The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The Burmese authority didn’t give recognition to 250 Rohingya families  as IDPs in Maungdaw since ethnic cleansing  occurred  in June, according to a NGOs staff who didn’t want to mention his name. “These Rohingyas families are suffering in their lives struggle since June  ethnic cleansing as their homes and property were burned down, destroyed and looted in the ethnic cleansing and the Maungdaw Township authorities didn’t allow them as IDPs or refugees in their own town.”

Myanmar Rohingya children walk though the slum near the sea in the town of Sittwe May 19, 2012. Picture taken May 19, 2012.  REUTERS/Damir Sagolj by Fayas Ahmed Rohingya babies and children are dying from malnutrition inside the camps or outside the camp in Arakan State. The President Thein Sein’s government is implementing its own ethnic cleansing policy, using starvation in place of shooting to kill Rohingyas. Thousands of kids are starving to death.  Water and sanitation facilities are inadequate, resulting in life-threatening illnesses. Many Rohingyas are surviving on a cup of rice each day and little else. It’s not enough for breast-feeding mother.

BANGKOK: Singapore has denied entry to a Vietnamese-registered cargo ship carrying 40 Burmese asylum seekers who were plucked from the sea after their boat sank in the Bay of Bengal. In an incident similar to the 2001 Tampa affair, where Australia refused entry to Afghan asylum seekers, Singapore said it had blocked the ship because ''those aboard do not appear to be persons eligible to enter Singapore''.