The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Sittwe: A humanitarian mission from Kelab Putera 1 Malaysia (KP1M) flew into Sittwe via Yangon on Sunday in order to distribute relief to victims of recent sectarian violence in Arakan state. According to sources, the mission consists of 14 members including five Malaysian monks, one doctor, two journalists and two photographers.

This file picture taken on June 15, 2012 shows a Myanmar Muslim Rohingya standing between tents at a temporary relief camp for people displaced by days of sectarian violence on the outskirts of Sittwe, capital of Myanmar's western state of Rakhine. - AFP THE international community should realise that the suffering of the Rohingya community in Myanmar can cause the rise of extremist groups there, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman. He said the global community needed to provide adequate assistance to the Muslim Rohingyas and the Buddhist community in Myanmar and help to prevent the spread of sectarian violence.

Rohingyas living in Europe gather and held a meeting (convention) on October 6-7, 2012 in Esbjerg, Denmark where the Rohingyas formed “European Rohingya Council (ERC), according to Mohamed Ibrahim, media, information and organization secretary of ERC. Rohingyas from different European countries gather and meeting to formed ERC “The participated of meeting – Rohingyas- are living most of the European countries.”

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 2012 (IPS)  - Following sectarian violence in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine in June, human rights researchers are now warning that the government appears to be attempting to permanently house parts of the stateless Muslim-minority Rohingya in “temporary” refugee camps, segregating them from the rest of the population. “There has been no acknowledgement that people have to go home eventually – the solution appears to be that the Rohingya can simply live where they have come to be,” John Sifton, with Human Rights Watch (which released a related  report  in August), said in Washington on Tuesday. “Segregation has become the status quo.”

Dr Ahmad Faizal : ‘Request shows Myanmar government trusts us’ THE  Myanmar government has requested the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy Malaysia) to rehabilitate a hospital in the Rakhine state to offer on-site healthcare services to the Rohingya people stricken by the civil war. Mercy Malaysia president Datuk Dr Ahmad Faizal Mohd Perdaus said yesterday the request was extended by the Health Ministry in Myanmar through the Rakhine state health department.

More than 500 Arakanese Buddhist women took to the streets of Sittwe on Wednesday to protest the government decision to allow the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to open an aid office in Arakan State. A spokesperson for the OIC, however, told  The Irrawaddy  that the office was not intended as a flagship for the Rohingya cause, and that it would provide humanitarian aid to both Buddhist and Muslim communities in the form of food and shelter.