The Stateless Rohingya Blog

People, who have been rescued after a boat sank in Bay of Bengal sit in the office of Bangladesh Coast Guard in Teknaf November 7, 2012. A boat carrying about 110 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from neighbouring Myanmar sank in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday as they were heading to Malaysia and about half of them were missing, a Bangladeshi border force officer said. REUTERS/Stringer Ukhiya, Bangladesh:  The Bangladesh authorities – police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Coast Guard – accompanied by a group of locals arrested more than 300 Rohingya refugees from Nayapara, Lada and Kutupalong refugee camps on December 2, 2012, said a refugee from Kutupalong official camp, who did not mention his name for security reason.

Muslim Rohingya people in Mayebon Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Mayebon township in the western Myanmar Rakhine state on November 1, 2012 The UN's top humanitarian official has said conditions for displaced Burmese Muslim Rohingyas are "dire", and called on Burma to improve them. Valerie Amos made the comments after visiting camps in Rakhine state. More than 135,000 people displaced during six months of ethnic conflict are living in camps in the state, the vast majority of them Rohingyas.

Disowned by Burma, consigned to refugee camps and caught up in ethnic violence, they tell Andrew Buncombe why they will not give up the fight to win back their communities   What difference does a simple name make? For Mohammad Ali, a resident of this town's last Muslim neighbourhood, a ghetto cut off by barbed wire and military checkpoints, it matters to his very core. "Look here. It asks 'race' and then says 'Rohingya'," the 68-year-old says, touching his chest with one hand, while pointing with the other to a photocopied identity card dating from 1974. "We have been here for a long time. My father, my grandfather, they were born here."

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Burma border security force (Nasaka) open fired to the villagers of Bagona villagers but, no one was wounded today night at about 9:00pm, according to an elder from Bagona village. 

BANGKOK, Nov 30 - Thailand has provided US$100,000 in humanitarian aid to the Myanmar government to assist victims of violence in Rakhine state, a Thai foreign ministry official said on Friday. East Asian Affairs Department Director-General Damrong Kraikruan said Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul presented the financial assistance to Myanmar Ambassador Tin Win in Bangkok.

Burma — from its president to its Nobel laureate — has failed to address Buddhist violence in its Rakhine state against Muslim Rohingyas. Does any religion in the world have a cleaner rep than Buddhism? With much of its efforts devoted to helping one realizing the divinity within him or her, it’s disinclined to repressive morality or proselytizing. More to the point, much less violence is committed in its name than that of the other great religions. The operative word is “less.” For instance, Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka committed violence against Christians and

  British MP for Bristol East has called for UK Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire to ensure human rights issues during his upcoming visit to Myanmar. In a statement to the House of Commons, Labour MP Kerry McCarthy said that she is very concerned about human rights issues in Myanmar, as delegations of Britain’s Foreign Office have said “very little” about the situation in the Southeast Asian country during their trips to the region.