The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rohingya boat people under arrest on the Andaman coast Photo by supplied police photo By RSIS  Eurasia Review  February 26, 2013  The exodus of many Rohingya over the past year has brought increased international awareness to their plight, as well as Southeast Asia’s inability to deal effectively with forced migration. A regional approach is needed to find a durable solution to the influx of Rohingya boat people. By Eliane Coates SINCE THE communal clashes began in Arakan State in June 2012, the scale of Rohingya fleeing by boat to neighbouring Southeast Asian countries has increased significantly. According to a reliable source from the human rights organisation The Arakan Project, it is estimated 19,500 registered and unregistered Rohingya, including some Bangladeshis, have fled by boat from Bangladesh and North Arakan State, with an estimated 100 people having drowned during the process. With an estimated 115,000 people in Arakan displaced by the communal cl

Fundamentally, the earth has been designated with full of varieties of creatures having mixed-colored   as dwelling at ease only for the super creature, human beings. Human beings deserved super dignity by birth naturally .The Creator Himself witnessed that the most good-looking creature on the earth surface is the only one: human being. Every human being both male and female is equal in the sight of God except the deeds. The main intention of creation human beings and jinns is to worship the God alone without any associates. According to the sacred teachings of glorious Quran we learnt that to let know the law to the man kinds particularly how to lead the life He, God sent the final Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) with final revelation Quran. There are two types of rights which are mandatory on us to fulfill strictly without any excuse for every individual: 1. rights of God, 2. rights of slave  and   two types of compulsory  duty : 1. Individual compulsory duty which is to be performed by e

ERC delegation from KSA branch has visited OIC head quarter in Jeddah today and held important discussion with Dr. Sulaiman Al Quid and Dr. Zakaria Adam Ahamed. ERC delegates comprised of Mr. Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Rauf along with Mr. Abu Islam from Jaliyat attended the meeting where the delegates oriented OIC representatives on the current catastrophic situation faced by Rohingya in Arakan state of Burma and Bangladesh.  Mr. Jafer Al Shomry gave the introduction of ERC and told that it is a legitimate non-profit umbrella organization based in Europe, and advancing towards its goals of restoring basic human and political rights of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar (Burma) with cooperation with the government agencies and NGOs worldwide. In this connection ERC delegates requested cooperation and political help from the OIC. The delegates also requested to open a OIC’s liaison office in Chittagong Bangladesh which can work for Rohingya both in Arakan and Bangladesh.

         Photo Credit: DevrigVelly, EU/ECHO January 2013 Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection: February 25, 2013 Sittwe, January 2013: Standing amongst heaps of woven bamboo panels and corrugated iron sheets, Abdul oversees more than 20 fellow Rohingya workers building over a dozen barrack-type shelters, each to house ten families displaced by the recent inter-communal fighting.  “I used to work for a European NGO”, Abdul explains. ”So I am using my skills to work with contractors who have been tasked to build these shelters. This way my people have at least a roof over their heads”. 1,600 families have found shelter in this camp called “Say Tha Mar Gyi”, located about 8 km north-west of Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital. Here the construction of the barrack-type temporary shelters is just one of the activities underway.  Latrines have been constructed, water bore-holes installed. Others, such as Abdul and his four children have found shelter with host families in

NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma’s Parliament. (Photo: The Irrawaddy) By Tha Lun Zaung Htet The Irrawaddy News February 26, 2013 NAYPYIDAW—Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said that Burma “must decide for itself” whether or not to grant citizenship to the Muslim minority Rohingya, but she added that the government “should listen” to foreign experts and uphold international standards in its citizenship laws. Suu Kyi was responding to criticism by Jose Ramos-Horta, the former president of Timor Leste, and Muhammad Yunus, founder of microfinance institution Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, who wrote in The Huffington Post on Feb. 20 that Burma should amend its laws and grant the Rohingya “full citizenship.” The two Nobel Peace Prize laureates said Burma was failing to address the ongoing “ethnic cleansing” of the group in Arakan State, western Burma. Other international rights workers have previously also called on Burma to accept Rohingya citizenship. A

Mayu Press: February 26th, 2013 By Syed Neaz Ahmad Dhaka: THEY are thought to be the world’s most persecuted refugees. It is also argued that they are one of the most forgotten too. In Jeddah prison I saw and met hundreds of inmates from Burma. Thousands of Burmese Muslims from Arakan – often called Rohingyas – were offered a safe haven in Saudi Arabia by King Faisal but with the change in rulers in Saudi Arabia the rules underwent a change too. A permanent abode of peace that was offered to these uprooted Arakanese is now nothing less than a chamber of horrors. There are some three thousand families of Burmese Muslims in Makkah and Jeddah prisons awaiting their deportation. Women and children are held in separate prisons nearby. The only contact the men have with their wives and children is through mobile phones.But the interesting question is: Where will they be sent? Burma (Myanmar) doesn’t want them. Bangladesh with a large population, porous border and poor economy