The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Mohamed Farooq  Mayu Press May 5, 2013 The Burmese border security force (Nasaka) and the police personnel addict to extorting money and torturing Rohingya with getting no crime and violated causes in various areas and villages of every Township in Arakan. On 21st April 2013, Moulana Mohammed Yunus from Padega Daewanali in Northern Muangdaw, detained by the nearest border security force (Nasaka) check post while walking along across the check box and hit him barbarously then kept in the locker. The Nasaka charged twenty lakh Kyat to free or will sentence him jail as a supporter of dacoit. He was set to loosen by the family member managed fifteen lakh Kyat by selling golden ornaments of his wife, rice and land properties in cheap price but worthy high. In the same village, the Nasaka caught up Shamsu Alam and wrested three lakh Kyat for his daughter eloping with a boy to Bangladesh as the authority did not allow their Marriage Permission although they have applied for

Bangkok Post: May 6, 2013 The Rohingya problem in Myanmar could have been a blessing in disguise for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The issue reminds Asean backers that the three "legs" of its supporting pillar _ economic, social and security _ should be going in the same direction, even if at a different pace. The "club" has moved with a singularity of purpose and made remarkable moves on the economic front as the Asean Economic Community shimmers into view, but there is less cohesiveness on other issues among the 10 members. The Asean bloc has in fact shown a real seriousness in tightening the economic knot. Most of the promises for economic union have been implemented; the rest will eventually be tackled in time for the launch of the community at the end of 2015. These remaining issues are, of course, the most sensitive ones and are a concern for trade and economic negotiators. However, the fast-approaching deadline will force them

Source By Kaladan Press : Date: May 4, 2013 JOINT STATEMERNT ON THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE RAKHINE (ARAKAN) INVESTIGATION COMMISSION We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows: The Rakhine Investigation Commission formed on 17 August 2012 by President Thein Sein included representatives from various religious and political parties and democracy groups except Rohingya representatives, who have been actual and potential victims of deadly violence and genocidal attacks. Haji U Nyunt Maung Shein and U Tin Maung Than, the two prominent Muslim leaders were purged from the Commission seeing that they were most insistent on the truth. It is a biased report favouring Rakhines, their hostile views and arguments towards Rohingya people. It purposely suppresses the core fact of the problem that the Rohingya people have long been subjected

Immigration Bureau chief Pharnu Kerdlarpphon expressed concern over the number of Rohingya refugees in Thailand. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong  Phuket Gazette -  May 5, 2013 PHUKET: Immigration Bureau Commissioner Pharnu Kerdlarpphon, in Phuket for a closed-door meeting of high-ranking officials, has expressed his concern for the growing number of Rohingya refugees being detained in Thailand. Lt Gen Pharnu’s visit to Phuket on Tuesday was to head a meeting tabled to discuss the bureau’s “working policy” at which Phuket’s own immigration superintendent did not attend. Following the meeting, Gen Pharnu told the press, “The number of Rohingya entering the country is a worrying situation. We are now detaining 1,936 Rohingya across the country, including 399 boys and 304 girls. “Immigration Police shelters in the South have no more room for refugees. We have even transferred some of the refugees to immigration shelters across the Kingdom,” he said. As an example,

Sait Demir stated that the ineffectiveness of the OIC and Turkey to find a solution to the plight of the Muslims in the country was because Myanmar's authorities have not reciprocated the goodwill.  World Bulletin/News Desk May 04, 2013 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has failed to prevent increasing acts of violence against Muslims in Myanmar committed by extremist Buddhists due to the insensitivity of both the Myanmar government and the member states of the organization. Observers believe that the violence against Muslims in Myanmar should alarm the international community, particularly OIC, and that more than ever they should increase their efforts to prevent the violence against the Arakan Muslims who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and who now face hunger, thirst and disease as the bloody ethnic massacre in the country has reached to an unbearable point in the recent months. Two outbreaks of unrest between Buddhists --