Myanmar and the Arakan Army should hold talks on unity rather than boosting the Islamist dream

Modern Tokyo Times
Sawako Utsumi and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times

Myanmar is beset by many ethnic conflicts and clearly, Rakhine is known internationally based on the pro-Muslim narrative in relation to Bengali Muslims. However, the situation is extremely complex because of ethnic, religious, and historical grievances.

Three Rohingya Muslims detained in Assam

The Siasat Daily

  Posted by Syed Qayam Ali on Feb 17, 2019, 2:05 PM IST

A Pakistani Muslim prays for tsunami victims during the Friday noon prayer at a mosque in Islamabad, 07 January 2005. Pakistani people observed "Yom-e-Dua or "Prayer Day" across the nation to pray for the victims of the tsunami disaster, which has claimed so far 165,000 lives after it devastated the Asian coastline on 26 December 2004. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD

Guwahati: Three Rohingya Muslims were detained by the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Lumding town in Central Assam’s Hojai district on Sunday morning.

Superintendent of Railway Police Hemanta Das said: “They were detained after locals spotted them and intimated the police.

Assam: Six Rohingya, including 4 minor girls, detained

The Indian Express
Written by Abhishek Saha | Guwahati | Published: February 12, 2019 Additional Superintendent of Police (Border), Cachar, Gaurav Agarwal, told The Indian Express that the Aadhaar cards they were carrying were "probably fake".

File Photo: Rohingya children detained by security forces Dharmanagar on Sunday, February 03, 2019. (PTI Photo)

Six Rohingya, including four minor girls, were detained for not having valid travel documents by police in Assam’s Cachar district on Monday.

The group was travelling with a Bangladeshi couple, who told the police that they had been living in India, in a border village in Tripura, for the last ten years. Police recovered two Aadhaar cards from the group.