The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Kutupalong, Bangladesh: A group of local youth from Kutupalong is looting unregistered Rohingya refugee in the day time openly, said an elder Refugee from the camp. “The group is led Afsar son of Shuna Ali healed from Kutupalong area and enter the refugee camp with fake  500 taka note where the group buy goods from glossary  shop.”  “If the Refugee shopkeepers denied to accept the fake note, the local youths said it is your and you kept the money we toke the goods.” “The local youths also looted and took chickens from refugee in front of refugee females in the day time, if the owner of chickens stopped the youth, the youth beat the refugees.” We are facing big problem to complain about fake note to the concerned camp security force as the fake note is in our hand and we have no evidence that it was paid by local youth, said a refugee shopkeeper from camp. “The camp security police didn’t bar the youth who are entering into camp and made upside down with fake note, but,

Agartala, Dec 17 (IANS):   Illegal influx of Myanmarese nationals into India through Bangladesh has continued, with 31 held for sneaking into Tripura, police said here Saturday. Among the arrested were nine children and seven women.

Buthidaung, Arakan:   An election for village administration officer post was held in Buthidaung Township, on December 8. But the election became selection after bribing money to concerned authority, said a village elder from the locality on condition of anonymity. “An election for village administration officer was held in Sein Nyin Pya (Sein Dee Pran) village, Buthidaung south with four competitors - Abdul Hashim (graduate), Mohamed Sadek (matriculation), Sidique Ahmed (under matriculation), and Nurul Islam (Class III).”  The election was held by the order of district administration officer as the former administration officer was sacked from his post earlier due to corruption. But, the election was held under supervision of Buthidaung Township administration officer.    Villagers peacefully voted in the election and Abdul Hashim got most votes and Nurul Islam got the least votes among the participants. But, when the result was declared Nurul Islam had won the election. Therefore

By Kaladan pres Commentary The relation between Bangladesh and Burma began since January 13, 1972, on which date Bangladesh was recognized by Burma as a sovereign State. However, the relation between two countries has never been smooth and has undergone frequent ups and downs over the last 40 years on a few issues.  Burma being closed to the outside world for more than 50 years, at present, Burma shows few different samples of behavior in developing effective bilateral relations with Bangladesh.  Burma looks down on Bangladesh's geographical vulnerability because of small neighbor and poor country. Therefore, Burma does not willing to solve the disputes between the two countries, but inclined towards India and China. As such Bangladesh was discouraged and lost interest to get an agreement a path to bring Burma into a negotiation table for developing meaningful relation with her. On the contrary, India and China have taken the full advantage of Burma’s isolation and developed