The Stateless Rohingya Blog

KUALA LUMPUR 21 Julai - Malaysian Relief Agency (MRA) bersedia memberikan bantuan kepada masyarakat Islam Rohingya di Arakan, Myanmar yang kini tertindas. Setiausaha Agungnya, Dr. Mohd. Daud Sulaiman berkata, MRA akan menghantar dua pegawainya ke Myanmar pada minggu pertama Ramadan ini bagi tujuan tersebut. Tambahnya, MRA telah mengenal pasti pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) di sana yang akan membantu dalam misi kemanusiaan itu.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The concerned security forces-Military Intelligence and Burma border security force (Nasaka)- have been arresting religious leaders since yesterday, said a teacher from Maungdaw. The officer from Nasaka area number 6, summoned all village admin officers with five religious leaders at his office today at about 9:30 am where the officer ordered to the village admins and religious leaders – not to process in the Mosques for

Chittagong, Bangladesh: Bangladesh supports the Amnesty International (AI) statement that has called on Burma for giving citizenship to Rohingyas, who have been living for centuries in Rakhine state of Myanmar on July 21, according to Bangladesh officials. The London-based AI called on Rangoon on July 20, to amend or repeal the 1982 citizenship law to ensure that Rohingyas living in Rakhine (Arakan) state are no more stateless people.

More than 300,000 from Myanmar live in makeshift camps along its border with Bangladesh as unregistered refugees. This is what the Bangladeshi authorities do not want you to see: 300,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in makeshift camps along its border.

By TCN News, Ludhiana, Punjab: Hundreds of people staged demonstration after Friday Prayers outside Jama Masjid in Ludhiana, Punjab yesterday against the killings of Muslims in Myanmar. Shahi Imam of Punjab, Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianvi led the protest demonstration and demanded the Government of India to take up the issue with Myanmar government and ask it to stop the killings.

A Rohingya Muslim man who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, cries after he and others were intercepted in Taknaf, Bangladesh. (PHOTO AP, Anurup Titu) 22 July 2012 / SINEM CENGIZ, ANKARA Although continuing violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar alarmed the international community, bringing their plight to the international agenda, experts agree that Muslims in Myanmar are the victims of a global power struggle and that the international community should end its silence on the situation affecting the Southeast Asian country.