The Stateless Rohingya Blog

File photo shows Rohingya Muslims in an Internally Displaced Persons camp. An Iranian parliamentary delegation will set off for Myanmar on Sunday to assess the situation of the Rohingya Muslims and meet with the Southeast Asian country’s officials. “The representatives of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and the Iranian Red Crescent Society will accompany the lawmakers in this visit,” Deputy Chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Mansour Haqiqatpour said on Saturday. Earlier this month, Iran's 24-ton consignment of humanitarian aid to ethnic Rohingya Muslims arrived in Myanmar.

Rohingya people perennially leave their homes and families in Burma and Bangladesh where they face extreme discrimination and are denied citizenship. (Photo: Reuters) By   SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON–Thousands of people have fled from Burma’s restive Arakan State and neighboring Bangladesh in the first week of this month alone, the UN refugee agency reported, warning that the plight of displaced persons in the region continues to grow more severe. More than 2,000 people left the region on smugglers’ boats in the first week of the year, most likely to other countries in Southeast Asia, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a news briefing on Friday in Geneva.

Sourc  UNHCR January 11, 2013 This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 11 January 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Growing numbers of people are risking their lives on smugglers' boats in the Bay of Bengal following the recent violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state and as frustration mounts over the lack of imminent solutions to their plight.