The Stateless Rohingya Blog

The helicopter cuts a sharp arc away from the sea and sweeps over pagoda-topped hills and dusty farmland until a mass of dirty white tents comes into view. Soon throngs of people can be seen coming out of their makeshift homes and rushing towards the airfield, until they resemble a human fence, snaking five-deep around the camp. There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles. Here at Pauktaw refugee camp in Rakhine state – home to the inhabitants of five Rohingya Muslim villages who fled intercommunal conflict in western Burma this year – there are no schools, no work and no fields to cultivate – because no one is allowed to leave. When a helicopter lands, they hope it will bring either more supplies or some end to a way of life that has been unchanged for six months.

To,  His Excellency Ban Ki-moon The Secretary-General  The United Nations  New York, NY 10017  Date: December 20, 2012  Re: It is the time for UN intervention to stop Rohingya ethnic cleansing  Dear Mr. Secretary-General,  We are writing to urge the United Nations (UN) to demonstrate its leadership in human rights by responding to victims of Burma’s ongoing ethnic cleansing on Rohingya. 

Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Myanmar Vijay Nambiar. Photo: UNIC/Yangon Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A United Nations envoy, Vijay Nambiar, has wrapped up a visit to Burma between December16-20,2012, was at the invitation of the Burmese Government, which has pledged to take measures to address the violence in Arakan State, but no visited to Rohingya IDPs camp in Maungdaw, according to a Rohingya politician.

Source Wespeak News December 21, 2012 Vijay Nambiar, the UN secretary-general’s special adviser on Myanmar, has wrapped up a visit to Myanmar, where he met people displaced by the violence this year in Rakhine state, UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters here Thursday. Nambiar started the visit Dec 16 at the invitation of the Myanmar government, del Buey said, adding that the senior UN official during his visit also discussed with the government how to address the problems facing the communities there.

Source Detik News: Friday, 21/12/2012  Jakarta - Director of Global Humanity Response (GHR) Doddy ACT CHP, is still located in the state of Myanmar, precisely in Sittway capital of Rakhine State. The main agenda, doing social recovery. Communal conflict in the region, terjejak horizontal problem that needs serious attention and continuous. True, the situation is more conducive, but thousands of victims are still occupying tents are far from decent.

A group of internally displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Photo: UNHCR Myanmar 20 December 2012 – A United Nations envoy, Vijay Nambiar, has wrapped up a visit to Myanmar during which he was able to meet with people displaced by the inter-communal violence this year in Rakhine state, as well as discuss with the Government how to address the problems facing the communities there. Several waves of clashes between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, the first of which occurred in June, have left 115,000 people displaced, as well as more than 100 dead, according to UN estimates.

PKKH Exclusive | by Noorah Noor The world celebrated the Human Rights Day on the 10th of December and we have quietly slipped away from our responsibility to the Rohingya. On this day, sixty four years ago, ‘the international community vowed never again to allow atrocities like those of the Second World War happen again’, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly with a view to making ‘a road map to guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere’.