The Stateless Rohingya Blog

DVB News October 19, 2013 I travelled to Sittwe in the beginning of July 2013, with the intention of documenting the situation of the internally displaced Rohingya community. When I arrived at the IDP camps, I was struck by the overwhelmingly high number of women and children in comparison to men. Bearing in mind that conflict affects the life of women in a fundmentally different way, I decided to focus on how the Arakanese-Rohingya conflict had affected the livelihoods and role of women within their community. Their stories of humiliation, rape and loss where unbearably hard to listen to, but their strength of character and resilience in face of despair revealed an unparalleled degree of humanity. http://www.martatucci.com A group of young Rohingya girls fill their jars with water from one of the few water pumps available to the IDPs living in Rabba Garden IDP camp. Rakhine State, Burma/Myanmar, July 2013. Aamina, 54, from Thandawly, arrived at Takebyin unregister

A Ranong Immigration truck leaves the detention centre with the refugees for the Andaman Club pier 12 kilometres away. Photo: Phuketwan South China Morning Post October 21, 2013 Thai immigration officials were involved in the weekend sale of Rohingya detainees to people smugglers, according to sources, whose tips allowed theSouth China Morning Post to witness part of the clandestine deal taking place. The informants said a busload of Rohingya detainees was being sent 500 kilometres from a southern detention centre to the Thai-Myanmar border port of Ranong and provided the registration number. The Post saw a bus with the same number plate arrive at 2am on Saturday at Ranong, then saw an Immigration Department truck with the detainees aboard leave 12 hours later. Sources said the truck offloaded them at a pier 12 kilometres away, from where long-tail boats moved them to a ship offshore. The transfer could not have been a legitimate deportation of Rohingya back to