The Stateless Rohingya Blog

PERSECUTED MINORITY: Abdul Ansorali, his wife Suoran Nisa and daughter Samila want to draw attention to the suffering of the Rohingya people in Burma. Suoran Nisa Ansorali spent seven years not knowing if her husband was alive.  She had to endure another year and a half before they were reunited. Her family comes from Burma. The Ansoralis are Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic group the United Nations calls one of the world's most persecuted minorities. The story of how they came to New Zealand began in 1997 when Mrs Ansorali's husband Abdul challenged a Buddhist soldier in their village of Kyauktaw, Rakhine.

(LONDON) - Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), Burma Task Force USA, and The European Rohingya Council urgently appeal to President Barak Obama to address the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Burma. We urge him to play an active role to help reach a long-term and durable solution to the current crisis, and to bring peace, stability, security, and communal harmony in Arakan state. President Obama must use his personal as well as the influence of the US Government and demand that President Thein Sein and the Myanmar Government officials must cooperate with the international community with utmost transparency. President Obama must unequivocally demand the Burmese Government to:

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) arrested again more Rohingya people over the false and fabricated allegations and extorted money in Maungdaw south on November 13-14, said a local from the locality. “The villagers were arrested from their houses and villages by the Nasaka personnel.”