The Stateless Rohingya Blog

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- The first team of 14 volunteers in the 1Malaysia Putera Club Myanmar Humanitarian Mission to help the Rohingya ethnic minority left for the country at 5 pm Saturday. The Club's president, Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim said the team's mission was to provide information on the situation there and monitor the 40 containers transported earlier by the Simar Birma vessel containing 500 tonnes of food, medicine and other aid.

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi tours the Nobel Peace center in Oslo on June 16, 2012. Suu Kyi on June 16 pledged to keep up her struggle for democracy as she finally delivered her Nobel Peace Prize speech, 21 years after winning the award while under house arrest. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has been an international symbol of courage. So why isn't she speaking out for the nation's most persecuted minority? One by one, the members of a large group of students approached a microphone to tell Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi that she had been an inspiration to them. “I’m very proud to say you have been our hope,” said a Pakistani student. “It is a great honor for me to hear my personal hero speak,” said another.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The village administration officer of Aley Than Kyaw is collecting Rohingya students’ lists within Aley Than Kyaw village tract today, said a reliable source from Maungdaw south. “U Maung Tha Naing – a Rakhine community-, the village administration officer of Aley Than Kyaw village tract called some Rohingya villagers including elders today at about 2:00 pm and held a meeting in the village.”

A Rohingya Muslim woman is seen crying on an intercepted boat trying to flee a deadly hate campaign in Myanmar. (File photo) Extremist Buddhists have once again laid a brutal siege to areas where the Rohingya Muslims are residing in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, reports say. The extremist Buddhists have surrounded the Muslim areas of the state capital Sittwe as well as the city of Maungdaw and have set up several checkpoints. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State :  A group of the Rakine mob with lethal weapons and took away a Rohingya youth, aged 20 from Mraung village nearby Kilaidaung east village of Maungdaw Town today, at about 1:00 pm. according to an elder from Maungdaw south. “After the incident, the Rohingya villagers again chased the Rakhine mob and made free the said Rohingya youth.”

Children of Rohingya Muslims, who are currently staying in the camps after fleeing their country due to violence against them by Myanmar security forces, are studying under difficult conditions to become hafiz.   COX'S BAZAR (AA) - September 24, 2012 - Children of Rohingya Muslims, who are currently staying in the camps alongside Bangladesh's border with Myanmar after fleeing their country due to violence against them by Myanmar security forces, are studying under difficult conditions to become hafiz.

                              A refugee carries a child in Baw Du Pha refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State,                                western Myanmar, on August 1, 2012. Up to 75,000 Muslim Rohingyas are housed in temporary camps under poor conditions, four months after violence broke out between Buddhist and Muslim communities in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Refugees International said Saturday. “There are somewhere between 65,000 to 75,000 Rohingyas living in camps in Sittwe,” said Sarnata Reynolds, programme manager for statelessness at the advocacy group for refugee rights.

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, September 28 -- There were two narratives as well as two names, Myanmar and Burma, at work at the UN this week. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation held a special meeting about the abuse of the Muslim Rohingya; Iraq's vice president called it "genocide."   Meanwhile when UN envoy Vijay Nambiar emerged from the Friends on Myanmar meeting past 6 pm on Friday, he described an upbeat meeting, and even mused that either Myanmar should be invited into the group or the group be disbanded if the UN's Third Committee does not again pass a resolution this year.