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Buthidaung, Arakan State: Policemen and Burma’s border security force continue to arbitrarily arrest, extort and loot money and goods from villagers in northern Arakan on false charges without batting an eye lid, according to a village elder on condition of anonymity.

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Maungdaw: A cyclone, heavy rain and wind lashed northern Arakan, destroying roads, telecommunication poles, uprooted trees and damaged houses on May 5, at about 11:00 pm, said a Village Peace and Development Council, or VPDC Chairman of Maungdaw.

By Chris Lewa  

On 25 November 2007, a trawler and two ferry boats carrying some 240 Rohingyas being smuggled to Malaysia sank in the Bay of Bengal. About 80 survived; the rest drowned. A week later, another boat sank, allegedly fired at by the Burmese Navy. 150 are believed to have perished.

Derek Flood: 

A column of frail women and children in brilliant cotton tunics deftly balance aluminum jars atop their heads as they trundle down a steep, eroded jungle hillside. They are spending most of their day in search of the area's most valuable commodity, clean drinking water. After hours of searching, what they most often find are muddy, stagnant pools. These are the Rohingya, a people you have never heard of, striving to subsist in a place you'll never visit, inhabiting a violent landscape of crisis completely devoid of human rights.

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Teknaf, Bangladesh: Rohingya undocumented refugees living in Dum Dum Meah (Tal) perpetually face water shortage with the onset of summer in Bangladesh. The refugees meet their need for water from near the camp. Most women refugees fetch water for their house hold work.