The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Congress president Sonia Gandhi applauds after chairperson of the National League for Democracy of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, delevered Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty. Joint appeal of Indian Muslim organisations on the occasion of the visit of the Myanmarese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi New Delhi, 14 November 2012: Myanmar opposition leader Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is visiting our country and getting the treatment of a head of state as a result of her long struggle and suffering for democracy in Myanmar which also won her a Nobel Peace Prize. But we are

13 November 2012 – The United Nations refugee agency today   called   on governments in Southeast Asia to keep their borders open to people fleeing Myanmar by sea, following reports of boats sinking in the Bay of Bengal earlier this month. “We are calling on countries in the region to strengthen burden-sharing in the face of this growing humanitarian emergency – we stand ready to support states in assisting and protecting these individuals,” the chief spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), Melissa Fleming, told journalists in Geneva today.

Rohingya Muslim family in Pawtauk Township, Arakan State. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Pauktaw Township, Arakan (Rakhine) State, have refused to sign government-issued registration forms in order to push for recognition as an official minority.  Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project humanitarian group which works for Rohingya rights, told The Irrawaddythat local people are not happy that the authorities erased the term “Rohingya” from completed forms and instead replaced it with “Bengali.”

President Barack Obama  The White House  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW  Washington, DC 20500-0004  Date: November 09, 2012  Dear President Barack Obama,  I would like to congratulate you for your victory in the re-election. The U.S has played a key role in Burma path to democracy. However there is still ongoing human rights violations going on against the Rohingyas in Rakhine ( Arakan) State . The Rohingyas are indigenous people of Burma, who have been facing oppressions for many decades in their native land and are subject to ethnic cleansing.