The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Arakan Rohingya Union Director General, Professor Dr. Wakar Uddin, urged the international community, including Malaysia, to be persistent in exerting pressure on the Myanmar government to permanently cease hostility toward the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar and reinstate their citizenship with ethnic rights.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Rohingyas villagers expressed their grave concern over the being deteriorating situation of human Rights in Arakan particularly persecutions of security forces in various ways, said a village elder preferring not to be named. “Our daily life is breaking up due to continuation of State of emergency. The Buddhist Rakhines’ also attacks on Rohingya Muslims with the help of security force are not stopped and arbitrary arrests, forced labor, killings, rape, religious discriminations are increasing day by day.”

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A minor girl died yesterday for lack of proper treatment who was hit by a motorbike of Rakhine on the road of Maungdaw-Aley Than Kyaw high way on September 19, which made her very serious wounded, said a businessman from Aley Thank Kyaw. 

HAVING  had the opportunity, as part of the UN multi-agency assistance programme, to extensively interact with the Rohingyas in Myanmar and in the refugee camps, I have come to know the Rohingyas as a highly resilient, intelligent, skilful and hard-working people. They have survived for many years on meagre resources, extreme limitations and in the face of danger and exploitation.

Charity Dinner was held last Friday in London Muslim Center. The Charity dinner was organized by Muslim Aid. Many NGOs and British Muslim communities attended to the dinner including Arsenal & France Football Star Abou Diaby. There are about 600 people attended to the charity dinner .  BROUK President Tun Khin and Arsenal & France Football Star Abou Diaby gave speech during the dinner. 

The Rohingya problem in Myanmar stems from the systematic discrimination against this ethnic and religious minority. MUCH has been written lately, either empathetically or as a challenge, of Myanmar’s “Rohingya problem”. Since early June, the Rohingya have borne the brunt of communal violence, human rights violations, and an urgent humanitarian situation in Rakhine State, and face an uncertain future. But when considered more closely, is that all? What really is the problem?

Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman Saturday stressed the need for resolving the longstanding Rohingya refugee crisis through bilateral consultations between Bangladesh and Myanmar, reports UNB.  "They (Rohingyas) need to be given shelter on humanitarian ground, but Bangladesh has no capacity to shelter such a large number of refugees…the ongoing Rohingya crisis should be resolved through bilateral consultations," he told a discussion in the city.

                      QRC representatives extending support to the displaced Rohingya Muslims An  emergency response  team from the Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has reached the Rohingya camps established by the Government of Myanmar near Sittwe, the city where violence broke out between Alrakain Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim groups in June. The violence has resulted in more than 300 people being killed, over 3,000  homes  burned and 70,000 people displaced and scattered in dozens of camps in several villages in Rakhine province, according to reports by the United Nations.