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Myanmar starts a plan to remove citizenship status of officially recognised ethnic Muslim group

Myanmar starts a plan to remove citizenship status of officially recognised ethnic Muslim group

Myanmar News, News December 7, 2017 at 3:20 am 0 comments

Share7th, December 2017 M-Media – Ethnic Kaman Muslims in Rakhine state, an officially recognised ethnic group of Myanmar, are suffering economic blockade by local authorities for refusing immigration department’s new plan which is expected to be an initial step to gradually rendering them stateless. Kaman Muslims from Kyauknimaw Village, Ramree Township,Read More

Myanmar’s Kaman Muslims look to elections to restore their rights

Myanmar’s Kaman Muslims look to elections to restore their rights

Articles November 6, 2015 at 1:47 pm 0 comments

ShareBy Swe Win PAUKTAW (Myanmar Now) —In October two years ago, Zaw Lin ran to the top of a forested hill behind his thatch-roof farm house in this tiny hamlet of Pauktaw in Myanmar’s southern Rakhine state. His family is Muslim. He and his relatives were running for their livesRead More

Ethnic Kaman people jailed long term for self-defence

Ethnic Kaman people jailed long term for self-defence

Myanmar News January 1, 2015 at 3:41 pm 0 comments

ShareDecember 17,2014 M-Media Reported by Zarni Ethnic Kaman Villagers, who looked for self-defence when the violence erupted in their villages in 2013, have been jailed for long terms. Villagers from Thabuchaing and Linthi villages had no choice but to fight back when the Rakine Buddihist extremists invaded their villages andRead More