Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Dhaka urged to aid Burma refugees
The United Nations refugee agency has asked Bangladesh to move more than 6,000 Burmese nationals living on a tidal island to a safer place.
The appeal came after a mission of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and European Commission found the Rohingya ethnic group in “squalid” conditions.
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Agents exploit boat people misery
While some migrants have been rescued, it’s feared many are dead
Relatives of illegal migrants who made ill-fated boat journeys from Bangladesh to Thailand say agents who arranged the trips are still trying to exploit them.
Family members contacted by telephone said the agents claimed the migrants were in jail in Thailand and [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Burma’s forgotten Rohingya
They have been called one of the world’s most persecuted people. Some argue that they are also one of the most forgotten.
Thousands of Rohingya fled Burma for Bangladesh in 1992
The Rohingya people of western Burma’s Arakan State are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission and have no legal right [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Thailand defies UN over migrants
Thailand says 126 asylum-seekers from the Burmese Rohingya minority who were detained by the military a week ago have been sent back out to sea.
The UN Refugee Agency asked to see the detainees three days ago, but never received a response.
Last month almost 1,000 Rohingyas were detained and then towed out [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Thailand’s deadly treatment of migrants
A shocking story is unfolding in Thailand. Migrants and refugees who turn up on its shores have testified that they are being sent back to sea in boats without engines, their hands tied, left to their fate.
Hundreds are thought to have suffered this treatment – among them many Rohingya people of [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Thais ‘leave boat people to die’
Thai soldiers are detaining illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Burma and forcing them back out to sea in boats without engines, survivors say.
Survivors say their hands were tied and they were towed out to sea with little or no food or water.
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Survivor’s ordeal on Andaman Sea
Mohammed wants to avoid detailed identification as that could mean trouble when India sends him back to his native Arakan province in Burma. So he avoids cameras.
This poor 22-year-old Rohingya Muslim from a village near Buthidaung, in Arakan province, is desperate for a new way of life – and is therefore [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Peter Schiff, the guru who predicted that
the recent global recession is coming
Born
Peter David Schiff
Residence
Darien, Connecticut
Occupation
Stock broker, investment adviser, author, economist.
Employer
Euro Pacific Capital
Website www.europac.net
Peter David Schiff (born 1964)[1] is an American economic commentator, author and licencedstock broker who currently serves as president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a fully accreditedbrokerage firm based in Darien, Connecticut.[2]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
The plights of Tamils and Burmese Muslim Rohingyas
in the hands of Buddhists are ignored by Muslim countries
COMMENTS: Tamil and Burmese Muslim Rohingyas are dying in the Buddhists countries, Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. ‘Islamic’ countries shamelessly closed their mouths shut. The shouting and protest against Israel and USA, and the tears for the Palestinians made them hypocrites [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by tunaung
Posted on January 26, 2009 by tunaung
Thai naval officer has confirmed claims that ethnic Rohingya boat people from Myanmar, detained along Thailand’s south-western coast, have been taken back out to sea and set adrift.
The naval officer, who declined to be identified, told Al Jazeera: “We have to take the engines off the boats or they will come back.
“The wind will carry [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
How to Profit from the present Economic Collapse
Since closing the gold window in 1971, the Fed’s inflation of the money supply has been tempered somewhat by the unique position of the United States; foreigners, especially other governments, were willing to accumulate large reserves of dollar-denominated assets.
But once the illusion is broken, the game will be [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Over spending on credit triggers the present recession
As he outlined in 2007 in his first book, “Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse”, Schiff believes that the US economy has become dangerously and unsustainably dependent on consumption – fuelled by trillions of dollars borrowed mainly from Asian countries like Japan and China.
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by sanooaung
Israel’s political and military leaders should be pulled to the ICC
or tribunal for ordering and protecting
the Israel soldiers to commit war crimes
Israel promises troops legal backing over Gaza war
Comment: UN should seriously consider _
pulling the Israel cabinet ministers starting from the PM, Defence Minister and Military top commanders for War Crimes as they [...]
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