Heart-Broken news received from the ground of Arkan State on 28-10-2012 [at Amsterdam Time 04 pm] by BRCNL MEDIA

Heart-Broken news received from the ground of Arkan State on 28-10-2012 [at Amsterdam Time 04 pm] by BRCNL MEDIA

On a Phone conversation with a Rohingya resident, U Saw Pay from Kyauk Phyu who is currently residing in one of the camps in Sittwe told that while they (21 boats loaded with full of Rohingyas where pregnant women, aged disabled women and men, children and babies ) were trying to escape from the massacre by Rakhines, Lontin(Riot Police) and police forces, 14 boats out of 21 could approach to the shore of Sittwe after 2 days journey by sea with the help of Turkish NGOs who convinced local authorities (military) in Sittwe to give protection to the people. Other 7 boats were taken away by Myanmar Navy. It is unknown where these seven boat people of Rohingyas said by U Saw Pay.

U Saw Pay said that they were on the boat in the sea for 5 days without food and among them were pregnant women. There were deaths of babies and mothers during and after delivery in the boat as there were no proper care to them in the boat. The military threw the dead bodies into the sea in front of their very eyes.

On behalf of those Kyauk Phyu’s and other afflicted Rohingyas in Arakan,U Saw Pay urged 2 request to Rohingyas and International communities around the world; 1. To take an urgent action to protect the remaining innocent people in Arakan. 2. Or pray for them to die quickly.

On another Phone conversation with another resident of Arakan, Nu Nu Yin (a Rakhine Ethnic woman) from Kyauk Ni Maw who currently in Kyauk Ni Maw told that Rohingyas in Kyauk Ni Maw have decided not to run away from their ancestral homeland and they will defend themselves with what they have until their last breath from any attack either by gun or lethal weapons.

It is reported from the ground also that A Rohingyas woman daughter of U Chit Tin named Thida, 38 years, owner of Thida Book Store from Than Phan Chaung was taken away by Army and still no information from her whether she is alive or dead.

A Rakhine Ethnic youth named Kyaw kyaw reported that the attackers are not local Rakhine from Kyauk Phyu but they were brought to attack from another region.

In Pike Seik Quarter in Kyawk Phyu , 100 Rohingyas died while they were defending the destruction of an Old Mosque by the Rakhine terrorist group and a few, numbering around 6 Rakhine Terrorists also lost their lives during the attacks.

In a phone talk with a Journalist, “the Western countries focus on democracy transition rather than the attack against Rohingyas. Western countries are really thinking of seizing (power again by military) business opportunities in Myanmar” according to the journalist.

The Journalist analyzed that this is a violence, it is not a Genocide against Rohingya! Journalist asked the question why there is Buddhist casualties also, including deaths? Explanation to the question is that Rohingyas are armless even to defend themselves, everything including a small knife is being taken away by Burmese Authorities. When you are in a position to defend yourself desperately there are of course casualties, but very less. The casualties of Rakhines are countable and very few and Rohingya’s uncountable.

I really emphasized that it is a clear State-organized Genocide against Rohingya in Arakan. Otherwise Burmese Government could have stopped this from the very beginning.

Maungdaw News (28th October, 2012)

On 28th October, 2012 (i.e. today), in all the ten villages covered by Nasaka Camp (12), under Nasaka Sector (5), Nasaka carried out an activity which is totally unusual and not understandable. The activity is:

- A group of Nasaka went to the village and proceeded to the school where it is located. They also called two to three Rohingyas from the village. Then twelve Nasakas and the forcibly called Rohingyas stood in front of the ‘School Signboard’ and made their guns readily upwards and another Nasaka took photos from several dimensions. Except from the forcibly called Rohingyas, no villagers were allowed either to see or to approach to the very location.

Now, all the villagers are really worried for the activity and hoping something wrong will be coming soon against the Rohingya villagers.

The report is compiled as to an eyewitness of a said village.

Implementing steps by steps what President told the UNHCR Head

             On 28th October, 2012 (i.e. today), at 3:35pm, a group of Nasakas and military set fire on a Rohingya village, Ki Ni Pyin, in Pauk Taw township. The village has been totally villager-less after Bengali Rakhine terrorists threatened the villagers that all the villagers will be killed if they continuously residing in the village. Upon this threat, all the villagers left homes and gathered in a place near the river under critical condition. As per the strategy setup by the central government to make the Arakan ‘Rohingya Free Zone’, now the armed forces (Nasaka and Military) started to set firing Rohingya villages. Currently, Southern Rakhine State (SRS) is almost free of Rohingyas and almost all the Rohingyas from that area automatically become as refugees, (i.e. some are floating on the water, some are dying for many causes, and so on.). President U Thein Sein clearly told the Head of UNHCR to keep all the Rohingyas in Refugee Camp and deport to a third country. As mentioned above, it is clear that the armed forces (Nasaka and Military) are instructed by the Central Government to harass Rohingyas in many ways which cause Rohingyas leave the country, motherland. It is also clear that Rohingya villages in SRS will be set fired one by one soon either by Bengali Rakhine terrorists or government armed forces. Out of Nineteen Rohingya villages in Pauk Taw Township, only three villages remain now. The villagers from these remaining villages are in an inconsiderably serious condition.

On 27th October, 2012, Pauk Taw Township Deputy Administrator (U Kyaw Aye) and another Rakhine who told himself RNDP Secretary (U Thar Htun Aung) went a Rohingya village, Ngat Chaung, Pauk Taw Township. The Deputy Administrator said to the villagers, “You must have to leave the village and you are not entitled to stay here”. U Thar Htun Aung added, “We, Buddhist Rakhines, are nationality and majority of this area. As per Buddha’s words, we are very kind to everybody so that you, this villagers, are still not murdered”. He continued, “If you were we, you would surely kill all of us”.

Breaking News( 28-10-2012) Pauktaw Township

28-10-2012, Pauktaw Township ,3:00 PM, Rohingya Muslim Village, Kyanni Pyin (Krenni Prugn) with has been burning by about 80-Border Security Forces (NaSaKa) and about 10000-Rakhine terrorists. Militaries have being presented, but they didn’t protect Rohingya Muslims. In this village, about 3050 Rohingya victims were sheltered who are of the villages, Sule Pyin, Myin Thar Pauk, Kyan Pyin Ywa Thit and Kyan Pyin Ywa Haung. These villages were burnt down three days ago. Detail figures are as;

More than 5000 Rohingyas are waiting for helps from any community. There is no land to flee for the victims because Pauktaw Township is isolated and situated with islands.

Further, five Muslim Villages of the same Township, Pauktaw were burnt down by Rakhine terrorists, four days ago and all, 5100- victims have being waited for helps since that day. Detail figures are as;

All Rohingya residents and victims of Pauktaw are in serious condition.

Rohingya Activist ,Nyi Nyi Aung

Burma: A State of Terrorism and Fascism By M.S. Anwar

Sunday, 28th October 2012,Burma (or Myanmar) is a country with around 59 million population situated at a geo-political strategic location between South-Asia and South-East Asia. Besides, it is sandwiched between two Economic giants, China and India. The state religion of the country is Buddhism, an out and out peaceful religion. The country has been isolated from the rest of the world for most of its history due to its heartless, ruthless, inhumane, tyrannical and sociopathic rulers. They have manipulated everyone and everything for political gains and to remain in power. In fact, they have ruled the country on the ground of terror, lie, racism and fascism. They have divided people and turned one against other. The lives Human beings have become so cheap for them that they can crash and kill anyone without having a second thought and the least sympathy. All have been in the lust of power and wealth.

The regime has made the people (i.e. general Burmese) so poor, uneducated, ignorant, racist and fascist that they don’t want or seem to learn any truth taught and take pride of being so. As a result, Burma has become a country with the long history of ethnic conflicts and their armed resistances. Due to Bama’s ultra-nationalism and behaving like a big-brother, ethnic minorities have lost their trust on them. To counter any possible inter-ethnic solidarity and unity, the regime always play the cards of race, ethnic origin, religion and culture. They will always try to divide ethnic minorities.

Like other number of bloody instances in the history of Burma, the Burmese regime has been committing mass-killings of and genocides against not only Rohingyas in Arakan state but also Kachins in Kachin state in large scale and in full swing. While the offensive war against Kachins breaking 17-year-old cease-fire with the Kachin Independence Army has the tendency of colonialism, Bama ultra-nationalism and the interest of capitalism, the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas is inspired by delusional racism, anti-Islamism, neo-fascism and many others.

The military attack against Kachins is taking the shape of a war and less supported by general public of Burma, whereas one-sided genocidal attack against Rohingyas is fully supported and propagandized by the Thein Sein's regime, Bengali Rakhine Terrorist as well as most of general Burmese people. However, the fascist trained rapist military of Burma have been committing gross human rights violations not only against Rohingyas but also against Kachins.

Rohingyas, the sons of the soil of Arakan are the descendents of aboriginal proto-australoid people, Negritos and Indo-Aryans who later came to mix with other immigrating people in Arakan. Yet, Rohingyas had not been known to Burmese people until 2010. Rohingyas have been marginalized and ignored so much so that even the Myanmar Ethnocracy Leader and Bama Rights Activist Daw Suu Kyi has no clue of their history. When they came to know about Rohingyas, it was in the negative light. The regime has successfully branded Rohingyas as illegal invaders and harm to the sovereignty of the nation as well as to Buddhism just to gain political supports. All the allegations against Rohingyas are extremely unfounded and baseless. They are just hated in xenophobic, racist and fascist Burma on account of their ethnic origin and different religion and distinct culture.

According to many Burmese political analysts, the violence against Rohingyas is an attempt of the regime to divert the attention of the people from the year-long offensive genocidal war against Kachins, Myitsone damn crisis, to shut up Rakhines shouting in the name of Shwe gas, country-wide demonstrations by farmers for their lands and by people for electricity, inability to solve the poverty in the country, to defame Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (DASSK) nationally and internationally and to make the anti-regime foreign media untrustworthy among Burmese people. By targeting Rohingyas, the regime is gaining endless benefits. Besides, the violence might be a result of global power struggle between China and US and their proxy war.

Rakhine extremist terrorists and their leaders are happily or rather actively leading and participating with the regime in the mass-killings of Rohingyas. They have their own target: having an independent Arakan state. The way Rakhine terrorists are committing crimes against Rohingyas well identify themselves that they can be descendents of none other than the heartless and ruthless Sea-Pirates Maghs in the history of Arakan history. Meanwhile, the skinned head fascists and terrorists in saffron and Un-Buddhist monks (excluding few good monks) in Burma are openly encouraging the violence and calling for the extermination Rohingyas. Moreover, these terrorists in saffron are targeting all those people who are sympathetic towards Rohingyas.

Since the continual attacks and violence against Rohingyas started on 8th June 2012, the atrocities against and mass killings of them have been being carried out in large scale. Rohingyas’ homes are being burnt down and thousands of them have been displaced on their own land. Many thousands of them have been killed though Burmese officials grossly understated the number of their deaths. Their properties are looted on daily basis and their women and under-aged girls were or are either raped or gang-raped by Military and others. Their mosques and religious have been torched or locked down. Their educated people and other innocent people have been detained for nothing. Their access to foods and medicines are blocked. More than a thousand of innocent Rohingyas together Kamans escaping the renewed attacks are still floating on the Bay of Bengal. Their homes were burnt by the Rakhine terrorists and thousands were already killed. They were pushed out to the sea. Right now, they have no land to go on. Neither is Burma allowing them to go back to their own land nor is Bangladesh giving them refuge. Why is the world letting them die in such a way? Are not they human beings? As a result, they have been facing untimely demises caused by the Burmese animals in human form.

Where is the US with its “War on Terror” at a time a time when thousands of innocent people are being terrorized and killed right in their sights? Where are EU, ASEAN and NATO? Do their strategic decision makers really understand the definition of terrorism? If so, why are they neglecting terrors inflicting not only Rohingyas and Kamans but also Kachins in Burma? Why are they kissing the asses of the tyrants in the Burmese regime? Is money above the lives of human beings to them? Or they don’t need to care about the lives of those people who are different to them? If so, what is the difference between them and Nazi Fascists? If Talibans are extremists and terrorists among the adherents of Islam, then Thein Sein regime and Un-Buddhist Burmese Monks are extremists and terrorists among the adherents of Buddhism. If Al-Qaedas are terrorists amongst Muslims, then most of Rakhines are terrorists amongst Buddhists. Plus, Thein Sein’s Regime, Skin Heads in Saffron and most of Rakhines are Neo-Fascists, Pro-Nazis and sociopathic liars, too.

M.S. Anwar is an activist and student studying Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies at Westminster International College, Malaysia

UN says 22,000 displaced in Myanmar unrest

An armed police officer guards as Muslim refugees stand behind him at a refugee camp in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Western Myanmar appeared calm Saturday after almost a week of deadly ethnic strife, a government spokesman said as human rights groups called for action to end the violence that one said it has documented with satellite imagery. Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing there were no immediate reports of fresh clashes between the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya communities. Photo: Khin Maung Win / AP

SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Victims of Myanmar's latest explosion of Muslim-Buddhist violence fled Sunday to already packed displacement camps along the country's western coast as a top U.N. official said the unrest has forced more than 22,000 people from their homes.

Boats carrying some of those fleeing arrived outside the state capital, Sittwe. They trudged to the nearby Thechaung camp, a place already home to thousands of Rohingya Muslims who took refuge there after a previous wave of violence in June.

"I fled my hometown Pauktaw on Friday because there is no security at all," said 42-year-old fisherman Maung Myint, who arrived on a boat carrying 40 other people, including his wife and six children. "My house was burned to ashes and I have no money left."

Another Muslim refugee said she fled her village, Kyaukphyu, on Thursday after attackers set her home on fire.

"We don't feel safe," said 40-year old Zainabi, a fish-seller who left with her two sons, aged 12 and 14. "I wish the violence would stop so we can live peacefully.

Human Rights Watch released dramatic satellite imagery of Kyaukphyu on Saturday showing a vast swath of the village in ashes. The destruction included more than 800 buildings and floating barges.

Myanmar's government has put the death toll at 67 over the last week, saying 95 more people were injured and 2,818 houses were burned down from Sunday through Thursday in seven townships in Rakhine state.

The casualty figures have not been broken down by ethnic group, but Human Rights Watch said the Rohingya had suffered the brunt of the violence. The New York-based rights group also said the true death toll may be higher, based on witness accounts and the government's history of minimizing news that might reflect badly on it.

Ashok Nigam, the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar, said the figure of 22,587 displaced included both Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, but he gave no breakdown.

The latest unrest pushes the total displaced to nearly 100,000 since clashes broke out in June.

Speaking to The Associated Press while visiting Thechaung camp, Nigam said getting aid to the new wave of displaced will be a challenge as some fled on boat and others have sought refuge on isolated hilltops.

"The situation is certainly very grave and we are working with the government to provide urgent aid to these people," he said.

Ill will between Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine state goes back decades and has its roots in a dispute over the Muslim Rohingya's origins. Although many Rohingya have lived in Myanmar for generations, they are seen as foreign intruders who came from Bangladesh to steal scarce land.

Today, the Rohingya also face official discrimination, a policy encouraged by Myanmar's previous military regimes to enlist popular support among other groups. A 1984 law formally excluded them as one of the country's 135 ethnicities, meaning most are denied basic civil rights and deprived of citizenship.

Neighboring Bangladesh, which also does not recognize the Rohingya as citizens, says thousands of Rohingya refugees have also sought to flee there by boat. Its policy, however, is to refuse them entry.

Rights groups say Myanmar's failure to address the root causes of the crisis means the situation may only get worse.

In June, ethnic violence in Rakhine killed at least 90 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes. About 75,000 people, mostly Rohingya, have been living in refugee camps since then. Curfews have been in place in some areas since the earlier violence and were extended this past week.

Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing said Saturday the government was providing assistance to people who lost their homes and had distributed aid provided by Turkey. He said the United Nations and private agencies were traveling to affected areas to provide aid.

Associated Press Writer Aye Aye Win contributed to this report from Yangon, Myanmar.

Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan calls on Asean to act on Rohingya

Escalating violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state deserves the urgent attention of Asean and the international community, Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan told the Bangkok Post Sunday yesterday.

Mr Surin said he is renewing his call for Asean to act, otherwise there is a serious risk that the country's Rohingya population will become radicalised.

Violent clashes between the Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities have claimed the lives of at least 150 people since June.

In August, Mr Surin sent a letter to all Asean foreign ministers urging them to meet and address the Rohingya issue. The Asean chair, headed by Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Nam Hong, called a meeting of the ministers. However, Myanmar refused the meeting and said the situation was under control.

In recent days, a surge of sectarian violence in western Myanmar has left at least 67 people dead and scores more wounded. Authorities have imposed emergency rule in the face of continued tension in the region.

"The situation is deteriorating and there is now a risk of a radicalisation of the Rohingya. This would not be good for anyone," the Asean secretary-general said.

"The conflict has been presented as an Islamic issue when it is not", Mr Surin said. "It is a political, democratic, human rights and constitutional issue, and has direct implications on political reform and national reconciliation processes in Myanmar."

Without an effective resolution, the situation would fester and worsen, Mr Surin said, which could mean a radicalisation of the country's 1.5 million Rohingya.

"This would have wider strategic and security implications for the region," Mr Surin said.

"Can you imagine the Malacca Straits becoming a zone of violence like the waters off Somalia? This would jeopardise East Asian and Southeast Asian economic security," he said.

The Asean secretary-general called for an approach to engagement similar to that adopted in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which left more than 138,000 people dead in Myanmar.

He said the situation needs to be calmed down and put under control.

The United Nations has responded to the recent bloodshed with a stark warning that Myanmar's recent political reforms are under threat from the continued unrest between ethnic Rakhine and the Rohingya.

"The vigilante attacks, targeted threats and extremist rhetoric must be stopped," a spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said in a statement released yesterday in Yangon. '

"If this is not done ... the reform and opening up process being currently pursued by the government is likely to be jeopardised."

President Thein Sein has been widely-praised for overseeing sweeping reforms in the former junta-ruled nation. But the Rakhine violence poses a stern challenge to the reform process.