The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Sky News Australia‎  July 9,2013 Few ethnic groups would have as strong a claim to Australian assistance than the oppressed Rohingya minority of Myanmar, but the solution isn't to resettle them in Australia, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says. Senator Carr said the Rohingya, some 800,000 stateless Muslim settlers originally from Bangladesh, were by any test enormously oppressed, suffering routine discrimination and violence. 'If you look at all the people suffering in our region, there would be few who'd have a stronger claim than the Rohingya to our assistance,' he told Sky News. Senator Carr said Australia provided significant aid to the Rohingya people. But he said they would not be resettled in Australia. 'No, we rule that out. We say that in line with the United Nations High Commission on Refugee priorities, we need a durable solution within Myanmar. We haven't got the capacity to take asylum seekers from Myanmar,' he said.

Irrawaddy News: July 9, 2013 A group of American Buddhists has launched an English-language website promoting the 969 movement, in response to negative media surrounding the ultra-nationalist Buddhist campaign in Burma. The website aims to dispel “myths” about the movement, with a letter from nationalist monk Wirathu to a Time magazine reporter whose article about 969 was banned in Burma.  “We’re not officially endorsed by Ven Wirathu at this time but will send a delegation to his monastery soon,” a spokesperson for the site said via email, adding that the group would create a nonprofit to coordinate “969 activities worldwide in response to religious oppression.”

Photo: New Zealand foreign minister Murray McCully Visited to Arakan State KPN NEWS:  July 7, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Foreign diplomat group didn’t visited Rohingya community, but visited the Buddhist community – fake IDPs – in Maungdaw south on July 7 evening, said a village admin officer from Maungdaw south. “The foreign diplomat group –contained 18 countries- led by Dr Sai Mauk Kham, the vice-President, the Republic of Union of Myanmar, visited to see the situation of Rohingya populated area – Maungdaw- where there is no IDPs camp.But, the Burma government show fake IDPs of Buddhist Natala villagers of Bandullah and other Natala villagers where the vice-president distributed foods for them.” The diplomat group flew with three helicopters to Maungdaw north first and no stopped at Maungdaw town. The group flew along the Burma –Bangladesh border near the Naf River. The group stopped at Bandullah Natala village where the vice president presented to the group

Motorcycles pass in front of a mosque that was torched during rioting in Meikhtila in March. (Photo: Reuters) Irrawaddy News: July 8, 2013 MEIKHTILA — Their bones are scattered in blackened patches of earth across a hillside overlooking the wrecked Islamic boarding school they once called home. Smashed fragments of skulls rest atop the dirt. A shattered jaw cradles half a set of teeth. And among the remains lie the sharpened bamboo staves attackers used to beat dozens of people to the ground before drowning their still-twitching bodies in gasoline and burning them alive. The mobs that March morning were Buddhists enraged by the killing of a monk. The victims were Muslims who had nothing to do with it—students and teachers from a prestigious Islamic school in central Burma who were so close to being saved. In the last hours of their lives, police had been dispatched to rescue them from a burning compound surrounded by swarms of angry men. And when they emerged c

KPN News:  June 7, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Burma border security force (Nasaka) personnel  looted valuable things after entering a Rohingya’s home from Khonza Bill village on July 7 at about 12:30 am, said a relative of the victim. Nasaka personnel entered Azida (35), wife of Abdul Hanan home after breaking the door while Azida was not in the house, according to villagers.   “Azida was visiting her relative in Maungdaw with permission of concerned authority while Nasaka personnel looted her home.” Nasaka personnel met Fatema (18), daughter of Abdul Rahim who is watching Azida’s home while the Nasaka enter the home where the Nasaka tried attempt to rape and took Kyat 7000 and a pair of earning (6-Ana gold),according to an aide of Nasaka. “Fatema screamed for help which saved her from rape as the villagers rushed to the spot.” Fatema didn’t express anything about event for fearing of Nasaka’s torturing. However, Azida complained to Nasaka of