The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Source Phuket Gazette: PHUKET: The 179 Rohingya taken into custody north of Phuket yesterday survived on four meals of uncooked rice in their 16 days at sea, one of the survivors told officials. Local fishermen spotted the refugees – fleeing escalating ethnic violence in their native Rakhine State in Myanmar – off the Phang Nga coast at about 11am.

By RARC A team of 15 Burmese Immigration personnel, consisting of 3 personnel from Arakan State Immigration, 9 personnel from Kyauktaw Township Immigration and 3 RNDP (Rakhine Nationalities Development Party) members went in Yadanabone (Nairong-Murafara), Kadir Fara,  Fiding Fara and Modi Fara of Kyauktaw on 21 January 2013 in doing population  survey  for 2013, according to local report. 

By RARC On 23 January 2013 around 10:30pm, at least 2 Rohingya houses were burnt down into aches at Ward No. 1 of Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, Burma, according to a local resident on condition of anonymity. Fire broke out from electrical engine house which has been operating by the Rakhine national. There is controversy on the breaking of fire in both residents of Rakhine and ethnic Rohingya, while the Rohingya believe that Rakhine conspired to burn down the Rohingya houses from nearby areas, while the Rakhine claim that the fire was broke out from electric sort, he further told.

With few prospects for their future, Rohingya youth like these in Bangladesh's Leda makeshift site may start to look for hope elsewhere. © UNHCR/V.Tan Source UNHCR : COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh , January 23 (UNHCR)  –  For 20 years, they have been given food, water, shelter,  health  care. But the thing they need most  –  hope  –  has proven elusive. And according to the refugee youth in this area bordering western Myanmar, the future is growing dimmer by the day.

Rathedaung Jetty photo flickr. Rathedaung, Arakan State: There are no jobs and businesses for the Rohingya community in Rathedaung Townships because of local Rakhine community and concerned authorities don’t give permission to do business and to work for their survival, said a local elder on condition of anonymity. “The Rohingya community has not been getting permission to work since sectarian violence in June 2012, between Rakhine and Rohingya communities.”