The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Sub Inspector Aye Tun Sein and its group arrested Enayet Ullah son of Fazal, hailed from Nurrullah para and other four persons, while they were going to market today morning, said a trader from Maungdaw. “The police officers kept the Rohingya inside the Superstar Boarding near the clock tower junction, to extort money from them.The police officers demand 500,000 kyat per head to release. But, the Rohingyas escaped from the bordering while the police officers were out the spot. This is a new place to extort money from Rohingya by police officers who stationed near the clock tower junctions.”

by Peter Marshall Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain organises a large protest opposite the Bangladesh High Commission against the blocking of aid to Rohingya refugees by NGOs and their policy of sending them back to Myanmar. Approaching a thousand Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain supporters turned up for the protest opposite the High Commission in Kensington and they formed an impressive mass on the pavement opposite with placards and Islamic flags.

Rohingya Muslims minority, fleeing from secterion ethnic violence in Myanmar Angry Indonesian protesters have once again taken to the streets of the capital city, Jakarta, to voice their outrage at the ongoing violence against the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The demonstrators, who were supporters of a Muslim political group, called on the government of Myanmar to take action to stop the discrimination and sectarian violence against the country's Rohingya population.  This is while, in a similar move on Thursday, crowds of Indonesians gathered outside Myanmar’s Embassy in Jakarta in protest against Burma’s mistreatment of Rohingya Muslim minority.  The rally was organized by the Rohingya Solidarity Society, which urged Myanmar to recognize the Rohingya as official citizens.  According to reports, on Friday Government-backed Buddhists set fire to a mosque in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and continued burning Muslim villages.  Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingya

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah being received by Crown Prince Salman upon his arrival in Makkah. (SPA)  The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is one of the key issues to be discussed at the Islamic solidarity summit convened by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in Makkah on Aug. 14-15. With just two days to go for the conclave of the world’s most important Muslim leaders in the most holy city, pressure is mounting on Myanmar’s military junta to allow international and Islamic relief agencies access to the besieged Muslim population of the Arakan province. Two important delegations to Myanmar — one led by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the other by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — this week have revealed signs of panic and desperation among the junta’s top leadership. “They have been caught out and have now realized that what they have done to Rohingya Muslims constitutes a war crime,” one of the diplom

Kyauktaw, Arakan State:   Burmese Army seized 14 automatic rifles, two pistols and huge of exclusives from Rakhine villages of Kyauktaw Township, about five miles away from Kyauktaw Town on August 9, said a villager elder from. Kyauktaw Township on condition of anonymity “The arms and explosives were seized by the Mrauk-U Battalion No. 378 led by Commander Major Myint Hpou.” Regarding the above news, on August 8, one Rohingya youth named Noor Mohamed, hailed from Radana Bon (Rohingya village) went to nearby the bottom of a Mountain for grazing his buffaloes, but, the cowboy did not return to his home in the evening. As a result, some of the relatives of the cowboy and some villagers went to look whereabouts Noor and his buffalo herd. They did not find him, but saw that buffalo flock was at the Taung Bwe ( Rakhine) village. The following day, the relatives and villagers went to the said Mountain bottom to search again Noor, but found his dead body. He was shot dead.  After carry

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The Police personnel gear up its harassment on Rohingya community in Maungdaw after visiting of UN envoy, according to teacher from Maungdaw. “Arafat,15, son of Nazir Ahmed and Ismile, 28,  hailed from Maung Ni village , who are sitting in their shops near the Maungdaw Juma Mosque today at about 10:00am by Police officer  Sub Inspectors Aye Tun Sein, Hla sein and Then Htun  without any allegation. After arrested, the police officers demand to release 500,000 kyats each.” Similarly, a high school student from Ward number 5, was arrested by police today morning from the village and till reporting the faith of the student was unknown, the teacher said, Osman Gani, 55, Abul Fayas, 40, Abul Kalam,30, Ex-Custom officer Kasim, 70 and Yasein,35 were arrested  from Ward number 5 yesterday (August 10), night  by police, according to a villager from Ward number 5. The police personnel are going to villages/Ward at night in the name of family list checking and looting

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited northern Arakan Yesterday (August 10) with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wife and daughter to deliver aid, to the Rohingya Muslims  and Rakhine community – victims of riot in Arakan, according to an official from Rangoon. The Turkish Foreign Minister with its groups pray Juma with congregational prayers in Mosques in Akyab.  “Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Emine Erdoğan, the Turkish prime minister’s wife, visited Rohingya Muslims staying in the Banduba refugee camp which one of the camp of Rohingya in the arakan State, Burma. There are more refugee Rohingya refugee camps which were not visit the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and its delegations.” “The Burmese authority allowed the Rohingyas and the Turkish Foreign Minister with its groups was allowed to pray Juma with congregational prayers in Mosques in Akyab. It is first time for Rohingya community since June after

A  Rohingya Muslim family from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cry in a Bangladeshi Coast guard station in Teknaf on June 19, 2012, before being sent back to Myanmar. Bangladesh is coming under increasing international pressure to open its border to Rohingya's fleeing the violence, but has so far refused to do so. (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  The Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Saturday announced it has received a green light from Myanmar to assist Muslim Rohingya displaced by sectarian violence. It said Myanmar gave its agreement to the OIC following talks in Rangoon on Friday between a delegation from the pan-Islamic body and President Thein Sein on the “deplorable humanitarian situation in Rakhine state.” The delegation assured Thein Sein that Islamic humanitarian organizations were willing to provide aid to all residents of the strife-torn state. Saudi King Abdullah decided Saturday to gra

Courtesy By now the story has been told countless times, but from significantly different perspectives of course. We know that Rohingyas remain one of the most persecuted and vulnerable communities of the world. We are told repeatedly that Rohingyas are terrorists or extremists; they cannot rightfully claim Burma as their own state, and the most dangerous of all -- Rohignya men are misogynist Muslims who are threats to the 'peace loving' ethnically heterogeneous but predominantly Buddhist communities of Burma. Derived from Rohang, the ancient name of Arakan, the Muslims of Burma's west coast identify themselves as Rohingya. Many members of the community in recent decades preferred to be labelled as Arakan Muslims. The widely accepted term for the Rohingya, in all formal and most of the informal discussions in Burma, is 'Bengali Muslims'. During fieldwork on the Thai-Burma and Bangladesh-Burma border, I was deeply troubled by the vitriol against Rohingyas. I ha

OIC delegation meets President Thein Sein in Yangon, Friday.   YANGON   — The government of Myanmar agreed to allow the entry of Islamic relief organizations into its territory to provide needed assistance to the displaced Rohingya Muslims after the bloody events that took place over the last few months in the country resulting in thousands of dead, injured and displaced. The Myanmar government gave the go ahead after a delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) met President of Myanmar Thein Sein in Yangon Friday.  The OIC delegation was headed by Jusuf Kalla, former Vice President of Indonesia, current President of Indonesia Red Cross, and included Ambassador Atta El-Manan Bakhiet, OIC Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, as well as the President of Qatari Red Crescent and the Kuwaiti International Humanitarian Commission. The OIC delegation relayed to President Thein Sein the concern of the Muslim world over the deplorable humanitaria