The Stateless Rohingya Blog

                             Kutupalong   Cox 's Bazar, Unofficial Rohingya refugee camp  European Union Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday welcomed the 2012 U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar, noting that the move reflected the international community's commitment to the recently implemented reforms in the South Asian nation. "I am very pleased with the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee adoption by consensus of the resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on 26 November, 2012," Ashton said in a statement.

A Rohingya called Nur Alom s/o Abul Kasim hailed from Du-Nyaung Pin Gyi has been running a shop (1A-14) in Myoma municipal Market for years. He was forcibly made to idemnitize (compensate) 40,000Ks to a Rakhine woman by a Police, Aung Kyaw Khant. Yesterday on 27th Nov 2012, a Rakhine woman hailed from a Rakhine village of Bagona village tract suddenly came to the shop of Nur Alom and asked the shopkeeper to pay money saying that she lost her purse in front of his shop. When Nur Alom replied saying that he is selling his shop not watching her purse and he does not know about the purse, the woman complained about the case to the head in charge of municipal market.

The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) on Wednesday released a statement saying it welcomed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on human rights in Burma, and backed the UN’s calls for urgent action to be taken to ensure humanitarian aid is delivered to displaced peoples across the country. AIPMC, which is formed of parliamentarians from ASEAN member states, said it welcomed the UN resolution’s statement “expressing particular concern about the situation of the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State” where a humanitarian crisis is unfolding.

A Rohingya woman at a camp for displaced persons on the outskirts of Sittwe, Nov. 2, 2012. Photo - AFP Local residents in Burma's violence-wracked Rakhine state are against plans to set up a temporary shelter for Rohingyas. Buddhist Rakhines in western Burma are opposing plans by authorities to set up a refugee camp for Muslim Rohingyas who fled recent deadly violence between the two communities, officials and residents say, as a U.N. panel expressed concern over the government's treatment of the Rohingya stateless group.

During her recent trip to India, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited her alma mater the Lady Sri Ram College, where activists protesting the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are reported to have told Ms. Suu Kyi “to come out of her cocoon and take a stand on the Rohingya issue.” Some political analysts have described the Rohingya issue as a test of  Suu Kyi’s ‘credentials and commitment’, her Buddhist faith and even as the true proof of her being worthy of the Nobel Peace   prize   . It is time to take a step back and look at Myanmar, take in the big picture and focus on Suu Kyi and the challenges that confront her. Ms Suu Kyi today, is a popular leader of Myanmar. After  winning  43 of the 45 parliamentary seats contested in the by-elections held in April this year, she is expected to gain control of

Polices in Maungdaw are persecuting Rohingyas using their adopted collaborators (informers) such as extorting large amount of money and golds threatening them by various ways. There are four collaborators in Ward-2. Among them Maabu s/o Mohamed Amin, Pappu s/o Mohammed work for Hla Myint and Feroz Khan s/o Basa Meya and Goni s/o (?) work for Aung Kyaw Khant.