The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Written by Kaladan News Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Teknaf, Bangladesh:  Twelve Arakanese Rohingya were arrested by Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) from Nazirpara Village in the Teknaf border area on August 13, while crossing the border illegally and trying to enter Bangladesh. Later, they were pushed back to Burma, said a local aide of BGB who declined to be named. “They were arrested at night, at about 10 pm, while trying to enter Bangladesh after crossing the Naf River with two row boats near Nazirpara Village of Teknaf Upazilar. A group of BGB from Teknaf BGB camp led by BGB Company Commander Shaoraf, seeing the two boats with Rohingya approaching the Bangladesh side, went to the spot and arrested the Rohingya, including two women.” “The arrested all hail from Maungdaw townships.” It has not been confirmed why the group crossed the Burma-Bangladesh border. However, some said that they wanted to seek work in Bangladesh as they were unable to get jobs in Burma. Most Arakanese Rohi

Wednesday, 17 August 2011 21:47 Mizzima News (Interview) -  In a speech delivered in Naypyitaw on Wednesday, President Thein Sein said that organizations and people in exile could come back home by contacting their state or regional governments.  Mizzima  reporter Ko Wild interviewed exile-based political activists on their opinions on the president’s call.   Burmese President Thein Sein. Photo: MRTV-4 Dr. Naing Aung, general-secretary Forum for Democracy in Burma I think they need to issue an official law, order or decree rather than an oral offer. So we can know clearly what this involves, a general amnesty or what? Our political forces here left home because there was no democracy or human rights in the country and there were no political freedoms because of repression. If there these rights will exist, we will come back home and work in our homeland. We have no reason to stay here. If they cannot guarantee these rights to us, the situation will not be what we need. If Pres

Mizzima News Rangoon (Mizzima) – President Thein Sein reportedly invited Burmese citizens who live in foreign countries to come back home to Burma, and he urged armed groups to surrender to the government, during a meeting in Naypyitaw on Wednesday. Burmese President Thein Sein was the country's former prime minister. Photo: Mizzima Thein Sein, who met with representatives from social and business organizations at the Myanmar Convention Centre in Naypyitaw, said that Burmese citizens who had gone abroad for different reasons would be allowed to return to Burma. More than 40 organizations were invited to attend the 20-minute meeting with the president. But, the invitation is not a general amnesty, but rather an invitation for them to work for the development of the nation. He said that armed groups should surrender to state officials or regional governments as soon as possible. Thein Sein said that if people who have committed crimes came back to Burma, their sentences would be

  By Rohingyablogger Dated: August /16/2011  Ref : frc-rec 023/02/2011  It is the most terrible to learn that about 80 % of Rohingya population inside Arakan, especially Maungdaw and Buthidaung regions is suffering HCV virus which has no clue other than bunch of death within very short time.  We do like to comment over the plot as it is preplanned and a dreadful strategy of the Burmese regime with their intension of a complete extermination of Rohingyas from Arakan soil.  It is the consequential out coming for UN and for the international communities over giving long-life to such Nazism in Burma.  This bad-luckiness is faced only by the Rohingyas as of the nightmares under inhuman regime which is a reason of forcing them to use birth controlled medicines throughout the regions.  As everybody aware of that the regime has strategies to drive out the Rohingyas from their motherland for many years and created series of hard ways which causes half of the Rohingya population as sta