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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Dhaka, 28th August 03: "Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has felicitated her Burma counterpart on his assumption to the office of the prime minister of the Union of Myanmar, report UNB..."
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2003-08-28
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2003-09-10
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Cox?sbazar, 7th September 03: "Bangladesh-Burma border trade through Teknaf, southern part of Bangladesh, resumes today after six days as the deadlock ended yesterday following a fruitful negotiation between the parties concerned at a joint meeting at Cox?s bazaar, according to our correspondent quoted a local prominent businessman..."
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2003-09-07
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Maungdaw, 2nd September 03: "Burma?s ruling junta, State Peace and Development Council, began to conduct a Buddhist religious ceremony at the border town of Maungdaw on the Naaf River in the western part of the country on 27th August 03..."
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2003-09-02
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Dhaka, 31st Aug 03: "Burma?s opposition political groups including the National Council of the Union of Burma have condemned the recently proposed seven-step roadmap by the ruling junta prime minister General Khin Nyunt by bypassing the results of the 1990 general elections..."
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2003-08-31
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2003-09-10
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Kyauktaw, 3rd September 03: "The ruling State Peace and Development Council junta officials have been engaged in forcefully collecting money and rice for conducting civil defence training from across Paletwa Township in Chin State the western part of Burma, sources in the town said..."
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2003-09-03
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2003-09-10
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Dhaka, 1nd September 03: "In a statement released on September 1, the Karen National Union (KNU) denounced the newly self-appointed Burmese premiere?s roadmap? based on the State Peace and Development Council junta?s presently stalled ?National Convention”..."
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2003-09-01
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2003-09-10
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Maung Daw, 22th August 03: "A truck from the World Food Program (WFP) rolled over in Maung Daw Township, on July 31st..."
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2003-08-22
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2003-09-10
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Maungdaw, 3rd September 2003: "The repatriation of Saiyadul Amin, a Muslim young man, has stirred up controversies between the officials of the two neighbouring countries of Burma and Bangladesh..."
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2003-09-03
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2003-09-10
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Dhaka, 2nd September 03: "The opening ceremony of a sub-printing house that will print Rangoon-based Myanma Alin and Kyemon dailies was held in Sittway (Akyab), Rakhine State, on 26 August morning, aimed at stepping up the junta?s information campaign, a source in the administration said..."
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2003-09-02
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2003-09-10
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Sittwe, 4rd September 03: "Two minor Muslim children were held by Nasaka security forces at the Ann Pass on the Rangoon Sittwe highway on 14th August, sources in the locality said..."
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2003-09-04
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2003-09-10
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Teknaf, 5 September 03: "The smuggling of dollar has gone up since the imposition of US sanctions on Burma, according to sources in the Burma Bangladesh border..."
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2003-09-05
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2003-09-10
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Dhaka, 7th September 03: "Up to 100 people were killed and an unknown number of women raped in the area of northern Burma where pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi?s convey was attacked on May 30, Radio Free Asia said Friday..."
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RFA via AFP via "The Independent" via Narinjara news
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2003-09-07
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2003-09-10
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Dhaka, 13th August 03: "Reports have been received about the observation of the 13th August Rice Killing Day across Rakhine State, in the western part of Burma. Rakhine people from all walks of life commemorated the day with heavy hearts in remembrance of hundreds of people killed this day in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, 36 years ago..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-08-13
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2003-08-22
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Sittwe, 16th August 03: "Officials of the ruling Burmese SPDC junta have been involved in active operation of gangs of smugglers along the Naaf River that serves as the common border between Burma and Bangladesh..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-08-16
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2003-08-22
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Sittwe, 14th August 03: "The roads in Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese state of Rakhine, have become unfit for use by motor vehicles as the heavy monsoons have washed them away, damaging very badly.
The Sittwe Municipality finding no source of revenue from which to maintain the roads in the town appealed to the Western Commander. The western commander finding no other way issued an order to conduct the maintenance of the roads through a self-help basis, said an owner of the Sittwe Rangoon bus service..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-08-14
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2003-08-22
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Chittagong, 14th August 03: "A Chinese cargo vessel sank in the Andaman seas off the western Burmese coast of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in the early morning hours of Tuesday when the sea became rough due to a tremor. Twenty-eight of the sailors were rescued by the Bangladesh Navy in the Bay of Bengal and brought to Chittagong port yesterday..."
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2003-08-14
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2003-08-22
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Cox?s Bazar, 13th August 03: "On Saturday last a cargo boat carrying smuggled Burmese timber capsized off the coastal town of Cox?s Bazar in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. About ten crewmembers of the boat have been missing since then..."
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2003-08-13
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2003-08-13
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Dhaka, 8th August 03: "A group of Rakhine students and youths from Burma has staged demonstrations in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this morning on the 15th anniversary of the 8th August Democracy Uprising of Burma..."
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2003-08-08
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2003-08-13
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Akyab, 7 August 2003: "The Riparian fishery industry of Kaladan River, Arakan - a western state of Burma - has to pay ransom to a collaborator of the Burmese military intelligence.
High Gar Ree Kyaw Win attained a monopoly over the Jelly-Fish industry for the 2002-2003 season, by bribing fishermen with forty million Kyats ($ 40,000). However, after a poor fishing season the industry made a loss..."
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2003-08-07
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2003-08-13
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Dhaka, 7th August 03: "In a statement datelined 6th August 03 the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) has refuted the State Peace and Development Council junta (SPDC) of Burma?s claims that the KNLA is to blame for the bomb blasts on 26th July in a press conference, on 15th May in Phyu Town cinema hall (movie theatre) and two time bombs blast in Taungoo on 27th July..."
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2003-08-07
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Dhaka, 8th August 03: "A number of Burmese democratic opposition groups have expressed their views on the 15th anniversary of the Burmese Democracy Uprising. On the eighth August 1988 people across Burma spontaneously took to the streets demanding the end to the military dictatorship and establishment of democracy..."
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2003-08-08
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2003-08-13
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Dhaka, 13th August 03: "Six drug traffickers including two Burmese nationals with one kilogram of heroin were arrested last week in the southeastern district of Bandarban in Bangladesh close to Burmese border, according to a BSS report..."
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BSS via Narinjara News
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2003-08-13
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2003-08-13
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Maungdaw, 31st July 03: "A number of private commercial banks in western Burma have been facing closure due to drastic reduction in transactions since the bank crisis began in mid-February this year.
Sources in a private bank in Maungdaw, a township on the Naaf River across the Bangladeshi town of Teknaf said that their bank is facing closure and inability to pay the employees as people have lost faith in bank transactions. ?The private banks are now sitting idle, sometimes even without one transaction in an entire day,” an official in a private bank said..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-07-31
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2003-08-06
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Sittwe, 4st August 03: "The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) junta of Burma has taken up a long-term extensive black pepper cultivation plan in the western Burmese state of Rakhine.
Under the plan the junta has confiscated villagers? land near the more than sixty battalion headquarters stationed across the state. Sources in the administration said that at Buthidaung Township, close to the Bangladesh-Burma border in the northern part of Rakhine State, the junta has confiscated hundreds of acres of villagers? land for the cultivation of black pepper..."
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2003-08-04
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2003-08-06
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Sittwe, 30th July 03: "The fourth World Buddhist Summit will be held in Burma in December 2004, said a prominent Buddhist monk close with one of the abbots attending the eighth Sangha Mahanayaka Council held in Kaba-aye in Rangoon on 5th July 03..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-07-30
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2003-08-06
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Dhaka, 1st August 03: "Dhaka has sent a list of 44 products to Rangoon to start account trade and is awaiting a response, according to today the daily star..."
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"The Daily Star" via Narinjara News
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2003-08-01
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2003-08-06
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Dhaka, 6th August 2003: "India?s northeastern state of Mizoram said it was launching a drive to detect and deport thousands of illegal refugees from Burma in response to pressure from local residents, according to today the daily star quoting to AFP..."
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AFP via "The Daily Star" via Narinjara News
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2003-08-06
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2003-08-06
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Buthidaung, 31st July 03: "Three young villagers in western Burma have been enticed into joining the military services, according to a relative of the recruits.
The three teenagers are illiterate and of minor age, the relative added. The man also said that the Burmese Army has for some time been paying money as enticement for attracting more recruits..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-07-31
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2003-08-06
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Kyauktaw, 29th July 03: "A Burmese Military Intelligence officer in western Burma has been arrested on corruption charges in the first week of July, sources in the police department said.
The officer-in-charge of Kyauktaw Township Burmese Military Intelligence, Battalion 10, Sergeant Myo Khin was arrested for possessing unexplainable quantity of properties? including one thousand acres of agricultural land, twelve cars and buses, and forced money-lending to farmers in the area, estimated value kyat fifteen million..."
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2003-07-29
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2003-08-06
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Sittwe, 29th July 03: "The Burma Army has begun construction of artillery base on an island close to Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, in western Burma. The base is being installed at the southern tip of West Farunga Island, about fifty kilometres south to Sittwe.
Sources in the administration preferring to be anonymous said that the artillery base is aimed at safeguarding the construction of facilities in an offshore gas field, from which the gas would ultimately be piped to neighbouring countries..."
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2003-07-29
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Sittwe, 28th July 03: "Twenty-nine onion traders who were bringing bags of onion from Rangoon to Sittwe, the capital of the western state of Rakhine, on the Kyaw Yadana and Shweli motor vessels were arrested on the 4th of this month as a result of altercation between the military intelligence Battaliion No. 10 and the owner of the vessels, Ms Ma Swe, niece of Burmese Junta?s No. 2, Lieutenant General Maung Aye. .."
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2003-07-28
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2003-08-06
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Dhaka, 30th July 03: "The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma based in Thailand conducted a five day long women empowerment training among the female Burmese refugees in Bangladesh that ended yesterday.
According to the trainer the sessions included classes on leadership, women empowerment, organizational activities, and women?s rights. Twenty women from four political organizations Arakan Women?s Welfare Association, Arakan League for Democracy, Rakhine Organization in Exile, and Arakan Labour Association (Exile) attended the training..."
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2003-07-30
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2003-08-06
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Teknaf, 23rd July 03: "The markets of Bangladesh for some time have been flooded with the fish either imported or smuggled from Burma. In recent weeks high concern has been raised about the quality and nature of preserving the Burmese freshwater and sea fish..."
Sein Mra Aung
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Narinjara News
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2003-07-23
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2003-07-28
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Buthidaung, 27th July 03: "Eight prisoners allegedly from Mungywa, under Sagaing Division, northern part of Burma Proper were moved to Buthidaung prison, in the western Burma bordering with Bangladesh.
According to an eyewitness the eight Burmese prisoners were taken to Buthidaung aboard the Dahanyawaddy 3, a passenger vessel owned by the Inland Water Transport Corporation on 21st July. The prisoners were escorted by twelve police forces led by Win Maung, the Township Police officer of Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese Rakhine State..."
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2003-07-27
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2003-07-28
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Sittwe, 23rd July 03: "Burma?s ruling State Peace and Development Council junta has ordered formation of paramilitary Pyithu Seik to divert people?s attention from the Depeyin Massacre on 30th May, said a political analyst.
Sending messages of high alert of an impending war? among the defence forces and the general people, the Burmese junta has issued orders to give compulsory military training to the family members of all the defence personnel aged between eighteen and forty, irrespective of sexes, according to sources in the administration.
All the non-Rakhine members of the defence forces have also been directed to learn the local Rakhine language so that in case of war breaking out they can get mixed with the local population. The existing forces in the army and navy have been brought under intensive and specialized training courses for facing a possible war..."
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2003-07-23
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2003-07-28
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Sittwe, 24th July 03: "The Burmese State Peace and Development Council junta has recently formed an Electricity Committee in Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese Rakhine State. Headed by General Maung Oo, the western commander, and consisting of the Sittwe District Peace and Development Council chairman and other township officials, the committee has been entrusted with the responsibility of what it said as lightening up the township.?..."
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2003-07-24
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Dhaka, 22nd July 03: "A Burmese refugee teenage girl, in a Dhaka English Medium School named Darland International School has stopped going to school since 13th of this month to escape some eve teasers in Mirpur area where she lives with her family. Thunn Mra Khaing, aged 16, is an eighth grader, intelligent and with good grades in the exams having good sense of humour. She comes of a Burmese Rakhine Buddhist background..."
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2003-07-22
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Sittwe, 21st July 03: "The monopoly granted to a private transport company has caused sharp increase in prices of all the essential commodities brought to the western Burmese state of Rakhine from Burma proper. The ruling State Peace and Development Council junta granted the Kyauktaung Transport Company sole rights to carry the transport business between Sittwe, the state capital, and Taungup, the southern reach of Rakhine State that connects Pyi on the Burma proper for the year 2003..."
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2003-07-21
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Dhaka, 23rd July 03: "The National Council of the Union of Burma in a statement dated 23rd July 03 welcomed on behalf of the people of Burma the move to include into the agenda of matters relating to Burma in the ongoing Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) at Bali, Indonesia, which is being held on 23rd and 24th July..."
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2003-07-23
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Dhaka, 19th July 03: "There are 154 foreign prisoners lingering in a Bangladeshi jail about one hundred kilometres southeast to the capital Dhaka. Due to legal complexities arising from disinclination of the relevant governments their prison terms have been protracted though their prison terms expired a number of years ago, reported BSS.
Of the total prisoners 76 persons are from Burma, 75 from Thailand, and the rest three from India. A recently released Burmese prisoner said to Narinjara that the said Thai prisoners are in fact illegal Burmese workers who were on board illegal Thai fishing boats when they were arrested on several occasions..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-07-19
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Dhaka, 18th July 2003: "A prominent leader of the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) (exile), Khaing Myo Khaing, passed away at a hospital in Chiang Mai, a northern city of Thailand, at 4:10am on 18 July 2003. He was 55 years old..."
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2003-07-18
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Dhaka, 18th July 03: "Following US House of Representative?s overwhelming vote in favour of sanctioning Burma, the Arakanese political parties in exile in a statement dated today welcomed the move.
Seven Arakanese political parties representing the Arakanese people welcomed the 418 -2 House vote on 15th July 03 that occurred a month after the 97 -1 Senate vote. They hoped the move would give a strong support to the cause of restoration of democracy..."
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2003-07-18
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Maungdaw, 16th July 03: "On 6th and 7th July the border police forces of Burma and Bangladesh met at Aung-yeik-tha Hall, three miles east of the Burmese border town of Maungdaw, on the Naaf River that serves as the common border of the two countries, sources in the Nasaka Border Security Police said...
In the flag meeting the Burmese side asked for a solution and end to the anti-Burmese junta rebel groups operating from inside Bangladesh. On the other hand the Bangladeshi side demanded a solution to the large scale smuggling from Burma and prevention of continual infiltration of the ?Bengali-speaking” Burmese nationals into Bangladesh..."
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2003-07-16
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Sittwe, 17th July 03: "The Burmese Communist Party (Arakan) that signed ceasefire agreement with the ruling Burmese junta, SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council), in May 1997 faces bankruptcy in a number of financial ventures..."
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2003-07-17
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Teknaf, 17 Jul. 03: "Fresh forced conscription into the Burmese Army has been reported from various townships of Rakhine State in the western part of Burma. Maung Tun Yein (17) who fled and crossed the border to Bangladesh said that Light Infantry Battalion 538, at Rathedaung Town, about thirty miles north of Sittwe the state capital, has been conducting fresh conscription in and near his township..."
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2003-07-17
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Sittwe, 15th July 03: "The ruling SPDC junta of Burma has begun formation of a civil defence force named as Pyithu-seik (People?s Army) as a preparatory measure for a possible war?, as feared by the junta, from last month. From a number of townships in the western Burmese state of Rakhine reports have confirmed the formation of paramilitary force named as Pyithu-seik or People?s Army in recent weeks.
Alerting the people of an imminent war?, without any clear definition made to what war it is, the junta officials have already conscripted two hundred and twenty full-time members of the People?s Army and four hundred and forty part-time members from 22 village tracts in Kyaukpru Township alone. Kyaukpru is situated about 100 miles south of Sittwe (Akyab), the capital of Rakhine state..."
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2003-07-15
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Maungdaw, 15th July 03: "The future of the construction of bridges in western Burma has become uncertain due to the stoppage of Japanese aid to Burma, sources in the local administration said.
In Maungdaw Township, bordering with the southeastern part of Bangladesh, a number of bridges have been under construction utilizing Japanese aid offered by the BAJ (Bridge Asia Japan), a Japanese NGO. The bridges would link the detached sections of the proposed Sittwe Maungdaw road, which may later be used as link between Bangladesh and Rangoon..."
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2003-07-15
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Dhaka, 13 July 2003: "A total of 362 Rohingya refugees of 62 families voluntarily returned to their homes in Burma through Teknaf border from Bangladesh between July 5 and 10 this year, according to Bangladesh local news agency BSS's report. .."
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BSS via Narinjara News
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2003-07-13
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Dhaka, 5th July 2003: "Burma Foreign minister Win Aung come to Dhaka today carrying a letter from Senior General Than Shwe for Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, reports local press..."
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2003-07-05
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Dhaka. 5 July 03: "About 60 Arakanese protesters rallied in front of Bangladesh High court today afternoon calling for the immediate release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burma ruling military junta..."
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2003-07-05
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Dhaka, 7 July 03: "Bilateral relation between Bangladesh and Burma received a positive spurt with Dhaka?s assurance to the visiting Burma FM, Win Aung, that Dhaka will not allow its territory for use by any power to harm Burma, According to the daily star.
? Non-interference in the internal affairs of another country is our principled stand,” said Foreign Secretary Shaansher Mobin Chowdhury while briefing journalists on the talks held yesterday between the two foreign ministers in Dhaka.
The visit follows relentless pressures from US and many Western nations on Burma to set free the captive pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and to improve human rights condition..."
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"The Daily Star" via Narinjara News
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2003-07-07
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Dhaka, 6 July 03: "Some 70-80 Myanmar Rakhaine people demonstrated in front of the Jatiya Press Club yesterday against Myanmar foreign Minister U Win Aung?s tree-day visit to Bangladesh, according to today? the daily star, a most popular newspaper of Bangladesh..."
The protesters, under the banner of Arakan League for Democracy?, called upon the Banglad
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"The Daily Star" via Narinjara news
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2003-07-06
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Dhaka, 4th July 03: "The Bangladesh government is hopeful that the process of repatriation of the Burmese refugees will complete in a foreseeable future, Foreign Secretary Shamsher M Chowdhury told a regular weekly briefing at his office yesterday, According to today?s the independent quoted to BSS report..."
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2003-07-03
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Dhaka, 3 July 2003: "Burma Foreign Minister Win Aung arrives in Dhaka on Saturday as a special envoy of his country?s Prime Minister Senior General Than Shwe, according to today?s the independent..."
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"The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara news
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2003-07-03
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Sittwe, 1st July 03: "For some time the table salt has topped the list of items smuggled into Bangladesh from Burma. Everyday between 1,000 to 3,000 tonnes of chemical fertilizer including urea are smuggled into Burma while on their return trip they carry table salt back..."
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2003-07-01
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Rathedaung, 25rd June 03: "The construction of a motorable road connecting Rathedaung and Maungdaw townships in Rakhine State, in the western part of Burma, has been underway since January this year, according to our correspondent..."
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2003-06-25
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2003-06-26
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Dhaka, 25th June 03: "The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has not plan to wrap up its programme in Bangladesh as long as all Rohingya refugees from Burma are not completely repatriated, according to UNB, a local news agency..."
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2003-06-25
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Chittagong, 21st June 03: "A total of forty four Burmese prisoners have already spent eight years after the expiry of their prison terms in a prison in the southeastern hilly district town of Rangamati, the daily Janakantha said today..."
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Janakantha via Narinjara News
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2003-06-21
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Cox?s Bazaar, 21st June 03: "Burmese Rohingya refugee children at Nayapara Refugee Camp in the southeastern part of Bangladesh brought out a colourful rally in observance of the World Refugee Day yesterday. Forgetting the squalid environment of the camp where the barest minimum necessity to keep body and soul together the children beaming with smile came out in a procession inside the camp premises and a discussion was also held on the significance of the day, said our correspondent..."
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2003-06-21
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Maungdaw, 18th June 03: "Four Bangladesh nationals of a fertilizer carrying boat have been under the custody of the Nasaka security forces Area No. 7 at Maungdaw since 5th June 03, sources said..."
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2003-06-18
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Sittwe, 18th June 03: "In the face of large numbers of deserters, the Burmese Army is confronting an acute manpower shortage. Quoting sources in the army our correspondent said that to keep the entire military machinery running conscription has been stepped up across Rakhine State in the western part of Burma..."
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2003-06-18
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Dhaka, 20th June 03: "Forum-Asia, a leading human rights organization has today called upon the UNHCR and the Government of Bangladesh to immediately stop the forced repatriation of about 21,000 Rohingya refugees who are sheltered in the southern part of Bangladesh into Burma.
Citing the deteriorating political and human rights situation resulting from the arrest on 30th May (and now imprisonment) of Aung San Suu Kyi by the military regime of Burma Forum-Asia demanded, ?it will be irresponsible for the UNHCR to abandon the Rohingya refugees.”..."
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2003-06-20
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Sittwe, 20th June 03: "The regular ticket for the Sittwe to Rangoon air trip costs kyat 18,500. But in Sittwe, the western town of Burma, the same ticket would cost a passenger up to kyat 30,000, quoting a passenger our correspondent writes.
In each of the twice-daily flights to Rangoon there are ten specially reserved? seats for the Burmese Army and other defence forces, which again is controlled by the Military Intelligence 10. According to a source in the Burmese airways, if the MI agents find the ten always reserved? seats filled by the defence personnel, they force the ticket sellers and manager of the airways to offer them five or more seats for selling them in the black-market..."
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2003-06-20
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Pauktaw, 19th June 03: "The shrimp farmers of Pauktaw Township in the western part of Burma are facing difficulties arising from the constantly changing policies on shrimp farming..."
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2003-06-19
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Dhaka, 19th June 03: "WLB (Bangladesh) observed the 58th birthday anniversary here in Dhaka. In a simple ceremony attended by members of the Women?s League of Burma (WLB), representatives from the Arakan League for Democracy, and Committee for Burmese Refugees and other individuals, the speakers elaborately discussed about the present political impasse of Burma and wished a very long and peaceful life for the Opposition Leader of Burma..."
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2003-06-19
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Maungdaw, 17th June 03: "Two country directors from Aide Medical International (international medical aid), came calling at Maungdaw, the western Burmese town in Rakhine State, according to our correspondent.
The two NGO officials came to the town on the Bangladesh Burma border to check the feasibility of opening up a new branch of the NGO in the border township where recently the repatriation of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been stepped up. AMI is a French NGO working in Rangoon and the Thai-Burma border, giving medical assistance to the returning refugees..."
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2003-06-17
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Sittwe. 16th June 03: "A census of what the ruling Burmese junta call as the Bengali population in Sittwe Township, the capital of the western Rakhine State in Burma, has been undertaken.
Beginning 12th June, the census has been conducted by a powerful body composed of members of the Military Intelligence, the State Police Department, the Immigration, Township Peace and Development Council (the administrative arm of the ruling State Peace and Development Council junta). .."
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2003-06-16
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Kyauktaw, 14 June 03: "Fresh reports of forced labour in northern part of Rakhine State in western part of Burma have been reported by our correspondent.
In a bid to construct road and possibly, gas pipeline to the north-eastern part of India large-scale use of forced labour has been made in the townships of Kyauktaw Township in Rakhine State and Paletwa Township in Chin State in the western part of Burma since the end of last year.
Soon after the joint Indo-Burma survey of existing jungle paths in the beginning of this year forced labour in construction of the road to the Indian border has taken up momentum. Hundreds of people, men, women and children could be seen streaming to the worksites everyday at the village tracts upriver the Kaladan including Tarwaing-oing, Mreik-wa, Chin Lat Wa, Nwge Let Wa, Kung Chaung, Miza , Milet wa and Tinnma..."
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2003-06-14
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Dhaka, 10 June 2003: "The Arakan Independence Alliance, an umbrella organization of the National United Party of Arakan and Arakan Rohingya National Organization, welcomed the strong stand taken by the US in consideration of imposing further sanctions against the ruling Burmese military clique due to the crisis arising from the recent De-Pe-Yin massacre on 30th May in a statement released on 8th June 03..."
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2003-06-10
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Dhaka, 13th June 03: "Seventeen members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) including the bodyguard of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Tun Zaw Zaw, the popular leader of Burmese Opposition have been reportedly tortured and interrogated at Khanti Prison, in Sagaing Division in northern part of Burma..."
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2003-06-13
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Teknaf, 13th June 03: "The Burma Bangladesh trade may have at last seen the daylight with the import of fish from Burma. Everyday two or three hundred tonnes of Burmese freshwater fish is unloaded at the Teknaf jetty on the Bangladesh side, our correspondent writes from the border town.
All the fish is directly shipped from Rangoon, while most of the shipment include freshwater fish. The price of the fish at local import market stands at taka 60,000 for a tonne, while in Rangoon the price of the same is kyat 750,000 or approximately taka 44,120, calculated at the present rate of 17 kyat to the taka.
In the absence of LC opening, one Bangladeshi bank, Arab Bangladesh Bank that has branches in Rangoon and Rakhine State, handles the money received by the Burmese traders. Bangladeshi traders pay the price in US dollars to the bank, which issues the same at their Rangoon branch to the Burmese exporters, who then takes all the necessary steps to ship the fish..."
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2003-06-13
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Sittwe, 12th June 03: The recent formation of a powerful Rice Control Committee in Burma has raised high concern among the rice growers in Rakhine State in the western part of Burma.
The Committee, led by the General Secretary 2 of the State Peace and Development Council junta of Burma, is composed of Minister 1 of the Ministry of Industries, State Minister of Trade and Commerce, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, two representatives from the Association of the Owners of Business Houses, two representatives from the Merchants Association, and two representatives from the Rice Mill Owners Association, according to sources in the agricultural department.
Considered as the central committee for control and manipulation of the dealings in rice including export, the newly formed Rice Control Committee has already been dubbed as the ?newer version of the old rice procurement committees? by the growers of rice in the state..."
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2003-06-12
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Sittwe, 11th June 03: "This is Sittwe, capital of the western Burmese Rakhine State. Like in other parts of the state tuning to the popular Burmese broadcasts from BBC, VOA, RFA, and DVB, or any other foreign broadcasts are attracting huge crowd usually in ?clandestine groups? since the listeners could land anytime in trouble: says a retired teacher in the town.
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A townsman on phone told us that the people have lost all their faith in the SPDC broadcasts, as they are one-sided and detached from the reality. The junta leaders who are living a life of luxury seldom know what the majority ninety percent people of Burma is living with: utter poverty, deprivation of human rights, suppression of human rights and last but not list, subjecting the people to accept the gross lies through the official Burmese media newspapers, radio and TV. So the people have been compelled to depend upon the news from the four radio broadcasting services of the BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB..."
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Narinjara news
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2003-06-11
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Maungdaw, Sittwe.
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2001-12-11
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NASAKA ARREST A LOCAL EMPLOYEE OF UNHCR
Maungdaw 30th January 02: A local employee of UNHCR at Maungdaw in Rakhine State of Myanmar was arrested by the Nasaka border immigration and security force, our correspondent quoted an unnamed UNHCR official from Maungdaw.
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2002-01-30
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14 Burmese nationals held from Dhaka airport. Bangladeshi Foreign Minister invited to Burma
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2002-06-26
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Dhaka, 19 May 03: "A seven-member Burma delegation led by Director General of Immigration U Maung Thay arrived at Dhaka yesterday to attend the meeting, according to today the ..."
The team also brings together officials from immigration, migration, social welfare and relief ministries.
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?Daily Star? via Narinjara news
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2003-05-19
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Dhaka, September 24: "The heads of nine private import and export companies have been arrested and had their assets seized in the latest crackdown on trading irregularities, according to yesterday's "The Daily Star" quoted from AFP.
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AFP via "Daily Star" via Narinjara News
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2002-09-24
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Maungdaw, 22 December 02: "Some 30 Bangladeshi fishermen who were released from various jails in Burma returned home through Teknaf frontier on December 18, according to today's local presses of Bangladesh..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-12-22
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Dhaka, 12 May 03: "Theft of Buddha statues from the temples of the Rakhine Community in Bangladesh is unabated in the Rakhine dominated areas like Amtali, Galachipa in Barguna district, Kalapara and Kuakata people feeling insecured in the performance of their religious rites, according to the independent on 10th May 03..."
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"The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara news
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2003-05-12
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SYLHET, June 21: "The Myanmar government has agreed to bring back its 76 national from Selhet jail whose terms of imprisonment ended in 1998..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-06-21
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2003-06-03
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Dhaka, June 12: "Seventy-six Burmese prisoners detained in the prison in the north-eastern district of Sylhet in Bangladesh will go back home after five years' imprisonment, sources said..."
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2002-06-12
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"A total of 140 Myanmar and Thai nationals were shifted to Comilla and Noakhali jail from Bandarban jail yesterday on charge of agitating in custody..."
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BSS, Bandaban, "The Daily Star" via ,Narinjara news
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2002-04-09
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Dhaka, 20th November 02: "Evicted by a combined police and army drive, at least 4,000 Muslim Rohingyas have taken shelter at a makeshift camp nears Teknaf border, according to the daily star..."
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"Daily Star" via Narinjara news
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2002-11-20
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Dhaka, 5th June 03: "Bangladeshi foreign minister M Morshed Khan when pressed for comments on the recent house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma on 4th June 03 told reporters at the Foreign Ministry that Bangladesh does not, as a matter of principle, want to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly neighbours..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-06-05
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Sittwe, 27 February: "The Department of Agriculture and Farm Produce Trading in Burma has issued a directive, announcing what it termed as a ?joint venture business? in transporting and trading in such agricultural produce as red chilli, onions and garlic..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-02-27
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Sittwe, 4 September 02: "The Burmese junta has started to distribute advance money for future 'rice purchase' from rice farmers beginning the first week of last month, according to sources in the administration who declined to identify..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-09-04
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Dhaka, 25th March 03: "A number of Burmese Opposition support groups including Burma Support Group, Norway, have appealed to the Prime Minister of India for the amnesty of a reputed Burmese journalist in exile, Mr Soe Myint, whose Mizzima News Group is based in New Delhi, according to an open letter to Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, the PM of India, dated 20th March 2003..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-03-25
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Sittwe, 8th January 02: "Though Mrauk-u in Rakhine State is one of the ancient cities of Myanmar, the ancient city lacks all the repair and regular maintenance of the other Burmese cities like Pagan, Nyaung-oo, and Mandalay..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-01-08
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Maungdaw, Oct 3: "A Rohingya youth was gun down into the Naaf River by Burmese Nasaka forces at Maungdaw Township, western part of Burma, according to our correspondent.
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Narinjara News
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2002-10-03
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Cox?s Bazaar, 10th May 03: "Members of the anti-repatriation group of Burmese refugees in one of the refugee camps in Cox?s Bazaar in the southern part of Bangladesh have taken a tough stand face to face with the administration, according to a source in the camp at Kutupalong in the district..."
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Narinjara News
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2003-05-10
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Dhaka, 1 January 03: "A ceremony commemorating the fall of Arakan to the Burmese rule was held in Dhaka, in the morning of the 31st of December. About 60 Arakanese, who involve in the anti-Burmese-junta movement, gathered at a hotel to mark the 218 year long loss of their self-determination as a people..."
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Narinjara news
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2003-01-01
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2002-08-08
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Dhaka, 28 March 2002: "It is reported that 57 Anniversary of Anti Japanese fascist revolutionary day was held in Dhaka at the National Health and Education Council office on 11 AM, 27th March..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-03-28
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Maungdaw, 6th February 02: "There has been an argument between a UNHCR officer and a Nasaka immigration and security forces major on the arrest of a local Muslim UNHCR employee without any information either to the UNHCR office or to the arrested person's family in the border town at the south-western state of Myanmar, creating a lot of speculations among the local residents as well as the international NGOs working in the area..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-02-06
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RANGOON, March 30: "Finance minister and senior central bank officials from 13 Asia countries including Japan and China will meet in the Burma capital of Rangoon next week to discuss regional economic integration..."
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Narinjara news
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2002-03-31
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Sittwe, 20 August 02: "In the night of August 12th, unidentified persons painted blood-coloured patches on the main streets and many important buildings of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, according to our special correspondent..."
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Narinjara News
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2002-08-20
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Dhaka, 28 February: "Bangladesh had to cancel the import of Malaysian palm oil worth 20 million US dollars through a ?counter trade? plan, reports the Janakantha, a Bengali language daily in Dhaka yesterday.
The intervention by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has finally compelled the government of Bangladesh to back away from a ?Counter Trade? plan with Malaysia, Thailand, Russia and Burma..."
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Janakantha via Narinjara News
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2003-02-28
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