The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Dil Mohammed, an 11-year-old boy, brutally attacked by Rakhine terrorists (Photo: Soe Thu Moe FB) M.S. Anwar   |   RvisionTV.com September 16, 2013 Sittwe (Akyab)- It was reported on September 11, 2013 (Report Here ) how six Rohingya fihshermen were attacked by a group of Rakhine terrorists in the sea. The terror attack took place on 10 th  September 2013. One victim of the attack, Abdul Majid S/o Abdul Malik (Age 30) from the village of Pyalay Chaung (Gaddin Paik), came back alive the next morning. Another victim of the attack, Dil Mohammed S/o Mohammed Hussain, an eleven-year-old boy, also fortunately returned alive. He arrived at the village of Nyaung Pin Gyi (Muzair) around 5AM on 13 th  September 2013. People still wonder how the boy could pass through the Rakhine village between the place (where the attack took place) and Nyaung Pin Gyi village. “He had been starving for three days and seen approaching the village dizzily. As soon as he arrived at the village, h

By Suresh Kumar Arab News  September 13, 2013 The silence of the world over the slow burning genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar is very surprising. Every now and then we read reports of the Rohingya Muslims — fleeing persecution — arriving in neighboring countries by boats. Is the world silent because the Rohingyas do not matter and amount to nothing in this capitalist world? Even the United Nations has so far done nothing to check the situation. Paying lip service won’t work anymore as the situation has reached such a point where a UN intervention becomes mandatory.  But I feel that the cries of the poor Rohingyas are falling on deaf ears and nobody will try to rescue them from Buddhist terrorists. Even the media in the Muslim world appears silent in highlighting the plight of these Arakanese Muslims. The world must act before it is too late.

Soldiers are deployed around a burnt Islamic school in Meikhtila (Reuters)  By Shwe Aung  DVB News September 14, 2013  Some 3,000 mostly Muslim residents from Mekhtila remain homeless nearly six months after their homes were burnt to the ground in a deadly bout of religious violence, as a dispute over resettlement plans continues to escalate. The government wants the residents, who are mostly farmers, to move into a series of apartment blocks away from their original homes. But the displaced Muslims say they will not be able to care for their livestock living in apartments and want their old land plots back. U Win, an influential figure in the town, blamed the residents for being too stubborn to accept the new housing. “Our country’s leaders, with utmost good-will, are looking to move them into new apartment buildings from previously living in small huts, but as some of them don’t like the idea and are refusing to sign a resettlement agreement, authorities are unab