The Stateless Rohingya Blog

COX'S BAZAR Turkish humanitarian aid entered a refugee camp despite tight surveillance by Bangladeshi police.  A group of Turkish humanitarian aid workers was able to enter a refugee camp in Bangladesh that shelters Rohingya Muslims and distributed meat on the occasion of Muslim holiday of the Eid al Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice.

A woman displaced by the recent violence in the Kyukphyu township cries after arriving to Thaechaung refugee camp, outside of Sittwe October 28, 2012. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun By a Reuters Staff Reporter SITTWE, Myanmar, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Muslim survivors of six days of sectarian violence in western Myanmar spoke on Sunday of fleeing bullets and burning homes to escape on fishing boats after an attack by once-peaceable Rakhine neighbours. The United Nations said 22,587 people had now been displaced after unrest between Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhines claimed at least 84 lives i n Rakhine State and tested the reformist mettle of the quasi-civilian government that replaced Myanmar's oppressive ruling junta last year.

Rohingya Muslim refugees prepare for a meal at Thechaung refugee camp upon arrival in Sittwe, Rakhine. photo: AP / Khin Maung Win. On 28th October, 2012 (i.e. today), at 3:35pm, a group of Nasakas and military set fire on a Rohingya village, Ki Ni Pyin, in Pauk Taw township. The village has been totally villager-less after Bengali Rakhine terrorists threatened the villagers that all the villagers will be killed if they continuously residing in the village. Upon this threat, all the villagers left homes and gathered in a place near the river under critical condition. As per the strategy setup by the central government to make the Arakan ‘Rohingya Free Zone’, now the armed forces

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - We have learned from reliable sources over the telephone that today the Rakhines from Pauk Taw township, torched a big Muslim Rohingya village of about 1200 homes with the collaboration of Nasaka (Burma's border security force) forces at 12.00 noon today. The name of the village is "Kinipran", in Pauk Taw. The village is still burning and any report of casualties remains unknown at the time of this report. People on the scene are trying to collect casualties report.

Escalating violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state deserves the urgent attention of Asean and the international community, Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan told the Bangkok Post Sunday yesterday. Mr Surin said he is renewing his call for Asean to act, otherwise there is a serious risk that the country's Rohingya population will become radicalised.

Satellite images show huge swath of coastal town destroyed in a wave of violence which has left dozens dead . A satellite image of Kyaukpyu on 9 March. Click to see image showing scale of destruction. Photograph: Human Rights Watch Burma's president has admitted an unprecedented wave of ethnic violence has targeted his country's Rohingya Muslim population, destroying whole villages and large parts of towns.