The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Source from NDPHR(exile), 19 July : An old man who alert in fasting times from Quarter-1 (Fayazi fara), was dead yesterday after struggled with the bullet shot at the leg by military since 15 July. Unreported report of 6 July According to Mr Sharuk, a member of Rohingya Human Rights Organization-MERHROM based in Malaysia, confirmed that a 10yo Rohingya boy s/o Md Ali from Laungdong village of Nasaka area(5)near Kyein Chaung, was shot by Na-Sa-Ka. As aid and medication are still restricted, some villagers did manage to send the boy for hospitalization at Bangladesh. A day after, the family members those involved in helping including Ali Zohar family were accused of spreading news and taken away by Na-Sa-Ka authority for questioning. They were at last 14 people including  women  and children, were now confirmed missing.

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has launched a major international   campaign to put an end to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Arakan state of Myanmar and protect their legitimate rights. OIC offices in Geneva, New York, and Brussels are  making  intense efforts to foster international intervention in the issue. The OIC is in touch with the United Nations, UN Human Rights Council, European Union and other international organizations to halt the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.

Aung San Sui Kyi’s indifference to this ethnic cleansing is tragic, heartbreaking HOPE JUNAID AZIM MATTU  The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim community that lives in the Arakan region of Mayanmar. Numbered around 8 lacs according to the United Nations and close to 1 Million by other sources, the Rohingya Muslims according to the United Nations are “one of the most persecuted minorities” of the world.  Various historians have varied opinions on the origins of the Rohingya Muslims, some tracing them to Afghanistan and others tracing their descent to shipwrecked Arab traders who landed on the Ramree Island of the Arakan kingdom in the 8th Century. Those historians who regard the Rohingyas as aliens

Dhaka:  Bangladesh has asked Myanmar to immediately repatriate thousands of Rohingyas refugees, who sought refugee in this country following violence in the Buddhist dominated Rakhine state of the neighbouring nation. Reaffirming its stance on the Muslim Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday told Myanmar’s new envoy to Dhaka to take the refugees back.

The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma (or Myanmar) have perceived usually flitting and unfeeling coverage in many media. What they indeed aver is widespread snub and wilful efforts to move serve tellurian rights abuses to an evident halt. “Burmese helicopters set glow to 3 boats carrying scarcely 50 Muslim Rohingyas journey narrow-minded assault in western Burma in an conflict that is believed to have killed everybody on board,” reported Radio Free  Europe on 12 July.

Attacks by  security  forces in Myanmar against minority Rohingya and other Muslims have increased in Rakhine State, where a state of emergency was declared six weeks ago. “Declaring a state of emergency is not a license to commit human rights violations,” said Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher.   “It is the duty of security forces to defend the rights of everyone – without exception or discrimination – from abuses by others, while abiding by human rights standards themselves.”

Dr. Abid Bahar From the military leadership down to NASAKA, the Rakhine police, in the civilian front RNDP and even some leaders closely working with Aung San Suu Kui, the problem with the Rohingya people have been seen as a case of dealing with"illegal immigration" of Bengali people to Arakan. Fortunately, contemporary research on Rakhine-Rohingya relations shows it is not about illegals in Arakan, Burma, it is about intolerance to a people, who are racially, culturally and religiously different from the mainstream racially mongoloid Rakhine-Burmese people.

President of Burmese Rohingya Organization UK, Tun Khin has  spoken to Anadolu Agency LONDON (AA) - July 19, 2012 -   President of Burmese Rohingya Organization UK   (BROUK),   Tun Khin , has said that international community should take immediate action  on situation of Muslim people in Arakan, Burma. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondent on Thursday, Khin said that a pressure should be applied onto the regime in Myanmar.