Rohingya News Agency –(irrawaddy): Burma’s Upper House on Thursday passed an amendment to a clause in the Constitution, removing the right of temporary citizenship card holders to form parties. The decision could further reduce the rights of stateless Rohingya minority in Arakan State, many of who only hold such cards. The proposed amendment could also pose a problem for political dissidents who lack citizenship cards because they lived abroad for decades under the former military regime and are now returning to Burma during the democratic transition. During a session Thursday, Upper House MPs did not object to the amendment put forth by the Arakan National Party (ANP), a proposal first suggested by ANP in August last year. The amendment will now have to be approved by the Lower House. - See more at: rna-press/en/news/25633.html#sthash.FV8gMC8R.UHDOpwjr.dpuf Rohingya News Agency –(AP): Myanmar will hold by-elections later this year to fill 28 unoccupied parliamentary seats, its top elections official said Thursday, letting contending parties test the political waters about a year ahead of the next general election. The chairman of the Union Election Commission, Tin Aye, announced the timing in answering a question from a member of Parliaments lower house. He said the polls would be held after monsoon season, which ends in October. The exact date will be set three months before the vote. The by-elections should indicate the strengths of the ruling army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party and the opposition National League for Democracy party led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the two main parties expected to contest the general election in late 2015. - See more at: rna-press/en/news/25631.html#sthash.hSj9cm0T.sp9RaZle.dpuf Rohingya News Agency –(irrawaddy): Burma’s Upper House on Thursday passed an amendment to a clause in the Constitution, removing the right of temporary citizenship card holders to form parties. The decision could further reduce the rights of stateless Rohingya minority in Arakan State, many of who only hold such cards. The proposed amendment could also pose a problem for political dissidents who lack citizenship cards because they lived abroad for decades under the former military regime and are now returning to Burma during the democratic transition. During a session Thursday, Upper House MPs did not object to the amendment put forth by the Arakan National Party (ANP), a proposal first suggested by ANP in August last year. The amendment will now have to be approved by the Lower House. - See more at: rna-press/en/news/25633.html#sthash.FV8gMC8R.UHDOpwjr.dpuf Rohingya News Agency –(japantimes): Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard in this northeastern Myanmar village to get high. When authorities show up, it is for their own quick fix. Soldiers and police roll up the sleeves of their uniforms, seemingly oblivious to passers-by. Nearby, junkies lean on white tombstones, tossing dirty needles and syringes into the dry, golden grass. Others squat on the ground, sucking on crude pipes made from plastic water bottles. Along with other opium-growing regions of Myanmar, the village of Nampakta has seen a shocking breakdown of law and order since generals from the former military-run country handed power to a nominally civilian government three years ago. See more at rna-press/en/news/25632.html#sthash.8ZEcmQwe.gbpl Rohingya News Agency –(bnionline): The Arakanese staged their protest rallies in various places like Kyauk Phyu, Mra Oo, Maypon, Min Pyar, Rambray, Kyauk Taw, Punna Kyun, Rathetaung, Buthetaung, Maung daw and also the State capital city of Sittwe. Thousands joined in the demonstrations shouting slogans meaning ‘Pro Rohingya – our enemy !’, ‘Rohhingya lobbyist – betrayer!’, ‘We have no Rohingya along the history of Arakan State!’, ‘Liars on history –get out!’, ‘In censes – no Rohingya !’, ‘President Thein Sein – be sensible of us!’ ‘Don’t touch our territory!’, ‘We dare to die for Peace!’, ‘Peace destroyers are our enemy!’ etc. Rohingya News Agency –(AFP): Thailand sentenced dozens of asylum seekers, believed to be from China’s persecuted Uighur Muslim minority, on Saturday, March 15, amid calls from the US and human rights groups not to forcibly return them to China. “Thai authorities should realize that Uighurs forced back to China disappear into a black hole,” said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch said in a statement published on its website. “They need to allow all members of this group access to a fair process to determine their claims based on their merits, not on Beijing’s demands.” - See more at: rna-press/en/news/25635.html#sthash.jSoBXOUH.1EbK5K2H.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:45:53 +0000
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