The Stateless Rohingya Blog

THE  Kelab Putera 1Malaysia's (KP1M) humanitarian mission to help the Rohingyas is back on course. KP1M president Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim told  The Malay Mail  yesterday the mission had received the green light from the Myanmar government. He was informed of this by a Foreign Affairs Ministry officer at a meeting yesterday. The ship will dock and transfer the aid at Yangon port and they will be sent to the Rakhine region by road, which is expected to take a day.

Michelle Chun   newsdesk@thesundaily.com PETALING JAYA (Sept 11, 2012) : The Global Movement of Moderates Foundation (GMMF) has called on Myanmar to consider conferring some form of citizenship on the Rohingyas. Its chairman Tan Sri Razali Ismail yesterday expressed concern about the status and plight of the stateless community whose members are reportedly being victimised and persecuted despite being native mainly to the Arakan region in western Myanmar.