The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State : Bogyi Wi Myo Pyain, commander and head of NaSaKa camp based no-24 Kyein Chaung village tract (Boli Bazar),under region-4 has been looking for Hafez-Nurul Haque s/o Md Husain aged 39 hailed from Kyein Chaung village tract since three months over the false accusation that he uses Bangladeshi mobile  phone . However, as he refrained getting out, he had not been caught. But when he came out yesterday to participate in census check-up process (carried out by Na-Sa-Ka twice a year which is a must for Rohingyas only, unless they will be delisted from the census), coincidentally he was arrested by the Na-Sa-Kas lead by the above mentioned officer and placed under detention cell till they succeeded to extort 350000Ks from this poor victim.

by Salman Haidar THE UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Mr Guterres, on a recent visit to India, was lavish in his praise for India’s treatment of refugees. In this season of discontent, where so much has gone wrong and only disgruntlement about public policy is being voiced, his words are a rare acknowledgement of something good in Indian practice.   India has long been a haven for the displaced and threatened from its neighbourhood, many of whom have been assimilated and become a virtually indistinguishable part of the larger society, while others have retained their distinctiveness and historic way of life, in either case able to live here without anxiety about the morrow.

In this photo taken Jan.1, 2013, Rohingya refugees sit in a boat as they are intercepted by Thai authorities off the sea in Phuket, southern Thailand. (AP Photo)  Phil Robertson, Sunai Phasuk, Brad Adams, John Sifton (Human Rights Watch) Source  The Nation January 9, 2013 The Thai government should immediately halt its plan to deport 73 ethnic Rohingya back to Myanmar. Thai authorities should allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee agency, unhindered access to these and other boat migrants from Myanmar's Arakan State, to determine whether they are seeking asylum and whether they are qualified for refugee status. 

Source The Nation: January 9, 2013 Jakarta - The Rohingya Muslim minority group in western Myanmar needs long-term support to recover from recent sectarian violence, the Indonesian foreign minister said Wednesday after a visit to the area. "We must quickly move beyond emergency response," Marty Natalegawa said. "The people in the affected area are showing resilience, they are showing constant willingness to recover quickly, but they need crops to harvest and seeds to grow." Natalegawa on Monday visited areas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state affected by last year’s communal violence between the minority Rohingyas and the majority Buddhist population.