The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rathedaung, Arakan State:   Rohingya villagers have been facing from an acute shortage of food, shelter, medicine, and hygienic conditions in Rathidaung Township since June 2012, after being broken out violence between Rakhine mobs and Rohingyas, said a local elder on condition of anonymity. “Most of the villages were burned down in the riot and there are no homes for us to stay.” A villager from Shamila village of Rathedaung Township said,” We have been suffering from starvation and lack of medical treatment and etc.”

It is in India’s interest to encourage Burma’s efforts to reconcile with its ethnic minorities Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to India this month spotlighted the shared histories between the two nations and the need for a stronger alliance between them. A new reform agenda and Suu Kyi’s election to parliament offers New Delhi a chance to recalibrate its Burma policy to include greater focus on human rights, rule of law and democratic governance. Burma is crucial to India’s stability in the Northeast. India’s decision to cooperate with Burma’s military regime, replacing its previous unequivocal support for Suu Kyi and her democracy movement, a choice that she said “saddened her,” was in a large part to ensure

Teknaf, Bangladesh:  48-Rohingya including women, children and men were pushed back to Burma by BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) yesterday night, according to BGB official. “They were arrested by BGB and Coast Guard of Bangladesh while entering to Bangladesh yesterday night with four small boats.”

SITTWE, MYANMAR - NOVEMBER 25: Rohingya patients wait for medical care at a government run medical clinic November 25, 2012 on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar. An estimated 111,000 people were displaced by sectarian violence in June and October effecting mostly the ethnic Rohingya people who are now living in crowded IDP camps racially segregated from the Rakhine Buddhists in order to maintain stability. Around 89 lives were lost during a week of violence in October, the worst in decades. As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar. According to the UN, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Muslim people pass the time at their house in Paik Thay, the site of recent violence between Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhine people in Burma, November 2, 2012. Burma's government has promised to take steps to restore peace in Rakhine state, where violence between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims has flared up twice in the past six months. In particular, the government has pledged to restore the rule of law, but the decision made in a Sittwe court this week calls the sincerity of that pledge into question.

Rakhine civilians wander through a destroyed mosque in the Myanmar town of Pauktaw, two weeks after Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee the town in October. Pauktaw is one of the places were the government is conducting a new operation to verify the citizenship of Muslim residents. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman) The mosque and its surrounding in Moe Naing Taung Village (formerly known as Ali Mullah) where majority are Muslims have been guarded by police force because of the spread of rumours that it would be attacked on 23th Nov. The village is situated in Paing Kyun Sub-township, Hlaing Bwe, Kayin State.