The Stateless Rohingya Blog

More than 90 refugees are being held at the Makassar Immigration Detention Center on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island after being pushed back from East Timor shores. (Photographer’s name withheld) By Simon Roughneen Irrawaddy News October 14, 2013 KUALA LUMPUR — Australia’s clampdown on refugees and migrants trying to reach the country’s shores by boat has prompted uncertainty among Rohingya who, facing state oppression and attacks by Arakanese Buddhists, have fled Burma in the tens of thousands in recent years. Since Australia’s now-ousted Labor government decided in July to prevent refugees traveling by sea from landing in Australia—saying that would-be arrivals would be taken to processing centers in neighboring Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG)—some Rohingya who had hopes of making it to Australia are now in a bind. “We are disappointed, we feel like we are stuck,” said Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani, president of the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization

Burma Times  October 13, 2013 BurmaTimes ( Ibrahim Shah) On 12th and 13th October 2013, Society for Threatened Peoples, STP’s annual conference was held grandly and ERC delegation led by Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim  was invited to share with STP the long discrimination against the Rohingya Muslims of western Burma including other ethnic Muslims  and other ethnic minorities i.e. Kachin, Karen, Shan, and so on.   With Presentation STP is an international human rights organization which campaigns with and on behalf of threatened and persecuted ethnic and religious minorities, nationalities and indigenous peoples. The great personalities of the STP delivered their priceless forceful addresses and in particular discussed for the persecuted victims worldwide. The high profile activists of the STP expressed their deeply concerns for the increasingly discrimination against the Rohingya Muslims and the rest ethnic minorities amidst the ongoing fragile reforms of Burma. W