful force against the Rohingya Muslim population, Human Rights Watch said today. Local police, the military, and a border security force known as Nasaka have committed numerous abuses in predominantly Muslim townships while combating the violence between the Rohingya and ethnic Arakan, who are predominantly Buddhist, that broke out in early June 2012
Brutal and Biased Police Response to Sectarian Violence in Arakan State,
(New York) – Burmese security forces have responded to sectarian violence in northern Arakan State with mass arrests and unlawful force against the Rohingya Muslim population, Human Rights Watch said today. Local police, the military, and a border security force known as Nasaka have committed numerous abuses in predominantly Muslim townships while combating the violence between the Rohingya and ethnic Arakan, who are predominantly Buddhist, that broke out in early June 2012
. The Burmese government needs to put an immediate end to the abusive sweeps by the security forces against Rohingya communities. Anyone being held should be promptly charged or released, and their relatives given access. Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director
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