ETHNIC VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN MYANMAR AGAIN

[The news report below was lifted from ‘The Irrawaddy’  - “a newsmagazine published by the Irrawaddy Publishing Group, founded in 1992 by Burmese exiles living in Thailand. Wikipedia”] Kyaukpyu’s Muslim Quarter Razed to the Ground By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY| October 25, 2012 | 16 [Some 800 homes belonging to Rohingya Muslims were burnt down in Pauktaw on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 (PHOTO: Thi Ha / Facebook] Several hundred Rohingya people have fled their burning homes in Kyaukpyu Township and taken to the sea after deadly clashes on Tuesday night. A local source told The Irrawaddy that the entire Muslim quarter – more than 300 houses belonging to the Rohingya community was burned to the ground by Arakanese Buddhist...

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IS MYANMAR SERIOUS ABOUT NATIONAL RECONCILIATION?

Members of the Rohingya community within and outside Myanmar were initially encouraged by the news that the Myanmarese Government had signed an agreement with the OIC to allow it to establish a liaison office in the country to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Myanmarese citizens of Rohinyga decent. However, this hope was quickly dashed when President Thein Sein promptly withdrew his Government's agreement with the OIC after Buddhist monks from Sittwe and Mandalay staged forceful  but peaceful demonstrations in these two cities on 10 and 12 October respectively. President Thein Sein’s flip-flop decision to dishonour the one-month old agreement with the OIC shows that it is still too early to believe that...

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BUDDHIST MONKS PROTEST OIC’S PLAN TO OPEN LIASON OFFICES IN MYANMAR

[NOTE:  The news report from Reuters is reproduced herebelow.  It is most ironical that the holy people  who are supposed to be concerned for humanitarian welfare should be totally opposed to proposed acts of organized charity that the OIC has decided to pursue in Myammar in the interest of the oppressed Rohingyas] YANGON | Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:26pm BST YANGON (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhist monks marched in Myanmar's two biggest cities on Monday to protest against efforts by the world's biggest Islamic body to help Rohingya Muslims involved in deadly communal clashes four months ago. The monks, a potent political force in the predominantly Buddhist country, denounced plans by the 57-member Organisation of...

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PAS MENYUMBANG SERATUS RIBU UNTUK BANTUAN KEMANUSIAAN MASYARAKAT ROHINGYA DI ARAKAN

Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) - melalui inisiatif Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia (DPMM) - telah menyumbangkan sebanyak RM100,000 (seratus ribu) kepada Majlis Ulama Rohingya (MUR) pada 14 Ogos 2012. Sumbangan tersebut disampaikan sendiri oleh Presiden Parti Islam SeMalaysia  (PAS), Tuan Guru Haji Hadi Awang kepada Ustaz Mohd. Jaber bin Mohd. Subahan (Pengerusi, Majlis Ulama Rohingya (MUR)) bertempat di Ibu Pejabat PAS, Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur. Turut hadir dalam majlis tersebut ialah Dr. Shamsuri Mokhtar (Setiausaha Politik Presiden PAS), Ustaz Nasrudin Hassan (Ketua DPPM), Nurul Islam (Exco DPPM) dan Ustaz Haji Abu Sayyed bin Abdul Malek (Timbalan Pengerusi MUR). Majlis Ulama Rohingya (MUR) menerima amanah...

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BANTUAN KEMANUSIAAN DARI KELAB PUTERA 1MALAYSIA (KP1M) SAMPAI KEPADA MANGSA ETNIK ROHINGYA DI SITTWE

Blog Agenda Daily melaporkan bahawa bantuan kemanusiaan dari Malaysia atas inisiatif  Kelab Putera 1Malaysia (KP1M) sudah mula diagihkan kepada penghuni masyarakat Rohingya yang ditempatkan di kem-kem perlindungan sementara tidak jauh dari bandar Sittwe petang Isnin (8/10/2012). “Berat mata memandang...berat lagi bahu memikul. Suasananya memang sayu dan menyedihkan”. Itulah ungkapan yang diceritakan oleh Mohamed Heikal dan Mohd. Helmi Jaafar, wartawan Agenda Daily.  Jelas mereka lagi’ “Wajah kesyukuran jelas tergambar pada ratusan pelarian masyarakat Islam Rohingya di Kem Thekebyin dan Kem Baw Dhu Pa serta di Kampung Baw Dhu Pha sewaktu bantuan 100 tan makanan disampaikan.”  Di laman ini dipaparkan beberapa...

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KELAB PUTRA 1MALAYSIA (KP1M) MENGHANTAR BANTUAN KEMANUSIAAN KEPADA MANGSA TRAGEDI RUSUHAN ETNIK DI ARAKAN, MYANMAR

Blog Kelab 1Malaysia  (http://siemens-melayumaju.blogspot.com/2012/10/gambar-terbaharu-misi-rohingya-kelab.html) melaporkan bahawa setakat ini urusan misi kemanusiaan KP1M untuk membantu penderitaan masyarakat Rohingya di Myanmar nampak berjalan agak lancar.  Rombongan utama misi tersebut diketuai oleh Presiden KP1M Datuk Azeez Abdul Rahim yang tiba di Yangon pada Sabtu 6 Oktober. Rombongan tersebut berlepas dari Yangon dengan pesawat komersial tempatan ke bandar perlabuhan Sittwe (Akyab) pada tengahari Ahad. Ketibaan Datuk Azeez dan rombongan disambut baik oleh Ketua Menteri Wilayah Rakhine, Hla Maung Tin di lapangan terbang,turut sama ialah Menteri Hal Ehwal Sempadan  Myanmar, Mejar General Zaw Winn dan Duta Malaysia...

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SETIAUSAHA AGUNG PBB MENASIHATI OIC SUPAYA ISU ROHINGYA DITANGANI SECARA BERHATI-HATI!

Melalui laporan yang diperolehi daripada beberapa agensi media antarabangsa, Perhimpunan Agung Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu yang bersidang kali ke-67, berlangsung di Ibu Pejabat PBB, New York pada 28 September 2012 tidak membincangkan isu mengenai rusuhan kaum yang berlaku di Rakhine State (dahulu dikenali Arakan), Myanmar secara terbuka. Setiausaha Agung PBB, Ban Ki-moon (bawah), dikatakan hanya mengadakan pertemuan dengan Presiden Thein Sein dan Profesor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Setiausaha Agung OIC - badan Islam terbesar di dunia, yang mewakili 57 negara Islam) - secara berasingan. Ban Ki-moon dikatakan telah menasihatkan Setiausaha Agung OIC supaya menangani isu Rohingya Muslim yang tidak bernegara di Myanmar secara berhati-hati oleh kerana...

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