The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Posted by: Nay San Lwin  Tags:  Asia , bangladesh , Burma , immigration , Rohingya , United Nations , war   Posted date:  July 12, 2012  |  No comment The Rohingya need more international support to restore their citizenship rights The eruption of violence in Burma’s Arakan state in June witnessed the killing of ten Muslims who were on their way back to the country’s former capital, Rangoon. They were killed by a Rakhine mob of 300 after the rape and murder of a Rakhine woman in Rambree Township by three local Muslim youths. The government arrested three Muslims on the spot and one committed suicide whilst in police custody; the remaining two have recently been sentenced to death. The government established an inquiry commission into the vigilante killing, led by the deputy interior minister. However, although suspects were arrested, a lack of people willing to testify as eyewitnesses has prevented justice being served.

 Photo taken at Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp Ukhiya Cox's Bazar YANGON, Myanmar — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday rejected a suggestion by Myanmar's president that the world body resettle or take care of ethnic Rohingyas who have settled in the Southeast Asian country. UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres told reporters it was not his agency's job to resettle the Rohingya, who live in western Myanmar but without Myanmar citizenship.

High level police officer robs a Rohingya store in Maungdaw Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A high level police officer from Maungdaw has been robbed a Rohingya store today morning, according to a trader from Maungdaw. “U Myo Win, the Commander of the District Police Force of Maungdaw called Hajee Dil Mohamed –A Rohingya store owner- from Myothu Gyi village to his store stationed at Aung Gyi line of Maungdaw where the officer ordered foodstuff worth around 30 million kyat.”

AFP -  Myanmar's president Thursday told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country. Thein Sein, who had previously struck a more conciliatory tone during fighting that left at least 80 people dead in Rakhine State last month, told the chief of the United Nations refugee agency the Rohingya were not welcome.

YANGON: Myanmar's president Thursday told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country. Thein Sein, who had previously struck a more conciliatory tone during fighting that left at least 80 people dead in Rakhine State last month, told the chief of the United Nations refugee agency the Rohingyas were not welcome. "We will take responsibility for our ethnic people but it is impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our ethnicity," he told UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, according to the president's official website.