The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi told an LSE audience that fairness and freedom can only be restored to her country under the rule of law.

Below  are brief report received from the Arakan State Burma Riot Scene. Burning and killing are still going on in Remote Cities of Arakan State. Eventhough Burning and killing are stopped in Sittwe and Maungdaw township, arresting for nothing, looting and lack of food, shelters and medical in need and are the most urgent requirement by displace people. Please see below details report for the past few days 

Yangon, June 20, 2012 (AFP) - Fresh communal violence has left at least three dead in western Myanmar, where more than 60 people have been killed in unrest this month, government officials said Wednesday. Three Buddhists were killed on Tuesday in clashes in the village of Yathedaung, about 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, according to an official who did not want to be named. "The death toll could be higher," the official told AFP from Sittwe.

More than 200 hundred people from all over USA gathered here today to show solidarity for the victim of riot in Arakan, Burma. Muslim from Burma were united regardless of differences in ethnicity and geographic location to demand for Justice for the victims whose voice have not been heard accurately by the world. CNN reporters were on the scenes recording and interviewing demonstrators.

Rohingyas organizations and individuals from European demonstrated peacefully in front of European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium on June 18 at about 2:00pm, according to Ibrahim, Burmese Rohingya Association in Deutschland (BRAD). “The peaceful demonstration was held to stop on going genocide on Rohingya in Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar).”

DR. ALI AL-GHAMDY Arakan (Rakhine) province was an independent kingdom for much of its history. A vast region stretching from western Burma to the Bengal region, Arakan was weakened when war broke out with the Mughal rulers in India, especially when it lost the Chittagong region to the Mughals. The region’s weaker position and instability led to its annexation to the Burmese state.