The Stateless Rohingya Blog

                            Flood of refugees should be discussed by Asean, NHRC says. Ethnic Rohingya fleeing from Myanmar deserve the attention of Asean as their problems are huge, a panel of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says. Panel chairwoman Angkhana Neelapaijit spoke yesterday after visiting some Rohingya people in Narathiwat.

This picture taken on October 11, 2012 shows a Muslim Rohingya child standing outside his tent at the Say Thamagyi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, located on the outskirts of Sittwe, capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine State. Iranian lawmaker Mansour Haqiqatpour says the humanitarian disaster in Myanmar is a result of the “wrong policies” adopted by the global arrogance, particularly the US. “ The disaster in Myanmar is the result of the wrong policy of the global arrogance, particularly the US, that has had no outcome but the hatred and displacement of a number of innocent people,” the deputy chairman of Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Monday.

The Burma army is pressuring Rohingya orchid farmers to sell their trees for wood to make bricks for a new highway in Maungdaw Township. The highway that cuts through Rohingya and Rakhine’s farmland in the south and northern areas of the state, follows the route of an old road built by the British during the World War-II. Locals expect more than 30 acres of winter seasonal farmland to be also destroyed to make room for the road.

Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a contribution of $ 1.88 million toward UNHCR's humanitarian program in Myanmar providing shelter to Rohingyas in Rakhine state. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by Yousef Al-Bassam of the Saudi Fund for Development and Imran Riza, UNHCR's regional representative in Riyadh.