The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rakhine State, MYANMAR, 23 November 2012 - While precise information about nutrition levels in Myanmar’s Rakhine State is still difficult to obtain, UNICEF is very concerned about the extent and severity of child malnutrition, which has been exacerbated by the ongoing conflict. Child nutrition levels were not good prior to the outbreak of the Rakhine conflict in June, and subsequent population displacement and the security situation has hampered access to affected children.

A Rohingya girl was taken into the Nasaka camp of Zaw Matet village tract by Nasakas while she was coming back home after selling fire-woods in the Zaw Matet market. “On 22nd Nov 2012, at 10:20AM, Nasakas from Zamatet Nasaka camp captured a 13 year old Rohingya girl known as Nur Bi Bi d/o Hansu hailed from Du-Thandar village tract of M aung Daw who was coming back home from Zaw Matet market after selling fire-wood. No one is allowed 

                                                  town  of  Kyauk - Taw On 20th Nov 2012, at 10PM Rakhines from Kyauk Taw downtown attacked the army from Ka La Ya number 378 which temporarily politioned in Kyauk Taw there they killed one military and 2 others were injured. “On 20th Nov 2012, at 10PM, Rakhines from Kyauk Taw downtown with full of weapons went to a Rohingya village called Paik Seik to attack the Rohingyas as they became angry on the speech of US president Barak Obama who used the word ROHINGYA. At that time, when the security personells from the above mentioned army tried to prevent the Rakhines,

Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) was taking lists of Rohingya families as Bengali in the column of Nationality in a Form (provided by the government) by threatening (even with gun point) and also taking signature forcibly since yesterday in Maungdaw Township, according to a village leader who denied to be named.

                                                     By Dr. Habib Siddiqui To many Burmese and Rakhine Buddhists of today’s Myanmar the existence of the non-Buddhist Rohingya people is mostly seen as a direct result of Indian, or more particularly, Bengali immigration during the post-1826 era of British occupation of the territories. To them, the Rohingya history starts with the British occupation of Burma, dating back to 1826 after the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-26 in which Arakan and Tenasserim came under the East India Company, with its bases in Calcutta (today’s Kolkata in West Bengal of India). The so-called Indian immigration to Burma is intimately linked with the colonial administration’s desire to transform Burma into a rice bowl for the British Empire.

By Qutub Shah  In the wake of its attempts to forcibly bengalize the ethnic Rohingyas, Myanmar government has been adopting measures one after another in the last couple of months. The government is making all efforts to prove its false accusing them of illegal immigration from Bangladesh and is forcing them softly sometimes and mightily sometimes to identify themselves as Bengalis.

Sameera Begum says that she and her family were chased out of Burma and are not wanted in Bangladesh Sameera Begum could not sleep on the night when her husband took a risky wooden boat journey to go to Malaysia. But the dreadful news came in the morning. Her husband, Mohammad Firoz, was among those who went missing after a boat overloaded with more than 100 illegal migrants capsized off the coast of Teknaf, in south-eastern Bangladesh. There were only a few survivors and the fate of most of the passengers is still not known.

“57 times severe punishments were the trademark of 57 member countries of Organization of Islamic Cooperation which is a sister organization NGO of United Nations”   November 24 – On November 20, Twelve innocent Rohingya people from Zaw-Ma-Tet village (Lam-Ba-Guna Fara) were arrested by NaSaKa forces from Maungdaw Township. In that village, some seven to ten Muslim Rohingya houses were burnt down by Rakhine mobs on November 19 after the President Obama delivered the speech at Yangon University Convocation Hall. “As a golden present to President Obama for his speech in which he mentioned and noted in regard of Rohingya” Rakhine mobs said while torching the houses. The arrestees were falsely accused by the authority that the Rohingya houses were burnt down by themselves and that was the reason why they were arrested.