The Stateless Rohingya Blog

KPN News:  June 22, 2013  Buthidaung, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers were brutally killed by a group of Natala villagers on June 16, said an elder from the village on condition of anonymity. The deceased have been identified as Mohamed Habib (47), son of Nazir Ahamed, Mohamed Yasin (17), son of Mohamed Habib, Abdul Goni (18), son of Mohamed Yousuf and another one ( not available ).  They all hailed from Singdi Parang village tract of Buthidaung south. The deceased Rohingya went to the forest to collect firewood and vegetables in morning of June 16, but they didn’t back to their home in the evening of that day, according to sources  A group of victims’ relatives went to different areas of mountains side to look for their love one whereabouts in the morning of June 17. But, they didn’t get any information, sources said. However, on June 19, the relatives got information from some sources that they were killed by a group of Natala villagers in the Mountai

Mayu press : June 22, 2013 (Jeddah) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) formed a Rohingya Registry Committee under the supervision of Makkah based Jaliyat, an organization for providing Iqama (Stay Permit) to every single Rohingya Body lives there. The persons of Registry Committee approve thousands of non Rohingya as Rohingya to getting Iqama (Stay Permit) with 25-30 thousands Riyal per head. The government of Saudi Arabia attempts to help Rohingya only who are in KSA with free Iqama (Stay Permit) and job facilities as the Burmese Buddhists proceed to vanish whole Rohingya Community from their homeland, Arakan, Burma. The Saudi Authority asked Rohingya Registry Committee to justify and list all the Rohingya live in KSA with complete profile. Regarding the information on data list, the registry committee preferred more Bengali than actual Rohingya to be input profile. As they follow the Breach of Order by taking 25-30 thousand Riyal per non Rohingya. Hence, it can be c

A Muslim religious leader speaks to Muslims seeking shelter at a monastery in Lashio township on 31 May 2013. (Reuters) By EMANUEL STOAKES June 21, 2013 DVB News Over the past twelve months, brutal attacks on Burma’s Muslim community have taken place across the country, spreading from Arakan state in the west to, most recently, Shan state in the east. Serious atrocities have occurred, including acts that allegedly amount to crimes against humanity. Many of the worst offences are believed to have perpetrated with the aid of state agencies; in other incidents, the police stood by and did nothing to prevent loss of life. Such extremely grave abuses have elicited widespread concern, but in an alarming number of cases, perhaps even the majority, impunity for the perpetrators has followed. By contrast, Muslims accused of crimes related to the same incidents have felt the full force of the law quickly, excessively and unmistakably. These patterns are disturbingly in

 Internally displaced ethnic Rohingya Muslim in Baw Du Pha field in the state of Arakan (Burma). November 3, 2012 © Carlos Sardiña Galache. Human Rights Watch: June 21, 2013 This month, hundreds of ethnic Arakanese Buddhist protesters marched through the streets of Sittwe calling on authorities to enforce a two-child limit on Rohingya Muslims—that is, to demand a discriminatory population control regulation that restricts Rohingya from choosing how many children they have. President Thein Sein had a chance to speak out against Arakan State’s overtly discriminatory policy and order local authorities to revoke it. But instead he remained silent—prompting speculation among Burma watchers that, despite earlier claims from his office that he was still deciding whether to support the policy or not, he was fully in favor of it. Last week, the president reinforced that when Burma’s Minister of Immigration and Population Khin Yi publicly endorsed the two-child limit. Once a