Narinjara News
This news service covers Bangladesh-Burma relations, the Bangladesh-Burma border, events in Arakan and occasional reports on other parts of Burma. Email delivery of the reports may be requested from [email protected]
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Sittwe, 23rd December 02: "The Burmese junta, SPDC, have stuck notices on boards in the agriculture corporation offices and at rice purchase depots asking the relevant officials to collect rice worth US$ 270 million from across Rakhine State in the western part of Burma, according to our correspondent.
Beginning September 15th the junta officials have ordered the rice growers to harvest rice. The farmers and rice growers have been issued orders not to harvest even an acre of rice without the prior permission of the relevant Village Peace and Development Council (Yayaka) ? the village level administrative body of the Burmese junta. The Yayaka members have been engaged to supervise the day-to-day harvesting process, keeping records of how much has been harvested..."
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2002-12-23
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Teknaf, August 19, 2002: "A riot between the prisoners and prison guards broke out in the Burmese prison of Buthidaung in Arakan State last month, according to sources in the township..."
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2002-08-19
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Dhaka, 10 July 02: "Bangladesh in South Asia and Thailand in Southeast Asia have agreed to develop air, land and sea links.
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2002-07-10
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Maungdaw,18th January 03: "The road from Rangoon to Dhaka seems to be under active consideration of the Burmese ruling junta, reports our correspondent..."
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2003-01-18
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Sittwe, 20th December: "Three of the four Muslim Rohingya fishermen rapists who killed two Rakhine mother and daughter after rape in the second week of November in the mouth of the Kaladan River have been nabbed in the first week of December, according to our correspondent from Sittwe. As the authority has imposed a news blackout on the incidence there have been many speculations and dissatisfaction among the Buddhist and Muslim communities in the capital of Rakhine State in the western part of Burma. A tense situation still prevails among the townsmen and the rumour resulting from the news black-out is spreading to other towns and villages in the state..."
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2002-12-20
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Cox?s Bazar, 21 May 03: "Repatriation of Rohingya refugees resumed Monday after over a couple of years with the return of 123 refugees from 20 families to their homeland Burma, According to today the ?Daily Star.?
Another 150 refugees are expected to return today.
The repatriation process began following an agreement between Burma and Bangladesh under the mediation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees..."
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"Daily Star" via Narinjara news
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2003-05-21
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2003-06-03
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Cox's Bazaar, July 12: "About 300 members of Rohingya Refugee Camp at Noyapara in Teknaf upazila refused to receive relief materials on July 5.
Sources said the refusal to receive the relief materials was a part of demonstration in support of their demand for citizenship of Bangladesh. They held more than one rally and meeting inside the camp.
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"The Independent", Dhaka, via Narinjara News
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2002-07-12
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2003-06-03
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Cox's Bazaar, 15 Sep. 02: "According to the local press, a group of Rohingya refugees unwilling to be repatriated to Burma's Arakan State sheltered at Nayapara Refugee Camp in the southeastern district of Bangladesh locked in a sporadic clash with on-duty police and paramilitary Ansar forces from the afternoon till deep of the night on Friday last..."
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2002-09-15
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Cox's Bazaar, 12 October 02: "A decision of an inter-ministers meeting regarding completion of repatriation of all the Rohingya refugees to their home land could not be executed as their actual number could not be determined, according to today?s the independent..."
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2002-10-12
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Cox's Bazaar, 6 July 02: "After a respite for some time, trouble has once again cropped up in the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. The armed members of the Rohingya organizations have been reported to take up measures to foil the refugee repatriation process by resorting to provocative attacks..."
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2002-07-06
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2003-06-03
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Buthidaung, 13th December 01: "Though the movement of agricultural produce including cattle has been banned all over Rakhine State in the western part of Myanmar, the military personnel appointed in the border areas have been reportedly carrying out the trade and transport of the same..."
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Narinjara News
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2001-12-13
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 22 February: "Traders and depositors in Myanma Economic Bank at Sittwe, capital of the western state of Burma, have been panicky as the State Central Bank issued an order two weeks ago, limiting the withdrawal to just half a million kyats a week an amount worth about 450 US dollars, according to our correspondent.
For the workshop owners and small businessmen in the city, the amount is far less than what they need to run their enterprises let alone pay the employees, a disgruntled automobile workshop owner said. The same is true with the wholesalers of cloth, toys, rice and cooking oil, and other commodities..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-02-22
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2003-06-03
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Buthidaung, 24 February: "On 30th January a group of eighteen woodcutters were arrested in Buthidaung Town in the western part of Burma bordering with Bangladesh..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-02-24
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 13 August 02: "In a recent spate of seizures large quantities of palm oil have been confiscated from groceries and alleged 'smugglers' in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships in Rakhine State in the western part of Burma, according to officials and local businessmen..."
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2002-08-13
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 1st April 02: "Ten barrels of alcohol carried in a truck were seized at Ann, the new Western Command headquarters of Arakan (Rakhine) State of Burma, according to our correspondent quoting a source in the military..."
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2002-04-01
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2003-06-03
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"Maungdaw, 7th November: Members of a Kachin ceasefire group were brought into Rakhine State, in the western part of Burma for settlement on 22nd October, according to our correspondent..."
A total of thirty three ethnic Kachin families from the northern part of Burma were moved to be settled at Ngaraing-chaung model village under Maungdw Township, bordering with Bangladesh.
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2002-11-07
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Kyaukpru, 2nd April 02: "Seven cattle traders in Arakan (Rakhine) State, in the western part of Burma were arrested on 25th March, according to a member of the family of an arrested person who called our correspondent over phone..."
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2002-04-02
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2003-06-03
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"...A new beginning in Bangladesh Myanmar relationship is being attempted. But the two countries will have to engage themselves in more constructive diplomacy, golf-wise and business wise for their mutual benefit. Otherwise they would continue to remain distant and remote neighbours..."
M Anwarul Haq
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"The Daily Star" via Narinjara news
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2002-03-16
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 26(?) January 02: "Sixteen cattle traders from Kyaukpru town who were arrested by the Myanmar Navy in the bay waters off the Sittwe coastline on the 8th November 2001 are facing indictment at the Sittwe court in Rakhine State of Myanmar..."
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2002-01-26
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Mrauk-u, 20 January 03: "The Burmese armed forces deployed and stationed in Rakhine, the western state of Burma, have been issuing orders and decrees demanding more and more rice from the rice-growers, our correspondent quoted a village leader in the old city of Mrauk-u, in the northern part of the state..."
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2003-01-20
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Teknaf, October 6: "Our correspondent from Teknaf, the south eastern border town of Bangladesh said that, a total of ten families, 26 female and 25 male members, from Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships across the border were repatriated on Wednesday, October 2, to the Maungdaw Repatriation Camp on the Burmese side across the Naaf River that serve as the border between the two countries..."
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2002-10-06
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Cox?s Bazar, 14 May 03: "A huge amount of Burmese smuggled salt was seized in and around the southern town of Cox?s Bazaar last Friday, according to our correspondent..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-05-14
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka, 20th November 02: "On November 17 Bangladesh Cost Guards eastern zone personnel seized confiscated 200,000 kilogram of smuggled Burmese crude salt from an engine boat from the Sandwip channel..."
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2002-11-20
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Sittwe, 2 August 02: "On July 20th , two minority Muslims from Arakan State, in the western part of Burma, with an Arakanese national were arrested at the Nasaka checkpoint # 25 at Ann Township..."
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2002-08-02
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"Speakers at a brainstorming session yesterday [organised by the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS)]stressed the need of aggressive diplomatic initiative for strengthening bilateral cooperation with Myanmar..."
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"The Independent" via Narinjara news
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2002-02-28
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka, 10th December 01 "Speakers at a seminar on 'Struggle for Democracy in Burma Today' held on the 8th December 2001 [in Dhaka], called upon the Myanmar junta, 'State Peace and Development Council' to hand over state power to the duly elected people's representatives and release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Laureate from Myanmar..."
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2001-12-10
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Maungdaw, 11th May 03: "An on-duty Burmese Army personnel shot himself dead on 2nd May 03 at Kyauk-lung ethnic Mro village in the northern part of Rakhine State, in the western part of Burma while he was performing his duty during the regular rice collection drive..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-05-11
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2003-06-03
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Today?s ?The Daily Star? editorial...
"The arrest of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a year of her release from house arrest has sent shock waves across the democratic world. The sudden denial of freedom to her comes in the thick of the opposition leader?s embarking on a month-long political tour of the country?s north..."
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?The Daily Star? via Narinjara News
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2003-06-02
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Dhaka, 1 June 03: "Burma Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 19 members of her National League for Democracy Party have take into ? protective custody? after a fight broke out between the her supporters and pro-government protesters in northern Burma, according to the independent quoted from AP..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-06-01
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Maungdaw, 4 December: "Mr Jan Nordlander, Swedish Ambassador in Bangkok, called at some villages in the western part of Burma, northern part of Maungdaw Township in Arakan (Rakhine) State, according to our correspondent quoting a high-ranking official..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-12-04
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 6 October 2002: "Smuggling syndicates on both sides of the Burma Bangladesh border have recently scaled up their operations along the border, a source in the law enforcement agency in Western Burma told Narinjara on condition of anonymity..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-10-06
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw: Sep 27: "Beginning mid-August the unofficial exchange rate for the Burmese currency kyat, dropped at least 17% against the US dollar and other regional currencies. At the rate of 18 (going up to 20) to the Bangladesh taka, the nosediving kyat has set off a price spiral and uneasy market in Rakhine (Arakan) state, in the western part of Burma, sources and a company director said..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-09-27
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Maungdaw, 15th March 03: "The Burmese military regime, SPDC, have ordered the realization of three tinns (bushels) of rice from each acre of the land confiscated for the use of the military, in the western Burma, according to our correspondent..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-03-15
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka 1st April 03: "The Bangladesh government is taking necessary measures for building a full-fledged land port at Teknaf on the bank of Naaf river to boost two-way trade with Burma, according to yesterday?s The Independent..."
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"The Independent" via Narinjara News
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2003-04-01
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2003-06-03
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COX'SBAZA, 21st JANUARY 02: "Bangladesh will open a river port at Teknaf tomorrow to boost trade with neighbouring Myanmar..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-01-21
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka, 18th March 02: "A score of Burmese prisoners out of the six hundred waiting for their release in the prisons of Bangladesh will be taken back shortly..."
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2002-03-18
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2003-06-03
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New Delhi, 26 May 03: "May 9th this year was the date to produce before the magistrate thirty-four Rakhine detainees from Burma in the Indian town of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. The detainees were held more than five years ago on 11th February 1998 by a combined forces operation dubbed as ?Operation Leech? conducted by the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-05-26
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 2 December: "In the western part of Burma, the ruling junta commanders have been reported to use people in clearing landmines along the Burma-Bangladesh border in recent weeks..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-12-02
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Sittwe, 29th January 02: "A newly set up Nasaka immigration and security forces Camp No.25 at Ann pass has been screening visitors to Rakhine State of Myanmar. A large number of tourists have been turned down their requests for entry into Rakhine State through the check point established there..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-01-29
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 14th February 02: "Myanmar forces in Ponnagyun township which lies close to Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, in the western coasts of Myanmar, forced people to buy tickets of the snack shops run by members of the families of local Light Infantry Battalion, according to our correspondent..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-02-14
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 20 September 02: "The Burmese junta, State Peace and Development Council, have issued an order to the townspeople of Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese state of Arakan, to construct sidewalks in front of their respective houses on 10 August this year..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-09-20
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2003-06-03
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"...The military junta of Myanmar is selling paddy to the traders who want to export it to Bangladesh legally in exchange of hard cash in US dollar, and not in Myanmar kyat, the official currency..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-02-13
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka, 7 July 02: "There has been much uproar regarding a three hundred million dollar three-nation gas transit pipeline. Through this transit pipeline the gas from Burma (Arakan State) and Tripura State (Northeastern India) will go to West Bengal. Bangladesh will earn a sum of twenty-four million dollar a year as it opens up transit facilities for the multinational deal.
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Narinjara news
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2002-07-07
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 8th February 02: "A two day long Youth and Students' Development workshop was successfully completed in a place on the Myanmar Bangladesh border, a spokesman from the National United Party of Arakan told our correspondent..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-02-08
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2003-06-03
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Chittagong, 25 June: "More than two hundred shrimp farms on the Teknaf Ukhia border on Bangladesh side are in the grip of armed robbers. Though their legal title-holders own the farms by day, they go under the undeclared ownership of the armed goons at night, reports Tofael Ahmed in the Janakantha (25 Jun. 02), Dhaka..."
Tofael Ahmed
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"Janakantha" via Narinjara News
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2002-06-25
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Maungdaw, May 17: "A Burmese junta official on 23rd April acknowledged the presence of forced labour in the remote areas of Arakan State to a UNHCR official in Maungdaw, a township in the western state of Burma. But he denied the bribe required for getting permission to marry eligible couples in the locality..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-05-17
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 21st January 02: "Reports on forced labour being practised extensively across Rakhine State, the western member of Myanmar, have started to pour in to us through traders coming to this border town..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-01-21
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2003-06-03
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Narinjara News, Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Arakan (Rakhine) State
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Sittwe, 28th December 02: "Myanmar National Committee for Women's Affairs (MNCWA) by the dictate of the ruling Burmese SPDC junta has been collecting tolls forcefully in the western Burmese state of Rakhine beginning September 02, according to our correspondent. The MNCWA has been reported to collect tolls from the immunization drives conducted throughout the state under the auspices of the UNICEF. For each dose of immunization given to children below five and to expectant mothers the rate is kyat 40 each at Ponnagyun Township beginning 25th September. Every expectant mother has also been forced to pay kyat 500 as donation to the association?s fund for the Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association (MMCWA). Besides this the Yayaka village councillors have been entrusted with the responsibility of collecting kyat 100 every month from each of the families of the villages for raising funds of the association..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-12-28
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka, 2 June 03: "University and colleges in Burma have been closed indefinitely following the detention by military authorities of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung Sann Suu Kyi, university sources said yesterday, According to today�s "The Independent"..."
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"The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara News
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2003-06-02
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2003-06-03
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Teknaf, 14 March 03: "The Coast Guards of Bangladesh last Friday night nabbed eleven people while they were trying to smuggle a trawler-load of urea fertiliser, according to a report in the Daily Star on 12th March..."
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"Daily Star" via Narinjara News
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2003-03-14
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2003-06-03
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Ponnagyun, 25th February 02: "Township Peace and Development Council fined villagers for not attending a meeting called for what the Myanmarese junta term as 'collection' of 'purchased' rice in Ponnagyun township, close to Sittwe township of Rakhine State, the south-western state of Myanmar, according to Secretary of Shwenatpin Yayaka village council..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-02-25
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, June 14: "The Western Command have recently allocated a total of Kyat 34.4 million for 299 houses to be built in the model villages around Maungdaw, the western part of Arakan State, a source in the Nasaka told our correspondent..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-06-21
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 28 May 03: "The Western Command in Rakhine State in the western part of Burma have issued orders for stopping rice purchases effective immediately on 27th April 03, our correspondent quoting a source in the Burmese Army said.
The directive included strict orders for the members of the Burmese Army to avoid either purchase or collection of rice from any person including the rice merchants..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-05-28
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 3 December: "Another white elephant from Rakhine State in the western part of Burma is on its way to Rangoon, the capital..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-12-03
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 16th December 01
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Narinjara News
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2001-12-16
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 6th March 03: "On 27th February a WHO team visited vaccination centres in the northern part of Rakhine State, in western Burma, according to a doctor engaged in the project. .."
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Narinjara News
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2003-06-06
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2003-06-03
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Maungdaw, 6th March 03: "On 27th February a WHO team visited vaccination centres in the northern part of Rakhine State, in western Burma, according to a doctor engaged in the project..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-03-06
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 24th March 03: "The rivalry among the high junta officials in Rangoon including those in the Western Command of Burma, covering Rakhine State, for the official permit to carry on trade in jellyfish has forced postponement of leasing out the lucrative deal this year, our correspondent quoted a jellyfish trader..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-03-24
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2003-06-03
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"...goods from Myanmar usually come to Bangladesh in two ways: a large chunk of the imported goods are brought in cargo boats and trawlers directly from Akyab (Sittwe) of Rakhine State to the transit ghat at Teknaf on the western bank of the Naaf river in Bangladesh, and the bigger chunk of the goods make way clandestinely through smugglers, evading taxes..."
Shwe Lin Yun
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Narinjara news
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2002-02-28
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2003-06-03
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Sittwe, 21st December 01: "The construction of the bus station for the Sittwe Yangon long-distance bus service has almost been completed in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, in the western part of Myanmar. The bus station was constructed on the piece of land confiscated from the villagers of Mingan and Kandawgree, two miles west from the downtown area..."
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Narinjara News
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2001-12-21
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2003-06-03
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Mrauk-U, 8th March: "On February 28th the Secretary I of the State Peace and Development Council junta of Burma and his team made a short visit to the ancient city in western Burma, according to our correspondent there..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-03-08
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2003-06-03
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