Burmese Muslims and Rohingya Rally in front of UN Headquarter and Permanent mission of Burma at New York City
More than 200 hundred people from all over USA gathered here today to show solidarity for the victim of riot in Arakan, Burma. Muslim from Burma were united regardless of differences in ethnicity and geographic location to demand for Justice for the victims whose voice have not been heard accurately by the world. CNN reporters were on the scenes recording and interviewing demonstrators.
Demonstrators highlighted that international media are reporting fabricated reported generated by Perpetrators of the Riots. AS long as independent media are not reporting from the ground, Genocide in Arakan state will continue until Rohingya will be wipe out completely from their ancestral land.
Memorandums were given to UN Secretary general Ban-ki moon and Burma President U Thein Sein and demanded Justice for the victims, rule of law, to restore citizenship right to Rohingya, to stop prompting hate, to stop inciting racial riot in the future for political interest, to provide emergency Humanitarian assistance such as food, medicine and shelters etc. They also demanded to stop religious persecution and to allow returning refugee without any condition, and to allow rebuild mosques and villages, which were burnt down by the mobs and militia.
Rakhine State, western Burma -
Two death row inmates transferred to a prison in the state's capital
June 20, 2012
Mahmoud Rauhi and Kochi, the death-row inmates of Kyaukpyu prison in Rakhine State, were transferred to Sittwe (formerly Akyab) prison in the state's capital today.
Their transfer to Sittwe prison is attributable to the fact that there is no death row in Kyaukpyu prison, according to a local man who learned this from prison officials.
Three Rohingya Muslims - Mahmoud Rauhi (18), Kochi (21) and Htet Htet (Rasheed) (23) - were arrested for the murder of a Rakhine Buddhist woman Ma Thidar Htwe of Thapraychaung Village, Ramree Towship, Rakhine State in western Burma, whose killing last month helped set off communal violence in which nearly 60 people died, according to the state media.
The three Muslims of the Rohingya minority were charged under Burmese Penal Code section 376 for rape, section 302 (1c) for murder and section 392 for looting properties. Htet Htet alias Rasheed committed suicide in his cell at Kyaukpyu prison.
Mahmoud Rauhi and Kochi were sentenced to death under Penal Code section 302-1 (C). The verdict was handed down on the 18th of June in Rakhine State’s Kyaukphyu district, according to the state-run Myanma Ahlin daily.
The two death-row inmates have the right to appeal against their death sentence to a court of higher jurisdiction within 7 days of the sentence. In the absence of an appeal against their death penalty, the two will be awaiting their execution at Sittwe prison.