{"id":9577,"date":"2017-11-01T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:46:22","slug":"hindu-press-international-nov-01-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/hindu-press-international\/hindu-press-international-nov-01-2017","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Press International- Nov 01, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rakhine State Govt to Close Displaced Person Camps for Hindus and Ethnic Arakanese<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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SITTWE, MYANMAR, October 30, 2017 (Irrawaddy): The Rakhine State government will close camps for displaced persons who have fled violence in northern Rakhine State by Nov. 2, said the Rakhine State minister for electricity, industry and transportation U Aung Kyaw Zan. According to the minister, camps in Sittwe, Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, and Minbya townships will be closed as the situation has returned to normal in those areas and many have already left the camps and returned home. ”We are not forcibly evicting them. We are closing [the camps] because there are only a few people left in them,” the minister said. While some 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25 militant attacks prompted a brutal Myanmar Army response in Maungdaw district, thousands of local ethnic people including Arakanese, Mro, and Daingnet as well as Hindus also fled to Sittwe and other townships, though many have now returned home.<\/p>\n

More than 600 people are still taking shelter at a Hindu camp in Danyawaddy sports ground and more than 300 at Maramagyi camp. Some 400 Hindus are sheltering at Kyaung Tet Lan ward. About 1,400 Hindu people who were taking shelter at Danyawaddy sports ground and two Hindu temples in Sittwe who have recently returned to their villages are having trouble with accommodation and food, said vice-chairman U Maung Hla of the Rakhine State Hindu Religion Foundation (Sittwe Branch). ”Those who have gone back phoned me and said that camps in their home areas will not accept them. They said they have no place to live and are also having trouble finding sufficient food,” he said. ”We still want to stay [in the camp] though we’re concerned that the government might not like it if we stay. We are concerned about our safety if we go back. Unless the government has a resettlement plan, we’d like to stay here,” said U Ni Mal, a Hindu community leader taking shelter at Danyawaddy sportsground<\/p>\n

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Their Homes in Disrepair after Harvey, Hindu Community Celebrates Diwali<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 19, 2017 (Chronicle): Last fall, as the days grew shorter and the weather cooled, Sheetal Parwal began preparing her home for Diwali. This year, Parwal and her family will celebrate a holiday meant to bring good fortune and prosperity in a rented apartment – their Katy house sitting gutted miles away after taking on 2 feet of water during Hurricane Harvey. ”We came back to see a week later,” Parwal said. ”But home is not home.” Thursday marks the climax of the weeklong holiday, and the night sky, with its new moon, will be illuminated with firecrackers and fireworks by almost 1.5 billion revelers worldwide. For many of the 120,000 Hindus in Houston, however, this year’s celebration will be different, more solemn. The two essential elements of Diwali, Parwal said, are home and family. Without a home, a true home of their own, it’s difficult to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Harvey’s destruction was especially pervasive in areas where the South Asian population has historically settled – Bellaire, Sugar Land and Katy took on massive damage. Vijay Pallod, a leader in the local Hindu community, said there are more than 500 Hindu families still displaced from the storm. Some are still in hotels, he said, some are with friends or family. For families that are still displaced, getting in the spirit of Diwali may come slowly, Arun Kankani said. Kankani is executive vice president of Sewa International, a global nonprofit rescue organization with a chapter in Houston. He said the organization prepared hundreds of care packages with Diwali essentials – carrot sweets, dried fruit, bangles and the all-important lamps to light the way to a new year of recovery. ”Diwali is something you do with your family at home,” Kankani said. ”So, without that, it takes a lot.”<\/p>\n

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Daily Inspiration<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"We want to claim that which we already are. You are already the Self. You are just not aware of it. Do not put it off based upon some concept that we are not ready, we are not worthy, we need more of this or that. None of those principles apply when it comes to Self-realization.
\n— Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami,<\/b>\u00a0publisher of Hinduism Today magazine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rakhine State Govt to Close Displaced Person Camps for Hindus and Ethnic Arakanese Source SITTWE, MYANMAR, October 30, 2017 (Irrawaddy): The Rakhine State government will close camps for displaced persons who have fled violence in northern Rakhine State by Nov. 2, said the Rakhine State minister for electricity, industry and transportation U Aung Kyaw Zan. According to the minister, camps in Sittwe, Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, and Minbya townships will be closed as the situation has returned to normal in those areas and many have already left the camps and returned home. ”We are not forcibly evicting them. We are closing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindu-press-international","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}