The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Christian Science Monitor: By Shaikh Azizur Rahman,  May 24, 2013 Minority Rohingya Muslims who have long alleged persecution by the Buddhists in Myanmar, say Buddhist families from Bangladesh are now being resettled on their land. Buddhist families from  Bangladesh  are quietly crossing the border into  Myanmar , where local Rakhine Buddhist groups and government agencies are helping them resettle. The move has created pressure on the minority Rohingya Muslims, who have long alleged persecution by the Buddhists to leave. Muslim Rohingyas, who are not recognized by the state, allege that the Buddhists and the  Myanmar government  are attempting to throw them out of their villages and take away their land. “The Buddhists from Bangladesh are being resettled around Rakhine’s  Rohingya villages  to create more pressure on the local minority community,” says Bangladesh-based Rohingya rights activist Khin Maung Lay. “Their men joined local Buddhists in some of recent at

Rohingya Muslims carry their belongings as they move after recent violence in Sittwe. (PHOTO: Reuters) By RFA  May 24, 2013 Authorities in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have introduced a local regulation setting a two-child limit on Rohingya families in a bid to restrict population growth among the Muslim minority group, according to a government spokesman. Officials announced the measure—part of a directive that also enforces a ban on polygamy—this month but have not said how it will be enforced. The new rules have been imposed in northern Rakhine state’s Maungdaw district, which comprises Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, along the border with Bangladesh. The two-child limit only applies to Rohingyas, a stateless group widely considered in Myanmar to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh even though they have lived in the country for generations. Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing said the measures were being implemented to curb Rohingyas’ high popula

A Muslim Rohingya man prays in front of a temporary relief camp in a school in Thetkaepyin village, on the outskirts of Sittwe on May 17, 2013. World Bulletin: May 24, 2013 Despite the messages Myamnar President Thein Sein gave during his US visit, the suffering of Arakan (Rohingya) Muslims continues. Arakan Rohingya Union President Prof Dr. Wakar Uddin, who resides in the US, evaluated the latest developments in Arakan and the US visit of Myanmar President Thein Sein. Thein Sein’s US visit was a sign of Myanmar’s desire to develop relationships with the US. Thein Sein knew that this topic would be on the agenda and therefore came to the US prepared. “We will see how effective Obama’s messages will be,” Uddin said. Wakar Uddin indicated that the aggression against the Arakan people did not cease even during Thein Sein's US trip, and said: "All mosques in Arakan are still closed. Not even funeral prayer are allowed. Muslims must bribe officials

MayuPress Frankfurt:  Mr.  Ata Allah Noor  of the  Rohingya News Agency  ,media coordinator of the European Rohingya Council (ERC addressed on the issue of Muslims in Burma entitled as  Muslims of  Burma; in the afternoon of Wednesday, May 15, Faculty of Human Medicine at Suez Canal University in Ismailia, Egypt. It is a formal invitation from the university to identify the cause of Muslims in Burma under the auspices of the beginning of the family and in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, where he was addressed until three hours. Since five decades , they  face atrocities.  According to  the period of address ,in the first segment ,  stated about Islam arrival  at Arakan coast in western  Burma and  propagation of Islam   some other provinces , in the second segment, the existence of Rohinya into Arakan territory is since 7 th   century. Meeting with Journalist In the seventh segment  ,talked on ground the situation of Rohingya in refugee camps of IDP(Interna

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma border security force (Nasaka) arrested three Rohingyas and detained in the custody of Nasaka area number 7, on May 22, a villager told the Kaladanpress from Aley Than Kyaw on condition of anonymity. “The villagers were arrested from a house by a group of Nasaka personnel yesterday, at about 11:00 pm while they were watching a small television like game monitor. If anyone watches it, no need to take permission from concerned authorities.” According to sources, a group of Nasaka personnel went to Khonza Bill village at night without knowledge of villagers and checked the houses which one they doubt.  They (Nasaka) went to Hafizullah’s house and told to open the door but he didn’t open the door for fear of arrest. Later, Nasaka personnel forcibly entered the house and arrested them during three persons were met on the spot. After arrest, they were severely beaten on the spot. The arrested were identified as Hafizullah (30), son of Ismail

By   Dr. Maung Zarni Since the first wave of Rohingya genocide in Feb 1978 which expelled nearly 200,000 refugees from all across Western Burma in to the neighboring newly independent Bangladesh, Burma's military regimes have committed themselves to erasing that the Rohingya were a constitutive ethnic nationality group (or Tai-yin-thar), who 'are found on both sides of East Bengal (or now Bangladesh) and Burma. Their transboundaries community is not unlike the Shan or Tai of Burma and Northern Siam, the Jeng-hpaw of Northern Burma and Southern China, the Mons of southern Burma and Thailand, the Karens of Eastern Burma and Thailand. Myanmar authorities and scholars, as well as deeply ignorant Myanmar public have denied that these "Tai-yin-thar ever existed in Burma while insisting them to be nothing but 'illegal migrants' from Bangladesh - all despite available mountains of evidence to the contrary. On its part, the international media simply repeats Myanmar'