The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Some of the Rohingya refugees wait to return home to Myanmar Bangladesh had widely welcomed the “brothers in trouble” as it witnessed first Rohingya refugee influx in 1978, but the realities stand reversed in 2012 when the Myanmar’s ethnic minority community is not welcome despite their exposure to sectarian violence in their homeland.   This year Bangladesh has refused to welcome the fresh influx of Muslim Rohingyas in the wake the violence in the Buddhist-dominated western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, saying Bangladesh is already over-burdened with some 400,000 refugees.

Amnesty International has received credible reports of recent human rights abuses against Rohingyas © UNHCR/Y Saita Declaring a state of emergency is not a license to commit human rights violations ” Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher.  Six weeks after a state of emergency was declared in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, targeted attacks and other violations by security forces against minority Rohingyas and other Muslims have increased, Amnesty International said today.

Rathedaung Township:   Yesterday, army went to the Rajabill (Auknanra) village of Rathedaung Township and chased the villagers to arrest but all the villagers ran away. At last, the army arrested one villager named Abul Shama (45) and his wife.  His wife is from Rakhine community and he married her since 20 years ago.  The army also arrested the wife of Abul Shama and both of them were severely tortured by the army.  After marriage, they gave birth four children. His wife was sent to her parents’ house.  

Refugee rights activists say Bangladesh is acting against international humanitarian law in turning back Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. However, Dhaka says it is doing nothing wrong and must put its own people first. Ignoring appeals from international community, Bangladesh is sticking to its stand not to allow any Rohingya refugee inside its territory as every week boatloads of Rohingyas are seeking to flee Myanmar.

Champions of Human Rights fail to Address Muslim Massacre in Burma In an extremely unfortunate chain of series and events, the human rights champions around the world have and are continuing to fail on every angle in order to adequately address the outrageous massacre of minority Muslim’s in Burma.

The West has turned a blind eye to the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in an attempt to maintain its economic interests in the Asian country’s lucrative market.     ( A hlul  B ayt  N ews  A gency) - Myanmar’s President Thein Sein insists that Rohingya Muslims must be expelled from the country and sent to refugee camps run by the United Nations.

The Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni told the Burmese ambassador on Wednesday, “Rohingyas are your citizens, and it is your concern to take them back in Myanmar from Bangladesh.”   Dipu Moni told Ambassador Myo Myint Than that Burma has a responsibility to repatriate Rohingya refugees, who are estimated to number as high as 500,000, in order to strengthen the bilateral relationship, according to  BSS , the national news agency of Bangladesh. 

New Delhi, July 19, IRNA -- Strongly condemning the mass killing, an Indian academician sought help of the UN towards seeking an end to violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Talking to IRNA former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Professor Basir Ahmed Khan, in New Delhi, said: “The news reports of atrocities and killing of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are pouring in which

By Mohamed Elmasry - THe Egyptian Gazette General Aung San, father of modern Burma, envisioned a more open nation with respect for differences.   Aung San, head of the Burma Independence Army and father of Aung San Suu Kyi, managed to maneuver the British into agreeing to Burmese independence, but he and much of his cabinet were murdered in 1947 in a coup d’état before independence.

A Bangladeshi security officer consoles a Rohingya Muslim man fleeing from the violence in Myanmar on a boat jetty at Shahporir Dwip in Taknaf, Bangladesh, Monday, June 18, 2012. A senior Iranian lawmaker has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Myanmar’s violence against the Muslim community in the country. “The Islamic Republic of Iran should call on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to hold an emergency meeting [on Myanmar],” Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, a spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Wednesday.

A coalition of 58 civil society groups has condemned what it says is a “wave of abuse launched by state authorities in Myanmar against the Rohingya community,” in a statement released on Tuesday. It also charged Bangladesh with flouting international law in its attempts to prevent fleeing Rohingya from entering the country.