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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The unrest was triggered by the rape and murder last month of a Buddhist girl,
allegedly by three Muslims, and the June 3 lynching of 10 Muslims in
apparent retaliation. There are long-standing tensions between the two
groups.
The government regards the Rohingyas as illegal migrants from Bangladesh and
has rendered them stateless by denying them citizenship. Although some are
recent settlers, many have lived in Burma for generations and rights groups
say they suffer severe discrimination.
The conflict poses one the biggest tests yet for Burma’s new government as it
tries to reform the nation after the long-ruling army junta ceded power last
year. The handling of the unrest will draw close scrutiny from Western
powers, which have praised Thein Sein’s administration and rewarded it by
easing years of harsh economic sanctions.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged a halt to the
violence and called on authorities to conduct a quick, transparent
investigation.
The United Nations said it had temporarily relocated 44 of its 150 personnel
in Rakhine state. Local state television said cargo and passenger boats to
Sittwe were suspended.
State run newspapers reported that 4,100 people who lost homes had taken
refuge in Buddhist monasteries, schools and in a police headquarters the
towns of Maungdaw and Buthidaung, both in Rakhine state.
Thousands more were reportedly displaced in Sittwe itself, according to a
Rakhine political party called the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party.
The party is one of the major parties associated with the country’s ethnic
minorities, and won 35 parliamentary seats in the 2010 elections.
State media has reported eight dead in Maungdaw, and an AP journalist saw the
corpses of four people killed in Sittwe.
UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency, estimates 800,000 Rohingya live in
Burma’s mountainous Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. Thousands attempt to
flee every year to Bangladesh, Malaysia and elsewhere in the region, trying
to escape a life of abuse that rights groups say includes forced labour,
violence against Rohingya women and restrictions on movement, marriage and
reproduction.
Source: AP
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