The Stateless Rohingya Blog

(Photo: Sallam Oic Group) By Peter-Paul de Groote Myanmar Times November 9, 2013 On November 2, more violence broke out in Rakhine State. Two clashes between Muslim internally displaced people (IDPs) and Rakhine Buddhists resulted in the immediate deaths of two people. Five required hospitalisation, of whom two sustained injuries that were so severe that they later died. After receiving a phone call from camp leaders, and with permission from the Rakhine State health authorities, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) transferred the three injured IDPs to hospital. MSF heard later about the second incident and that two injured Rakhine persons had been transported to hospital in Sittwe on a boat organised by their community. No one contacted MSF for support with this hospital referral – neither community leaders nor the local health authorities. Had MSF been contacted, we would have been ready to provide immediate support, as we have done frequently in the past. MSF h

The woman fears that her children will die if they are sent back to the Nauru detention facility. (Photo: AAP) By Felicity Ogilvie ABC News November 9, 2013 An asylum seeker who was flown from Nauru to give birth in Australia says she is afraid that her baby and young children will die if the family is sent back to the island. The Rohingya woman from Myanmar says she gave birth via caesarean section in a hospital in Brisbane on Wednesday. The woman says that while she was pregnant she was detained in a tent for two weeks on Nauru. She says they were served pre-prepared meals that were sometimes only half-cooked, and she says it was hot inside the tents. "It was too hot. I cannot explain. Even day or night I could not fall asleep because of the heat," the woman said through a translator. The Rohingya woman, who says she has diabetes, says she was flown to Australia because she was pregnant. The woman says she was flown to Australia about 20 days

M.S. Anwar  | November 8, 2013 rvisiontv.com Pauktaw, Arakan- On 8 th  Novermber 2013, Military from the battalion 233 in Pauktaw township crashed a one-year-and-six-month old baby during the hours of barbaric raids in the Camps of Sin-Hten-Maw (Sandama). Sallam Oic Group, a team of Rohingya activists on the ground, reported the whole account of the tragedy as mentioned below. Innocent Baby Brutally Crashed to Death by Myanmar Military (Photo: Sallam Oic Group) “At 10:35AM today (i.e. on 8 th  November 2013), military from the battalion 233 in Pauktaw township raided Rohingya IDP camps at Sin-Htet-Maw (Sandama), Pauktaw township, and ordered Rohingya IDP to destroy the tents set up by UNHCR. Since the displaced Rohingyas were hesitating to destroy the tents, military went barbaric and destroyed many tents by force. Innocent Baby Brutally Crashed to Death by Myanmar Military (Photo: Sallam Oic Group) Meanwhile, the military crashed a one-year-and-six-month-o

Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar are "infiltrating" Bangladesh, says Bangladesh's Minister of Foreign Affairs. By  Global Post November 8, 2013 13 Bangladesh has decided to close its border with Myanmar to prevent the passage of the country’s Rohingya Muslims who are seeking refuge from persecution by majority Buddhists,  the Dhaka Tribune reported  Friday. Bangladesh’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dipu Moni, made the declaration to the House of the Nation—the country's supreme legislative body—on Thursday, saying that the “infiltration” had put pressure on Bangladesh, and so the government would take legal actions against any “illegal infiltrators and those giving them shelter.” “Given the recent unstable situation in the Rakhine state, the foreign ministry has adopted measures to immediately seal off the Myanmar border to stop the infiltration of the Myanmar nationals for national interests,” Moni told parliament. She said the government h