The Stateless Rohingya Blog

PHUKET : A boatload of 112 Rohingya have come ashore to be arrested by local police north of Phuket, Phuketwan learned early today.  The men and boys made land on the beach at Thai Muang, a short drive north of Phuket in Phang Nga province, about 7.30am yesterday, a local officer said. The men, aged 18 to 40, are being held at the immigration office in Phang Nga. Their arrival confirms concerns that thousands of Rohingya could flee to sea in coming weeks to escape persecution in Burma. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Burma’s border security force (Nasaka ) arrested four villagers in Maungdaw south, over the allegation  that they were holding Bangladeshi mobile setts, said a local villager on condition of anonymity. “The arrestees are identified as— Abdullah, son of Noor Mohamed, Maulvi Sona Ullah, son of Ahmedu, Kefayat Ullah, son of Ullah Meah, and Karim Ullah. They all belong to Aley Than Kyaw village of  Maungdaw south.”

Maungdaw, Arakan State: A Nasaka with civilian dress without gun accompanied by one local Rakhine tried to enter a house yesterday in Maungdaw for looting cash and ornaments from the house, according to a close relative of the victim. “Yesterday, at about 3:30 pm, a Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) along with a local Rkhhine gangster went to the house of Faizal, hailed from Ward No.5 of Maungdaw town, and asked the house owner to open the door. But, the house owner did not open the door as he knew that they went there with bad intention.”

A Muslim Rohingya woman sits with her children in her temporary shelter at a village in Minpyar in Rakhine state on October 28, 2012. Some 800,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are deprived of their citizenship rights which have made them vulnerable to acts of violence and persecution, expulsion and displacement. The Myanmar government has so far refused to lift the stateless Rohingyas in the western state of Rakhine from the citizenship limbo, despite international pressure to give them a legal status.