The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State:   A passengers bus carrying  more than 35  Rohingyas- men, women and childrens- was attacked  by Rakhines and army today at about 2;30pm, according to an elder from Maungdaw. “The passengers bus was coming from Inn Din village of Maungdaw south to Maungdaw  Township and the owner of bus is U Khin Zaw alias Shanuwas  son of master Abul Jamil  alias U Ba Maung.”

SITTWE, Myanmar // There are no Muslim faithful in most of this crumbling town's main mosques anymore, no Muslim students at its university. They're gone from the market, missing from the port, too terrified to walk on just about any street in the centre of the town. Three-and-a-half months after some of the bloodiest clashes in a generation between Myanmar's ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslims known as Rohingya left the western town of Sittwe in flames, nobody is quite sure when, or even if, the Rohingya will be allowed to resume the lives they once lived here.

Akyab, Arakan State: A truck with a Rakhine dead body was seized by patrol army personnel nearby Akyab University main campus adjacent to Molake Ward on September 29, in the morning, a trader from Akyab said on condition of anonymity. “On suspicion, the patrol army personnel stop the truck while it was going to nearby Muslim village, searched the truck and found a dead body of a Rakhine. The army brought the truck to their camp with the people where they were detained. The dead body was handed over to the relatives or not, it is unknown.”

Burmese President Thein Sein vowed UN leaders, would tackle ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Arakan State which has raised widespread international concern, the UN  website stated  yesterday. Thein Sein made the vow in a meeting with UN leader Ban Ki-moon at the end of the UN General Assembly summit, where Muslim leaders have led calls for action to help tens of thousands of Islamic followers displaced by the unrest.

Download   Abul Kalam is a refugee who has been living in Sweden for 10 years. He shares the same reason as thousands of other Rohingyas strewn around the world, far from their homeland of Burma. Burma’s government doesn’t recognise them as citizens and have been persecuted since 1962 when the army took control. The recent ethnic rapes, murders and burning down of Rhingya villages by their Burmese neighbours has brought the tragedy in a new focus. Abul’s only recourse is to spread information about the fate of the Rohingyas and appeal to the international community for support. Asia Calling’s Ric Wasserman has the story.

SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — There are no Muslim faithful in most of this crumbling town's main mosques anymore, no Muslim students at its university. They're gone from the market, missing from the port, too terrified to walk on just about any street downtown. Three-and-a-half months after some of the bloodiest clashes in a generation between Myanmar's ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslims known as Rohingya left the western town of Sittwe in flames, nobody is quite sure when — or even if — the Rohingya will be allowed to resume the lives they once lived here.

A demonstration was held at Veterans Park in Milwaukee City on September 22, 2012 and it was organized by the Burma Task Force-USA in coordination with its members,Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA), and Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM). This demonstration was actually, organized to show strong support, solidarity and also to advocate the suffering cause of Burmese Rohingya ethnic minority in Arakan State in line with 100 cities nationwide rally in USA.

By Michelle Nichols (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world's largest Islamic body on Saturday to "treat carefully" the issue of the stateless Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar because it could affect the reform process underway in the country, also known as Burma. Over the past year, Myanmar has introduced the most sweeping reforms in the former British colony since a 1962 military coup. A semi-civilian government, stacked with former generals, has allowed elections, eased rules on protests and freed dissidents.