http://www.rakhapura.com/News/default.asp Top Stories - News ASP News Manager CMS V3.1 en-us 6/1/2009 8:18:01 AM Copyright http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Buddha-Purnima-today.asp 5/8/2009 Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country today with due religious fervour. The occasion marks three most important events in the life of Buddha his advent, enlightenment and nirvana-about 2,500 years back. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/An--Arakanese-girl-raped-in-Maungdaw.asp 4/30/2009 An Arakanese girl in Maungdaw was raped by a Burmese officer. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Three-Village-Leaders-Abducted-by-Armed-Group.asp 4/30/2009 Three village leaders, including two village chairmen, were abducted by an unidentified armed group on the western Burmese border on 24 April, after the group entered Pri Zaw Village on the border to extort money, said a relative of one of the victims. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Junta-Trying-to-Erase-Non-Burman-Identities,-Say-Ethnic-Groups.asp 4/21/2009 Burma's military junta is carrying out a policy of "Burmanization" in areas under its control, using land confiscation and intermarriage, sometimes by force, to dilute ethnic identities, according to a new report by three exiled ethnic groups released on Tuesday. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Bangladesh-Eyes-Farmlands-in-Arakan.asp 4/3/2009 Bangladesh is eager to lease land in Burma’s western Arakan State for cultivation and agricultural farming. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Army-Uses-Dynet-People-for-Forced-Labor.asp 4/3/2009 Dynet tribal people in northern Arakan have been forced by the Burmese army to work at many government construction sites and on other projects without any pay, said a tribal leader. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/12th-Convention-of-Rakhine-Buddhist-Welfare-Association-held-in-Bangladesh.asp 4/3/2009 A two-day convention of the Rakhine Buddhist Welfare Association was held from 27th to 28th March, 2009, in the conference hall of its head office in Cox's Bazaar, a southern coastal town with a large Rakhine population in Bangladesh. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Two-Burmese-Settlers-Raped-and-Killed.asp 3/16/2009 Two young female settlers from Burma proper were raped and killed by a group of miscreants in a model village in Buthidaung Township 80 miles north of the Arakan State capital, Sittwe, said a police official on the condition of anonymity. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Press-Release--Protests-in-Front-of-the-Chinese-Embassy-in-Asia.asp 2/19/2009 Hundreds of Arakanese from Union of Burma will hold protests in front of the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Dhaka, and New Delhi on February 19, 2009 at 1.00 PM to urge the Chinese government to stop a proposed gas pipeline from Arakan State to Yunnan Province. http://www.rakhapura.com/News/Army-Sergeant-Arrested-for-Attempted-Rape.asp 2/17/2009 An army sergeant was arrested by local people as he was attempting to rape a woman at a hotel in the town of Kyauktaw on the upper Kaladan River, said a local resident.