The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Report by Sindhi Khan and MYARF | Written By M.S. Anwar RvisionTV.com September 19, 2013 Maung Daw, Arakan: Around 3PM on 17 th  September 2013, some students were playing football at the field in Maung Daw High School compound. As they were playing, the ball reached and fell on the bush nearby the wall at south-eastern part of the school. When they went to pick up the ball, they spotted a dead body buried among the bushes. A hand and hairs of a woman appeared on the ground as it had rained earlier. When the students carefully looked at the dead body, they felt that the dead body was of a Rohingya woman. She was thought to be around 19 (year-old). As soon as they informed the school authority, the military from the camp within the school premise went to the place and packed the corpse. Afterwards, themilitary took dead body to an unknown place. (Note: There is a military camp within the school premise.) Besides, the Rakhine teachers asked Rohingya students not to tell anything

Photo: Burma Times Burma Times  September 18, 2013  (Burma Times) All the praises be to lord to grant such a great opportunity to distressed Rohingya in order that the most trusted Rohingya press conference with great expectations could be concluded prosperously at Asia hotel in Thailand. The grand unified Rohingya press conference was held in September 14 and 15 prosperously and peacefully. The reputable attendees—NGOs, international observers, worldwide Rohingya white-minded patriotic leaders and activists including from Burma, experienced Rohingya and non-Rohingya historians and other distinguished personalities of respective fields— were approximately 100. The main topics that were discussed with deep consideration and unified conscience—to work for the entire Rohingya commune worldwide by unified dynamic roles opposing Nepotism for a sustainable resolution inside Burma, to promote the situation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Mal

Karen News September 18, 2013 British MP, Valerie Vaz delivered more than 2,000 letters from supporters of Burma Campaign UK on 12 September to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, calling for action to end sexual violence against women in Burma. Burma Campaign UK called on the British government to highlight Burma when Foreign Secretary William Hague travels to New York for a major meeting at the UN to discuss sexual violence in conflict on 24 September. The group was deeply concerned about on-going human rights abuses, including rape and sexual violence against women in ethnic minority areas, where it claims the Burma Army has been using rape as a weapon of war for decades. Since the Burma’s Army ceasefires ended two years ago in Kachin and Northern Shan States, Burma Campaign UK said it had received a significant increase in reports of the use of rape and other forms of sexual violence against women by the government’s troops. Cases included women and girls being forced

On the run: Baby born at sea Muhamad Hamid at a shelter in February Photo by phuketwan.com/file By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison  PhuketWan  September 17, 2013 PHUKET: A boy born on a boat off the coast of Thailand was among the Rohingya who fled a family refuge centre north of Phuket early today. The group of eight women and children were in the province of Surat Thani tonight, having given themselves over to human traffickers rather than endure any longer a frustrating nine-month wait in Thailand.  The Phang Nga shelter north of Phuket, which once held more than 70 women and children, is now inhabited by a dwindling 29 Rohingya. A 12-year-old boy, who fled Burma alone in December with no relatives awaiting him in Malaysia, cried while on the telephone to friends, telling them about his escape early today.  Unless he is able to find the 40,000 baht the traffickers will ask for his safe passage to Malaysia, he is likely to be sold onto a trawler or