The Stateless Rohingya Blog

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA (24 November 2012) ARNO condemns the report of RFA Our attention has been drawn to the news report dated 21 November 2012 of the Radio Free Asia (RFA) Burmese Section stating “since November 19, frontier checkpoint supervising day-return visit between Maungdaw (Burma) and Teknaf (Bangladesh), has been closed from Burma side for an indefinite period as the abduction of 3 Burmese military`s General Engineering Unit was believed to have been done by Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO)”.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: A Rohingya youth was arrested yesterday by army in Maungdaw Town over the allegation that he was involved in the violence of June 8, according to a close relative of the victim. “The victim was identified as Moulvi Mohamed Alam (25), son of Abdu Shukur, hailed from Nurulla Para (village) of Maungdaw south.”

An IDP camp near Sittwe in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Photo: UNHCR Myanmar/2012 23 November 2012 – The United Nations refugee agency today  announced  it has started an aid airlift for those displaced by the recent inter-communal violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The two flights that will leave from Dubai this weekend are bringing 3,500 family-sized tents for some 17,500 internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 52 boat-people including 21 Rohingyas and a trawler nearby Saint Martin Island of the Bay of Bengal, said a local fisherman from Shapuri Dip. After being rescued, the BGB and BCG handed over the arrestees or rescued boat-people to Teknaf police station, according to Bangladesh Coast Guard.

One refugee shelters Thet Pyin Kae outside the city of Sittwe, Rakhine State, Burma (Photo: dock). The UN says it is still needed about $ 41 million to meet the needs of assistance for the refugees until June 2013. UN humanitarian coordinator in Burma, Ashok Nigam, on Wednesday night (21/11) said that it is still about $ 41 million more is needed to meet humanitarian needs in Burma until June 2013. The United Nations (UN) said millions of dollars in humanitarian aid is needed to help more than 110,000 people displaced by violence in Rakhine State, Burma, conflict-ridden. 

Isaac Fadoyebo was forever grateful to those strangers who had risked their lives to save his More than 450,000 Africans served in the British army during the second world war. Among the few who wrote at length of their experience was Isaac Fadoyebo, who has died aged 86. Born in Emure-Ile, now in Ondo state, southern Nigeria, Isaac enlisted in the Royal West African Frontier Force in January 1942. He trained as a medical orderly before being sent to Burma the following year. While moving by raft along the Kaladan valley, Isaac's platoon was ambushed and he was severely wounded.