The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Posted by Dr.  Habib Siddiqui  In 2007 JARO under the able leadership of Mr. Salim Ullah hosted the first international conference on the Rohingyas of Burma (Myanmar) in two cities of Japan, which included Tokyo. Recently, I came across the newly released videos from this conference. I was invited as the chief guest and keynote speaker in this conference. The videos can be seen  here  in piecemeals (8 part series).  As you will notice, my concerns about the Rohingya people in a flawed democracy came so true with the latest unleasing of the pogroms against them - this time a collaborative one between the state actors and racist, criminal Rakhine politicians of the Arakan state.

  Maungdaw, Arakan State : The concerned authority – Township administration office – again extended the emergency Act 144 to another two months in Maungdaw today, according to official announcement. The Maungdaw district was imposed emergency Act 144 since June 8, 2012 bigoted violence between Rakhine and Rohingya communities in Maungdaw Town and it was extended once after three months and now again extended again for two months, said a politician from Maungdaw. “In Maungdaw, the authority are using emergency Act 144 to harass and oppress Rohingya community from their social activists – movement, praying in mosque, working for survival, marriage and gathering for funeral – and to extort money from Rohingya with so called warrant list which was not declared to public but when the security personnel need to use.” The worse thing is not allowed to gather for funeral pray, but if you had paid money, you are allowed to pray and gather, said an elder from Maungdaw. “The

Mike Carnegie and his wife have donated $30,000 and helped raise more for local charity Partners   By  George Johnson, CalgaryHerald February 7, 2013    Calgary Roughnecks player Mike Carnegie has been supporting the charity Partners for awhile. The locally-based group aims to raise money to help victims of Burma’s oppressive regime. Photograph by: Calgary Herald/Files , Calgary Herald Mike Carnegie’s brother-in-law Jacob was the hook. “He was travelling around Thailand and he ended up helping Partners,” explained the Calgary Roughnecks’ defender and assistant captain on Friday. “You can’t actually do your work in Burma, it’s illegal. So he had to work inside the Thailand border. “When I signed with the Calgary Roughnecks, in ’08, he talked to me about it. He said ‘You’ve got to check out this charity. It’s called Partners and their head office is in Calgary.’ ” Since then, after some initial research and an ever-growing awareness of the need to act, the co

Jointly attacked by Rakhine and Burmese security forces , a set on Flickr. Jointly attacked by Rakhine and Burmese security forces in Myanmar against minority Rohingya and other Muslims have increased in Rakhine State.