The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force (Nasaka), are looting valuable goods from the villagers and also committed sexual insults against Rohingya women and girls when the male villagers ran away from the village for fear of arbitrary arrest by the Nasaka personnel, said a local elder preferring not to be named.

A boy’s stare: A small boy looks at foreign visitors to his village in Pauktaw, Rakhine State. Earlier this month, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, accompanied by some of the ministry’s officials, toured several refugee camps in Rakhine State, in the western part of Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation ravaged by communal conflict. During the visit, the foreign minister was accompanied by Myanmarese Minister of Border Affairs Thein Htay. 

Muhammad Sabare, 14, weeps in gratitude as he represents Rohingya youngsters who gathered to give thanks to people who donated food and other necessities to them at a shelter in Narathiwat yesterday. Locals donated to many shelters housing Rohingya across the southernmost provinces. (Photo - WAEDAO HARAI) Source Bangkok Post: A huge procession of Thai people turned out to deliver food, cash and necessities to help Rohingya migrants confined in various shelters yesterday.

Maungdaw, Arakan State : Army is destroying Rohingyas’ garden to make logs for baking bricks in Maungdaw Township for constructing of an old road which was established by British government during Second World War-II, said a an elder from the local preferring not to be named. “ This road is running from north to south of Maungdaw Township. Recently, the government has been constructing this road with the help of bulldozer for mounding and digging the soil for the road. The army doesn’t take forced labor from the villagers.”

Qutub Shah RB News  18.1.2013 (Edited by Mayu Thit Sar) Maungdaw: Nasaka commander extorted 3.8 million Kyats from 4 Rohingyas detained earlier. Major Win Hlaing, commander of Border Security Force (Nasaka) Region 5 Ngakura, eventually, released four Rohingyas detained by extorting 3.8 million Kyats. The four miserable victims are: