The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Source Press TV December 31, 2012 Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have fled the country, with many taking incredible risks to reach Australia, to avoid religious persecution, Press TV reports. Myanmar’s government refuses to recognize Rohingya Muslims as citizens and labels the minority of about 800,000 as “illegal” immigrants.  The persecuted minority have faced torture, neglect, and repression in Myanmar since it achieved independence in 1948. 

Nyi Nyi Aung  RB News  December 31, 2012 (Edited by M.S. Anwar) Buthidaung, Arakan  - U Aung Min Soe is a Rakhine (Magh) extremist and the head of the Maung Daw district administration that includes Maung Daw Tsp and Buthidaung Tsp. At 1PM yesterday (i.e. December 30, 2012), Maung Daw district administration gathered around 300 Rohingya Elders (from Buthidaung Tsp) at U Uttama Hall in Buthidaung Tsp. The administration authorities delivered speeches concerning a) uncertain data collection under the heading of illegal Bengali immigrants and invaders in computerized fingerprint system b) and Elections for the Administrations of the villages and quarters in the township. 

Source Mehr News: TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (MNA) – Iran’s first humanitarian shipment has been delivered to Myanmar’s Muslim refugees living on the Bangladeshi border, reports said on Sunday. The humanitarian food shipment, which is worth nearly $40,000, was prepared and sent to the displaced Rohingya Muslims by a number of non-governmental organizations.   Many Rohingya Muslims, escaping the communal violence in the Myanmarese state of Rakhine, have fled to refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.

tranded: The Myanmar nationals being gathered by police at Teluk Burau in Langkawi after jumping off boat they were on to enter Malaysia. Source The Star : LANGKAWI: In a mass attempt at entering Malaysia illegally, 500 Myanmar nationals, some as young as seven, were forced to jump off a boat and swim 500m to the beach at Teluk Burau here – with painful consequences. One Myanmar drowned while two others are in critical condition. Police found 449 people stranded on the beach yesterday, worn out from the long swim.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A joint security forces – police, Hluntin and Burma border security force (Nasaka) – had surrounded a Rohingya village from midnight 1:00am till morning 11:00am today, according to a politician from Maungdaw. “The security forces had surround the Nyaung Chang (Khadir Bill) village- situated near the three miles checked point – at about 1:00 am midnight and blocked every points where all the villagers are not able to escape the village. The security forces kept all Rohingya villagers who are living in the farms and not allow to go to the village.”

Dr. Abid Bahar December 27, 2012 Source RB News:  “The Burmese military has clearly embarked on a policy of ridding the country of ethnic Rohingyas by any possible means. Official claims that the refugees are "illegal immigrants" – Asia Watch  An enclave is part of a country geographically separated from the main part by the surrounding foreign territory. A great deal of works has been done by the military’s civilian collaborators on the province of Arakan (Rakhine province) claiming that there is the existence of an enclave in Burma. Most prominent of the authors is Aye Chan. Aye Chan, a native of Burma’s Arakan (Rakhine) province, says there is an enclave in Arakan.