The Stateless Rohingya Blog

The Daily Star June 16, 2013 MYANMAR would start repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh but only after the situation in that country became stable. The conditional assurance came at the latest round of foreign office consultations held in Myanmar, between June 14 and 15. There are presently 25,045 registered Rohingya refugees residing in two camps at Kutupalong and Noyapara waiting to be repatriated to Myanmar. Of them, around 9,000 were cleared by the Myanmar government in 2005. Although Bangladesh had never been for forced repatriation of refugees, we fail to see the reason of the foot dragging by the government of Myanmar even after lapse of eight years after according clearance. And the issue of ‘stability’ is a new caveat after the assurance given to the Bangladesh PM during her visit to Myanmar in December 2011to take back the Rohingyas. For Bangladesh, the latest statement means little since the repatriation is predicated on the situation being stab

Caged Rohingya overcrowded in cells at Phang Nga Immigration Photo by from Channel 4 footage By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian Phuket_Wan: June 17, 2013 PHUKET: Human Rights Watch has called on the Thai Government to ''immediately change course'' and release Rohingya being held in Thailand in the wake of a call for similar action by the European Parliament.   More than 2000 Rohingya have been held captive in detention centres and refuges in Thailand since January in conditions that a secret film has revealed to be inhumane.    Troubling reports that Phuketwan is seeking to confirm indicate that the treatment of the Rohingya in Thailand is becoming more brutal and unacceptable as a six-month deadline for a decision on their future looms close.   Late last week a resolution adopted by the European Parliament called on Thailand ''to end immediately the inhumane detention of . . . Rohingya asylum seekers and to provide them with acce