The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni was rather candid when she told the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) on Thursday that Bangladesh was not bound by any international law to open its border for the Rohingya, that there was no warlike situation in that country, and that the Myanmar government was not forcing its citizens out.

CHITTAGONG,  Bangladesh  -- A Rohingya Muslim died in a Bangladesh hospital on Sunday,  police  said, the second  refugee  fleeing violence in neighboring  Myanmar to do so after allegedly being shot by security forces. Mohammad Tyeb, 20, died at a government clinic in Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong more than a week after he was shot in the head, police officer Nasir Uddin told AFP.

Security forces arrest Rohingya in Maungdaw The security forces – police, Hluntin, Burma border security force (Nasaka) and Army – are arresting Rohingya community in different villages of Maungdaw today (June 17, 2012). The security forces are searching Rohingya young people, elders from Nyaung Chaung village to Allay Than KYaw (All the villages are along the road of Maungdaw- Allay Than Kyaw ).

The United Nations top envoy for Myanmar has called for an investigation into violence that recently took place in the country’s Rakhine state. “The Special Adviser [Vijay Nambiar] calls for a full, impartial, and credible investigation of the disturbances to be conducted urgently as well as to ensure that the rule of law is enforced in a transparent manner,” according to a UN news release.

Chittagong, Bangladesh:   Muslims are not protected in Arakan –Maungdaw and Akyab- by the security force – Nasaka , Lon Htin and police –  and have become killer forces said Nurul Islam, President, the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO), at a  peaceful rally to protest against the mass killing of Rohingyas and Muslims in Arakan in front of the Burmese embassy in London on 13 July 2012.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Muslim Youth Movement (ABIM) has raised concerns over Bangladesh closing its borders to the Muslim minority Rohingyas fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar. ABIM secretary-general Mohamad Raimi Ab Rahim said the Rohingyas should be given protection in line with Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights on equal rights for all and Article 33(1) of the 1951 Convention on the status of refugees.