The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rohingya Muslims have started moving to Bangladesh once again in the backdrop of fresh ethnic violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Locals in Cox’s bazaar said that nearly 3,000 Rohingya refugees, boarded on around 50 boats were waiting in Bay of Bengal to cross the Naff river from Myanmar. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sources said they had pushed back 52 Rohingyas in the last few days.

This picture taken on Oct 11, 2012 shows Muslim Rohingyas in the courtyard of a school sheltering Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the village of Theik Kayk Pyim, located on the outskirts of Sittwe, capital of Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. — Photo by AFP SITTWE, Myanmar: Thousands of displaced people have surged towards already overcrowded camps in western Myanmar, the UN said Saturday, after vicious new communal violence that has left dozens dead.

The Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are suffering centuries of abuse, with Britain complicit in the crime, a prominent political analyst tells Press TV More than 100 Rohingya Muslims have recently been killed in a recent wave of sectarian violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine.

(Reuters) - A human rights group expressed concern for the safety of thousands of Muslims on Saturday after revealing satellite images of a once-thriving coastal community reduced to ashes during a week of violence in western Myanmar.  The images released by the New York-based Human Rights Watch show "near total destruction" of a predominantly Rohingya Muslim part of Kyaukpyu, one of several areas in Rakhine state where battles between Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists threaten to derail the former Burma's fragile democratic transition.