The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Betwa Sharma for The Wall Street Journal The Rohingya Muslim camp in New Delhi. Mohammed Ali spent 15 days of the fasting month of Ramadan in the mountains between Bangladesh and Myanmar, the country from where he was fleeing. Mr. Ali, 17, says he only missed two days of fasting because of extreme hunger and fatigue as he hid from soldiers that comb the forests on the border.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the setting up of a commission in Burma to investigate recent sectarian violence in the country's west. Burma's president, Thein Sein, has announced an inquiry into the clashes in Rakhine state, where scores of people were killed and tens of thousands displaced by the violence in May and June.