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Burma Riots: Video Shows Police Failing to Stop Attack

The BBC has obtained police video showing officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the town of Meiktila.

(MEIKTILA, Burma BBC) - The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses. A man thought to be a Muslim is seen on fire.

It was filmed last month, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila.

ERC Delegates Attend 3-day IGMF Conference in Germany

ERC delegates asked the German Government condemn the Burmese Government over discrimination and mass killings of Rohingya in Arakan.

(FRANKFURT) - The International Society for Human Rights Germany (IGMF) held 41st Annual Conference on April 12 – 14, 2013 at Gustav-Stressmann Institute in Bonn, Germany.

There were around 200 participants from different countries of the world including Cuba, China, Turkey, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Iran, USA, UK and Burma (Myanmar) etc.

Is the Burmese Military Keeping Rohingya Women As Sex Slaves?

Young beautiful Rohingya women reportedly kept as sex slaves at Sittwe Burmese military camp.

(SITTWE, Burma) - Burma's Muslims are still having a pretty awful time of it.

Last year, the country's Buddhist majority launched a series of attacks on the minority Rohingya Muslim population, supposedly because they're not "ethnically pure".

Insight Live on Sahar TV Interview with Mohamed Ibrahim

The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted communities in the world...

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Myanmar has a Buddhist majority.

The Muslim minority in Myanmar mostly consists of the Rohingya people and descendants of Muslim immigrants from India...

Free Rohingyas from Genocide

Buddhist violence continues to plague Myanmar's Muslim communities.

(KUALA LUMPUR) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) received numerous urgent calls from Rohingyas in the Arakan State of Myanmar.

On 2nd April 2013 at 2.45 a.m. in Maung Nifara Village of Maungdaw Township, Rohingyas villagers saw 35 Rakhines Buddhists gathered near the mosques in the village.

Myanmar Must Take `Bold Steps` to Tackle Unrest: UN Envoy

Quintana also alluded to allegations that some State officials, including local politicians and administrators, have been encouraging discriminatory views and inciting hatred.

(RANGOON Mizzima News) - The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, on Friday issued a statement from Geneva.

He expressed his “serious concerns” about the spread of violence between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Myanmar and urged the Thein Sein government to take “bold steps” to counteract what he called a “frightening trend”.

Myanmar Govt Slams Religious Extremism

Much of the violence appears to be well organized.

(YANGON Agence Press France) - Myanmar President Thein Sein said yesterday that his reformist government would not tolerate religious extremism, following a wave of deadly Buddhist-Muslim violence in the former army-ruled nation.

At least 40 people have been killed and mosques burned in several towns in central Myanmar since a new eruption of sectarian strife on March 20, prompting the government to impose emergency rule and curfews in some areas.

A Big Muslim Loss in Burma Continues

During the attack, the Burmese authority cut off all of the telephone lines of Muslims so they could not inform others to help.

(MEIKTILA, Burma Mayu Press) - Hundreds of Muslim women, children and elderly have been killed mercilessly and more than 20,000 displaced.

Mosques and religious schools have been torched, Muslim properties have been looted since the latest violence broke out since 20 March 2013 in Meiktila, near villages and towns.

BRCA Urges UN and lnternational Community to Protect Muslims in Burma from Pre-Planned Massacre

"We strongly condemn the atrocities committed against innocent Muslims in Burma"

(MELBOURNE) - The Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia (BRCA) condemns the inhuman act of killing Muslims in central Burma from the 20th of March 2013 and would like to urge the United Nations and lnternational Communities to ungently intervene to protect Muslim minorities in Burma from a pre-planned massacre.

On 20 March 2013, a heated argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers erupted, which gave the opportunity to create a killing field for Muslims in central Burma; in Meiktila first and then continued to other surrounding areas and Yamethin in 23 March 2013.

Memorandum of Urgent Intervention to Stop Continuous Genocide of Muslims in Myanmar

Buddhist monks and others armed with swords and knives stalked the streets of a city in central Myanmar attacking the Muslims.

(LONDON) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) strongly condemns the attack on Muslim population by the Myanmar government.

The recent riot involving Buddhist and Muslim in Meiktila is the interpretation of continuous effort to clean Muslim from Myanmar.