The Stateless Rohingya Blog

UNHCR has distributed relief supplies to tens of thousands of people in communities affected by the unrest in Rakhine state. Photo: UNHCR Myanmar  5 October 2012 – Four months after inter-communal violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) continues to rise, the United Nations refugee agency  said  today, adding that some 75,000 people are currently living in camps and many more are in need of humanitarian assistance. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State:   British ambassadors Mr. Andrew Heyn accompanied by two others are still going to their fact finding  program  in Maungdaw Township  to see real struggle and situation in detail of  Rohingya  in  northern Arakan. They arrived at Maungdaw on October 3, said a local leader on condition of anonymity.

By MAUNG ZARNI Policemen carry their weapons during fighting between Arakanese and Rohingya communities in  Sittwe, Arakan state. (Reuters)  Following this summer’s rioting in western Burma, all eyes have been fixed on the government’s handling of the unrest in Rakhine state. With external pressure mounting, most specifically from the Islamic world, Burmese officials – from President Thein Sein in Naypyidaw to local security troops in western Burma – have been playing ostensibly the “humanist and humanitarian” card with the Rohingya. 

posted on October 4, 2012 by Mohiuddin Yusof                                                           Rohingya refugees (Credit: UNHCR)  United to End Genocide interviewed Mr. Mohiuddin M. Yusof, President of Rohingya Concern International, to learn more about the current crisis facing Burma’s Rohingya people following the outbreak of deadly violence in Arakan State this past June.  Can you talk about what is happening right now in Burma’s Arakan State? 

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the crowds gathered at the University of San Francisco to greet Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi last week was a small coterie of Muslim and Burmese activists. They were there not to celebrate the visit by the veteran human rights campaigner but to press her on one burning question.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: British Ambassador to Burma Andrew Heyn accompanied by two others arrived in Maungdaw in the evening of October 3, according to a trader from Maungdaw Town. “The Ambassador was accompanied by two others, of them, one is Muslim, and another one is Burman from Rangoon. They stayed in Nasaka headquarters of Kawar Bill of Maungdaw Township.”