The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Police personnel from Maungdaw police station arrested two Rohingya youths from Bomu para of Maungdaw on October 30, in the evening, said an elder from Maungdaw. “ The Police personnel were led by sergeant U Hla Myint – a notorious officer- who always harassing Rohingya community to extort money with false allegation – the so called warrant list for involving in the June riot.”

About 130 passengers are missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh police and a Rohingya advocacy group on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar in past decades to escape persecution, often heading to neighbouring Bangladesh, and recent unrest has triggered another exodus.

Myanmar has rejected an offer by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to open talks aimed at quelling deadly communal violence there, according to the regional bloc's chief. Surin Pitsuwan said on Tuesday he proposed setting up tripartite talks between ASEAN,  the UN and Myanmar's government to prevent the violence from having a broader regional impact. But he said Myanmar turned down the offer to discuss the bloodshed in the western Rakhine state that has led to about 180 deaths since June.

A United Nations senior official today expressed serious concern about reports of human rights violations committed by security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, after clashes between its Buddhist and Muslim communities reportedly killed at least 78 people and displaced thousands last month.“We have been receiving a stream of reports from independent sources alleging discriminatory and arbitrary responses by security forces, and even their instigation of and involvement in clashes,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said in a  news release . 

KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN secretary-general Dr Surin Pitsuwan said Myanmar's Rohingya problem should not be regarded as an Islamic issue but one that requires international attention. He said the Rohingya was an issue of poverty, marginalisation and constitutionalism as they were not recognised as an ethnic group under the Myanmar constitution. "It is also an issue of democracy, human rights and reconciliation," he said after delivering his lecture entitled "Raising the Asean Value through the Concept of Global Movement of Moderates", here, yesterday.

New York: New York-based Human Rights Watch has said that the authorities in Burma need to do more to protect displaced Rohingyas, even as the Bangladesh Government has shown no interest in doing so. In a statement, the Director of Human Rights Watch, South Asia, Meenakshi Ganguly, said: "The Rohingyas seem to have become the nowhere people. The authorities in Burma have failed to protect them, and Bangladesh refuses to provide asylum to those fleeing the attacks." 

Jay R. Crook Ph.D. Salem-News.com New song brings to light the slaughter of Rohingya people. Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Saladin) Image courtesy: badassoftheweek.com (TUCSON / BOSTON / SACRAMENTO) - The dissolution of the British Empire after the Second World War left a number of problems that still fester, several in the Muslim World. The most notorious, of course, is Palestine, a problem that now preoccupies its successor, the American Empire. There is the unresolved question of Kashmir that endangers the peace of the Indo-Pak subcontinent. There is also the British legacy of the Northwest Frontier in which the 19th-century British colonialists created an ad hoc border that divides the Pashto-speaking people in Afghanistan and Pakistan on both sides of it, a guaranteed recipe for