The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Women pass their time in a Rohingya internally displaced person (IDP) camp outside of Sittwe (Reuters) Gianluca Mezzofiore International Business Times Sources speaking to  IBTimes UK  said that Rohingya Muslims refused any attempt to relocate as the cyclone, which has already killed at least seven people and displaced 3,881 in Sri Lanka, nears. The Myanmar government planned to move 38,000 internally displaced people, but many refused fearing the authorities’ intentions. Nay San Lwin, a Rohingya living in Germany with contacts in Sittwe, claimed that Rohingya “were forced to go” but only five families agreed. “100% confirmed that the authorities are forcing Rohingya refugees in Sittwe to move to the beach,” he said. “State Chief Minister warned today that will take serious action and President Office Minister Aung Min also told the same like at meeting in Yangon today.” FOLLOW IBTIMES His report was confirmed by Aung Aung, a Rohingya livi

Roma Hattu, a Rohingya Muslim woman who is nine months pregnant and is displaced by violence, grimaces while experiencing labour pains on the bare floor of a former rubber factory now serving as her family's shelter near Sittwe April 28, 2013. Picture taken April 28, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj Jason Szep Reuters : May 15, 2013 A 16-year-old Muslim boy lay dying on a thin metal table. Bitten by a rabid dog a month ago, he convulsed and drooled as his parents wedged a stick between his teeth to stop him from biting off his tongue.  Swift treatment might have saved Waadulae. But there are no doctors, painkillers or vaccines in this primitive hospital near Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar. It is a lonely medical outpost that serves about 85,300 displaced people, almost all of them Muslims who lost their homes in fighting with Buddhist mobs last year. "All we can give him is sedatives," said Maung Maung Hla, a former health ministr