The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Captive Rohingya women and children are escaping Thailand Photo by phuketwan.com/file January 2013 By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison Phuket Wan : July 21, 2013 PHUKET: Eighteen women and children fled a government family shelter north of Phuket early today in the clearest evidence yet that Thailand's wait-and-see policy on Rohingya refugees is falling apart. Among those who chose to go over the wall was a woman and two children who had been pressing a trafficking and rape claim after a previous attempt to escape went wrong. Today's 2am exodus leaves the shelter that held 72 people in January with just 26 occupants. All the women and children in another family shelter on Phuket fled weeks ago. While the women and children are free to vote with their feet, the Rohingya men have been held captive in severe conditions, in some cases worse than conditions in Thai prisons.  Four young men were being treated at a Phuket hospital yesterday, Phuketwa

KPN News: July 20, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State: A respected religious leader (Maulana) of Rohingya community was catapulted which made serious injured by Rakhine teachers of Aley Than Kyaw high school on July 17, at about 6:00 pm while he was going to Aley Than Kyaw for medical treatment from his village, said a local elder on condition of anonymity.  “Molouna Jubair(40) son of Moulvi Saley accompanied by another religious teacher - Moulvi Azizur Rahman (30), son of Nazi - both hailed from Udaung village, Maungdaw south with a motorbike went to Aley Than Kyaw from Udaung village for medical treatment.” Molouna Jubair has been suffering from fever and cough for a week. So, he called another religious teacher and went to a doctor named Mamun Rashid of Aley Than Kyaw for medical treatment, according to villagers. A Rakhine teacher from inside the school’s boundary catapulted to two Moulanas on motorbike and Moulana  Jubair was hit in his head and  got serious inj