The Stateless Rohingya Blog

FILE - Ethnic Rohingya refugees from Burma wave as they are transported by a wooden boat to a temporary shelter in Krueng Raya in Aceh Besar. Steve Herman  Voice of America October 28, 2013 BANGKOK — Activists in Southeast Asia say thousands of people are fleeing Bangladesh and Burma by sea, resuming a seasonal migration that has seen many head south in recent years. Nearly all are attempting to illegally enter Malaysia via Thailand. Monitors along the Burma-Bangladesh border estimate that 17,000 people have already left the area since August, mostly on big boats. The information comes from the non-governmental organization, the Arakan Project. Chris Lewa is the director of the research-based humanitarian group concerned with the plight of the stateless Rohingya, a minority Muslim ethnic group in the region. “Just in the last week or so we have nearly 4,000 people who are on the move. We are particularly concerned that this season, I would say from now on

World Bulletin October 28, 2013 UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Quintana told AA., Myanmar Muslims are now facing “segregation that is becoming permanent,” since they are living in isolated shelters built by government  The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) with some other states at the United Nations Headquarters -- is pursuing its own resolution on human rights record in Myanmar and the suffering of the local  Muslim  population in Rakhine State, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in  Myanmar,  Tomás Ojea Quintana told AA. “It seems that there is going to be a resolution by consent (at the United Nations) and with the consent of the government of  Myanmar, ” Quintana told AA. He stressed that is a “good news,” since UN always was looking for intergovernmental engagement. OIC takes initiative    “The government of Myanmar is now engaging with OIC. The Organization of the Islamic Conference may go