Maungdaw, Arakan State: Two Rohingyas were killed and nine other injured in separate thunder storm in lightning strikes at different places of Maungdaw south on May 3, said a local trader on condition of anonymity.

Joint statement on the official of the Rakhine(Arakan) investigation commission

 
We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows:

Maungdaw,Arakan:Today, in the morning, a hostile operational team consisting of immigration, military,  Nasaka, police and village administrators went to Aley Than Kyaw village tract of Maungdaw south to perform  an operation ( listing family members) forcing the Rohingya to register as “Bengali” for the census, said a villager elder on condition of anonymity.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) robbed a bicycle from a middle school student on April 28, at about 600:00 pm, while he was going to his village from Powet Chaung village by riding on a bicycle, a relative from the locality said,“The bicycle was robbed by the Nasaka personnel of Powet Chaung out-post camp under the Nasaka area No. 5 of Maungdaw Township accompanied by Natala villagers when he reached nearby the camp by a bicycle. There is a Natala (new settlers) village near the camp, so the Natala villagers become collaborators of Nasaka.”

President resigns from USDP

Myanmar President U Thein Sein has resigned as chairman of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and his party post was replaced by its vice-chairman U Shwe Mann, according to the party's Union Daily Thursday.