The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Latifar, an asylum seeker from Myanmar, with her husband Niza, their 7 year-old daughter. (AAP) By SBS News  Australia November 29, 2013   The federal government says it will not return a Rohingya asylum-seeker family and their Australian-born baby to Nauru until their case is properly dealt with. An asylum seeker family from Myanmar with a sick newborn baby will be allowed to stay in Australia for the time being. Lawyers for the family have struck a deal with the Department of Immigration to allow them to argue their case with procedural fairness. Federal Circuit Court Judge Margaret Cassidy recognised the deal in Brisbane on Friday. Listen: SBS reporter Stefan Armbruster tells Kristina Kukolja what happened in court today. The family of five was challenging a government order to send them back to a detention centre on Nauru after baby Ferouz was born in Brisbane. They will be allowed to stay in Australia until they receive a fair hearing and afterwards w

By MYARF  |  November 29, 2013 RvisionTV News Maungdaw, Arakan Myanmar Military Regime has achieved untold political gains by scapegoating Muslims especially Rohingyas under the smokescreens of Buddhism and national sovereignty. Likewise, Rakhine politicians and extremists, either, have not fallen behind the regime in targeting Rohingyas to achieve their political mileage. The reason why Rakhines have become so hostile and brutal towards Rohingyas is not but political. They consider the presence of ‘Rohingyas or any other Muslim groups’ in Arakan a barrier to fulfilling their dream of an independent and exclusively Rakhine Buddhist state called “Maha Rakkhita Naing-Ngan-Daw-Gri.” On the other hand, they consider (supremacist) Burman Buddhists equal or bigger hindrance to achieving their political target. So to fulfill their dream, first they have to crush either one of the two groups they consider their enemies. As a first step, when Myanmar triggered violence against Rohingya

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