The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Posted by Assed Baig: March 30, 2013 Muhammed sits sketching a stick man and then he picks up a green pencil crayon, colouring in the man he has drawn. No one has bothered to ask these children about what they witnessed during last year's massacre of the Rohingya in Burma. No one seems to care what children have to say. Ten or so children sit in a bamboo hut, in what is now a make-shift Rohingya village at the end of a dusty road. The village is nothing but a collection of huts and tents put up in sand. This is not where these children are originally from, they were forced here after they were chased to the water amid sword, spear and gun attacks while their homes in the Kyauk Phyu village were burnt down last year. The sun beats down; the children surround us, wanting to see the foreigners. The American doctor, (I won’t reveal her name for her protection) works with the Rohingya and pays special attention to these children. She seems like the only one that wan

Associated Press of Pakistan March 29, 2013 ISLAMABAD , Mar 29 (APP): Expressing concern of Pakistanis over the recurrence of communal riots in Myanmar, President Asif Ali Zardari has called upon his Myanmar counterpart President U. Thein Sein to use all the resources to prevent violence and protect the lives of minority Muslim community. In his letter to President U. Thein Sein, the President said that he was deeply saddened at the eruption of yet another wave of violence in Meiktila Town of Mandalay Region and expressed the concern of the people over communal riots that have resulted into the loss of life and property as well as desecration of places of worship. Following is the text of President’s letter to President U. Thein Sein; “Excellency, I  am deeply saddened at the eruption of yet another wave of violence this time in Meiktila Town of Mandalay Region, Myanmar. The people of Pakistan are concerned at the recurrence of communal riots resulting in l

Press TV:  March 30, 2013 An analyst says the international community seeks economic exploitation in Myanmar rather than stopping the plight of Muslims there by extremist Buddhists. United Nations official, Vijay Nambiar, said the houses and mosques of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have been targeted with “brutal efficiency” in recent attacks. The statement came on Tuesday by Nambiar, a special advisor to the UN secretary general on Myanmar, who toured the country after the latest round of attacks by extremist Buddhists on March 20, in which over 40 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the city of Meiktila.  Press TV has conducted an interview with Jahangir Mohammed, the Director of the Center for Muslim Affairs from Manchester, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.  Press TV: Jahangir Mohammed if I want to ask you anything that’s the lack of action by the international community who know what is going on in Myanmar esp

photo return  AsiaOne News: March 30, 2013 JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - The head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said on Saturday that ministers from OIC states will meet on April 14 in Saudi Arabia to discuss deadly violence against Muslims in Myanmar. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said in a statement that a contact committee of OIC foreign ministers would gather in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. State media in Myanmar reported on Saturday that the death toll from communal violence in the centre of the country over the past 10 days has risen to 43 with more than 1,300 homes and other buildings destroyed. An OIC statement said Ihsanoglu addressed a contact group meeting on violence against Myanmar Muslims known as Rohingya on Saturday and said the organisation was "ready to take all necessary measures and actions to  deal  with it". Ihsanoglu also pressed the government of Myanmar to "put an end to the Buddhist extremists and hate campaigns, as well

Dr.Maung Zarni The 27-member the Rakhine Crisis Inquiry Commission had scheduled to release its report – originally due out on in late November last year, but put off until Aril or late March. The word is the report may not be made public. Here is the verifiable factual truth about the commission set up by Thein Sein himself. That inquiry commission has no credibility. Former actor and medical doctor, the famous Ko Kyaw Thu, was invited to join, with the president’s emissaries trying to stroke his ego with such lies as ‘President is very desirous of your joining the inquiry commission’. Kyaw Thu was smart enough to not waste his time, nor allow his good name dragged through the mud. So, he said No to the presidential invite. According to the most crucial and credible member, neither the commission chairman Dr Myo Myint (former director general of religious affairs and a historian of Mindon period) and the secretary Dr Kyaw Yin Hlaing, now president’s adviser wit