The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Photo: Victim  Kala Mia Kutupalong, Bangladesh:  January 15, 2014 a Rohingya refugee man, named Kala Mia, resident of block B, kutupalong registered camp, has wounded by attack of local thugs at Kutupalong Bazar. The victim was coming out of Bazar area completing his shopping at that time. He was stopped by the thugs' leader Zafor Alam ( known as Bosta Zafor). And he was supposed to coming elsewhere getting down from car. Later, Bosta Zafor with along with his 11 thugs  looted his goods which he bought from Bazar for his family members and beat seriously. AFterwards, he was sent to camp-hospital. He was also sent to Cox's Bazar Sadar hospital. Doctor's reports said that his backbone is broken.  It will not be cured to its natural position. He is still at Kutupalong camp-hospital.  This sorts of inhumanely torturing become a common figure for the Rohingya refugees of Kutupalong refugee's camp nowadays. They want to get rid of Rohingya refugee by such every

MYARF Report | Written by M.S. Anwar 16 th  January 2014, rvisiontv.com Southern Maungdaw, Araka n:  A joint-force of Military, Security Force (Hlun Hteins) and Police made a full-fledged assault on a Rohingya village called Kilai-Daung (Du-Chira-Dan) in southern Maungdaw on 14 th  January 2014  morning . (Read the earlier report here:  http://www.rvisiontv.com/breaking-news-a-whole-rohingya-village-under-the-assaults-of-authority-military-and-security-force-open-fire-plunder-the-village-and-carry-out-mass-arrests-say-locals/   )” During the assault, till date,  we  believe more than 50 innocent Rohingyas have been massacred by the joint-force. Many  women/ girls were  raped.  More than 30 people were arrested. The remaining people of the village escaped and are still on the run.  And the families have been displaced, dispersed and lost contact from one another.They are hiding wherever possible” exclaimed a elderly Rohingya. “The village is totally razed and all the properties a

Photo: kutupalong makeshift camp Refugees forced to flee Myanmar are living in camps without adequate access to food or health services. By Jack Goodman Al Jazeera January 16, 2014 Rohingya refugee  Shajida Begum , 18, has lived in northern Britain for four years, and 2014 will be the year she finishes high school and hopefully begins a university degree in accountancy.  It is a very different life from the one she left in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, where she was born and spent her first 14 years. Shajida is grateful for her new existence in the UK, but is constantly reminded of those she left behind. "We still miss the people who live in the refugee camps. We are happy, we have rights, we have got everything, but people who are still back home have got absolutely nothing," she told Al Jazeera. "I was worried about leaving them because I can imagine how difficult it is to stay there. There is no electricity, no facilities, n

By KPN News January 16, 2014   Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Burmese security forces—police, Hluntin and army— are still hunting and committing serious human rights abuses against the Rohingya villagers of Kila Dong East village of Maungdaw south  since yesterday, said Malik (not real name), a village elder of Kilai Dong. “They also deliberate targeting of civilians— arbitrary killing, detention, torture, injures, looting, destruction of properties and houses of Rohingyas. Nobody is allowed to enter the village. At least 100 houses and one mosque have been destroyed and the entire paddy, rice, grains and other valuable goods had been taken away by the Rakhine villagers,” Malik said. Some dead or slaughtered bodies of women, girls and children have been found in the houses of the village. It is very difficult to confirm what is happening inside the village as the villagers are not allowed to enter their village.  Most of the male villagers fled from the village to avoid

Ye Htut, a spokesman  By PressTV January 16, 2014 Myanmar has balked at including talks on the Rohingya Muslim community at the meeting of South-East Asian foreign ministers the country will host. The meeting of foreign ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will open in the city of Bagan on Thursday. Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw will also host the first ASEAN summit in early May. “The Bengali issue is our internal affair and we will not discuss it in the ASEAN meetings even if member countries ask for it,” said Ye Htut, a spokesman for Myanmar President Thein Sein. Myanmar’s government officials refer to the Rohingya Muslims as “Bengalis.” Meanwhile, Ye Htut expressed the government’s willingness to take advice on the issue from other countries, saying, “They may have experience in solving such problems peacefully, so we will accept the advice that suits our country.” Myanmar’s government refuses to recognize Rohingya Muslims as citi

By BROUK Date 15/01/2014 PR/01/14 7 Rohingyas killed, including women and children, 100 Rohingyas arrested On 13th January 2014, in the early morning at around 3 am, a group of police, security forces, military and Rakhine entered Kiladaung village, south of Maungdaw, Arakan State. They entered a house and demanded valuables, gold and money from the Rohingya woman living there. Her husband had hidden when they saw the security forces approaching. When the woman refused to give them her jewellery, the security forces raped and killed her. When her children began shouting, many villagers came and violence started.  The police opened fire on the villagers. Three Rohingya women, three children and one man were killed and 4 people wounded by gunshot. About one hundred Rohingyas were arrested at that time and arrests have continued since Tuesday morning. There are reports that military, police and security forces and Rakhines are looting Rohingya properties in th