The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Rohingya youths – graduate and passed matriculation – are teaching supplementary education to the Rohingya youngster in their villages recently, said a Rohingya elder from Shwezar village. “We request to the youths who are working as private teachers, shopkeepers and jobless to teach the youngster from the village.”

PHR congratulates Zaw Min Htut, a Burmese Rohingya activist, on his nomination for the 2011  US State Department Human Rights Defenders Award . Zaw Min Htut has been working for Rohingyas’ rights through the Burmese Rohingya Association of Japan since he fled Burma in 1998. Prior to that he was a student activist in Burma, and was detained for his participation in protests in 1996. In Japan, Zaw Min Htut has organized protests at the Burmese embassy and has written books on the history of Rohingya.

BANGKOK—An exiled Rohingya activist last night appealed to MPs and to National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi to assist the almost 2 million Rohingya living in Burma and elsewhere. “I would like to ask our beloved Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out of behalf of Rohingya people, and ask for the return of our lost rights, the rights our forefathers had,” said Maung Kyaw Nu, the president of the Burmese Rohingya Association of Thailand.

Blocking humanitarian aid to deter more Rohingya refugees is worsening a wider malnutrition crisis in Teknaf and Ukhia Global acute malnutrition in Rohingya children is now reaching 27% in the Kutu Palong makeshift refugee camp. Photograph: Misha Hussain Rafiqul's arm is no wider than a tube of sweets. The 18-month-old Rohingya  refugee suffers from acute  malnutrition  and, without medical treatment and nutritional therapy, his chances of survival are becoming slimmer.