The Stateless Rohingya Blog

  Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he walks in front of houses that were set alight during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe, on June 10, 2012.photot ( Reuters) Maungdaw, Arakan State:   Five Rohinga houses were burned down by Rakhine Natala villagers at Maungdaw south on December 2, at night, said a local villager on condition of anonymity. “The Natala villagers are from Inn Din Rakhine Natala village of Maungdaw Township. They set fire to the houses of Rohingya Inn Din village by throwing kerosene gallons with fire. Later, Rohingya villagers found some of plastic gallons while the Natala villagers fled from the scene.”

This picture taken on December 30, 2012, shows Rohingya boatpeople from Burma disembarking at a beach on Langkawi island in Malaysia. About 500 Rohingyas were forced to swim the last 500 meters to the shore at the end of a 15-day boat journey. (AFP) DVB By AYE NAI Published: 4 January 2013 Over 80 Rohingyas, fleeing violence and persecution in Arakan state, were detained by Burmese authorities on Wednesday in a coastal town near the Thai border, after traffickers abandoned them en route to Malaysia. The Rohingyas, including 13 children and eight women, were taken for questioning by police when the boat was discovered at the dock in Tenasserim Division’s Kawthaung town in the southernmost tip of Burma.

Maungdaw, Arakan State : Concerned authorities (Nasaka) started and forcibly took photographs of Rohigya families on January 4 in Maungdaw south, said a local elder from Aley Than Kyaw on condition of anonymity. “Today, in the morning, a group of Nasaka personnel went to the Gonjondia village of Maungdaw south and took photographs of 50 families today morning. They are not willing to give permission to take photographs but they are compelled to do so. ”