The Stateless Rohingya Blog

The European Commission is increasing by one million euros its funding for victims of recent inter-communal violence in Rakhine state in Burma/Myanmar. Thousands of people have been left homeless by the fresh outbreak. The extra €1 million will be used to provide food to the victims and will be implemented by the World Food Programme, which is already active in the area. Today’s announcement brings the total Commission's humanitarian funding in 2012 for helping the people of Rakhine State to €8 million. More than 110,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since June, mostly Rohingya Muslims.

Democracy or hypocrisy?  Although a normal person like me doesn’t deserve to point to a person recognized by the world as ‘peace icon’ and called ‘Mother’ by a nation of 60 million sometimes and ‘aunt’ sometimes, I believe the situation of rapes of hundreds of virgins, killing of thousands of innocents, being refugee of about 100,000 person in their own homeland and burning of thousands of houses, mosques and properties into ashes justifies my writing here few words. Here is a NLD membership card signed by the Lady. Let me translate it first for non-Burmese speakers. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Rohingyas internal displace peoples (IDPs) who fled from Rathedaung Township to Oo Daung and Kyack Pandu villages of Maungdaw during the ethnic cleansing  in June, are needing tents and warm cloth, said an elder from IDPs. “We are living under the leaves and bunches and now the winter is entering, so we need tents and warm cloth- blankets- to save ourselves.”