The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan state :  A group of Rakhines from Kanbay Natala –news shelter villager- together with Burmese border security force (Nasaka) are setting on fire to Horsara under Zaw Matet village tract – a   Rohingya village, today, according to a village elder. “ The Horsara village is situated near the Maungdaw- Aley Than Kyaw highway and beside a new shelter village (natala) and Nasaka outpost under Nasaka area number 7. The Nasaka

U.S. President Barack Obama puts his hands together after the conclusion of his speech at Yangon University’s Convocation Hall in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, using a six-hour trip to balance U.S. praise for the government's progress in shaking off military rule with pressure to complete the process of democratic reform and end violence against Rohingya Muslims.

By AFK Jilani Rohingyas are sons of the soil of Arakan. Before the Mongolean invasion in 10th century, Arakan was ruled by Chandra dynasty; both the rulers and the subjects were Indians similar to today’s Rohingyas.”The fact that in the light of racial and linguistic affinity with Wethali people, Rohingyas of Arakan today are to be designated as the descendants of those early Indo-aryan people of Arakan.[Abu Anin, Yangon 2002] According to U Tiger Yawngwe,” There has Muslims settled in North Arakan for centuries for both my father and Prime Minister U Nu to agree. His father was Sao Shwe Thaike, first President of the Union of Burma. He was asked in the then Constituent Assembly about the Muslims of Arakan, he replied, “If the Arakan Muslims are not indigenous to the country, neither am I” we have all come from somewhere else, albeit longtime ago. Former Prime Minister U Nu said very much the same thing. U Ba Swe, former Prime Minister, defense Minister and the leader

United States President Barack Obama urged greater social and political reforms from the long-closed nation of Myanmar during his historic visit to the country on November 19, 2012. Speaking at Yangon University, after meetings with President U Thein Sein and National League for Democracy chairperson Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Mr Obama pledged the continuing support of the US provided Myanmar’s democratisation process continues to move forward.

by Dr. Habib Siddiqui Dear Mr. President, I am somewhat puzzled by your decision to visit Myanmar, which has the worst records of human rights in our planet. As an overture to your trip, your administration has recently lifted import restrictions on Myanmar, broadly authorizing Myanmar-origin goods to enter the United States for the first time in almost a decade. So, you can understand why like so many other concerned human rights activists, I am at a loss to understand your rationale for the trip.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  In a meeting recently held in Rangoon inviting Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders, President Thein Sein blamed nationalist and religious extremists for the violence between Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine State which was occurred in October, said a Muslim from Rangoon on condition of anonymity. “The remarks came out from the President after in a meeting with Buddhists and Muslims carried by State television on October 16.”

         U.S. President Obama waves as he arrives at the Yangon international airport on   Monday. Yangon:  US President Barack Obama arrived in Myanmar on Monday for a historic visit aimed at encouraging a string of dramatic political reforms in the former pariah state. Obama is the first serving US president to set foot in the country also known as Burma, in the starkest illustration yet of its emergence from a long period of isolation and repression.

Maungdaw, Arakan State : Seven Rohingya villagers have been detained in Nasaka camps since November 10, over the allegation that they were involved in holding Bangladeshi mobile sets and involving in recent clashes in June, a villager from Aley Than Kyaw said who denied to be named for security reason. “The arrestee are;- Moluvi Md. Hasan (23), son of Kala Meah, Abul Hashim (15), son of Mohibullah and Hyrutullah (40), son of Moluvi Madran; hailed from Washa village of Aley Than Kyaw village tract, Maungdaw south.”

The Bangladesh government on Sunday rejected comments by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi suggesting that stateless Muslim Rohingyas may be illegal Bangladeshi migrants. Myanmar has been rocked by two outbreaks of fighting between Buddhists and Rohingyas since June that have left 180 people dead and more than 110,000 crammed into makeshift camps. Suu Kyi said last week that illegal crossing of the shared border with Bangladesh had to be stopped "otherwise there will never be an end to the problem".