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RWANDA: `We sacrifice more than people realize for this cause`

A conversation with Dr. Gerald Gahima.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Academics at a recent London conference presented research works about Rwanda's twenty years of post-conflict governance under the Rwandan Patriotic Front in the period following the 1994 Genocide. Topics of the conference ranged from agricultural issues, to youth in Rwanda, political opposition and peace building. The event, sponsored by the Royal African Society in London, was organized by Dr. Phil Clark, Professor at London University.

Due to the nature of the academic conference, no direct quotations or information can be used in any publication. Journalist received this requirement the night before the conference began.

Rohingya Panel Discussion Held in European Parliament

After the 2012 Rakhine state riots, according to estimated data, 650 Rohingyas were killed, 1200 are missing and up to 140,000 have been displaced.

(LONDON Burma Times) - The panel’s main speaker, The EU Parliament MEP Jean lambert, said despite some progress in Burma the Rohingya community continues to be persecuted and more must be done.

Nevertheless, despite its commitments to the international community to prevent sectarian violence between the Rohingya and the ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, Burma’s government has yet failed to prevent another incident added to the long history of human rights violations and prosecution that follows to the Rohingyas.

Hot Off The Press: Nakba II -Israel is Testing The Water

Lieberman, didn’t leave much room for a doubt. Once again, it is the Jewish state that is evicting Palestinians from their land in favor of the Jewish People and their Jewish interests.

(LONDON) - Simultaneous protests took place on Saturday in Hifa, Tayibe and Jerusalem over Praver Bill -a plan to evict Bedouin communities in the Negev. The Bill has provoked a storm not only amid the Arab MKs who voted against it, but mainly among those it is aimed against, the Bedouin residents of southern Israel.

It seems as if Israel is testing the water examining the reaction to another mass expulsion of Palestinians.

Propaganda Piece on Aung San Suu Kyi

Parliamentary Democracy Party (Burma) has sent a letter to The Times Newspaper...

(RANGOON Burma Times) - I am again writing to you draw your attention to the propaganda news of Aung San Suu Kyi concerning the political situation and leadership of Burma.

We draw your attention to the manifest inaccuracies being used by your journalists covering the Burma political situation. Aung San Suu Kyi has never been the opposition leader, but as the leader of the NLD political party as there are other political parties – such as the Parliamentary Democracy Party...

UN Asks Myanmar to Refund Citizenship Rights of Muslims

Third Committee of UN General Assembly approves a draft resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar, urging it to prevent violent acts in the country.

(GENEVA) - Third Committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which is responsible for social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues, asked Myanmar to refund citizenship rights of the Muslim minority.

The third Committee consensually approved a draft resolution concerning human rights violation in Myanmar. The Myanmar government was called to provide Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state with equal citizenship rights and prevent violent acts against the Muslim minority by Buddhists in the country.

Towards the Creation of a Fact-Finding Commission on Relations Between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar

Collaborating with local civil-society bodies inside Myanmar, this fact-finding commission would have three objectives.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) concluded its biennial conference on November 4 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, our first such meeting in a Muslim-majority nation.

The conference theme — Inter-Faith Dialogue for Peace and Sustainability — points to the interdependence of Buddhists and Muslims throughout Southeast Asia.

Myanmar Authorities Should Stop Sending Boatloads of Rohingyas to Sea

Women and children are sent to sea from Kunia Village in Maungdaw - too many are dying...

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - This is a request to the Myanmar Government Authority to stop sailing boats with Rohingya women and children to Malaysia.

It is learned from reliable sources that at least two boats a week sail loaded with not only Rohingya youths but also Rohingya children and women to Malaysia by risky sea route.

BURMA: Declaration to Submit Petition for the Confiscated Land of Rohingya

There are hundreds of villagers who have lost their land; they are from Kin Daung, Atwin nga tay, Sein Daung, Tankyak kan, Lay Myro, Dabru Chaung, Nanra Goon villages and so on.

(RANGOON Burma Times) - According to the villagers of Atwin Nga Tay village tract, City peace and development council (Ma-Ya-Ka) and land registry has released a notification to submit petition for the confiscated Rohingya land.

The land was confiscated for the military and for a Buddhist pagoda, in 1988 and 1994. There were hundreds of acres of land that were confiscated for battalions and one hundred acres for the pagoda that is located in a Buddhist village.

BURMA: OIC Chief Visits Rohingya Camps: `I Was Crying`

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi — who has said little in defense of the religious minority — declined to meet with the OIC delegation.

(RANGOON) - The secretary general of the world’s largest bloc of Islamic countries said emotional visits with members of the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community — chased from their homes in Burma by Buddhist mobs and arsonists — brought him to tears.

“I’ve never had such a feeling,” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said late Saturday, as he and other delegates from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation wrapped up a three-day tour to Burma that included talks with the president, government ministers, interfaith groups and U.N. agencies.

OIC in New Push to Set Up an Office in Myanmar

"OIC wants to open an office in Myanmar," MP Khin Saw Wai told RFA's Myanmar Service amid continuing protests against the OIC visit by Buddhist groups.

(RANGOON RFA) - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is pressing predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar to allow it to set up an office in the country to channel humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya Muslim minority who have borne the brunt of sectarian violence, lawmakers said.

A previous OIC request to set up a permanent office had been rejected by the Myanmar government following protests by Buddhists concerned over any international aid to the Rohingyas, most of whom are considered illegal immigrants.