Troubles in Arakan: 1949 British Perspective!

(This post is direct from DerekTonkin’s Network Myanmar Site.)









Three river-valleys of North Arakan.

Peter Murray was a pre-war British administrator who
spoke fluent Burmese. He was the British Ambassador to Cambodia during 1961-62. 

Peter Murray was also a territorial CAO (Civil Affairs Officer) with the British
Army in Northern Arakan during the Second World War. 

He was the same

Kyauk Phyu Muslim Wards Burning!

The Muslim wards of
beautiful seaport Kyauk Phyu in Arakan State has been burning since 23 October by
the Yakihine Buddhist mob hell bent on ridding Muslims off their predominantly
Buddhist town.



Kyauk Phyu lies at the
northern end of Ramree (Yan-byae) offshore Island. It has ten wards of which
eight wards are Buddhists and two are occupied by a small community of Muslim
fishermen.

Monks Protest against Army Killing Buddhists in Arakan

Buddhist monks protesting against Burma Army killing
Yakhine Buddhist vigilantes in Arakan.

Since the disturbances
reignited again in the troubled Arakan our overzealous Army has been shooting
dead many Yakhine Buddhists, probably just too many, while protecting the
Bengali Muslim minority from them.



Sittwe Hospital is now filled
with many young Yakhine Buddhist men with gunshot wounds

Arakan Burning Again with Bengali Race Riots!

(Direct translations of news articles from Narinjara News Agency and
EMG group.)





Pike-thae Bengali Muslim Ward in Min Byar Town burning.

The unsettling troubles
started again at the Min Byar town of Arakan State in the late afternoon of
October 21 when many houses owned by Bengali Muslims were burned down by
unknown persons.



Bengalis said Buddhists did
it while Buddhists were claiming

Indonesia Shuts Down Buddhist Temples in Aceh

(This post by Mathias Hariyadi is direct from the AsiaNews.it site on October 18.)





Indonesian Police shutting
down churches & temples.

Jakarta
(Asia News) - Authorities in Banda Aceh, capital of the Aceh Special Territory,
ordered the closure of nine Christian home churches and six Buddhist prayer
houses for alleged irregularities in their building permit.



According
to Deputy Mayor

No OIC Office in Burma: President Ordered!

(This post is based on various articles from the EMG site.)





On October 15 Burma
President U Thein Sein has ordered he will not allow the OIC (Organization of
Islamic Cooperation) to open any office whether liaison office or
representative office or logistic office for supporting the so-called Rohingyas
or for protecting their God-given rights.



The Presidential order was
on all the media

Glenn Hubbard: The Romney’s Economist

(This article "Romney's Go-To Economist" by David Segal is from the New York Times.)





Glenn Hubbard the Romney's
Economist from Columbia.

“I HOPE you’re sitting down for this,” said Ali Velshi, the CNN
anchor, staring into the camera, his voice booming with incredulity about a
campaign promise issued by Mitt Romney: that, if elected, Mr. Romney would create 12 million jobs
in four years.

KIA Murders: A Daughter’s Plea for Justice!

(Direct
translation of a daughter’s plea letter to Myanmar Human Rights Commission for
the brutal executions of her Shan parents by the KIA Fifth brigade in September
2011. Daw Waing Tin's 56 year-old father and 55 year-old mother both Shans were kidnapped and tortured and murdered brutally by the Kachin insurgents of KIA battalion-24 Fifth KIA brigade in Bamaw District of Kachin State.)

Burma Navy’s Stealth Corvettes

(This post is direct translation of articles from the Myanmar Military site.)





Just recently Burma Navy had
a grand launching ceremony of many new war ships. What sort of war ships were
there in the ceremony is still not clear but most probable ones were reconditioned-frigates
purchased from People Republic of China.



Most exciting news is that
some new warships in the launching ceremony

Arakan Mass Protests Against OIC Presence!

(This post is direct translation of articles from The Narinjara News Agency.)





No OIC Protest by Buddhist monks in Sittwe (October 9).

The Arakan protest on
October 9 began as just Buddhist monks only demonstration at the Bangladesh
consulate in Sittwe the capital of Arakan State. But thousands and thousands of
Buddhist lay people joined in and the protest became a mass protest more than

KIA: The Highway Robbers and Rapist Cowards?

(This post is direct translations of articles from the KachinDaily News
site.)





Traffic stood still at a KIA road-block arbitrarily set up
to rob the travelling public, vehicles, and motorbikes.

Desperate KIA units are now
forcefully collecting hefty Protection Fees (Set-kyay in Burmese) from the local people at many
places in Kachin State as the year-long war against Burma army and the

Shariah, Mullahs, and Muslims in Bangladesh

(This article by Islamic scholar Dr. Taj Hashmi is direct from the Freethinkers Site.)





The Shariah or Muslim code
with all its variations and contradictions has created problems both for
Muslims and non-Muslims in Muslim-dominated as well as other countries in our
times.



The term “Shariah” evokes
bad memories among its victims as well as opponents who want the abolition or
drastic

Bangladesh Ethnic-cleansing funded by Saudi Arabia?

(This article by Mohshin Habib is direct from the Gatestone institute’s site.)




Saudi Arabia's Rabita Al
Alam Al Islami NGO.


Despite
what officials state, the Islamists of Bangladesh have been violently urging
all non-Muslims to get out of the country. Buddhists, for example, mostly
settled in the southeast part of Bangladesh and less than 1% of the population
of 150 million, have been

Retired General Than Shwe is Doing Very Well!

(This post is direct translation of articles from MEG on 1 October2012.)







Retired Senior General Than Shwe, the Ex-dictator
(or) the father of Burma's semi-democracy?

The religious
ceremony replacing the old golden-umbrella of relatively tiny Maha-Yangon miniature
pagoda, inside the Buddha-Wihaya Glass Hall of Seik-kan-thar temple on Upper-Strand
Street in Rangoon’s Kyauk-ta-dar

Hero Welcome for President U Thein Sein Back from UN

(This post is direct from The Weekly Eleven Media on 1 October2012.)







After
attending and participating in the annual General Debate at the UNGA (United
Nations General Assembly) Burma President U Thein Sein has landed back at
Rangoon International Airport on the morning of October First.



And
believe or not there were thousands and thousands of his fellow country men and
women