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BURMA: Rohingya Face Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis

“The situation in this area is extreme” - Tomás Ojea Quintana, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights

(RANGOON) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Myanmar government of restricting humanitarian aid and discriminating against Muslim Rohingyas in a new report.

HRW's Phil Robertson said, “Burmese [Myanmar] government restrictions on aid to Rohingya Muslims are creating a humanitarian crisis that will become a disaster when the rainy season arrives.”

The Buddhists Attack Muslims in Tharyarwadi, Bago Division

The police personnel and other riot security forces watching the activities of racist Buddhists as like as football match watching in the Television program.

(AOK PHO, Burma) - The Muslims in Aok Pho town in Tharyarwadi, Bago division are being attacked according to information received at 12:30 a.m. About 400 Buddhist terrorists are burning a Mosque and houses.

The police have failed to control the racists. Local police say the number of rioters is high.

International Community Condemns Meiktila Riots

In a brief statement, the US embassy said it was closely monitoring events.

(MEIKTILA, Burma Mizzima News) - The United Nations, the US, the UK, and various other members of the international community have expressed concerns over the recent wave of sectarian violence which erupted in the central Myanmar town of Meiktila this week.

United Nations Resident Coordinator in Myanmar, Ashok Nigam, on Thursday said, “I am deeply concerned with the violence and loss of lives and property in Meiktila Township, Mandalay Division.

Buddhist Terrorists Again

The gang of extremists seemed particularly intent on setting fire to houses and destroying two mosques named Rakhine Mosque and Rawan Mosque.

(YANGON, Burma) - According to a local telephone from the residents of Mingaladaungyunt, Yangon, Myanamr a crowd of over 5000 Buddhist extremists including both monks terrorist and local extremists surrounded the Muslim quarter.

When Muslims came outside of houses for resistance fearfully and greedily to save lives putting ahead cemetery then at once security forces arrived and they ordered to go back both groups.

BURMA: Refugee Camp Death Toll Rises to 42

Authorities believe the fire was sparked by an unattended cooking flame.

(MAE SURRIN REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand) - The toll from a blaze that swept through a camp in northern Thailand has risen to 42, a Thai official told AFP on Saturday, after hundreds of temporary homes for refugees from Myanmar were reduced to ashes.

Dozens of people were injured in the fire, which broke out on Friday at the Mae Surin camp in Mae Hong Son province, with women, children and the elderly believed to make up the majority of the victims, most of whom are ethnic Karenni.

BURMA: Army Restores Calm in Meikhtila After Deadly Sectarian Clashes

Security forces escorted about 6,000 Muslims to a stadium in the town where they were being held.

(MEIKHTILA The Irrawaddy) - Smoldering debris and charred buildings littered the Muslim quarter of Meikhtila in central Burma on Saturday as the army was brought in to end days of violence.

Relative calm returned to the town on Saturday after the army was brought in to patrol the streets following nearly three days of clashes between Buddhists and Muslims, which left an unconfirmed number of people dead.

Update from the New `Killing field` in Burma: 12 Masjids Burned & 4 Islamic Teachers Killed

State of emergency imposed in Meiktila.

(NEW YORK) - At least 12 mosques have been burned, and extremist Buddhist mobs are still hunting Muslims in the central Burmese town of Meiktila.

One report says that 28 students and 4 Islamic teachers were killed in one of the Islamic schools in the town, in the presence of police forces. The list of the dead included Hafiz Mohammad Ahtisham, Mawlana Mohammad Shafi, Mawlana Zakariya and Mufti Wajib.

Mekhtila Muslim Massacre

Burmese Rohingya Association Thailand states that the violence and death is worse than revealed.

(BANGKOK) - According to the victims of Miekhtila via telephonic conversation, death tolls are hundreds. Damages are unknown. The racists plan to finish all.

The Muslims of every township of Mandalay division are ready to flee for safer places. But where to flee, they don't know. Local Muslim request of many times to Army to help but in vain.

Buddhists Vandalize More Mosques in Meiktilar, Mandalay

Buddhists are moving in crowds with heavy iron rods, swords, sharpens knife and diesel bottles by motorcycles and three-wheel autos.

(MEIKHTILA, Burma Mayu Press) - There is no stability of racism under the Act-144 imposed by the Burmese government authority. The Buddhist racists continued vandalizing Muslim’s ancient Mosques and Religious schools and also family houses, one after another.

Muslim families are leaving and fleeing to avoid the life hazards from their respective own houses. The Buddhists burned down Mingalar Zayyu Hafiz School at midnight of 21 March 2013.

Communal in Violence in Burma Leaves 10 Dead; Mosque Burned

Leaflets being distributed warn of additional violence against Muslims.

(MEIKHTILA, Burma) - Authorities in Burma imposed a curfew following sectarian unrest that left at least 10 dead and two Muslim religious buildings destroyed.

The clashes broke out Wednesday following an argument between a customer and the Muslim owner of a gold shop in the main bazaar in the Mandalay city of Meikhtila.