MAPIM : Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organization

Press Release MAPIM
3rd October 2013

MAPIM CALLS AND REASSERT UN TO DEPLOY PEACE TROOPS IMMEDIATELY TO MYANMAR

We are outraged at the current fresh violence against Muslims in Thantwe, Rakhine State.

It is shocking to learn from The Burmese Muslim Association (BMA) report of the attack on ethnic Kaman Muslims in Thantwe on 30th September leaving at least 30 lives and has destroyed many homes and properties.

Road Rage, Burma Style: Parking Dispute Sparks Violent Buddhist Riot

Road Rage, Burma Style: Parking Dispute Sparks Violent Buddhist Riot

A Buddhist mob goes on the rampage and torches Muslim buildings in Arakan state after a row over a loading bay triggers long-standing ethnic and religious tensions

A Muslim woman is reflected in a mirror inside her house in Burma’s Arakan state after sectarian violence in 2012

Religious violence once again threatened to engulf western Burma after a Buddhist mob destroyed two Muslim houses on Sept. 29 and had to be dispersed with warning shots from security forces.

Malaysia Wants Myanmar To Address Violence Immediately

Malaysia Wants Myanmar To Address Violence Immediately

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) — Malaysia has urged the Myanmar government to take immediate action to address the ongoing inter-communal violence in the country.

This was voiced by Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman in a bilateral meeting with Myanmar‘s Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin on the sideline of the 46th Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM) in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei which commenced yesterday.

A statement from the Asean-Malaysia National Secretariat, Foreign Affairs Ministry here said Anifah conveyed Malaysia’s concerned on the ongoing violence, saying it had also affected neighbouring countries, including Malaysia.

He also urged the Myanmar government to take necessary measures to bring the perpetrators of violence to justice in a fair and transparent manner.

Myanmar rejects Muslim crackdown concerns of UN rights envoy

Myanmar rejects Muslim crackdown concerns

UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana talks to the media as he leaves a press briefing on the situation of the restive Rakhine state held in Yangon on July 30, 2012. Quintana flew into the main city of Yangon on July 29 for a visit set to include a trip to the restive western state as well as meetings with Myanmar’s President Thein Sein and civil society. – AFP PHOTO

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE FM OF MALAYSIA ON THE DEVELOPMENT IN RAKHINE

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MALAYSIA ON THE DEVELOPMENT IN RAKHINE, MYANMAR
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Malaysia has reaffirmed its support and willingness to offer assistance to Myanmar in relation to the recent unrest in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar. Malaysia has also conveyed its deepest sympathy to the government and the people of Myanmar over the ethnic conflict in Rakhine, and expressed its confidence on the ability of the Myanmar government under the leadership of HE President Thein Sein to end the conflict. The establishment of the Investigation Committee, declaration of the State of Emergency as well as cooperation extended to the UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser for Myanmar genuinely demonstrated Myanmar’s desire in resolving the situation.

“ရခိုင္ေဒသကမီးပြားစမ်ားအေၾကာင္း”

Source: FB of Win Maung Maung “ရခိုင္ေဒသကမီးပြားစမ်ားအေၾကာင္း”

ျပသနာေတြရဲ႕ရင္းျမစ္ကရမ္းျဗဲေက်ာက္နီေမာ္ေဒသကစခဲ႕တာျဖစ္ေပမယ္႕ ေနာက္ပိုင္းျပသနာေတြက ဆက္စပ္မႈမရွိပါဘဲလ်က္ တိုက္ဆိုင္စြာေပၚထြက္က်ယ္ျပန္႕ သြားခဲ႕တာကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္ရခိုင္ေရာက္ေနစဥ္မို႕ ေလ့လာသိရွိခြင့္ရခဲ႕ပါတယ္။