The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By KPN December 17, 2013  Maungdaw, Arakan State: A handicapped man was sentenced to one year jail on December 16, by Maungdaw judge court over allegation that he was irreverent to a Saya Ma Gyi (School Headmistress), according to a close relative named Sharif (not real name) of the victim "The victim is identified as Nazir Ahmed (30), son of Noor Ahmed, hailed from Thay Chaung (Balu Khali) village under Phar Wut Chaung village tract of Maungdaw Township.” Hluntin (riot police) of Aung Mingala camp of Maung Nama village tract of Maungdaw north arrested Nazir Ahmed, a banana seller on November 14 over the allegation that he was washing his face lifting his Longyi in front of a school headmistress. On that day, at around 12:00, the victim arrived in front of an affiliated Middle School of Maung Nama village with some bananas to sell the students. Being tired, he took rest and he washed his face lifting his Longyi. Meanwhile, the headmistress Daw Khin Nyunt of th

By Tilburg University New Directions in Statelessness Research and Policy We are very happy to announce that from 15 to 17 September 2014 the first ever global forum on statelessness will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands. The three-day event is co-hosted by UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the agency mandated by the General Assembly to help states to address statelessness, and the Statelessness Programme of Tilburg University.  Registration  for the Global Forum is now open! The   deadline for sumitting proposals for presentations has passed. In 2014 we will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the first United Nations Convention to address the problem of statelessness: the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. The momentum on action to address statelessness has increased in recent years, owing to the joint efforts of governments, NGOs, academic institutions and UNHCR, which holds a mandate from the UN Ge

Burma Times December 18, 2013 Maung Daw According to a reporter from Nga Kura village, today (on 18 Dec 2013) at around 8:00pm, the bazaar of Nga Kura village under Maung Daw Township was set on fire by an unknown man.  Only a side of a shop was burnt while the villagers immediately could take the fire under control to save other shops of the bazaar. Almost all the shops of the bazaar are Rohingya Muslim. Suddenly an unknown man came and set the bazaar on fire then immediately absconds. The villagers think that the unknown man is none but any Rakhine extremist .the government has deployed the military personals from Buthidaung and Maung Daw Township at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border since the violence outbreak in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. The report by Maung Hla Myint

Report by MYARF  |  Written by M.S. Anwar December 18, 2013  |  Buthidaung Township Rvisiontv.com Police Officer, U Than Kyaw, from the Nyaung-Chaung Police Station of Buthidaung Township is rampaging a nearby Rohingya village called Pyong-Chaung. Just to extort money, he is endangering Rohingyas’ living condition in the village under false and fabricated charges against Rohingyas of possesing illegal Bangladeshi Mobile Phones or being human trafficking agents. A list of the people victimised by him is mentioned below. 1) Mohammed Rafique (son of) Nasir Ahmed (Age 22) (Kyat 60,000 extorted on 2 nd December 2013) 2) Abu Siddique (son of) Khalu (Age 26) (Kyat 30,000 extorted on 29 th  November 2013) 3) Ali (son of) Muzaar (Age 34) (Kyat 30,000 extorted on 3 rd  December 2013) 4) Aman Ullah (son of) Noor Islam (Age 25) (Kyat 50,000 extorted on 3 rd  December 2013) 5) Mohammed Yunose (son of) Amir Hamza (Age 39) (Kyat 45,000 extorted on 11 th November 2013) 6) Tasmin (d

Commentary: We are not permitted to access health care because we are Rohingya. We are banned from civil servant jobs. We   are not allowed to marry without permission. Here's what you can do. By Tun Khin Global Post December 18, 2013 LONDON — The Myanmar government is trying to push us into camps or out of the country. In a few years, there may be no more of us left. I stressed this message, as a human rights activist, during my remarks at a recent event hosted by the  United States  Holocaust Memorial Museum on the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingyas, one of the world’s most persecuted ethnic groups. As I spoke, photographs capturing some of the Rohingya people impacted by the violence were displayed on the walls behind me: A woman holding her young grandchild after escaping with him to Bangladesh. A man left blind in one eye after being beaten while working as a forced laborer. Two young children sifting through rubble to find anything they can sell. For decades, vi