The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Kaladanpress Maungdaw, Arakan State: A village administration office staff member forced Rohingya villagers to pay 200 kyat for a photocopy of a document required by other government officials called the “family list” which normally costs 30 kyats, according to a village administration office member from Maungdaw.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingya fishermen are leaving their homeland for collecting more taxes by fishing sole agents in Maungdaw, said a fisherman who lost his job from Maungdaw south. Fishermen pulling their fishing net after taking the fishes “The fishing sole agents are collecting more taxes from Rohingya fishermen who only expert in the fishing business and haven’t able to work for their survival in Maungdaw, Arakan state, wishing to leave their homeland.”

By Kaladanpress Teknaf, Bangladesh: 15 more Rohingya boatpeople were arrested at Shahpuri Dip under Teknaf upazila on December 7, midnight, according to locals and Teknaf police said. Arrested Rohingya sea voyagers in Teknaf police station “Being informed, a group of police from Teknaf went to Shapuri Dip, raided and arrested 15 boatpeople while other boatpeople gathered in the house of sea voyage agent Bulu before their departure for Malaysia or Thailand. However, 45 boatpeople including (agents) fled from the scene sensing the presence of police.”

Hussain (not his real name), 50, lives in Bogri Chang village-tract, Buthidaung, in Arakan State, western Burma. He and other Rohingya have been facing difficulty growing paddy and other essential crops because of confiscation of their lands by Burmese authorities. Lands belonging to Rohingya villagers in Arakan State are routinely confiscated by the Burmese military.

Kutupalong, Bangladesh The Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh are systematically facing the oppression, exploitation, intimidation, arbitrary arrest, looting, racial discrimination and false edition to newspaper in random by government with its some miscreant because of hostility and to continue forceful repatriation which named voluntary repatriation, such before when the Rohingya refugee had to give approximately 1663life’s and scattered many families and filed many false cases against innocent refugee during miscellaneous inhuman operation and inverted hosting to hostility.