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2011-03-28
In a program aired on March 11, Aung San Suu Kyi discusses Burma’s budget, the problems of drug abuse, and the Burmese people’s disappointment at the results of the 2010 elections.
Q:  I am the secretary of the Karen Nationals Organization in Denmark. I would like to know what road the NLD will take in the future so that political changes can occur in Burma.


New ID card will make it even harder for Rohingya men to get work
DHAKA, 29 March 2011 (IRIN) - The introduction of national ID cards may lead to further institutionalized discrimination of Burmese Rohingya asylum-seekers (unregistered refugees) living in southeastern Bangladesh, experts warn.

A report by US-based NGO Refugees International to be released next month is expected to highlight how lack of access to public services and gainful employment for non-ID card holders will contribute to severe food insecurity for the Rohingyas.
Thursday, 24 March 2011 10:31
PRESS RELEASE
24th March 2011

Concern on Narinjara’s concocted news linking Rohingyas with Taliban

We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations, strongly condemn the Narinjara News Agency for its disinformation of describing the innocent Rohigya people as suspected Talibans.

According to a pre-plan to extort money from the Rohingyas, the Nasaka collaborators informed the Nasaka of the area that some insurgents had entered in North Maungdaw and held a meeting with people in Kamaung Seik village (Fokira Bazar) whereupon, taking advantage of opportunities and circumstances, the Nasaka started arresting and torturing the innocent villagers arbitrarily. So far, about 50 innocent Rohingya villagers were arrested under false and concocted allegation of having link with insurgents which Narinjara fabricated as Talibans in its news on 20 March, 2011. It has exaggerated news giving cry wolf mentioning the name of one imaginary Taliban Maulvi Harun as imparting combat and bomb making training to the villagers in the jungles. It further concocted that a seal and documents, which identified them as members of the Taliban, were seized. According to Irrawaddy news of March 22, 2011, the Narinjara editor Khaing Mrat Kyaw said, “Nasaka told us about Maulvi Harun, who entered the country from Bangladesh and had given training.” It hints his involvement in the plan of the Nasaka against the innocent Rohingya villagers.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
By Emma Murphy, Darwin

Rohingya refugee mother and child in a refugee camp near the border of Bangladesh and Burma.
Two days after staging a rooftop protest, Burmese Rohingyan refugees inside the Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC), received a notice on March 17 from the immigration department.
“Your concerns about the delays in finalising cases are understandable,” it said.

The Rohingya community of Arakan, Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most in dangerous ethnicminorities of the world. They are facing unexpected exercises in their ancestral land by political oppression, economic exploitation and cultural slavery in their ancestral land Arakan where they have been living for centuries.
Monday, 21 March 2011 14:04

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The information of spreading rumor about linking with Taliban and villagers of Kamaung Seik (Fokira Bazaar) in Maungdaw north is a creation, according to Nasaka official.
The Burma border security force, or Nasaka Director Lt. Col Aung Gyi said to the public in a meeting held at Maungnama Madrasa of Maungdaw Township today afternoon that the linking with Taliban is a creation, the official said.

“The linking with Taliban with the villagers of Kamaung Seik village under the Nasaka area number 2 is a creation of some political offences between USDP and NDPD supporters.”


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