Buddhist & Thai Victims of Kuffarphobia Discussions - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-28T09:05:15Zhttp://4freedoms.com/group/buddhists/forum?groupUrl=buddhists&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAshin Wirathu – A Nationalist Buddhisttag:4freedoms.com,2015-10-10:3766518:Topic:1713352015-10-10T23:20:11.422ZKinanahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Kinana
<p><b>BUDDHIST EXTREMISM?</b></p>
<p>The New York Times takes Muslim favoritism to an absurd new level.</p>
<p>August 1, 2013</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/raymond-ibrahim"><b>Raymond Ibrahim</b></a></p>
<p><i>Originally published by <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/ibrahim/archive/2013/07/31/understanding-islam-buddhist-common-sense-vs.-western-nonsense.aspx"><b>CBN News</b></a>.…</i></p>
<p><b>BUDDHIST EXTREMISM?</b></p>
<p>The New York Times takes Muslim favoritism to an absurd new level.</p>
<p>August 1, 2013</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/raymond-ibrahim"><b>Raymond Ibrahim</b></a></p>
<p><i>Originally published by <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/ibrahim/archive/2013/07/31/understanding-islam-buddhist-common-sense-vs.-western-nonsense.aspx"><b>CBN News</b></a>.<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110495014?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110495014?profile=original" width="660" class="align-full"/></a></i></p>
<p>A recent <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/world/asia/extremism-rises-among-myanmar-buddhists-wary-of-muslim-minority.html?_r=2&&pagewanted=all"><b>article</b></a> titled “Extremism Rises Among Myanmar’s Buddhists” offers important lessons on common sense and nonsense. Witten by one Thomas Fuller, it begins by telling of how</p>
<p><b>After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of devotees and launched into a rant against what he called “the enemy”—the country’s Muslim minority. “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” Ashin Wirathu said, referring to Muslims. “I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers.”</b></p>
<p>While the article is meant to highlight the supposed “intolerance” of Myanmar’s Buddhists, for those who can read between the lines—or who are familiar with Islamic teachings, history, and current events—it is clear that Buddhists are responding to existential threats posed by the Muslims living among and around them.</p>
<p>Here is the first lesson: unlike the West, Buddhist monks, despite their reputation as devotees of peace, are still able to accept and respond to reality; are still governed by <i>common sense</i>. Unlike the West, whose sense of reality has been so thoroughly warped by a nonstop media propaganda campaign emanating from ubiquitous TVs and computer screens, conditioning Americans how to think and what to believe, “third world” Buddhist monks are acquainted with reality on the ground. They know that, left unchecked, the Muslim minority living among them—which began hostilities—will grow more aggressive, a historically demonstrative fact.</p>
<p>As in other countries, the Muslims of Myanmar have engaged in violence, jihadi terror, and rape of Buddhist girls. And that’s as a minority. Myanmar’s Buddhists are also cognizant that, in neighboring nations like Bangladesh where Muslims are the majority, all non-Muslims are being ruthlessly persecuted into extinction. But even in bordering Thailand, where Buddhists are the majority and Muslims a minority, in the south where Muslims make for large numbers, thousands of Buddhists—men, women, and children—have been slaughtered, beheaded, and raped, as separatist Muslims try to cleanse the region of all “infidel” presence. <a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/02/13/thailand-muslims-in-the-south-are-slaughtering-buddhists-in-order-to-ethnically-cleanse-the-area-warning-graphic-images/"><b>Click here</b></a> for graphic reports and images of Muslim atrocities committed against Buddhists that may shed light on why Myanmar Buddhists are wary of Muslims.</p>
<p>Accordingly, Wirathu, the “radical” Buddhist monk is quoted in the NYT article as saying: “If we are weak, our land will become Muslim.” The theme song of his nationalist organization speaks of people who “live in our land, drink our water, and are ungrateful to us”—a reference to Muslims—and how “We [Buddhists] will build a fence with our bones if necessary” to keep supremacist Muslims out. His pamphlets say “Myanmar is currently facing a most dangerous and fearful poison that is severe enough to eradicate all civilization.” Another senior and apparently “radical” monk concurs: “The main thing is that our religion and our nationality don’t disappear.”</p>
<p>From here we come to lesson two: if Buddhists understand what is at stake—their entire civilization—the NYT report is a testimony to why the West still cannot face reality. Fuller’s article carries all the trademarks—moral relativism and pro-Islam bias, and that dangerous mixture of confidence and ignorance—that characterize the mainstream West’s inability to acknowledge and respond to Islam, but rather to sprout sentimental, nonsensical platitudes.</p>
<p>For starters, Fuller doesn’t seem to comprehend why Myanmar’s Buddhists are worried about disappearing , saying that “Buddhism would seem to have a secure place in Myanmar. Nine in 10 people are Buddhist… Estimates of the Muslim minority range from 4 percent to 8 percent of Myanmar’s roughly 55 million people while the rest are mostly Christian or Hindu.”</p>
<p>Indeed, in neighboring Thailand Muslims also make for about 4% but have, as mentioned, been engaging in genocide against Buddhists in the south where Muslims are concentrated. Moreover, an acquaintance with history—<a href="http://www.meforum.org/3182/history-muslim-conquests"><b>real history</b></a>, not the whitewashed versions currently peddled in American schools—proves that for 14 centuries, Islam has, in fact, wiped out entire peoples and identities: what we today nonchalantly refer to as the “Arab World” was neither Arab and almost entirely Christian in the 7<sup>th</sup> century, when Islam came into being and went on the jihad. Fuller also seems to miss the significance of the fact that there are more Christians and Hindus in Myanmar than Muslims—yet Buddhist hostility only extends to Muslims. If indigenous Buddhists are simply becoming nationalistic radicals, as Fuller suggests, how come they are only attacking Muslims, not Christians and Hindus?</p>
<p>Then there is the clear bias. While regularly decrying the Buddhist treatment of Muslims, including by giving several anecdotes, Fuller does not mention the jihadi terror and murder that Muslims have visited upon Buddhists. He condemns Buddhists for reportedly displacing some 150,000 nonindigenous Muslims, without seeming to be aware that, all around the Islamic world, Muslims are displacing <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/07/mass-exodus-christians-from-muslim-world/"><b>hundreds of thousands of non-Muslims, leading to a mass exodus of Christians</b></a>. If Fuller is unaware of the significance of this fact, Myanmar’s Buddhists are not—hence their very real concerns of being swallowed up by Islam if they don’t act now when they’re in the majority in their own homeland.</p>
<p>But these objective facts are apparently not relevant to the NYT’s readership, which has been more conditioned to subjective talk of “feelings” and other therapeutic nonsense. And here Fuller certainly delivers: the entire tone of the article is one of disappointment at the Buddhists and how “many Muslims are worried.” His closing paragraph is of “a Muslim vendor in the city’s central market” who spoke “in a whisper” saying “I’m really frightened. We tell the children not to go outside unless absolutely necessary.”</p>
<p>Thus while Myanmar’s Buddhists fight for their right to survive against an ever encroaching Islam, the NYT does what it does best—distort reality to make it fit the mainstream media’s world of make believe, in this case, that Muslims are always innocent and misunderstood victims.</p>
<p><b>Postscript</b>: <a href="http://facingislam.blogspot.com/"><b>Ralph Sidway</b></a> reminds me that Indonesian priest, Fr Daniel Byantoro, has written the following applicable words:</p>
<p><b>For thousands of years my country (Indonesia) was a Hindu Buddhist kingdom. The last Hindu king was kind enough to give a tax exempt property for the first Muslim missionary to live and to preach his religion. Slowly the followers of the new religion were growing, and after they became so strong the kingdom was attacked, those who refused to become Muslims had to flee for their life to the neighboring island of Bali or to a high mountain of Tengger, where they have been able to keep their religion until now. Slowly from the Hindu Buddhist Kingdom, Indonesia became the largest Islamic country in the world. If there is any lesson to be learnt by Americans at all, the history of my country is worth pondering upon. We are not hate mongering, bigoted people; rather, we are freedom loving, democracy loving and human loving people. We just don’t want this freedom and democracy to be taken away from us by our ignorance and misguided ‘political correctness’, and the pretension of tolerance.</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/199105/buddhist-extremism-raymond-ibrahim">http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/199105/buddhist-extremism-raymond-ibrahim</a></p> Message to Muslims: Get Outtag:4freedoms.com,2014-11-07:3766518:Topic:1576802014-11-07T14:04:48.068ZKinanahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Kinana
This article from the New York Times barely touches on the reasons for the squeeze put on the Muslim population of Rohingya, Myanmar (Burma), only mentioning ‘the higher Muslim birthrate.’ As if that in itself is the cause of concern and has prompted these drastic measures. The NYT does not ask why the Muslim population is not welcome in Rohingya and why the local population is unhappy with them. Maybe they see what is happening across the border in Thailand or anywhere else in the world where…
This article from the New York Times barely touches on the reasons for the squeeze put on the Muslim population of Rohingya, Myanmar (Burma), only mentioning ‘the higher Muslim birthrate.’ As if that in itself is the cause of concern and has prompted these drastic measures. The NYT does not ask why the Muslim population is not welcome in Rohingya and why the local population is unhappy with them. Maybe they see what is happening across the border in Thailand or anywhere else in the world where Muslims gain confidence and start to act out their political manifesto.<br />
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So they are, with exceptions, being asked to leave and find another place to live. Is this harsh? Yes. Is it profiling? Yes? Is it at all understandable? Yes.<br />
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Myanmar Policy’s Message to Muslims: Get Out<br />
As Myanmar Advances Resettlement Plan, Rohingya Flee<br />
6-11-14<br />
NYT<br />
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Slide Show | Bleak Existence for Myanmar’s Rohingya Minority More than 100,000 Rohingya have fled the country and a similar number are confined in camps amid violence by the Buddhist majority, which accuses them of being foreign interlopers.<br />
By JANE PERLEZ<br />
Last Updated: 2:38 PM GMT<br />
SITTWE, Myanmar — The Myanmar government has given the estimated one million Rohingya people in this coastal region of the country a dispiriting choice: Prove your family has lived here for more than 60 years and qualify for second-class citizenship, or be placed in camps and face deportation.<br />
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The policy, accompanied by a wave of decrees and legislation, has made life for the Rohingya, a long-persecuted Muslim minority, ever more desperate, spurring the biggest flow of Rohingya refugees since a major exodus two years ago.<br />
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In the last three weeks alone, 14,500 Rohingya have sailed from the beaches of Rakhine State to Thailand, with the ultimate goal of reaching Malaysia, according to the Arakan Project, a group that monitors Rohingya refugees.<br />
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The crisis has become an embarrassment to the White House ahead of a scheduled visit by President Obama to Myanmar next week. The administration considers Myanmar a foreign-policy success story in Asia, but is worried that renewed conflict between Buddhist extremists, who are given a free hand by the government, and the Rohingya could derail the already rocky transition from military rule to democratic reform.<br />
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A Rohingya girl in a hut in a displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, in Rakhine State.<br />
Tomas Munita for The New York Times<br />
Mr. Obama called President Thein Sein of Myanmar last week, urging him to address the “tensions and humanitarian situation in Rakhine State,” the White House said.<br />
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In his most public appeal to the government yet, Mr. Obama asked the Myanmar leader to revise the anti-Rohingya policies, specifically the resettlement plan. Myanmar must “support the civil and political rights of the Rohingya population,” he said.<br />
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The Rohingya have faced discrimination for decades. They have been denied citizenship, evicted from their homes, had their land confiscated and been attacked by the military. After one such attack in 1978, some 200,000 fled to Bangladesh.<br />
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The latest flare-up began with an outbreak of sectarian rioting in 2012, in which hundreds of Rohingya were killed and dozens of their villages burned to the ground by radical Buddhists. Since then, close to 100,000 have fled the country, and more than 100,000 have been confined to squalid camps, forbidden to leave.<br />
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A Rohingya woman at a camp in Sittwe called her brother in Malaysia to ask for money after the burial of their mother.<br />
Tomas Munita for The New York Times<br />
As conditions in the camps have deteriorated, international pressure has mounted on the government to find a humane solution. Instead, the government appears to be accelerating a strategy that human rights groups have described as ethnic cleansing.<br />
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For many Rohingya, the new policy, called the Rakhine Action Plan, represents a kind of final humiliation, said Mohamed Saeed, a community organizer in a camp on the edge of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State.<br />
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“People really fear this plan,” he said. “Our community is getting less and less. This is where they want us — out.<br />
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Many Rohingya came to Myanmar in the 19th century when the British ruled all of what is now India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. But the government’s demand for proof of residence since 1948 is too onerous for many, who either do not have the paperwork or fall short of the six-decade requirement, human rights advocates say.<br />
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Those who can prove their residence qualify only for naturalized citizenship, which carries fewer rights than full citizenship and can be revoked. Moreover, they would be classified as “Bengali,” rather than Rohingya, suggesting that they are immigrants from Bangladesh and leaving open the possibility of deportation.<br />
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Under the plan, those Rohingya who cannot meet the standards for naturalized citizenship or refuse to accept the Bengali designation would be placed in camps before being deported.<br />
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Human Rights Watch described the plan as “nothing less than a blueprint for permanent segregation and statelessness.”<br />
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The government asked the United Nations refugee agency to participate in the resettlement, but the agency refused, a spokesman said.<br />
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The Rakhine Action Plan is but one element of a host of policies and tactics aimed at marginalizing the Rohingya. This year, in line with the government’s position that they are foreigners, the Rohingya were prevented from participating in the national census.<br />
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Legislation introduced in Parliament two months ago, and expected to pass, would ban Rohingya from voting in next year’s election. Parliament is also considering a bill that would ban interfaith marriage, a measure human rights advocates say is designed to stoke anti-Muslim sentiment.<br />
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The policies come on top of an increasingly dire situation in Rohingya camps and villages. In the camps around Sittwe, where about 140,000 Rohingya live, health services are virtually nonexistent.<br />
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The main medical provider, Doctors without Borders, was chased out six months ago and has not been able to return.<br />
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In the villages around Maungdaw, a Rohingya-dominated town near the border of Bangladesh, there has been a sudden increase in the arrests of young Rohingya men and boys, United Nations officials and human rights advocates said.<br />
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The Border Guard Police arrested more than 100 Rohingya on charges of holding illegal gatherings and over refusals to participate in the action plan. Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project, said the arrests were part of a campaign to force the men to leave the country.<br />
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For many, the high-risk boat trips to Thailand en route to Malaysia, a Muslim country that quietly tolerates the refugees, begin at a gray sandy beach at Ohn Taw Shi, a fishing village fringed by coconut trees on the outskirts of a camp for the displaced.<br />
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On a recent day, a froth of waves lapped the shore, a few open wooden boats lay untended, waiting for use at night. The police slept in the afternoon heat in a wooden shack about 500 yards away.<br />
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A smuggler, Chan Thet Maung, a cellphone hooked to his pants and earplugs dangling from his neck, said that when the wooden boats were filled with Rohingya, they sailed north for about five hours to connect with larger vessels. There, in waters off the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, multidecked boats sometimes idle for days or weeks, manned by armed and often brutal crews, waiting for a full complement of passengers bound for Thailand, the United Nations refugee agency said in an internal report.<br />
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The annual smuggling season, which begins in early October when the monsoon season ends, got off to a fast start, the smuggler said. The police wanted $2,000 — $100 for each of the 20 passengers — on a recent boat trip, but the smugglers had offered slightly less, he said.<br />
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The trip was aborted, but another attempt would be made soon, he said.<br />
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Local officials abet the smuggling trips, according to Matthew Smith, the director of Fortify Rights, an organization that studies ethnic groups in Myanmar.<br />
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“The regional trafficking and smuggling begins with the complicity of Myanmar authorities,” he said. “We’ve documented Myanmar police and armed forces taking payments as high as 7 million kyat in return for a boat’s passage to sea.” Seven million kyat is approximately $7,000.<br />
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Most Rohingya who want to leave the camps or the villages in northern Rakhine pay brokers $200 just to board a boat. Once in Thailand, the refugees must pay smugglers an additional $2,000 for the second leg to Malaysia.<br />
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Some, like Nor Rankis, 25, who said she wanted to join her estranged husband and brother in Malaysia, do not pay anything, an almost certain sign she will be sold into servitude by traffickers in Thailand.<br />
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“I don’t want to live here; I cannot survive,” she said one evening as she waited for a smuggler to take her away. She had packed a few things in a pink plastic basket: a bottle of perfume, a new sarong and a box of vitamins — though nothing to protect her against the equatorial sun that would beat down on her across the Bay of Bengal.<br />
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For better-off Rohingya in Sittwe, brokers can arrange documents for a ticket on the daily 90-minute flight to Yangon for $4,000. Regular passengers pay $88.<br />
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A 20-year-old Rohingya student, whose family pooled savings for the $4,000, said his broker gave more than 75 percent of the cost to immigration officials. Like all Rohingya students, he was expelled from the university in 2012.<br />
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The student, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, said the broker escorted him with officials of the Department of Immigration and Population in a government car from the camp to Sittwe airport.<br />
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“I was shaking with nerves,” he said. “But the broker gave me heart, and I was waved through the departure gate.”<br />
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In Yangon, the nation’s commercial capital, Rohingya say they have an easier existence. Long-established Rohingya families run businesses there, and documents are not scrutinized as carefully as in Rakhine, where segregation has become entrenched.<br />
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A spokesman for Rakhine State insisted the Rohingya did not belong in Myanmar and defended the Rakhine Action Plan as necessary because the higher Muslim birthrate threatened the Buddhist majority.<br />
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“There are no Rohingya under the law,” said the spokesman, U Win Myaing, assistant director of the Ministry of Information. “They are illegal immigrants. If they need labor in the United Arab Emirates, why don’t they ask people to go there?”<br />
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Some government officials have described the Rakhine Action Plan as a draft proposal, rather than official policy. But the government has already begun to carry out the plan in at least one camp, Myebon, 60 miles south of Sittwe.<br />
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In a gesture in advance of Mr. Obama’s visit, the government released 15 political prisoners in early October, including three Rohingya. Among them was U Kyaw Hla Aung, 75, a prominent lawyer, who was jailed after the violence in Sittwe in 2012.<br />
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One of the few Rohingya trained as a lawyer — Rohingya have since been barred from studying law or medicine — Mr. Kyaw Hla Aung said that it was illogical for the government to insist that Rohingya were not citizens.<br />
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“My father was head clerk of the courts in Sittwe for 40 years,” he said in his bamboo house in one of the camps. “I was a stenographer for 24 years in the courts and then a lawyer. How can they say we are not full citizens?”<br />
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After a few nights of waiting for a smuggler, Ms. Nor Rankis waded into the inky Bay of Bengal to a small wooden boat, jammed with a score of others, headed, she hoped, for Malaysia.<br />
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“I’m depending on God,” she said. “That’s why I dare to go.”<br />
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Wai Moe contributed reporting. Warning Graphic, Hate Site against Thai Buddiststag:4freedoms.com,2014-08-31:3766518:Topic:1561702014-08-31T16:09:11.171Zshivahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/shiva
<p>Just recently I have noticed this rather disturbing image being used by nearly every major counter jihad site</p>
<p>Here it is as pictured on the Satya Blog which Robert Spencer links to</p>
<h1 class="post-title entry-title">ISIS beheading children and women (after stripping naked)</h1>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Slaughtering a Christian woman after stripping her naked (she was probably raped repeatedly, because Islam says she is their sex slave, booty of the…</strong></p>
<p>Just recently I have noticed this rather disturbing image being used by nearly every major counter jihad site</p>
<p>Here it is as pictured on the Satya Blog which Robert Spencer links to</p>
<h1 class="post-title entry-title">ISIS beheading children and women (after stripping naked)</h1>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Slaughtering a Christian woman after stripping her naked (she was probably raped repeatedly, because Islam says she is their sex slave, booty of the war)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110494117?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="600" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110494117?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="600" class="align-center"/></a> <span>Islamists killing a woman by slitting her throat and capturing her blood in a bowl, holding her firm as her life literally drains from her neck. Such forms of execution are intended to intimidate others.</span></p>
<p> Now something is not right about this image.</p>
<p>So after searching for this image I drew a blank all the hits went back to ISIS beheading children and women (after stripping naked) Except one Arabic sight that featured the Image dated as far back as 2010</p>
<p>After opening it, the links to the images were dead, but I was able to eventually find this Iranian hate site</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Communion girls in Thailand (+18) tragic scenes</span></p>
<p>The pagan tribes in Thailand are believed to be the girl that age are more <br/> Than 14 years and unmarried and virginal beauty is not provided on one of the days of the gods <br/> Sacrifice their lives for the safety and protection of themselves and others and to heal diseases, etc.</p>
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<p>More disgusting images</p>
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<p><a href="http://goo.gl/99t2nH" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/99t2nH</a></p>
<p>And here is more of the same hate on an Arabic hate site but directed towards the Chinese</p>
<p><a href="http://goo.gl/adSFZR" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/adSFZR</a></p> 800 years of Buddhism in Pakistantag:4freedoms.com,2013-08-22:3766518:Topic:1354162013-08-22T21:28:30.776ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<div class="the_content" style="margin-top: -35px;"><p>Emi Foulk writing for The Friday Times</p>
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<p>Buddhism took root in Pakistan some 2,300 years ago under the Mauryan king Asoka, whom Nehru once called “greater than any king or emperor.” A great proselytiser, Asoka sent missionaries as far away as the Mediterranean and Sri Lanka have every reason to be knowledgeable about Buddhism; I am not. My father is a scholar of Buddhism. My mother is from Japan, a nation that is 80 per cent Buddhist. Generations of my maternal ancestors are buried in the Buddhist cemetery blanketing the steep slope that runs down from the stunning pagoda of Kyoto’s Kiyomizu temple. I spent childhood summers running through the halls of centuries-old temples, playing hide-and-go-seek behind medieval bodhisattvas and tasseled <em>zazen</em> cushions. Hell, I even had a dog named Mu – that is, the Buddhist ideal of emptiness, non-self, non-ego – <em>and</em> he was featured in a cover story on the Buddha nature of dogs in the Buddhist magazine <em>Tri-cycle.</em> (No matter that Mu is short for Mussafa, after the 16th century Ottoman general and grand vizier.)</p>
<p>Perhaps it was precisely because the quotidian nature Buddhism took on for me that I learned early on to block out anything smelling faintly of the religion – that, and the fact that my father liked nothing better than to infuse Buddhist principles into every “life lesson.” “Em,” he would say when I was distraught about a spat with a friend or criticism from a teacher, “the Bodhidharma taught that words signify nothing.” For a 13-year-old, these words, too, signify nothing. And now, despite my bachelor’s degree in religious studies, I know as little about the world’s fourth largest religion as I did a decade ago.<span id="more-671"></span></p>
<p>Needless to say, when I decided to move to Pakistan, Buddhism was the last thing I had on my mind; after all, it’s the Islamic Republic of Pakistan we’re talking about, where 96 per cent of the population are practicing Muslims. Yet, since arriving in the country six months ago, I have heard more than a few people speak of Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage as some sort of lost Utopia. The kingdoms of Maurya, of Gandhara, they’ll sigh, were progressive and advanced, tolerant and moderate; the implicit juxtaposition with at least some strains of Islam is obvious. This reductionist perspective is, of course, as useless to understanding the contemporary religious climate as it is historically naïve.</p>
<p>Buddhism took root in what is now Pakistan some 2,300 years ago, under the rule of the Mauryan king Asoka (sometimes called Ajoka or Ashoka), widely recognised as the first great proselytiser of the religion. The Edicts of Asoka, a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Asoka, monuments erected by the king across modern-day Pakistan and India, as well as on rocks and in caves in the same area, describe Asoka’s conversion to Buddhism and his efforts to expand the religion in the sub-continent and beyond.</p>
<p>In the inscriptions, Asoka explains he converted to Buddhism as a form of repentance after conquering the Kalinga republic in central-eastern India, around 264 BCE. In one of the most historically significant inscriptions, Rock Edict VIII, Asoka, who refers to himself as “Beloved-of-the-Gods” and “King Piyadasi,” writes: “Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, conquered the Kalingas eight years after his coronation. One hundred and fifty thousand were deported, one hundred thousand were killed and many more died [from other causes]. After the Kalingas were conquered, Beloved-of-the Gods came to feel a strong inclination towards the Dhamma [Dharma], a love for the Dhamma and for instruction in the Dhamma. Now the Beloved-of-the-Gods feels deep remorse for having conquered the Kalingas.” The edict goes on to describe Asoka’s consequent change in foreign policy, from one of military might to non-violent proselytisation.</p>
<p>Yet, despite this avowal of remorse and newfound piety, some scholars question the king’s religious integrity, based on the locales where the edict has been found. To date, eight versions have been excavated, in Afghanistan (2 copies), Pakistan (2), Andhra Pradesh, Gujerat, Uttar Predesh and Maharashtra, near Bombay; the edict is conspicuously missing in and around Kalinga itself. Asoka, whom Nehru called “greater than any king or emperor,” and who can include among his namesakes a liberal theatre troupe currently operating out of Lahore, seems to condemn himself when, in another edict, he addresses the variations in the edicts by explaining that certain content was “unsuitable” for certain peoples in his “wide dominion.” As Professor Ananda WP Guruge asks, “What exactly is it that he [Asoka] did not want them [his subjects in Kalinga] to know? The number of casualties? His repentance? Or the ‘softening’ of his militaristic policy?” Historian Romila Tharpar went even farther when she dismissed Asoka as a “monster of piety” who used Buddhism for his own political purposes. “Whatever his personal convictions may have been regarding the religion, it was eminently suitable for such a ruler who wished to use it to consolidate political and economic power,” she wrote.</p>
<p>According to the edicts, Asoka exported the religion north into the Iranian speaking regions of the eastern Seleucid Empire, in present-day Afghanistan and Central Asia, and south to Sri Lanka. In time, these two missions would lead to the spread of Mahayana (“the Great Vehicle”) Buddhism to China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan; and the advent of Theravada (“Ancient Doctrine”) Buddhism and its spread to Southeast Asia, respectively. The northern mission, extending as far as the Hellenistic kingdoms on the Mediterranean, may have led to the emergence of Greek-speaking Buddhist rulers, who would rule what is now Pakistan during the second to first centuries BCE.</p>
<p>Plagued with a series of weak rulers, the Mauryan Empire began to crumble after Asoka’s death, falling 50 years later in 185 BCE when a military coup set the commander-in-chief of the Mauryan armed forces, Pusymitra Sunga, on the throne. (Some things, it seems, never change.) Under the Hindu Sungas, Buddhism splintered into various factions, warring over differences in religious opinion and doctrine. Sunga rule, however, was short-lived, and five years later the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I invaded the region, bringing it into the fold of the Indo-Greek kingdom. According to some scholars, the annexation was made in order to protect the Buddhist faith from Sunga persecution, though whether there was indeed persecution is itself a point of debate. The Greco-Bactrians converted to Buddhism under the rule of Demetrius I’s general and successor, Menander I, who first ruled the kingdom from Taxila, later moving the capital to Sialkot. Menander is remembered in the <em>Milinda Panha,</em> or “Questions of Milinda” (a variation of Menander), for his dialogues on Buddhist doctrine with the philosopher Nagasena the Elder.</p>
<p>But the “golden age” of Buddhism in the region came about two centuries later, under the Kushan kings of Gandhara, peaking in the second century CE. Gandhara, a thriving centre of trade between Persia and Central Asia, at different times encompassed parts of present-day Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir and the Northwest Frontier Province. According to apocryphal Christian sources, the Apostle Thomas visited Gandhara in 40 CE; and architectural evidence, too, exists of the kingdom’s communication with Rome. The main cities of Gandhara were at Peshawar and Taxila, where ruins of stupas (memorial markers) and monasteries remain today. Still popularly associated with ancient Buddhism, Taxila was Gandhara’s seat of power until the second century CE, when the capital moved to Peshawar. The shrine at Taxila, however, continued to be a major pilgrimage site for Chinese Buddhists until the sixth century, when it was destroyed by Hun invaders from Central Asia.</p>
<p>Like Asoka and the Mauryans before them, the Kushans were active in spreading Buddhism, primarily east along the Silk Road through Central Asia and onward to Han China. Although the Kushans were a Central Asian tribe, they espoused the Hellenised Buddhism of the Greco-Bactrians, and this is reflected in Gandhara’s unique Buddhist art and architecture, which flourished during this period. Like Greek sculpture, Gandharan art was characterised by an idealised form of realism. Anthropomorphised representations of the Buddha were constructed for the first time, often as enormous stone statues carved into hillsides; and this, too, was exported eastward. Sculptures of Buddhas across East Asia can be found draped in toga-like robes, originally an attempt to model the icons after Greek kings. In fact, strong influences of Gandharan art can be seen in the towering stone <em>Daibutsu</em> (“Great Buddha”) of Nara and Kamakura in Japan, which continue to attract millions of tourists each year; and the Ni? guardian deities that stand watch in front of nearly every Japanese temple were inspired by the Greek mythological hero, Hercules.</p>
<p>The decline of Buddhism in what is now Pakistan closely follows the fall of the Kushan Empire. The empire bifurcated in 225 CE, and the western half, in present-day Afghanistan, was swallowed by the Persian Sassanid empire less than a quarter century later. The eastern half, based in Punjab, survived for another 100 years before it was conquered by the Indian Gupta empire. The Central Asian Indo-Hephthalites, or White Huns as they are sometimes called, invaded Gandhara and Punjab in the late fifth and early sixth centuries, and wiped out the little that remained of the Kushans, destroying numerous Buddhist monasteries and shrines in the process.</p>
<p>And here Buddhism in Pakistan fades off the historical radar. There is little extant information about South Asian Buddhism in the latter half of the first millennium; what little we have comes primarily from the seventh century travel journal of a Chinese pilgrim, Xuanzang. Xuanzang describes Buddhism on a sharp decline across the subcontinent, but reports pockets of Theravada Buddhists in Sindh. But the veracity of the pilgrim’s accounts is uncertain; conflicting accounts assert that few Buddhists remained in Pakistan by the Umayyad invasions of the seventh century.</p>
<p>For nearly a millennium, Buddhism played a prominent role in what is now Pakistan. It was truly another time, in what seems to be a far different land. Yet, Buddhist Pakistan saw its fair share of wars, coups and manipulative politics, religious infighting and persecution. Utopia it was not.</p>
<p>At present, the only Buddhists in Pakistan reside in Azad Kashmir.<br/> <em>Emi Foulk is a features editor at TFT</em></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 13px;">The jihadists -- on this occasion the</span><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Bihar/We-bombed-Bodh-Gaya-Indian-Mujahideen-on-Twitter/Article1-1090040.aspx" style="font-size: 13px;"> Indian Mujahadeen</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> -- are at it again. On a Sunday in July nine bombs…</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 13px;">The jihadists -- on this occasion the</span><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Bihar/We-bombed-Bodh-Gaya-Indian-Mujahideen-on-Twitter/Article1-1090040.aspx" style="font-size: 13px;"> Indian Mujahadeen</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> -- are at it again. On a Sunday in July nine bombs went off in Buddhism's most sacred place, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/world/asia/explosions-rock-buddhist-temple-in-india.html?_r=2&" style="font-size: 13px;">Bodh Gaya</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> in India. The jihadists said the bombing was in retaliation for the Buddhists resisting jihad in Myanmar. This would be the equivalent of bombing the Wailing Wall, St. Paul's Cathedral, Bethlehem or the Kabbah. But, since Buddhists are the least political of all religions, the media barely noticed.</span></h3>
<p>This jihad attack may have long term consequences for jihad, due to favorable attitudes toward and perceptions of Buddhists, and who Buddhists are. Buddhism is the pet religion of the media, Leftists, Progressives and Liberals, and even those who are right of center find it hard to dislike Buddhism. Buddhism is truly the religion of peace, not like that other "religion of peace" with the jihad doctrine and 1400 years of conquest.</p>
<p>But the Left and Liberals are also the apologists for Islam, and one of the ways apologists deny the brutality of Islam is to attack its victims as somehow deserving of the jihadist attacks. When Christians are killed every week by jihadists, the leftist types justify it because of the Crusades and other wars by nations that are primarily Christian. When 30 Christian children are murdered in Nigeria, it is considered payback for the Crusades. (The Crusades lasted for 300 years and the last one was 800 years ago.) And any Jews killed are payback for the purported Israeli persecution of the so-called Palestinians. Put another way, the apologists for Islam figure that most of those who are killed in jihad deserve it.</p>
<p>So, the apologists for Islam are in a quandary. Jihad is hurting Buddhists, but it would be bigoted to complain about it. The denial machine is set to spin -- those jihadists were not real Muslims or else they were just a few crazies.</p>
<p>A second problem for the apologists is their theory that if Muslims are treated right, they won't be violent. This is the "treat the Palestinians right and they will do right" theory of dealing with Islam. This gets expanded to the theory that all Islamic violence is due to how the Palestinians are treated. Well, bombing Buddhists in India has no connection to Palestine.</p>
<p>Many Buddhists are absolute pacifists who hold to the "if you do good, good will come to you" school of politics. The problem is that such Buddhists usually cannot figure out why Muslims believe that being a Buddhist is evil. They may be ignorant of Islamic doctrine that says that the only good that can come out of a Buddhist is submission to Islam.</p>
<p>Buddhist doctrine holds that we need both compassion and wisdom. But the wisdom aspect does not seem to be highlighted when the <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mahabodhi-temple-blasts-dalai-lama-pained-over-incident-security-of-his-office-beefed-up/404908-3-232.html">Dalai Lama</a> says that the attacks are "very sad" while noting that it could be an act of a "few individuals" and "shouldn't be considered something serious."</p>
<p>If the Dalai Lama would pick up the clue phone, he would hear this: "Hello, the Buddhism that you practice, Vajrayana Buddhism, came from the Swat Valley in Afghanistan and where is Buddhism now? It has been annihilated from Afghanistan by jihadists. That same doctrine of jihad is annihilating Buddhists in Thailand today. Is that sad enough for you?" Jihad seeks to annihilate all religions in the territory that Muslims enter. And that should be considered as something serious.</p>
<p>But bombing Bodh Gaya has a down side for the jihadists. A few of the usual apologists may decide that if jihad means bombing Buddhists, then maybe, just maybe, there is something fundamentally wrong with Islam. Islam's apologists have a lot more trouble in justifying the justice of jihad against Buddhists since the jihad is against their own political alliance.</p>
<p>So bombing Buddhists may be a tactical victory, but it could a long-term strategic error but, only if the Buddhists and the apologists pay attention to murder of their own.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/the_jihadists_--_on_this.html">American Thinker</a></p>
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<p>Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam<br/>Permalink: <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/bombing-the-buddhists/">http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/bombing-the-buddhists/</a></p> 969: The Buddhist EDL.tag:4freedoms.com,2013-05-31:3766518:Topic:1260312013-05-31T12:12:41.711ZJoehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/38DD
<p>From the Daily Mail</p>
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<p><strong>Right-wing Buddhist leading the campaign to force Muslims out of Burma says he wants his group 'to be like the English Defence…</strong></p>
<p>From the Daily Mail</p>
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<p><strong>Right-wing Buddhist leading the campaign to force Muslims out of Burma says he wants his group 'to be like the English Defence League'</strong><span><br/> <br/>
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<p><font>The English Defence League might be the last place you would expect a devout Buddhist monk to turn for inspiration.</font></p>
<p><font>But a right-wing spiritual leader in Burma has revealed how he wants to copy the EDL in his bid to rid his country of its Muslim minority.</font></p>
<p><font>The Venerable Ashin Wirathu, who was jailed for nine years in 2003 for inciting anti-Muslim violence, says the hardline nationalist party should be applauded for '</font><font>not carrying out violence, but protecting the public'.</font></p>
<p><font>His comments come a week after more than 1,000 EDL members marched on Downing Street</font><font> in a protest </font><font>over the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in nearby Woolwich, swilling beer, chanting anti-Muslim slogans and clashing with anti-fascist activists. 13 people were arrested.<br/></font></p>
<p><font>Now, orange-robed Wirathu, how leads Burma's so-called '969' campaign to boycott Islamic businesses and bring an end to inter-marriage with Buddhists,</font><font> says he wants his gang members to be more like the EDL.</font></p>
<p><font>According to The Times, Wirathu said: 'People give me various names: The Burmese bin Laden, the bald neo-Nazi.</font></p>
<p><font>'[But] do you know the English Defence League? We would like to be like the EDL. Not carrying out violence, but protecting the public.'</font></p>
<p><font>The '969' group was behind last month's riots that saw </font><font>intense clashes </font><font>between its members and Muslims that left 43 people dead </font><font>in the city of Meiktila.</font></p>
<p><font>And only yesterday, </font><font>hundreds of Buddhist men on motorcycles waved iron rods in a northeastern town in Burma before setting fire to a Muslim-owned cinema in the latest incident to spill over from simmering religious tensions in the country.</font></p>
<p><font>The intimidating display in Lashio came a day after a mosque and a Muslim orphanage were torched after reports that a Muslim man set fire to a Buddhist woman.</font><font><br/></font></p>
<p><font>Residents said a cinema was burned as the mob sped around the town as part of a</font><font> new wave of violence targeting the religious minority.</font></p>
<p><font>Ashin Wirathu is a firmly anti-Islamic monk who was jailed in 2003 for inciting anti-Muslim violence, but was released last year as part of the broader amnesty for prisoners and admitted being at Meiktila, although insists he played no part in the violence.<br/></font></p>
<p><font>'We Buddhist Burmese are too soft," he told the BBC in a recent interview. 'We lack patriotic pride.</font></p>
<p><font>He urges Buddhists all over the country to boycott Muslim businesses and hands out stickers printed with the number '969', which symbolise elements of Buddhism.</font></p>
<p><font>Wirathu accuses Muslim men of repeatedly raping Buddhist women, of using their wealth to lure Buddhist women into marriage, then imprisoning them in the home.<br/></font></p>
<p><font>But it seems a fear of Muslim success is driving the discrimination.</font></p>
<p><font>'They - the Muslims - are good at business, they control transport, construction. Now they are taking over our political parties. If this goes on, we will end up like Afghanistan or Indonesia,' he said.</font></p>
<p><font>Burma is a mainly Buddhist country, but nine per cent of its 60 million people are Muslim.<br/></font></p>
<p><font>However, there is an open resentment of Muslims, openly expressed and they are referred to with the derogatory term 'kala.'</font></p>
<p><font>Last month, horrifying footage emerged of</font><font> </font><font>police </font><font>officers standing by while Burmese Buddhist rioters belonging to the</font><font>'969 squad' </font><font>set fire to a Muslim man watched him slowly die.</font></p>
<p><font>In the grainy footage posted on the internet a man - almost certainly a Muslim - is seen rolling around on the ground in agony after being set alight by an angry mob. </font></p>
<p><font>His body is charred, but he is clearly still alive and moves slowly as a crowd surrounds him. Several policeman can be seen looking on. </font></p>
<p><font>A voice can be heard calling for water, to which another voice replies ' No water for him. Let him die.'</font></p>
<p><font>The clip surfaced as Human Rights Watch published a report which concluded </font><font>Burmese authorities and members of Arakanese groups have committed crimes against humanity in a campaign of ethnic cleansing Muslims.</font></p>
<p><font>The sectarian violence, the worst seen in Asia's fledgling democracy since last year's conflict, was sparked after an argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his customers in the city of Meikhtila.</font></p>
<p><font>The unleashing of ethnic hatred, suppressed during 49 years of military rule that ended in March 2011, is challenging the reformist government of one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries.<br/></font></p>
<p><font>Jailed dissidents have been released, a free election held and censorship lifted in Myanmar's historic democratic transition. </font></p>
<p><font>But the government has faced mounting criticism over its failure to stop the bloodshed between Buddhists and Muslims.<br/></font></p>
<p><font>Hundreds of Muslims fled their homes to shelter at a sports stadium, said local officials.</font></p>
<p><font>The unrest is a bloody reprise of last year's violence in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, which officially killed 110 people and left 120,000 people homeless, most of them stateless Rohingya Muslims.</font></p>
<p><font>Locals complained there were too few police in this city of about 180,000 people to subdue the unrest.</font></p>
<p> </p> The not-so-innocent Rohingya Muslims.tag:4freedoms.com,2013-05-09:3766518:Topic:1234652013-05-09T23:38:39.158ZJoehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/38DD
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<p><a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/recap-the-innocent-rohingya-muslims-in-burma-rape-and-grisly-murder-of-buddhist-girl-and-riots-by-illegal-bangladeshi-muslims/">http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/recap-the-innocent-rohingya-muslims-in-burma-rape-and-grisly-murder-of-buddhist-girl-and-riots-by-illegal-bangladeshi-muslims/</a></p>
<h1 class="entry-title">RECAP: THE ‘INNOCENT ROHINGYA MUSLIMS’ IN BURMA: RAPE AND GRISLY MURDER OF BUDDHIST GIRL AND RIOTS…</h1>
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<h1 class="entry-title">RECAP: THE ‘INNOCENT ROHINGYA MUSLIMS’ IN BURMA: RAPE AND GRISLY MURDER OF BUDDHIST GIRL AND RIOTS BY ILLEGAL BANGLADESHI MUSLIMS</h1>
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<div class="entry-content"><div><h6>Recap on those ‘poor, innocent Muslim Rohingya victims’ who are begging for protection, claiming their human rights are violated. The emir of Qatar has sent over 3,500 terrorists to Burma to murder, rape and slaughter more Burmese Buddhists – while Obama, the EU and The Human Rights Watch demand that Burma should allow these brutal Muslims to continue without the Buddhist being permitted to fight back. It’s like a bad joke. The Rohingya Muslims come from Bangladesh, – a country with notorious human rights violations against non-Muslims and severe persecution and murders of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews.</h6>
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<p><em>A gang of illegal Bangladeshi Muslim settlers rob, rape and murder a Arakanese Buddhist girl in Myanmar, and when police arrest the Muslim culprits, they launch “Jihad riots” after Friday prayer, attacking, killing, burning….</em><em><br/></em></p>
<p>[update: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/myanmar-calm-restored-rioting-killed-16532062#.T9NU7tUb-lA" target="_blank">ABC/AP</a> report says: 7 person killed, and 494 houses, 19 shops and a guest house were burned down. Dusk-to-dawn curfew has been applied and public gatherings of more than five people banned. It also says that on June 3, a mob, angered by girl's rape and murder, attacked a bus carrying Muslims from a religious gathering, killing 10 of them. This lead to latest riotings, killings, burnings and destructions by Muslims.]</p>
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<p>According to a report by the independent Arakanese news agency Narinjara, in the Muslims-dominated township of Rambree in Arakan State in Myanmar (Burma), a gang of Muslims robbed a Buddhist girl, ganged-raped her and murdered her in grisly manner.</p>
<p>She was intercepted while returning home from work on the evening of 28 May 2012. She was killed by slitting her throat. Her dead-body also showed several stabbing wounds on the chest, as well as wounds and cuts on the vaginal and pubic regions.</p>
<p>After news of the grisly rape and murder spread, nearly 1000 angry protesters from nearby villages marched to the police station on 29 May, demanding police action against the barbaric murderers. Three Muslim culprits were arrested on the same night.</p>
<p>A Burmese source tells us that angered by arrest of the Muslim culprits, Bengali Muslims started riots on 8th June 2012 in Moung Daw Township in Arakan State, which borders the line between Bangladesh and Myanmar. According to the source, the riot was continuing at the time of reporting at about 9pm Myanmar Time on 8th June.</p>
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<p>Muslims started the riots after the Friday Ju’ma (congregation) prayers, which is a common occasion for Muslims to launch violent Jihadi actions and protests all over the world.</p>
<p>“Bengali Muslims killed at least 10 Arakanese Buddhists and burnt down over 20 Arakanese Buddhist Villages in Moung Daw Town,” wrote the source.</p>
<p>“Muslims burnt down Buddhist Monastery and school,” the source added.</p>
<p>Another news-report by The Irrawaddy that covers Burma and South Asia claimed of three deaths that included a doctor and his wife, and 14 burnt-down villages. Police exchanged fired with armed Muslim rioters on Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>“Fourteen villages in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships were torched by rioters while authorities struggled to maintain control,” according to Facebook page of a President Office official.</p>
<p>“The security forces have been trying to protect the 14 villages which (were) burned,” it added.</p>
<p>Five primary schools and a number of Arakanese-owned buildings were burned down by rioters, reported The Voice Weekly journal, warranting deployment of Burmese troops in the area. There were rumours of martial law being imposed.</p>
<p>In Moung Daw Town, inhabited by 20,000 native Buddhists, has been flooded by 400,000 illegal Bengali Muslims settlers.</p>
<p>Every year, Bengali Muslims engage in riots and kill Buddhists in dozens not only inside Burma but also in tribal areas in Bangladesh. Violence against ethnic Arakanese Buddhist people, living in Bangladesh, and murdered of them by Bangladeshi Muslims can be read at the following links:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/index.html">http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/index.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/">http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/rape.html">http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/rape.html</a></p>
<p>The native Buddhist people in the Arakanese state in Myanmar have been under distress in the face of massive Muslim infiltration and Islamization, which can be read here:<a href="http://waihninpwintthon.blogspot.sg/">http://waihninpwintthon.blogspot.sg/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/recap-the-innocent-rohingya-muslims-in-burma-rape-and-grisly-murder-of-buddhist-girl-and-riots-by-illegal-bangladeshi-muslims/burma/" rel="attachment wp-att-13107"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13107" alt="burma" src="http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/burma.jpg?w=640&h=464" width="640" height="464"/></a></p>
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<p><strong>Bangladesh Muslim genocide of Buddhists in Bangladesh, India and Burma/Myanmar (the few cases that made it to English translation)</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20001016_army_harassment.html">16 October 2000: Bangladesh army harass indigenous people in Khagrachari, Rangamati and Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000928_gulshakhali_rape.html">28 September 2000: Bangladesh army attempt to rape an indigenous Buddhist girl at Gulshakhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000926_rangamati_attack.html">26 September 2000: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people at Technical Training Center of Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000918_kutukchari_rape.html">18 September 2000: Bangladesh army attempted to rape an indigenous Buddhist girl in Kutukchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000912_jurachari_torture.html">12 September 2000: Bangladesh army tortures indigenous Buddhist people in Jurachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000910_guimara_torture.html">10 September 2000: Bangladesh police torture indigenous Buddhist people in Guimara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000819_nunchari_harassment.html">19 August 2000: Bangladesh army harass indigenous Buddhist people at Nunchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000813_matiranga_abduction.html">13 August 2000: Bengali settlers attempt to abduct an indigenous Hindu girl in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000527_alikhyong_arrest.html">27 May 2000: Bangladesh forest guards arrest 18 indigenous Buddhist men in Alikhyong </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000517_jurachari_persecution.html">17 May 2000: Bangladesh army forbids loud speaker at Buddhist temple in Jurachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000504_baghaichari_killing.html">04 May 2000: Bengali settlers murder an indigenous Chakma Buddhist in Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000424_dighinala_rape.html">24 April 2000: Bengali settlers attempt to rape an indigenous Buddhist girl in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000421_army_terror.html">21 April 2000: Bangladesh army continue to terrorize the indigenous people of the CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000408_naniarchar_arrest.html">08 April 2000: Bangladesh army arrest an indigenous Chakma Buddhist in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000325_matiranga_killing.html">25 March 2000: Bangladesh army beat to death an indigenous Marma Buddhist in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000318_manikchari_rape.html">18 March 2000: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Buddhist girl in Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000229_naniarchar_arrest.html">29 February 2000: Bangladesh police arrest an indigenous Chakma Buddhist in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2000/20000225_manikchari_torture.html">25 February 2000: Bangladesh army severely beat 3 indigenous Chakma Buddhists at Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20011222_rangamati_rape.html">22 December 2001: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Marma woman in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20011215_rangamati_killing.html">15 December 2001: Bengali settlers murder an indigenous boat man in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20011207_longadu_robbery.html">07 December 2001: Bengali settlers rob an indigenous Chakma man at Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20011202_jarnatilla_torture.html">02 December 2001: Bangladesh army tortures indigenous people at Jarnatilla </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010625_ramgarh_attack.html">25 June 2001: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Ramgarh </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010523_govt_vigil.html">23 May 2001: Bangladesh government keep vigil on 6 indigenous NG0s in CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010522_rangamati_arrest.html">22 May 2001: Police arrest 3 indigenous youths in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010521_matiranga_rape.html">21 May 2001: Bangladesh army rape 3 Tripuri women in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010521_matiranga_rape.html">21 May 2001: Bangladesh army rape 3 Tripuri women in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010521_longadu_attack.html">21 May 2001: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people at Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010521_longadu_arrest.html">21 May 2001: Bangladesh police charge an indigenous man with false case in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010519_rangamati_incitement.html">19 May 2001: Bengali settlers incite racially motivated riot in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010518_dighinala_attack.html">18 May 2001: Bengali settlers set fire on indigenous Chakma houses in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010517_rangamati_arrest.html">17 May 2001: Police arrest 3 innocent Chakma youths in connection with death of a settler </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010509_kaptai_attack.html">09 May 2001: Bangladesh army detain and torture 2 indigenous people in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010504_rajasthali_harassment.html">04 May 2001: Bangladesh army harass indigenous people at check post in Rajasthali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010504_khiang_conference.html">04 May 2001: Khiang people organize conference on land grabbing at Rajasthali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010420_longadu_landgrab.html">20 April 2001: Bengali settlers grab indigenous people’s land in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010418_bagachari_harassment.html">18 April 2001: Bangladesh army harass indigenous people at check post in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010413_mahalchari_landgrab.html">13 April 2001: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land in Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010404_development_seminar.html">04 April 2001: ADB organize CHT Development seminar in Dhaka </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010403_kaptai_arrest.html">03 April 2001: Bangladesh army detain and torture 3 indigenous people in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010330_dighinala_attack.html">30 March 2001: Bengali settlers rob and attack an indigenous Chakma family in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010320_naniarchar_arrest.html">20 March 2001: Bangladesh army detain and torture 2 indigenous Chakma youths in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010320_naikyangchari_abduction.html">20 March 2001: Bengali settlers abduct an indigenous Chak girl in Naikyangchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010317_hostage_release.html">17 March 2001: Army backed UPDF releases 3 foreign hostages in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2001/20010216_hostage_abduction.html">16 February 2001: Army backed UPDF abducts 3 foreign hostages in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20021225_eletoral_fraud.html">25 December 2002: Bengali settlers commit electoral fraud at Boalkhali in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20021213_dhulyatuli_torture.html">13 December 2002: Bangladesh army personnel torture indigenous Chakma villagers of Dhulyatuli in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20021211_barkal_landgrab.html">11 December 2002: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land with the help of Bangladesh army in Barkal </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20021117_rangamati_arrest.html">17 November 2002: Bangladesh army arrest and torture 2 indigenous youths in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20021029_ranirhat_attack.html">29 October 2002: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people at Ranirhat </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020930_baghmara_torture.html">30 September 2002: Bangladesh army tortures indigenous people include 2 Buddhist monks in Baghmara of Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020924_baghichara_torture.html">24 September 2002: Bangladesh army personnel torture indigenous people of Baghichara in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020908_amtoli_persecution.html">08 September 2002: Bangladesh army tortures villagers and desecrates a Buddhist temple in Amtoli, Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020907_khwiangpara_torture.html">07 September 2002: Bangladesh army torture and terrorize indigenous people at Khwiangpara in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020907_chibuk_torture.html">07 September 2002: Bangladesh army personnel torture indigenous Marma people at Saopara and Chibukpara in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020803_twichakma_terror.html">03 August 2002: DGFI and UPDF terrorize the indigenous people of Twichakma in Ramgarh </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020615_mainimukh_robbery.html">15 June 2002: Bangladesh army and settlers rob indigenous Chakma villagers at Mainimukh in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020612_bilaichari_torture.html">12 June 2002: Bangladesh army tortures an indigenous Chakma Buddhist in Bilaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020609_longadu_terror.html">09 June 2002: Bangladesh army terrorize the indigenous people in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020428_manikchari_persecution.html">28 April 2002: Muslim extremists hack Hindu priest to death in Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020425_baghaichari_abduction.html">25 April 2002: Bengali settlers abduct an indigenous Chakma woman in Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020421_rauzan_persecution.html">21 April 2002: Muslim extremists stabb a Buddhist monk to death in Rauzan </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020420_dhaka_meeting.html">20 April 2002: Bangladesh government meets PCJSS in Dhaka </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020313_paris_meeting.html">13 March 2002: Donor governments hold Bangladesh Development Forum meeting in Paris </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020313_alikadam_rape.html">13 March 2002: Bengali settlers abduct and rape an indigenous Chakma girl in Alikadam of Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020305_kaptai_rape.html">05 March 2002: Bengali settlers abduct and rape an indigenous Marma girl in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020131_khagrachari_meeting.html">31 January 2002: Bangladesh government conspires to create Pankho-Lushai district council in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2002/20020122_kukichara_torture.html">22 January 2002: Bangladesh army tortures 3 indigenous Tripura youths at Kukichara in Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030826_mahalchari_attack.html">26 August 2003: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Mahalchari in reprisal of abduction of a settler by gunmen </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030826_mahalchari_account.html">26 August 2003: An Account of Communal Attack in Mahalchari by Bengali Settlers and Bangladesh army </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030815_ghagra_arrest.html">15 August 2003: Bangladesh army arrest 3 indigenous Chakma men for pssession of licensed gun </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030811_settler_assistance.html">11 August 2003: Bangladesh government and NGOs help Bengali settlers with micro credit in violation of CHT Accord </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030811_operation_uttaran.html">11 August 2003: Bangladesh army continue to terrorize the indigenous people in the name of<i>Operation Uttaran</i> </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030803_land_grabbing.html">03 August 2003: Bengali settlers continue to grab indigenous land and rob indigenous people in CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030727_bnp_attitude.html">27 July 2003: BNP government forms Committee for Implementation of CHT Accord to conceal its lackluster attitude </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030530_kedhamara_torture.html">30 May 2003: Bangladesh army detain and torture 2 indigenous Chakma men in Kedhamara of Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030527_barkal_persecution.html">27 May 2003: Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) destroy and descrate a Buddhist temple in Barkal </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030525_baghaichari_rape.html">25 May 2003: Bengali settler attampts to rape un underage indigenous Chakma girl in Patachari village of Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030510_sajek_encampment.html">10 May 2003: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) survey Bhaibachara of Sajek for expansion of militray camp </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030420_bhuiachara_attack.html">20 April 2003: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people of Bhuiachara under Kamalchari union to grab indigenous land </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/200301_pacification_project.html">January 2003: PCJSS demands cancellation of pacification project in CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030115_balukhali_attack.html">15 January 2003: Bengali settlers threten the indigenous people with communal attack in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030112_dighinala_fraud.html">12 January 2003: Bengali settlers win local government election in Boalkhali of Dighinala by fraud </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030102_kaptai_torture.html">02 January 2003: Bangladesh army torture indigenous Chakma men in Kaptai of Rangamati district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2003/20030102_army_deployment.html">02 January 2003: Bangladesh government deploys army during <i>Union Parishad</i> election in CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20041108_jagarapara_torture.html">08 November 2004: Bangladesh army raid and torture indigenous Chakma people of Jagarapara village in Panchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040803_bhushanchara_killing.html">03 August 2004: Bengali settlers kill 2 members of an indigenous Chakmas family in Bhushanchara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040802_guimara_attack.html">02 August 2004: Bangladesh army tortures indigenous Marma Buddhists in Guimara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040801_rangamati_attack.html">01 August 2004: Bengali settlers attack indigenous Chakma people in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040729_kaptai_killing.html">29 July 2004: Bangladesh army kills an indigenous Marma Buddhist in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040525_guimara_attack.html">25 May 2004: Bangladesh army arrest and torture members of PCJSS in Guimara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040518_longadu_harassment.html">18 May 2004: BDR harass an indigenous Chakma woman in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040512_naniarchar_raid.html">12 May 2004: Bangladesh army raid indigenous Chakma houses at Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040504_sindukchari_landgrab.html">04 May 2004: Bangladesh army orders indigenous people to leave their homesteads for settlers in Sindukchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040427_matiranga_torture.html">27 April 2004: Bangladesh army torture 2 indigenous Tripura people in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2004/20040417_naniarchar_killing.html">17 April 2004: Bengali settlers murder an indigenous Chakma man in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20051102_khagrachari_attack.html">02 November 2005: Bangladesh army hit and injure an under age indigenous Chakma boy in Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20051031_laxmichari_kidnap.html">31 October 2005: Pro-government group tries to kidnap 2 indigenous villagers in Laxmichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050908_ban_chtleaders.html">08 September 2005: Human rights groups denounce Bangladesh government’s attempt to ban indigenous leaders </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/200507_jurachari_restriction.html">July 2005: Bangladesh army restricts the construction of indigenous Chakma houses in Jurachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050728_atarakchara_raid.html">28 July 2005: Bangladesh army terrorizes indigenous Chakma Buddhists in Atarakchara of Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050725_kaukhali_attack.html">25 July 2005: Bangladesh army and Bengali settlers attack indigenous Marma Buddhists in Kaukhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050724_manikchari_torture.html">24 July 2005: Bangladesh army tortures indigenous Marma Buddhists in Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050710_settler_demonstration.html">10 July 2005: Bengali settlers staged demonstration in Rangamati to demand ‘equal rights’ </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050702_settler_meeting.html">02 July 2005: Bengali settlers organise public meeting in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050623_sajek_destruction.html">23 June 2005: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) destroys indigenous Chakma houses in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050620_sajek_torture.html">20 June 2005: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) torture an indigenous Chakma man in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050606_sajek_eviction.html">06 June 2005: Bangladesh Rifles of Marishya BDR zone orders the indigenous Chakma Buddhists to vacate their homes in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/200505_sajek_landgrab.html">May 2005: Bangladesh Government undertake massive Bengali Muslim settlement in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/200503_khagrachari_landgrab.html">March 2005: Bengali settlers continue to grab indigenous owned land in Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050325_santu_larma.html">25 March 2005: Santu Larma says “Bangladesh government is not sincere about the CHT Accord” </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050226_khagrachari_blockade.html">26 February 2005: Indigenous people block Khagrachari-Mahalchari-Rangamati road in protest of land grabbing by Bengali settlers in Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050224_bandarban_landgrab.html">24 February 2005: Bangladesh army grab indigenous land in Bandarban Hill District </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050223_donor_meeting.html">23 February 2005: PCJSS appeal the donor nations to bring the CHT issues during the Donors Meeting to be held in Washington </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050215_chimbook_landgrab.html">15 February 2005: Bangladesh government grab indigenous land in Chimbook of Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050215_baghaihat_torture.html">15 February 2005: Bangladesh army arrest and torture 6 indigenous Chakma men in Baghaihat </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050127_matiranga_torture.html">27 January 2005: Bangladesh army brutally torture a returnee indigenous refugee in Matiranga of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2005/20050103_baghaichari_attack.html">03 January 2005: Bangladesh army conduct massive reprisal attack against the indigenous people of Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060908_rajasthali_rape.html" target="_blank">08 September 2006: Bengali settlers rape an under aged indigenous Marma girl in Rajasthali of Rangamati district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060902_dighinala_rape.html" target="_blank">02 September 2006: Bengali settlers rape and murder an under aged indigenous Chakma girl in Dighinala of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060827_ultachari_landgrab.html" target="_blank">27 August 2006: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land with the help of Bangladesh army in Ultachari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060824_rangamati_attack.html">24 August 2006: Bengali settlers attack indigenous Chakma students at Rangamati College </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060823_bijitola_arrest.html">23 August 2006: Bangladesh army arrests and tortures an indigenous Marma man at Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060822_barkal_rape.html">22 August 2006: Bengali settlers attempt to rape an indigenous Chakma girl in Barkal of Rangamati district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060817_jurachari_encampment.html">17 August 2006: Bangladesh Rifles establishes new camp in Jurachari in violation of the CHT Accord </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060806_longadu_persecution.html">06 August 2006: Bengali settlers set fire on Buddhist temple in Longadu of Rangamati district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060802_baghaihat_arrest.html">02 August 2006: Bangladesh army arrests and tortures an indigenous Chakma man at Baghaihat </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060712_nunchari_arrest.html">12 July 2006: Bangladesh army arrests and tortures an indigenous Tripura man at Nunchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060630_ramgarh_rape.html">30 June 2006: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Marma girl in Ramgarh of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060630_ghagra_killing.html">30 June 2006: Bangladesh army arrests and probably executes an indigenous Chakma man at Ghagra </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060619_disinformation_campaign.html">19 June 2006: Bangladesh government wages disinformation campaign against the indigenous people of the CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060619_alikadam_attack.html">19 June 2006: Bengali settlers attack PCJSS conference in Alikadam of Bandarban district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060529_wadud_bhuiyan.html">29 May 2006: Bengali settler MP Mr. Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan raises anti-accord and anti-indigenous motion in Bangladesh parliament </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060520_maischari_landgrab.html">20 May 2006: Bengali settlers torch a Buddhist temple and grab indigenous land in Maischari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060517_longadu_torture.html">17 May 2006: Bangladesh army detains and tortures indigenous Chakma men at Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060507_panchari_arrest.html">07 May 2006: Bangladesh military intelligence (DGFI) arrests and totures an indigenous Chakma man in Panchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060505_lemuchari_arrest.html">05 May 2006: Bangladesh army arrest and tortures indigenous Chakma men in Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060428_longadu_torture.html">28 April 2006: Bangladesh aremy detains and tortures indigenous Chakma men in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060427_matiranga_landgrab.html">27 April 2006: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land with the help of Bangladesh army in Matiranga of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060423_govt_foodaid.html">23 April 2006: Bangladesh government to continue food aid to the Benglali settlers in CHT </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060417_matiranga_abduction.html">17 April 2006: Bengali settlers abduct an indigenous Tripura girl in Matiranga of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060410_baghaihat_rape.html">10 April 2006: Bangladesh army rape an indigenous Chakma woman in Baghaihat of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060407_manikchari_rape.html">07 April 2006: Bengali settler rapes an indigenous Marma girl in Manikchari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060403_maischari_rape.html">03 April 2006: Bengali settlers rape 2 indigenous Marma girls in Maischari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060403_maischari_attack.html">03 April 2006: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Maischari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/200604_guimara_landgrab.html">April 2006: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land with the help of Bangladesh army in Guimara of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060220_nakkhyangchari_rape.html">20 February 2006: Bengali settlers rape and murder an indigenous Marma girl in Nakkhyangchari of Bandarban district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060206_naniarchar_rape.html">06 February 2006: Bangladesh army attempted to rape an indigenous Chakma woman in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060129_rangamati_shooting.html">29 January 2006: Bangladesh army indiscriminately shoot at an indigenous Chakma village during target practice in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060121_nakkyangchari_fraud.html">21 January 2006: Bangladesh army forcibley photograph indigenous people with arms in Nakkhyangchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2006/20060114_mahalchari_attack.html">14 January 2006: Bengali Muslim settlers attack indigenous people in Mahalchari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071223_gamaridhala_landgrab.html">23 December 2007: Bengali settlers attempt to grab indigenous Chakma people’s land in Garmaridhala of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071218_lemuchari_landgrab.html">18 December 2007: Bengali settlers attempt to grab indigenous Chakma people’s land in Lemuchari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071212_mahalchari_voterlist.html">12 December 2007: Bangladesh army tries to enroll Bengali settlers in voter list of Mahalchari in Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071209_dhaka_pressconf.html">09 December 2007: Indigenous victims of land grabbing hold press conference in Dhaka </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071208_ugudochari_landgrab.html">08 December 2007: Bangladesh army threatens the indigenous headman to agree to Bengali settlement in Ugudochari <i>Mouza</i> of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071207_manikchari_refusal.html">07 December 2007: Bangladesh Police refuses to register rape case against a Bengali settler in Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071207_baghaichari_torch.html">07 December 2007: Bangladesh army set fire on indigenous Chakma houses in Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071204_ramgarh_rape.html">04 December 2007: Bengali settler rape an under aged indigenous Marma girl at Ramgarh in Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071202_balaghata_landgrab.html">02 December 2007: Bangladesh army attempt to grab indigenous peoples’ land in Balaghata of Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071128_bizitola_armysearch.html">28 November 2007: Bangladesh army searches indigenous Chakma houses in Bizitola of Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071119_babuchara_settlement.html">19 November 2007: Ministray of CHT Affairs orders Deputy Commissioner of Khagrachari to settle 812 Bengali families in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071105_babuchara_persecution.html">05 November 2007: Bangladesh army forbids the use of loudspeaker at a Buddhist temple in Babuchara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071104_maischari_landgrab.html">04 November 2007: Benglali settlers grab indigenous peoples’ land in Karallyachari village of Maischari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071102_rangamati_armyoperation.html">02 November 2007: Bangladesh army conduct massive military operation in Rangamati district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20071026_laxmichari_rape.html">26 October 2007: Bengali settler attempts to rape an indigenous Marma girl in Laxmichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070907_sadhantila_landgrab.html">7 September 2007: Bengali settlers try to grab Sadhantila Buddhist Temple in Dighinala with the backing of Bangladesh army</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/200706_ranglaimro_verdict.html">June 2007: Chittagong Judge Court sentences Ranglai Mro 17 years jail term on fabricated charges </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070614_khagrachari_raid.html">14 June 2007: Bangladesh army raid the houses of PCJSS leaders in Khagrachari and Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070603_taskforce_meeting.html">03 June 2007: Bangladesh government orders eviction of indigenous refugees from temporary camps in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070603_khagrachari_arrest.html">03 June 2007: Bangladesh army arrest indigenous activist in Khagrachari under the ‘State of Emergency’ rule </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/200705_army_interference.html">May 2007: Bangladesh army interfere with the trial of Satyabir Dewan and Ranglai Mro at Chittagong court </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070505_dighinala_arrest.html">5 May 2007: Bangladesh army arrest PCJSS activist with fabricated allegation </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070305_khagrachari_arrest.html">5 March 2007: Bangladesh joint forces arrest and torture PCJSS members in Khagrachari and Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070224_army_interference.html">24 February 2007: Bangladesh army intimidate and interfere with the trial of PCJSS leaders in Rangamati court </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070223_bandarban_arrest.html">23 February 2007: Bangladesh joint forces arrest and torture indigenous activist in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2007/20070218_rangamati_arrest.html">18 February 2007: Bangladesh joint forces arrest and torture PCJSS activists in Rangamati, Jurachari and Chandraghona </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20081124_mahalchari_attack.html">24-26 November 2008: Settlers attack and injure 10 indigenous people in Mahalchari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20081011_sama_odhikar.html">11 October 2008: Bengali settler organization <i>Sama Odhikar Andolon</i> demands more army camps in CHT</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20081003_baghaichari_landgrab.html">03 October 2008: Bangladesh army builds new settlements between Baghaichari and Dighinala</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080923_belaichari_torture.html">23 September 2008: Bangladesh army tortures an indigenous youth at Nuopara in Belaichari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080819_ladumoni_killing.html">19 August 2008: Bengali settlers kill an indigenous Chakma man in Sajek of Baghaichari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080810_bandarban_landgrab.html">10 August 2008: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land in Bandarban</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080809_sajek_attack.html">9 August 2008: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people at <i>Gangaram Dore</i> in Sajek</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080808_chinginala_clash.html">8 August 2008: Bengali settlers clash with indigenous people over land in Chinginala of Khagrachari municipality</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080804_belaichari_rape.html">4 August 2008: Bangladesh army rape an indigenous women in Belaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080804_belaichari_torture.html">4 August 2008: Bangladesh army tortures an indigenous Chakma man in Belaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080802_sultana_kamal.html">2 August 2008: Bengali settlers blockade Sultana Kamal at Baghaihat in Rangamati</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080726_longadu_robbery.html">26 July 2008: Bengali settlers forcibly harvest from indigenous land in Longadu</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080719_ghilachari_rape.html">19 July 2008: Bangladesh army attempted to rape 15 year old indigenous girl in <i>Ghilachari</i></a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080708_army_torture.html">8 July 2008: Bangladesh army tortures 3 indigenous villagers in <i>Bilaichari</i></a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080707_army_killing.html">7 July 2008: Bangladesh army tortures to death an indigenous villager in <i>Kangarachari</i></a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080705_dighinala_torture.html">5 July 2008: Settlers torture 2 indigenous villagers in <i>Babuchara</i>, Dighinala</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080627_false_charge.html">27 June 2008: Bangladesh army deliberately charged PCJSS leaders with murder case in <i>Bandarban</i></a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080624_sajek_landgrab.html">24-26 June 2008: Settlers build home on Mongol Sen Chakma’s land at Purbopara in Sajek</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080623_baghaichari_rape.html">23 June 2008: A settler attempted to rape a 13 year old indigenous girl at <i>Nalkata</i> in Baghaichari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080623_forcible_trade.html">23 June 2008: Bangladesh army compels the indigenous people to trade with the settlers</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080603_sajek_landgrab.html">3-4 June 2008: Settlers plant trees on forcibly grabbed land in Sajek union of Baghaichari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080525_baghaichari_riot.html">24-25 May 2008: Settlers incite communal riot in Baghaichari over the accidental death of a settler </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080517_logang_torture.html">17 May 2008: BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) torture 4 Chakma men in Logang</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080517_anunay_chakma.html">17 May 2008: Bangladesh army re-arrest Anunay Chakma on fabricated charge in Dighinala</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080513_dighinala_torture.html">13 May 2008: Bangladesh army detains an ex-PCJSS man in Dighinala</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080511_settler_activity.html">11 May 2008: <i>Sama Odhikar Andolon</i> demands re-establishment of army camps in CHT</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080511_baghaihat_robbery.html">11 May 2008: Settlers seize goods from indigenous people in Baghaihat</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080507_naniachar_operation.html">7 May 2008: Bangladesh army conducts search & destroy operation at <i>Soileshchari</i> in <i>Naniarchar</i></a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080506_naniachar_torture.html">6 May 2008: Bangladesh army tortures 5 Chakma men at <i>Naniachar</i></a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080505_pukirachara_torture.html">5 May 2008: Bangladesh army detains and tortures 3 Chakma men at Pukirachara</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080429_sajek_relief.html">29 April 2008: Bangladesh army chief Gen. Moeen distributes relief mainly to Bengali settlers in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080420_sajek_attack.html">20 April 2008: Bengali settlers attack 7 indigenous Chakma villages and burn down 100 houses in Sajek</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080305_rangamati_rape.html">05 March 2008: Benglali settlers rape an under aged indigenous girl in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080126_govt_curb.html">26 January 2008: Bangladesh government plans to curb indigenous people’s rights </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080122_mahalchari_landgrab.html">22 January 2008: Bangladesh government helps Bengali settlers grab indigenous people’s land in Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080103_maischari_persecution.html">03 January 2008: Bangladesh army prevents repair of Buddhist temple in Maischari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2008/20080101_matiranga_attack.html">01 January 2008: Bengali settlers attack an indigenous Tripura man in Matiranga over land dispute </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20091221_japanmp_visit.html">21 Dec 2009: Japan MP wants CHT land issue resolved </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20091108_naniarchar_rape.html">8 Nov 2009: Bangladesh army attempt to rape a Chakma woman in Naniachar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20091030_sitakunda_rape.html">30 Oct 2009: Bengalis gang rape a Tripura woman in Sitakunda </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20091018_panchari_rape.html">18 Oct 2009: Bengali settlers sexually abuse a Tripura woman in Panchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20091015_matiranga_rape.html">15 Oct 2009: Bengali settler molest a Tripura girl at Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090923_govt_activity.html">23 Sep 2009: Deputy Commissioner of Bandarban issued unlawful letter to Headmen </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090913_sindukchari_rape.html">13 Sep 2009: Bengali settler attempted to rape a Tripura girl at Sindukchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090912_kaukhali_attack.html">12 Sep 2009: Bengali settlers assault a Chakma family at Kaukhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090904_sindukchari_rape.html">4 Sep 2009: Bengali settler rape an under-age Marma girl at Sindukchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090903_killing_upd.html">3 Sep 2009: Update on the killing of Ponemala Tripura </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090903_sindukchari_killing.html">3 Sep 2009: Bengali settlers killed Ponemala Tripura of Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090816_naikhyongchari_torture.html">16 Aug 2009: Army operation against indigenous villages in Naikhyingchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090814_longadu_attack.html">14 Aug 2009: Bengali settlers attack indigenous villagers in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090731_dighinala_rape.html">31 Jul 2009: Bengali settler rape a handicapped woman in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090626_shuvolong_killing.html">26 Jun 2009: Bangladesh army murder a Chakma youth at Shuvalong <i>bazaar</i> </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090625_bandarban_landgrab.html">25 Jun 2009: 200 Mro families live in fear of settlers and Rohingya terrorists in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090615_manikchari_killing.html">15 Jun 2009: Indigenous man shot dead in Manikchari of Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090614_ramgarh_attack.html">14 Jun 2009: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Jalia Para of Ramgarh </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090612_sajek_settlement.html">12 Jun 2009: BDR tries to establish market at Ruilui in Sajek in order to settle more Bengalis </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090521_naniarchar_persecution.html">21 May 2009: Bangladesh army harassed a Buddhist monk at Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090320_sadhana_vihara.html">20 March 2009: Bangladesh army conspires to capture <i>Sadhana</i> Buddhist Temple at Babuchara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090318_kudukchari_arrest.html">18 March 2009: Bangladesh army arrest two innocent villagers in Kudukchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090315_karallyachari_arrest.html">15 March 2009: Bangladesh army arrests 3 Chakma villagers in Karallyachari for building Buddhist retreat </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090308_dighinala_rape.html">08 March 2009: Bengali settler rape a 4-year old indigenous Chakma girl in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090122_shaktipada_tripura.html">22 January 2009: Bangladesh police arrest PCJSS leader Shaktipada Tripura in Dhaka </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090115_dighinala_arrest.html">15 January 2009: Police arrest and torture returnee PCJSS member in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2009/20090115_longadu_clash.html">15 January 2009: Bengali settlers clash with indigenous people in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20101221_longadu_attack.html">21 Dec 2010: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20101205_land_commission.html">5-6 Dec 2010: Indigenous people boycott the Chairman of Land Commission in Baghaichari and Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20101205_lemuchari_landgrab.html">5 Dec 2010: Bengali settlers try to grab indigenous people’s land in Lemuchari of Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20101123_sindukchari_attack.html">23 Nov 2010: Bengali settlers attack A Tripura shopkeeper at Sindukchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20101115_matiranga_rape.html">15 Nov 2010: Bengali settlers rape and murder a Tripura girl in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20101108_ruma_landgrab.html">08 Nov 2010: Bangladesh army grabs indigenous land for expansion of cantonment in Ruma </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100415_laxmichari_rape.html">15 Apr 2010: Bengali settler attempt to rape an indigenous Chakma woman in Laxmichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100412_kaokhali_trespass.html">12 Apr 2010: Bengali settlers trespass and steal trees from the indigenous people in Kaokhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100408_kaokhali_armyterror.html">08 Apr 2010: Bangladesh army terrorizes the indigenous people in Kaokhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100405_kaokhali_armysearch.html">05 Apr 2010: Bangladesh army searches 5 indigenous Chakma houses in Kaokhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100329_kaokhali_killing.html">29 Mar 2010: Bengali settlers murder an indigenous Chakma woman in Kaokhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100319_pablakhali_landgrab.html">19 Mar 2010: Bengali settlers construct makeshift houses on the indigenous owned lands at Pablakhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100309_matiranga_rape.html">09 Mar 2010: Bangladesh army rape 2 indigenous Tripura women in Matiranga, Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100304_baghaichari_fire.html">04 Mar 2010: Bengali settlers set indigenous Chakma houses on fire in Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100224_khagrachari_torture.html">24 Feb 2010: Bangladesh army detains and tortures indigenous people in Khagrachari town </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100223_khagrachari_attack.html">23 Feb 2010: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Khagrachari town </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100221_ministirial_visit.html">21 Feb 2010: State Minister for CHT Affairs visits Baghaihat </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100219_baghaichari_killing.html">19-20 Feb 2010: Bangladesh Army shoots dead 6 indigenous people at Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100121_sajek_torture.html">21 Jan 2010: Bangladesh army tortures indigenous people over land dispute in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100119_rangamati_rape.html">19 Jan 2010: Police officer and hotel manager rape a minor indigenous girl in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100119_bandarban_torture.html">19 Jan 2010: BDR beats Buddhist villagers at Tamprue in Naikhyongchari <i>upazila</i> </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100117_sajek_landgrab.html">17 Jan 2010: Bengali settlers resume expansion of settlement in Sajek </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2010/20100102_naniachar_assault.html">2 Jan 2010: Bengali settlers attack a Chakma boy at Naniachar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20111229_hnila_attack.html">29 December 2011: Bengali settlers attack and grab Hnila Buddhist temple in Teknaf </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20111219_barkal_arrest.html">19 December 2011: Bangladesh police arrest an indigenous Chakma man for alleged involvement with abduction of settler fishermen in Barkal </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20111214_baghaichari_attack.html">14 December 2011: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Baghaichari and Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20111001_khagrachari_killing.html">01 October 2011: Bengali settlers murder an indigenous Chakma woman in Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110924_panchari_rape.html">24 September 2011: Bengali settler rapes an indigenous Tripura woman in Panchari of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110923_ramgarh_landgrab.html">23 September 2011: Bengali settlers attempt to grab indigenous peoples’ land in Ramgarh of Khagrachari district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110923_banki_moon.html">23 September 2011: UN chief Ban Ki Moon laugh at Sheikh Hasina for mis-representing the indigenous people </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110918_thanchi_torture.html">18 September 2011: Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB) torture indigenous village heads in Thanchi of Bandarban district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110912_thanchi_rape.html">12 September 2011: Bengali settler attempts to rape an indigenous Marma girl in Thanchi of Bandarban district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110912_gungrumukh_landgrab.html">12 September 2011: Bengali settlers grab indigenous land in Gungru Mukh of Bandarban district </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110827_rangamati_landgrab.html">27 August 2011: Bengali settlers erect 5 houses on indigenous land in Rangamati municipality </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110810_santu_larma.html">10 August 2011: Bangladesh government trying to turn CHT into a Muslim dominated region: Santu Larma </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110807_khagrachari_torture.html">07 August 2011: Bangladesh police beat and torture 22 indigenous students in Khagrachhari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110730_lama_killing.html">30 July 2011: Bengali settlers kill 3 indigenous people and sexually assault an indigenous girl in Lama, Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110727_baghaichari_rape.html">27 July 2011: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Chakma girl in Baghaichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110516_maischari_persecution.html">16 May 2011: Bangladesh army prevents repair work of Buddhist temple in Maischari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110515_lama_landgrab.html">15 May 2011: Bengali settlers attempt to grab 400 acres of indigenous owned land in Lama </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110513_dighinala_rape.html">13 May 2011: Bengali settlers rape and kill an indigenous Chakma girl in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110511_teknaf_landgrab.html">11 May 2011: Bengali settlers grab and destroy Buddhist temple in Teknaf </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110508_manikchari_landgrab.html">8 May 2011: Bengali settlers attempt to grab indigenous owned land in Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110417_ramgarh_attack.html">17 Apr 2011: Bengali settlers backed by security forces attack indigenous people in Ramgarh </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110303_naniachar_landgrab.html">03 Mar 2011: Bengali settlers try to grab indigenous land in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110217_longadu_attack.html">17 Feb 2011: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110211_naniachar_landgrab.html">11 Feb 2011: Bengali settlers plant red flag to occupy indigenous land in Naniachar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110210_naikhyongchari_rape.html">10 Feb 2011: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous woman in Naikhyongchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110131_mahalchari_landgrab.html">31 Jan 2011: Bengali settlers prevent cremation of dead body in Mahalchari of Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2011/20110126_matiranga_rape.html">26 Jan 2011: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous housewife in Matiranga of Khagrachari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121221_kaukhali_rape.html">21 December 2012: Bengali settlers rape and kill an indigenous Marma girl in Kaukhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121204_naniarchar_harassment.html">04 December 2012: Bangladesh army sexually harassed an indigenous Chakma girl in Naniarchar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121114_balukhali_raid.html">14 November 2012: Bangladesh army and UPDF raid an indigenous village at Balukhali in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121019_kaptai_killing.html">19 October 2012: Bangladesh forest guards shoot dead an indigenous Tanchangya farmer in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121014_mahalchari_rape.html">14 October 2012: Bangladesh army attempt to rape 3 indigenous Chakma girls in Mahalchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121003_rowangchari_rape.html">03 October 2012: Bengali settlers attempt to rape an indigenous Marma girl in Rowangchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20121002_rajastali_rape.html">02 October 2012: Bengali settlers attempt to rape an indigenous Tanchangya girl in Rajastali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120929_ramu_attack.html">29 September 2012: Muslim extremists attack Buddhists in Cox’s Bazaar and Chittagong districts </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120923_rangamati_attack.html">23 September 2012: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people at Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120922_rangamati_attack.html">22 September 2012: Bangladesh army and settlers conduct racially motivated attack against indigenous people in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120918_dighinala_rape.html">18 September 2012: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Chakma housewife in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120917_tridiv_roy.html">17 September 2012: Raja Tridiv Roy passes away in Islamabad </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120916_betchari_landgrab.html">16 September 2012: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people over land dispute in Betchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120908_kaptai_rape.html">08 September 2012: Bangladesh army attempt to rape an indigenous Marma girl in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120826_panchari_attack.html">26 August 2012: Bengali settlers attack 3 indigenous Chakma villagers in Panchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120822_matiranga_killing.html">22 August 2012: Bengali settlers kill an indigenous Tripura woman in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120821_dighinala_rape.html">21 August 2012: Bangladesh policeman rape an 11 year old indigenous Tripura girl in Dighinala </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120804_matiranga_riot.html">04 August 2012: Bengali settlers incite communal riot against indigenous people in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120709_longadu_attack.html">09 July 2012: Bengali settlers rob and assault indigenous Chakma people in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120707_uluchara_killing.html">07 July 2012: Bengali settlers kill an indigenous Chakma woman in Uluchara area of Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120704_forcible_conversion.html">04 July 2012: Muslim group abducts 11 indigenous Tripura children for forcible conversion in Dhaka </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120612_rangamati_rape.html">12 June 2012: Bengali settlers attempted to rape an indigenous Chakma girl in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120605_rangamati_rape.html">05 June 2012: Bengali settlers attempted to rape an indigenous Chakma girl in Rangamati </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120605_fatikchari_rape.html">05 June 2012: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Tripura girl in Fatikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120530_teknaf_attack.html">30 May 2012: Bangladesh police attack indigenous Chakma people in Teknaf injuring 12 including a pregnant woman </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120530_barkal_landgrab.html">30 May 2012: Bengali settlers attack indigenous Chakma people with the intention to grab land in Barkal </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120520_grenade_attack.html">20 May 2012: UPDF toss grenade at PCP activists in Rangamati, 1 dead and 13 injured </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120510_panchari_landgrab.html">10 May 2012: Bengali settlers burn down 3 indigenous Tripura houses in Panchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120509_longadu_rape.html">09 May 2012: Bengali settlers rape and kill an 11 year old indigenous Chakma girl in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120428_longadu_rape.html">28 April 2012: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Chakma woman in Longadu </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120425_matiranga_rape.html">25 April 2012: Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Tripura woman with speech disability in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120417_kaukhali_rape.html">17 April 2012: Bengali settlers abduct and rape an indigenous Marma girl in Kaukhali </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120407_kaptai_killing.html">07 April 2012: Bengali settlers kill an indigenous Marma Buddhist in Kaptai </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120323_manikchari_rape.html">23 March 2012: Bengali settlers rape an 11-year old indigenous Marma girl in Manikchari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120305_moheskhali_attack.html">05 March 2012: Bengali settlers attack an indigenous Rakhine family in Moheskhali of Cox’s Bazar </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120201_laxmichari_rape.html">01 February 2012: Bengali settlers gang rape an indigenous Chakma girl in Laxmichari </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2012/20120128_bilaichari_attack.html">28 January 2012: Bengali settlers attack and plunder a Buddhist temple in Bilaichari following the death of a settler </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130410_naikhyongchari_landgrab.html">10 April 2013: Bengali settlers evict 21 indigenous Chak families in Naikhyongchari</a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130404_satkania_rape.html">04 April 2013: Bengali truck driver rapes an indigenous Tripura girl in Satkania</a><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130326_guimara_rape.html"> 26 March 2013: Bengali settler rapes an 8-year indigenous Marma Buddhist girl in Guimara </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130202_bandarban_harassment.html">02 February 2013: Bengali settlers sexually harass an indigenous Tripura girl in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130201_bandarban_harassment.html">01 February 2013: Bengali settlers sexually harass an indigenous Marma girl in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130127_bandarban_attack.html">27 January 2013: Bangladesh Police charge indigenous people with baton in Bandarban </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130125_matiranga_attack.html">25 January 2013: Bengali settlers attack indigenous people following the death of a labourer in Matiranga </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130105_savar_rape.html">05 January 2013: Bengali miscreant abduct and rape an indigenous Chakma girl at Savar, Dhaka </a><br/><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/news2013/20130102_forcible_conversion.html">02 January 2013: Muslim group abducts 16 indigenous Tripura children for forcible conversion in Dhaka</a></p>
</div> The Independent: "secret" (?) war in Thailand's deep southtag:4freedoms.com,2013-03-26:3766518:Topic:1216922013-03-26T20:32:25.414ZJoehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/38DD
<p>Media definition of "secret" = something we have steadfastly and consciously ignored for 10 years.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-secret-war-in-thailands-deep-south-8550581.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-secret-war-in-thailands-deep-south-8550581.html</a></p>
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<p>Media definition of "secret" = something we have steadfastly and consciously ignored for 10 years.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-secret-war-in-thailands-deep-south-8550581.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-secret-war-in-thailands-deep-south-8550581.html</a></p>
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<div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138720"><p>Just a few hours from tourist-packed beaches, a conflict is simmering that has claimed thousands of lives</p>
<div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent"><p>Nisea Nisani was curled on a plastic mat outside the hospital’s intensive care unit. His wife lay on a bed inside, battling for her life after a bomb blast. There was some good news, said Mr Nisani, his eyes red and raw; although shrapnel had fractured both her legs, pierced a lung and torn into her diaphragm, his wife’s doctors were hoping to transfer her to another ward. At that point he would have to tell her that their nine-year-year-old son, Nisofin – their only child – had not survived.</p>
<div class="body"><p>“We’ve not yet told her,” said Mr Nisani, wiping his eyes with a towel. “We thought it might damage her heart.” Mr Nisani’s wife and child, struck by a bomb blast last Thursday in the southern Thai city of Pattani, were the latest victims in an ugly, slow-simmering separatist insurgency that has transformed the region into a militarised zone.</p>
<p>While the casualty figures from most of the incidents of violence are low, the number of victims since 2004, when the insurgency restarted, has now crept past 5,000.</p>
<p>More remarkably, this little-noticed violence is playing out just a few hours drive from holiday resorts such as Krabi, packed with foreign tourists. This week, in what observers hope will be a breakthrough, Thai authorities are to hold their first openly-acknowleged talks with the most significant of a number of militant groups behind an insurgency dating back to the 1970s. Thai military officials will meet representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Coordinate (BRN-C) in Kuala Lumpur. “It’s a big step for the Thai government,” said a national security adviser to Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, asking not to be identified. “It’s a huge political risk. But we want to get this it sorted out once and for all.”</p>
<p>The insurgency in Thailand’s deep south is rooted in the fact that anywhere up to 90 per cent of the population of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Songkhla are ethnic Malay Muslims, rather than Theravada Buddhists. Three of the provinces once formed the independent Sultanate of Pattani, which was annexed only in 1909.</p>
<p>The separatists say they are trying to protect customs, language and religious rights. Despite attempts by al-Qa’ida-affiliated groups establish a handle here, it remains an insurgency driven by ethnic demands for greater autonomy rather than religious ideology. The insurgents have taken their battle to the state using targeted assassinations and bombing campaigns. Alongside police and soldiers, many teachers and low-ranking officials have been killed. Amnesty International estimates two-thirds of victims are civilians.</p>
<p>Sapeing Sulong, who had eight children, was a deputy headman in Suannok, a quiet village 15 miles from Pattani. Ten days ago, he was driving to the house of the second of his two wives when gunmen armed with an AK-47 rifle and a shotgun opened fire. Struck several times, Mr Sulong leapt from the vehicle and lay in the foliage by the edge of the lane, seeping blood. “This is where he hid,” pointed Mr Sulong’s step-brother, Lachit Singh, standing on a stretch of back-country road surrounded by rubber trees and paddy fields.</p>
<p>Local people heard the gunfire but were too afraid to move. “The doctors at the hospital said if he’d been brought in immediately, perhaps he would have lived,” said Mr Singh.</p>
<p>At Mr Sulong’s home, his family declined to speculate on who was responsible for the attack, apparently through fear. His boss, headman Ismail Leamo, said there had been no threats. “It makes no sense for us to say what happened to him,” he said.</p>
<p>But at the police station in the town of Kho Pho, where Mr Sulong’s bullet-ridden black Honda Accord was parked in a compound, officers had few doubts. “He worked for the government. Normally it’s the government officers who are targeted,” said a policeman who knew Mr Sulong but who asked not to be be named.</p>
<p>The Thai authorities have held a series of under-the-radar meetings with several insurgent groups since 2005 in Malaysia, Bahrain and elsewhere. Even now, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, brother of the current premier, holds unofficial meetings with representatives.</p>
<p>Yet the talks have made little progress. The Thai government has often been distracted by domestic political turmoil, while doubting whether the figures they were meeting with had control over the actual fighters. The authorities appear to have been pushed again to the negotiating table by several factors, including a growing realisation among those involved that the BRN-C was the most significant of the groups.</p>
<p>Tony Davis, a Bangkok-based security analyst with IHS Jane’s, said the insurgents had also stepped up their attacks. In February, at least 16 insurgents were killed when they launched an assault upon a well-defended Thai marine base. “In the last few years the situation has deteriorated on the ground with the insurgents attacking with increased capacity. The flip-side is that it’s more difficult for the authorities to keep saying ‘we are on the right track’,” he said.</p>
<p>The Thai state has responded by amassing up to 70,000 police, soldiers and paramilitaries. Today, the landscape is filled with army bases and journeys are punctuated by check-points manned by heavily-armed troops. Those working for peace say they consider the talks a positive step but expect few immediate results. “We support the dialogue. We want it to be a long and continuous process,” said Soraya Jamjuree of the Women’s Civic Network for Peace.</p>
<p>It remains unclear what the government is willing to offer. During her election campaign in 2011, Ms Yingluck said she would consider greater autonomy for the south. Yet the national security adviser said at this point “nothing is on the table”. Once again, it is unclear whether those representing the insurgents have it in their power to halt the killings. Reports suggest many of the movement’s old guard are unhappy with the insurgents’ tactic of assassinating teachers.</p>
<p>Among those murdered was Cholatee Charanchol, a PE teacher at the Tangyong school on the outskirts of Narathiwat. On January 23, Mr Charanchol was overseeing lunch when two men approached him and shot him in the head. Mr Charanchol’s seven-year-old daughter was among the pupils who saw everything.</p>
<p>Mr Charanchol’s widow, Pausiah, said that in the days after the shooting, a psychologist had come to visit the little girl. They had moved her to another school but she was frightened her mother would be killed next.</p>
<p>“She is a strong girl,” Mrs Charanchol said quietly. “I try to stop her talking about it. I want her to forget it.”</p>
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</div> THAILAND: Muslims kill 4000 in the past 7 years - media remain silent [IMAGE WARNING]tag:4freedoms.com,2013-03-19:3766518:Topic:1212592013-03-19T11:34:19.316ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Then they hanged or beheaded the rest of his family. Yet another example of Muslim on Buddhist violence in a country where Muslims are only a small minority.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Then they hanged or beheaded the rest of his family. Yet another example of Muslim on Buddhist violence in a country where Muslims are only a small minority.</span></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bae_1304490155">Live Leak</a> - More than than 4000 people from police and teachers to monks and children have been killed in the past 7 years by Muslims in southern Thailand, but hardly a word in the mainstream media.</strong> In Southern Thailand Muslim gunmen continue killing and threatening innocent citizens. The Muslim insurgents have threatened to kill 20 teachers and have distributed fliers that said, “WANTED: 20 Deaths of Buddhist teachers.” Muslim terrorists object to the education system which teaches Buddhist culture that is not acceptable in Islam. The attacks are intended to force Buddhists to leave the region because Muslims want to create an independent Muslim nation in the three southern provinces.</p>
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</div> Thailand: Fascists take refuge in Krue Se Mosquetag:4freedoms.com,2013-02-20:3766518:Topic:1190272013-02-20T03:32:42.654ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Krue_Se_Mosque_Incident">Krue Se Mosque Incident</span></h2>
<p>On 28 April 2004, more than 100 militants carried out terrorist attacks against 10 police outposts across Pattani, Yala and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkhla" title="Songkhla">Songkhla</a>provinces in southern Thailand.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> 32 gunmen retreated to the…</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Krue_Se_Mosque_Incident">Krue Se Mosque Incident</span></h2>
<p>On 28 April 2004, more than 100 militants carried out terrorist attacks against 10 police outposts across Pattani, Yala and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkhla" title="Songkhla">Songkhla</a>provinces in southern Thailand.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> 32 gunmen retreated to the 425-year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krue_Se_Mosque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Krue Se Mosque (page does not exist)">Krue Se Mosque</a>, regarded by Muslims as the holiest<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> in Pattani.</p>
<p>General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallop_Pinmanee" title="Pallop Pinmanee">Pallop Pinmanee</a>, commander of the <i>Southern Peace Enhancement Center</i> and Deputy Director of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Security_Operations_Command" title="Internal Security Operations Command">Internal Security Operations Command</a>, was the senior Army officer on the scene. After a tense seven hour stand-off, Pallop ordered an all out assault on the mosque. All of the gunmen were killed. He later insisted, "I had no choice. I was afraid that as time passed the crowd would be sympathetic to the insurgents, to the point of trying to rescue them."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup></p>
<p>It was later revealed that Pallop's order to storm the mosque contravened a direct order by Defense Minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavalit_Yongchaiyudh" title="Chavalit Yongchaiyudh">Chavalit Yongchaiyudh</a> to seek a peaceful resolution to the stand-off no matter how long it took.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> Pallop was immediately ordered out of the area, and later tendered his resignation as commander of the Southern Peace Enhancement Center. The forward command of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC), which Pallop headed, was also dissolved. A government investigative commission found that the security forces had overreacted. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Centre_for_Human_Rights" title="Asian Centre for Human Rights">Asian Centre for Human Rights</a> questioned the independence and impartiality of the investigative commission. On 3 May 2004 during a Senate hearing, Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraisak_Choonhavan" title="Kraisak Choonhavan">Kraisak Choonhavan</a> noted that most of those killed at Krue Se Mosque had been shot in the head and there were signs that ropes had been tied around their wrists, suggesting they had been executed after being captured.</p>
<p id="">The incident resulted in a personal conflict between Pallop and Defense Minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavalit_Yongchaiyudh" title="Chavalit Yongchaiyudh">Chavalit</a>, who was also director of the ISOC.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> Pallop later demanded that the Defense Minister cease any involvement in the management of the southern insurgency.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#Krue_Se_Mosque_Incident">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency#Krue_Se_Mosque_Incident</a></p>