The Stateless Rohingya Blog

The European aid organization says its workers cannot access those in need of medical care in the violence-hit western Burma state. An aid group said Monday that staffers had been “threatened” and prevented from accessing parts of western Burma’s Rakhine state where tens of thousands of people are in need of urgent medical treatment following weeks of communal  violence.

A UN special envoy to Burma hopes the government's "policy of discrimination" against Muslim Rohingyas will be addressed at the Asia-Europe Meeting Summit (ASEM) in Laos. It is estimated around 4,600 homes have been burnt and more than 100,000 people displaced since clashes broke out between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya in June. There are an estimated 800,000 Rohingyas in Burma, but the government sees them as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

                          Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence in Myanmar. (File photo) The Egyptian foreign ministry has summoned Myanmar's ambassador to Cairo to protest against the ongoing persecution and killing of Muslims in the southeast Asian country. "The foreign ministry yesterday summoned the ambassador of Myanmar and conveyed an urgent message expressing Egypt's dismay after renewed violence against Rohingya Muslims," Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague. ©AFP Britain on Monday called on Myanmar to resolve the citizenship status of Rohingya Muslims caught up in deadly sectarian violence in a flashpoint western state,  AFP  reports. "We would like the problems, the unresolved problems of the status of the Rohingya people to be addressed by the leaders in Burma across politics," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters in Laos.

Julia Gillard in talks with Burmese president Thein Sein. Picture:Howard Moffat/AUSPIC Source: Supplied FEARS over "ethnic cleansing" in northern Myanmar have prompted Julia Gillard to express concern at the fate of the country's ethnic minorities even as Australia extends a welcome to the country's president. The Prime Minister used a bilateral meeting with Burmese president Thein Sein on Monday to express concern at the unrest as the issue overshadowed a meeting that sought to repair ties between the two countries.