The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rohingya Bath Time , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. a Rohingya boy taking a bath with pump water in the camp (Bangladesh).. hygiene is main concern!

Rohingya Bakery , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. two Rohingya men preparing snacks for guests on World Refugee Day. There was something a little disconcerting about the fact that these people, who have lived off rice and dhal food rations for 15 years were being asked to make nice snacks for visitors. At least they got to eat some too. sigh.

Rohingya Madarsa Kids , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya Madarasa kids in queue before the school time is over in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Cricket 1 , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. a group photo of Rohingya cricket team while participating in a match with Bangladesh with cricket team organized by High Commisionner of America

Rohingya Girl Study Time , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. a Rohingya girl studying herself in her camp hut (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Time In Library , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya gentlemen spending time in the library (acquiring knowledge) in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Electrical Workshop , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya youths participating in a electrical applications workshop in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Soap Workshop , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya ladies participating in a soap making workshop in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Oral Workshop , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya ladies participating in a tooth powder making workshop in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Repairing Workshop , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya youths being trained bicycle assembling and disassembling workshop in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Chinlone , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. Rohingya youths playing Chinlone (Burmese caneball) or Takraw in Kutupalong Camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya Lost Hope , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. expression of a Rohingya elderly in the dark hut of the camp (Bangladesh) with the hope he has lost for many decades

Rohingya World Refugee Day , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr. hundreds of Rohingya women and girls attending on World Refugee Day.. listening speeches, watching dramas in the camp (Bangladesh)

Rohingya flag , a photo by rafiqarakani on Flickr.

By  Zin Linn   The 1 st   April by-election is speedily approaching. As the election date draws nearer, the irregularities made by the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) are increasing day after day. In many rural areas, the local administrative committee members who were appointed by the ruling party have helped the USDA candidates’ election campaigns by using their administrative power.

Burma’s National Human Rights Council was formed illegally and funding for the body was removed from the current fiscal budget in the final days of the parliamentary session, which ended on Sunday. The Parliament refused to approve the government’s budget proposal to fund the human rights body on the grounds that its formation did not conform to the Constitution, according to an article in the  Myanmar Times on Monday. It is unclear how the body will be funded prior to the next session of Parliament in late April. The government had requested a budget of 547,208 million kyat for the Human Rights Commission – formed by order of President Thein Sein on September 5 – for the 2012-13 fiscal year,  in addition to 139.86 million kyat for capital expenditure on office equipment, furniture and vehicles, the newspaper reported.

ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ (ကုလားတန္)။  ။ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴျမိဳ႕တြင္ စစ္တပ္မွ ဗုိလ္ၾကီးတဦး ေမာင္းႏွင္း လာေသာ ဂ်စ္ကား တစီးသည္ စက္ဘီးစီးလာေသာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ လူငယ္တဦးအား  မတ္လ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႕ ညေန ၅ နာရီ အခ်ိန္တြင္ ၀င္တုိက္မိေၾကာင္း ေက်ာက္ျဖဴျမိဳ႕မွ လူၾကီးတဦး၏ သတင္းေပးပုိ႕ခ်က္အရ  သိရသည္။

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A Rohingya vehicle driver who suffered from stomach pain went to the clinic of a surgeon from Maungdaw general hospital, was died within half an hour after taking medicines of doctor’s prescription on March 15, according to an elder from Maungdaw.