The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By  Eric Paulsen Statelessness and Burma’s democratic transition. Rohingya children in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state. Images:  Eric Paulsen In the midst of the cautious excitement accompanying Burma’s seeming democratic transition, one of the key human rights issues that international leaders and Burma’s pro-democratic and ethnic activists have failed to address is the continuing statelessness and marginalisation of the Rohingya, the Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in northern Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Rakhine (formerly known as Arakan), one of the poorest and most isolated states in Burma, is home to some 800,000 Rohingya, who are among the world’s most persecuted communities, on par with the Roma in Europe and the Hmong in Laos.

News Analysis                                               Rohingya who landed on Phuket last year await their fate                                                                          Photo by phuketwan.com/file PHUKET: A compact between Thailand and neighboring countries is keeping treatment of Rohingya boatpeople secret as details are emerging of their continued imprisonment in India, on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar  :By the lack of treatment many patients have been suffering and dying in Refugee camp.  As at 8:30 am on 24 Feb 2012  Jannatara, a seven year old school girl sank into toilet tank of No: 08  which school is implemented by RTMI. The lid of the tank has been being damaged for a long time, but the Refresh Training Management International's does not want to repair anything in camp except retrenching. The mentioned Janatara while she was  coming at the back side of the school, she slipped and felt into the tank, but she unfortunately sank into  scrota water.