The Stateless Rohingya Blog

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA PRESS RELEASE   (14 January 2013) UN intervention is most urgent to protect the Rohingya After June 2012 deadly violence in Arakan, the human rights situation of the Rohingya has become more deteriorating with story of “dead and dying”. Campaigns of genocide and extermination against them are carried out day in, day out. Rape, murder, arbitrary arrest, looting, extortion, criminal atrocities, hunger and diseases are persistent and widespread. Their burned down and depopulated villages are being populated with Buddhist settlers warmly invited from within and from Bangladesh.  These are the main ‘push factors’ that cause the migration of Rohingya to neighbouring countries for which the Burmese government and Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) with Dr. Aye Maung are fully responsible.

Humanitarian care would be provided for Rohingya minority people from Myanmar - for the time being - and Thailand would seek help from the United Nations and other international groups to try to resolve their plight, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Concerned agencies are in the process of classifying some 857 Rohingya people who illegally entered Thailand recently, the Ministry's permanent secretary Sihasak Phuangketkeow said yesterday.

Source The Nation: Thailand will be working closely with international agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, to extend help to 857 Rohingya people found illegally entering Thailand earlier this month. We will proceed in line with laws and humanitarian principle,"  Foreign  Affairs Ministry's permanent secretary Sihasak Phuangketkeow said Tuesday.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Village Administration officer U Maung Maung (Rakhine community) is trying to de-list 34-family member of Hati Para (Lone Don) village of Maungdaw north from next census collection by Nasaka, said a local elder preferring not to be named. “The said Village Admin with the help of Burma’s border security force of Nasaka area No.5 arrested 13 villagers from Lone Don village over the accusation that they had involved in the clashes between Rakhines and Rohingyas on June 8, 2012,. Of them two were killed, three went into hiding after fleeing from the Nasaka and the rest 8 villagers have been detained in the Nasaka camp.”