The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By   BROUK Junuary 31, 2014 Burma Rohingya Organisation UK is producing this briefing paper to try to present information that will help clarify some of what happened in what has become known as the Du Chee Yar Tan Massacre. Although the government of Burma and local security forces deny that any incident took place other than the killing of a policeman, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK has received multiple reports that leave us in no doubt that a serious incident has taken place. The remoteness of the area, lack of ways for local people to communicate, threats to local people not to reveal information, and the government ban on people visiting the area, mean that establishing facts is very difficult. Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK has received direct and indirect information. Naturally there is some discrepancy on some details, which is to be expected when people have witnessed traumatic events, seen things from different perspectives, and when information has pa

Myanmar government says it has launched a probe into the recent mass killing of Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Western Rakhine State, insisting on not allowing any foreign groups to interfere. Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin said the government itself would form a team to investigate the circumstances that led to the deadly violence in Maungdaw region of the troubled state. Myanmar government, however, said it would not allow any foreign groups to join the probe. Authorities accepted to probe Muslim killings in the restive Rakhine state, following international pressure. UN reports say at least 48 Rohingya Muslims were killed by Buddhist mobs in the latest round of violence in the troubled region. The Myanmarese government has already rejected the reports as false. Meanwhile, some other accounts suggest that the government has been also involved in acts of violence against Muslims. Myanmar's security forces stand accused of turning a blind eye

By  Dr.  Abid Bahar January 31, 2014 Imagine, if the Hitler of Germany remained alive, his persecution of Jews, Catholics and the Gypsies must have continued and the holocaust must have continued to systematically get rid of his enemies. It was a good for humanity that he committed suicide in fear of facing a nasty trial. While we have the German Hitler dead, there was Russia's Stalin who lived with r espect and killed millions. Here we are talking about General Ne Win, the Hitler of Burma, who lived with respect and left behind a tradition of military rulers who devotedly follow Ne Win's policy of racist provocation and the principle of divide and rule to control his people. Like bigot leaders, Ne Win was not fighting against any external enemy, his enemies were his countrymen, they were the non Burman ethnic minorities. The worst suffers of his oppressive rule were the non Buddhist and racially different people of Burma. Ne Win was the champion of committin

The blaze on Tuesday night in Duchira Dan, Maungdaw Township, left at least 16 Rohingya homes razed, although no one was reported injured. (PHOTO: DVB) By  Colin Hinshelwood Democratic Voice of Burma January 30, 2014 Shwe Maung , a Rohingya MP in Burma’s Lower House who represents Buthidaung constituency, has said that local Maungdaw police were involved in  the fire that ripped through the west tract of Duchira Dan village on 28 January , razing between 16 and 22 homes belonging to Rohingya families. Speaking exclusively to DVB on Thursday, Shwe Maung said that until the day before the fire, local Rohingya men were assigned as lookouts to guard the three village tracts since most of the residents living there were women. “On Tuesday [28 January] afternoon, the locals were informed that the police would take over guard duty at Duchira Dan-West and so the Rohingya lookouts only had to patrol the Middle and East tracts,” he said. “That evening, the houses in Duchira D