The Stateless Rohingya Blog

PressTV: April 24, 2013 Myanmar has been the scene of deadly clashes over the past twelve months. According to reports by the I-H-H, Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a large number of villages were torched and thousands of Muslims were killed brutally. Tens of thousands were also displaced. Those who were able to escape the country, went to neigboring Bangladeshi refugee camps where they are trying to survive depending on what humanitarian relief groups like the IHH provides for them. Recently the violence has spread to 12 different cities in Arakan Region, only 3 of which NGOs can enter, which actually makes it impossible to come up with accurate numbers of Muslims who have been killed, tortured or displaced. The massacre the Arakanese people have been subjected to is unbelievable. Reports of Muslims being burned alive, buried alive, womenbeing raped, people being tortured to death keep coming in from those who have visited the region. Many humanitarian rel

The Deaths of Thousands Are A Statistic ~ Joseph Stalin (part of The Darkness Visible series and Screamers series) Alders Ledge: April 24, 2013 Almost a year ago the pogroms of the Rohingya in the Arakan began in earnest. After months of Nazi style propaganda being pumped into the region the murmur of hatred erupted into violence. We were told that the "ethnic violence" went both ways. We were told that the Rohingya started the ethnic clashes and therefore could not be considered the victims. This all came from countries that had just previously lifted their sanctions upon Myanmar and were suddenly interested in doing business with the second most reclusive country on the planet. Of course, with Burma opening up the country did jump up in the Rankings leaving North Korea alone once again. Yet with all the talk about how horrible (code in the West for inconvenient) the slaughtering of Rohingya men, women, and children; the supposedly civilized world did n

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION  ARAKAN, BURMA  Press Release  April 24, 2013  UN Intervention and Commission of Inquiry Most Urgent  Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the 153-page report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) dated 22 April 2013 which titled “ ‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State” .  In its report, HRW has said that crimes against humanity have been committed by the Burmese authorities and Rakhine Buddhist groups in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State.  The report revealed that government authorities destroyed mosques, conducted violent mass arrest and blocked aid to the displaced Muslims in Arakan since June 2012 deadly violence. The Buddhist mobs attacked the Muslim communities in nine townships, razing villages and killing residents while security forces stood aside or assisted the assailants. The

Rohingyas run away from a fire that was set to a part of Sittwe on 10 June 2012. (Reuters) DVB News: April 24, 2013 The government-appointed commission responsible for investigating two bouts of ethno-religious violence in Arakan state last year sent their completed report to President Thein Sein earlier this week; however, there has been no word on when or if the report will be released to the public. According to a press release published on Tuesday, the commission will hold a news conference next week at the Myanmar Peace Centre in Rangoon to discuss their findings. “A thorough analysis has been made of all, data collected to date.  On 22 April 2013, the commission submitted its final report to the president of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar,” said the commission in a press release. “The commission considers that it has fulfilled these duties satisfactorily within its given mandate.” The completed report was sent to the President Thein Sein one day

Image via  Thai Government ] By Melissa Stusinski The Inquisitr  April 24, 2013 Myanmar President Thein Sein received a peace  prize  on Monday, despite reports that he participated in, or at least endorsed, ethnic cleansing in the country. While Myanmar has been celebrated for his quick democratization, not everything is going well for its people. The Rohyngya have steadily attempted to escape from the country amid escalating violence aimed at them. A new Human Rights Watch report on Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people was released this weekend. The HRW’s report was made on the sectarian violence that struck in Arakan state last year. While more than 200 people were killed in the region, more than 125,000 were made homeless through mass arson, looting, and cold-blooded murder. The fighting erupted between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and the stateless Muslim Rohingya. The Human Rights Watch accused the Rakhine in

VICE UK: April 23, 2013 Sittwe, the capital of Burma's restive Rakhine state, is a town divided. Or, put more accurately, segregated, thanks to the majority Buddhist Rakhine people developing a passion for  beating, raping ,  murdering and setting fire  to members of the local Muslim Rohingya minority. As it stands, the Rohingya have been ghettoised into a series of IDP (internally displaced person) camps just outside of Sittwe.   Things have been this way since  last June , when the region witnessed a massive outbreak of sectarian violence following the alleged rape and murder of a Rakhine  woman  and a revenge attack that killed ten Muslims. From there, events escalated dramatically. Countless houses have been razed and large numbers from both communities displaced. However, only the Rohingya suffered from systematic persecution by government security forces – again,  involving rape and murder  – in the aftermath. Further violence in October elsewhere in the state pushed