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  • #76
    Burmese government blocking aid in Rakhine state, says HRW
    23rd October 2016

    A Rohingya girl who was displaced following 2012 sectarian violence carries a baby at Nga Chaung Refugee Camp in Pauktaw, Rakhine state, Burma.
    Pic: AP.

    HUMAN Rights Watch has urged the Burmese (Myanmar) government to lift its blockade on humanitarian aid for ethnic Rohingyans in the northern Rakhine State.

    The rights group on Friday said government security operations have cut off assistance to tens of thousands of people and forced many to flee their homes.

    Brad AdamsstatementblamedallegedNewly arrived migrants gather at Kuala Langsa Port in Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia, in 2015.
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    • #77
      Burma Army Forces Hundreds of Rohingya Villagers from Homes
      Wa Lone
      25 October 2016

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      Burma Amy troops on patrol in Maungdaw Township on Oct. 16, 2016.
      Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy

      RANGOONbarred from visiting them.

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      • #78
        Foreign diplomats travel to Maungdaw as concerns grow
        2 November 2016

        Local villagers in northern Arakan State's Maungdaw Township gather to meet a delegation of foreign diplomats who visited the region on 2 November 2016.
        Photo: DVB

        A 10-member delegation of foreign diplomats arrived in northern Arakan State on Wednesday for the first visit to the area by senior international observers since it came under military lockdown more than three weeks ago.


        The delegation, led by United Nations resident Renata Lok-Desallien, traveled with Arakan State Chief Minister Nyi Pu to Kyinkanpyin, where attacks on 9 October left nine border police dead, and other villages to meet with officials and residents of the predominantly Muslim region.

        The members of the delegation included diplomats from the United States, Britain and the European Union, neighbouring China, India and Thailand, and Muslim-majority countries Indonesia, Egypt and Turkey.

        They were also accompanied by Border Affairs Minister Lt-Gen. Ye Aung and Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Htin.

        The visit comes amid growing concerns that RohingyaReutersUNOCHA).

        UNOCHA has urged for aid agencies to be granted access to the 10,000 to 15,000 people thought to have been displaced by the latest violence in Arakan State.

        In a sign that the mission was carefully managed by the authorities, state media have been invited to film the visiting diplomats, but no international reporters were informed of the trip or allowed to join.

        Rohingya sources from the area have echoed the concerns about independent access to witnesses, but said the diplomats were likely to visit villages where residents have told Reuters of rapes, destruction of homes and killings of civilians.

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        • #79
          International Delegation Set to Wrap Up Arakan State Visit
          Moe Myint
          3 November 2016

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          United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Renata Dessallien speaks with Arakan State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu.
          RCM / Facebook

          RANGOON attacked by an estimated 250 assailants, resulting in the deaths of nine police officers and the looting of dozens of firearms. The government has said the attacks were carried out by Islamist militants.


          Muslim residents of Kyee Kan Pyin village of Maungdaw Township wait to meet with the international delegation.
          (Photo: Ko Aung)Foreign Ambassadors and United Nations officials meet residents of rural Maungdaw township.
          (Photo RCM / Facebook)identified
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          • #80
            Myanmar obstructs reporters from covering crisis in Rakhine State

            Bangkok, November 3, 2016--Security officials in Myanmar should stop obstructing and harassing journalists attempting to report on the conflict in the country's northern Rakhine State, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The censorship comes amid widespread allegations of military abuses, including allegations of sexual violence, perpetrated as part of an intensified counterinsurgency campaign along the country's border with Bangladesh.

            Border guards and military officers in mid-October blocked journalists and photographers from several news organizations, including The Irrawaddy, Myanmar Times, Democratic Voice of Burma, and 7 Day Daily, from traveling north of the state's Kyikanpyin police station to areas in the Maungdaw Township, where joint military-police security operations are underway, according to an October 21 news report from the independent newspaper The Irrawaddy.

            Security officials told reporters they could not travel to the area because it was unsafe for journalists, the same report said. Military officials also ordered journalists to delete photographs they had taken of the aftermath of an October 9 attack on a border guard post that killed five police. The reporters refused to comply and drove back from the military checkpoint, declining to tell officers their names or the media outlets that employ them, the report said.

            "Myanmar's democratically elected government should assert civilian control over its security forces and command senior officers to allow journalists to freely and safely report on the evolving crisis in Rakhine State," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia representative. "The best way to prove or disprove allegations of rights abuses is to allow independent media to probe the accusations. If the government truly has nothing to hide, then there is no need to restrict media access to the areas in question in northern Rakhine State."

            Nongovernmental organizations, rights groups, and international media have all alleged that soldiers have committed rights abuses in security sweeps, including alleged arbitrary arrests, killings of unarmed civilians, arson, and the mass rape of women in blockaded areas of Maungdaw Township, news reports said. Reuters reported that "dozens of Rohingya Muslim women" had been raped or sexually assaulted by soldiers, based on interviews it conducted with victims and rights groups.

            Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay has denied the reports, claiming the allegations are part of an insurgent "disinformation campaign."

            Journalists who have probed the mass rape allegations have come under official fire. Fiona MacGregor, an investigative editor at the independent Myanmar Times, was singled out by Zaw Htay for being biased against the government and in favor of local Muslims soon after she reported, on October 27, allegations made by a local rights group that claimed security forces raped around 30 ethnic-Rohingya women in a single village on October 19.

            The presidential spokesman also reposted comments made on social media by former minister of information Ye Htut calling for a police investigation into MacGregor and her newspaper's reporting on the allegations. MacGregor told CPJ she believed Zaw Htay sought to stifle reporting on the allegations.

            On Monday, the Myanmar Times managers fired MacGregor for breaching company policy against damaging national reconciliation and damaging the paper's reputation by publishing the article alleging the mass rape of ethnic-Rohingya women and other opinion and analysis articles she had recently written about military and government actions in Rakhine State, MacGregor told CPJ.

            Douglas Long, editor of The Myanmar Times, told CPJ by email that MacGregor was fired for violating employee obligations outlined in the company's handbook related to complying "with all reasonable and lawful instructions, policies, procedures and legal requirements." Long wrote, "The extent of direct government pressure [on the paper to fire MacGregor], if any, is unclear."

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            • #81
              Arakan Delegation Reports Findings of Observation Trip
              Moe Myint

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              UN resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Renata Lok-Dessallien at a press conference in Rangoon on Friday morning.
              Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy

              RANGOON
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              • #82
                Arakanese Activist Appeals Sedition, Defamation Case At Sittwe Court
                Saw Yan Naing
                4 November 2016

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                Environmental activist and Arakan Liberation Party spokesperson Khaing Myo Htun.
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                • #83
                  Myanmar journalist says she was fired over story on military rape allegations

                  Myanmar journalist says she was fired over story on military rape allegations
                  Oliver Holmes
                  Friday 4 November 201

                  Reporter Fiona MacGregor says Myanmar Times newspaper sacked her after articles critical of security forces were said to have damaged its reputation

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                  Photograph: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

                  A journalist who worked at the English-language Myanmar Times has said she was dismissed for an article she wrote on allegations of rape by security forces following government pressure on the newspaper.

                  Former special investigations editor Fiona MacGregor had been reporting on Rakhine state, much of which is under military lockdown following deadly attacksarticlewritten for the GuardianMyanmarreportedsaid
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                  • #84
                    What is Aung San Suu Kyi doing about the Rohingya?
                    Zan Azlee
                    7th November 2016


                    Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi.

                    Pic: AP.
                    A Rohingya girl who was displaced following 2012 sectarian violence carries a baby at Nga Chaung Refugee Camp in Pauktaw, Rakhine state, Burma.

                    Pic: AP.New York Times** This is the personal opinion of the writer and does not reflect the views of Asian Correspondent

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                    • #85
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                      • #86
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                        International Delegation Set to Wrap Up Arakan State Visit
                        Moe Myint
                        3 November 2016

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                        Originally posted by Mid View Post

                        UN clarifies position on Arakan rape caims
                        10 November 2016

                        Foreign diplomats visit northern Arakan State on 2 November 2016.
                        (Photo: DVB)

                        A United Nations spokesperson has clarified that a senior UN official who visited northern Arakan State last week did not categorically deny rape allegations made by Rohingyaa press conference held on 3 Novemberattacked border police outposts on 9 Octobercomments appeared to be in response to statements in state media to the effect that the delegation had concluded there was no substance to foreign media reports of rapes allegedly committed by security personnel active in the region.

                        On Monday, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reportedaid was not resumed until Monday, four weeks after a lockdown was first imposed.

                        Security forces have killed 33 alleged attackers, while five soldiers and one policeman have been killed since security operations began, according to state-run media.

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                        • #87
                          Fresh Clashes, Burned Villages Reported in Myanmar's Maungdaw
                          Reported by RFA's Myanmar Service.
                          Translated by Khin Maung Nyane.
                          Written in English by Paul Eckert
                          2016-11-13


                          Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathedaung townships in western Myanmar's Rakhine state.
                          RFA Graphic
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                          • #88
                            Govt Refutes Human Rights Report on Arakan State Violence
                            16 November 2016

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                            U Zaw Htay talks to the media at an urgent press conference on the situation in Arakan State on Wednesday.
                            Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy

                            RANGOON identified a total of 430 destroyed buildingsthe weekend clashes resulted in at least 27 deaths. The recent conflict is the largest escalation
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                            • #89
                              Myanmar bars US photographer ahead of Rohingya show
                              17 Nov 2016


                              Rohingya Muslim boys stand in U Shey Kya village outside Maungdaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar, on Oct 27, 2016.
                              (Reuters photo)

                              YANGON - Myanmar has blacklisted a prominent US photographer and prevented him from attending his own exhibition about stateless people, which would have featured pictures of the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority.

                              Award-winning documentary photographer , who asked to keep where he lives private, said he was stopped at Yangon airport on Friday and told he was on a "blacklist".

                              Mr Constantine said he believed it was linked to his work documenting the lives of the Rohingya, whose status is a major flashpoint in Myanmar.

                              Many in the Buddhist-majority country revile the million-strong Muslim minority, who are based in western Rakhine state, and vigorously oppose any move to grant them citizenship.

                              "I've done a significant amount of work on stateless people in Rakhine... I can only speculate that that would be the reason, or one of the reasons, why I would be on this blacklist right now," Mr Constantine told AFP.

                              Immigration officials confirmed that the photographer had been blacklisted but refused to say why.

                              "I cannot tell you what kind of blacklist he is on," said Ye Tun Oo, the director of the immigration department.

                              Mr Constantine's "Nowhere people," which explores the lives of stateless people in 18 countries around the world, had been due to open in Yangon on Wednesday but has been temporarily postponed.

                              The exhibition was to include images of Rohingya in the destitute camps where many have languished for years and face severe restrictions on their movement and access to basic services.

                              Hatred towards the minority has intensified since the government blamed Rohingya militants for deadly raids on police border posts last month.

                              Troops have locked down the area since, sending more than 15,000 people fleeing and killing at least 69 people in their hunt for the attackers.

                              The government of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected reports that troops have shot unarmed Rohingya civilians, raped women and torched homes.

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                              • #90
                                Burma: Allow access to investigate abuses in Rakhine state
                                Thu, 17/11/2016

                                The Burmeseidentify 430 destroyed buildingsBrad Adams three border outposts in Maungdaw township that left nine police officers dead, the military implemented a lockdown of the area, denying access to humanitarian aid groups, independent media, and rights monitors. Another outbreak of violenceoccurred starting on November 11, during which nearly a hundred people were reported killed. According to humanitarian groups, tens of thousands have been displaced by the violence. Humanitarian access to the area remains extremely limited.

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