The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Refugees pass time at a stadium amidst riots in Meikhtila on 22 March 2013. (Reuters) By Assed Baig DVB News: April  4, 2013 Reports of what actually took place in the central Burmese town of Meikhtila are still emerging, but internally displaced persons (IDPs) are beginning to speak out and tell the world of what they witnessed with their own eyes. “They beat them in front of me. I was watching. I can still see it.” Noor Bi, is crying as she describes the moment when she saw her husband and brother murdered in front of her eyes as she fled Meikhtila. The mob outnumbered the police and they were unable to protect the Muslim minority of the town. The 26-year-old is now a widow with a three-year-old son. As she told her story and what she witnessed, the people around her in the make shift IDP camp now set up in the grounds of a Muslim school in Yindaw – around 10 miles south of Meikhtila – began to cry. Grown men sobbed at hearing her ordeal. “They beat them an

• What is the government doing as a plan to stop the violence (genocide) against the Burmese Muslims? • What will the government do in order to rebuild their homes and mosques and reviving their livelihoods? • Why have federal, state and local governments manifestly failed to protect Muslim citizens of Myanmar? Anti Muslim leaflets and pamphlets have been spreading throughout Myanmar since the escalation of the violence in Rakhine state that began in June last year (2012). During the period of the 20th to 28th of March 2013, 28 Mosques were burned down and thousands of Muslim homes destroyed by so-called “Buddhist” extremists. This is not a communal conflict – this is an attack against Muslim people, Myanmar’s pogroms. With no exception, the violence was overwhelmingly committed by the well-organized “Buddhist” mobs against Muslim families and communities, including children and babies. According to the UN, since the anti-Muslim violence erupted on 20 March the resultant

It's Time To Wake Up... (part of  The Darkness Visible  series) ( Soldier On Patrol In Rohingya Part of Sittwe, June 2012 ) Alders Ledge: April 3, 2013 For the past six months the world has been basically shut out of the Rohingya ghettos and IDP (internally displaced peoples) camps. The government of Myanmar has made it hard if not impossible at times to reach the Rohingya minority as the Buddhists extremist attempt to complete their intended genocide. But there are brave individuals still attempting to get the word out of the "open air prison" that Burma has made for the Rohingya.  Assed Baig is one of those people. His voice is lending an outlet to the Rohingya who have been made voiceless by their own government. His articles give a written word to a people who are being forgotten. And his broadcast out of Burma are being leaked through the iron grip of the Myanmar government.  These are few of his reports... this is the news from the front l

Mohamed Farooq Mayu Press: April 3, 2013  The Burmese officials as well as Buddhist civilians jointly progress towards uprooting Muslims (Rohingya Muslim, Kaman Muslim and Burmese Muslim) across the Burma with different secret tactics and methodology; mass killing, open gun firing, raping females, looting properties and money, arbitrary arresting, burning houses, alive burning religious students and teachers, destroying noble Quran, Mosques and religious schools with falsehoods creative events step by step driving recklessly. Burma known as Myanmar is grappling with a surge in religious extremism that experts trace to anti-Muslim “provocateurs” including radical Buddhist monks after two years of a repressive junta ceded power. At least hundred Muslims have been killed while Mosques and Muslim homes have been vandalized over the past fortnight in central Burma, in a wave of violence that witnesses say seems to have been well planned. It is clear that there are some