The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Phuket Wan Rohingya on the boat that landed in Satun, south of Phuket Photo by television footage still PHUKET: A boat containing 85 Rohingya men and boys was apprehended yesterday off the Thai province of Satun, south of Phuket. 

Thedailystar SHUDEEPTO ARIQUZZAMAN  traces the 'slow burning genocide' of the Rohingya community. O ne fateful night two decades ago, in Burma, the military kidnapped her husband, an elderly scholar in the community. The military then lined him up, along with 17 others, buried them to the neck and summarily executed them. A heartbroken Begum along with her two little boys went to beg the military officer to return the body of her beloved husband for a decent funeral. Instead, the military killed the two boys and shot her in the leg. Their only fault -- their religious identity.

By Kaladan News Maungdaw, Arakan State: More than ten dead bodies are floating in the Naf River since February 7 along the Burma side near the Myinthlut village tract under Burma border security force (Nasaka) area number 8, said a village administration office member from Myinthlut village.

Sittwe University in western Burma’s Arakan State has banned its students and teachers from coloring their hair, demanding they maintain their natural black hair according to students and teachers of the university. A student said a notice banning hair coloring has been declared by Sittwe University principal U Tin Maung Tun on the notice board in the university. In the notice, students and teachers have not allowed to attend the university with red colored hair. “Our principal has now passed an order that no student or teacher will be allowed to attend the university if they have dyed their normal black hair with different colors, such as gold or red and that those who do not comply with the order and attend the university will be fined 1,500 Kyat”, said a female student in the university. A teacher of the university speaking on condition of anonymity also confirmed that the order was passed by the principal last week, as hair coloring does not conform with local tradition an