The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By Eng. Mohamed Farooq The Burmese authority had imposed curfew only to Rohingya not to move one place to another since June 2012 racial violence in Arakan state. It causes Rohingya facing difficulties with hygienic foods, proper treatments, and necessary house hold materials and so on. Amongst the suffering people shortage with daily survival food stuffs, three Rohingya men from  Sinn Gyi Pyan  helmet of Barbutaung village, Minbya Township leaved with engine boat to buy  foods for the own villagers  towards  Letmagye , Nagaya Village on Thursday, 14 March 2013. Those three Rohingya were brutally killed on their water way by the Rakhine extremists. The dead bodies were found near Maroung Bwe Chaung Bridge of Bu Talonk village under the track of Mauk Oo on 16 March 2013. There were also some security personnel based in Myauk Oo Ka-ma-ya (380) when the dead bodies picking up from the water to the land. They got the dead bodies with many injures and wounds of knife cutti

Photo Leda Refugee camp, 55km away from the city Cox's Bazaar.  Teknaf, Bangladesh: Helal Uddin, 7, son of Jalal Uddin, block-C, shed # 274, of Leda camp (Tal) under the Teknaf police station was hit and killed by a speedy jeep nearby Aktel Tower of unofficial Leda camp (Tal) on March 15, evening, according to Jalal Uddin said. Helal and other refugee children went Leda village to fetch drinking water after crossing Teknaf-Cox’s Bazar high way as the camp has no fresh water to drink. So, the refugee are depending on local village for fresh water. Helal was hit by a speedy jeep while he was crossing the highway road, according to refugee kids who were with him to fetch drinking water. He was taken immediately to Teknaf government hospital from the spot after hearing the accident on the road by refugees, but he died on the way to hospital, according to Jalal Uddin. Police went to the spot and seized the vehicle after getting information, but driver and helpe

  Mayu Press, March 17th, 2013 Serious human rights violations, including arbitrary arrest and detention, destruction of dwellings, religious and ethnic discrimination, forced labor, forced displacement, land grabbing, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, and deliberate targeting of innocent Rohingyas in ethnic cleansing , continue to take place across the entire Arakan state where a large Rohingya minority is living. President Thein Sein is visiting to Australia to do more engagement with Australia. We would like to call to Australian Government to give firm pressure to Burma President Thein Sein to restore Rohingya citizenship right, to provide professional and impartial security to effected communities, to stop violence committed by security forces and Rakhine mob, to give technical and professional expertise on humanitarian assistance to the affected area and to help peacefully coexistence again in Rakhine state. The persistent poor human rights of Bu

An elderly Burmese refugee thanks God as the community sees a light at the end of the tunnel. (AN photo by Ahmed Hashad) Arab News: 17 March 2013 Government offices in Makkah will embark on rectifying the status of a quarter of a million Burmese nationals residing across the Kingdom. Burmese who are detained in prisons, correctional institutions and those who were forced to leave the country have been given the opportunity to rectify their status, a local newspaper reported. Sources said that the state would pay their residency fees for the next four years. Another two years would follow when this first period comes to an end. The official statistics indicate that 240,000 Burmese (and not 500,000 as previously stated) are residing in the country. Six government agencies will begin the process of documentation and checking the nationalities of all residents registered as Burmese due to confusion between their nationality and that of the Bangladeshis. Thes

Mayu Press,  March 17th, 2013 BRCA delegates together with special guest Mr. Htay Lwin Oo, Rakhine and Rohingya history researcher from USA and U Maung Ba from Singapore attended to the forum “Debating Democratisation in Myanmar/Burma” held on Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia in 15-16 March 2013. BRCA contacted to ANU a day prior to the forum and raised the concern over RNDP party participation in the forum and informed that BRCA delegates would be joining to the forum. Upon arrival to ANU forum, ANU gave a chance to BRCA to present our statement in the forum to audience for three minutes. BRCA Delegates Team In front of “Exiled To Nowhere; Burma’s Rohingya” Photo Exhibition The forum had discussion of different topics and aspects such as Political & Economic, Democratisation in big picture, Lunch of “Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya” and Ethnic politics in transition etc. On second day (16.03.2013), U Oo Hla Saw from extremist Rakh

Young men who have found refuge in Malaysia after fleeing violence in Myanmar are covertly getting brides from home. Many ethnic Rohingya who make the journey over to Malaysia are young men [Reuters] Al Jazeera: March 17, 2013 Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh  - Shamsul Alam, has dabbled as a tailor's assistant and construction worker since fleeing to Malaysia from his native Rakhine State in Myanmar. He recalls bitterly his gruelling 12-14 hour work days on construction sites before grabbing a quick meal and dashing off to the highlands in the hopes of evading the authorities. But when he speaks about his intentions to marry, the 30-some year old Rohingya becomes much more poetic: "If a man wants to live, he must have a woman…People need companions to live on this earth." However, his dream to marry has been difficult. As young Rohingya men like Alam have settled into life in Malaysia, to which a stea

To:- President Barack H. Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Date: March 14, 2013 Sub: An Urgent Appeal to save the Rohingyas of Arakan-Burma Dear Mr. President, First of all, we, the members of the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) would like to thank you for your historic visit to Burma (Myanmar) on November 19, 2012 and your great speech in Yangon University Convocation Hall in which you brought the issue of the suffering Rohingya people to the audience of the people of Burma. The Rohingya community of Arakan, Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most downtrodden ethnic minorities of the world. They are victims of political, racial and religious oppression, economic exploitation and cultural slavery in their ancestral homeland-Arakan where they have been living for many centuries. In this regard, we would like to bring to your kind attention