The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Greg Constantine’s unflinching yet sensitive look at the Rohingyas’ plight has made an impact. (JG Photos/Tunggul Wirajuda) By  Tunggul Wirajuda The Jakarta Globe February 10, 2014 The elderly Rohingya man epitomized his people’s plight. One of more than 300,000 Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, the former forced laborer fled his home state of Rakhine in the 1990s following years of oppression by the Myanmar authorities and the Rakhine ethnic group. The years of suffering and exile are etched in his face, while his shaded right eye symbolized his blindness in one eye after a beating by his Burmese overseers. Next to his photo, a snapshot of a Rohingya family contrasts with the photo of a woman fleeing persecution under it. The former aptly represents the families and lives shattered by the ethnic and sectarian conflict suffered by the Rohingya, while the latter’s blank, forward looking gaze seem to point towards an uncertain future. The photos are part o

Rohingya VS Democracy in Burma: Nazi Hitler VS 969 leaders By  Aung Aung February 08, 2014 Buddhism is defined by non-violence, has as a gentle way of life based on Eight Fold Path. Nazi leaders of Burma sent Ashin Nyanissara (Thidagu Sayardaw) and team to a thousand miles away, Sri Lanka, in order to learn anti-Muslims sentiment strategy, and General Khin Nyunt and team to Israel to learn Zionism for the establishment of Nazism in Burma. Hitler and Nazi leaders of Germany didn’t kill German people like Jews. In Burma too, Nazi leaders didn’t give much troubles to Buddhists than non-Buddhist minorities. Muslims in Sri Lanka and Burma are a peaceful and small minority, but both minorities are labeled the same accusations without reasons. Armed conflict of Sri Lanka in the early 1990s and “969 campaign” in Burma have similar objectives conducted by the State, prominent Buddhist monk, Ashin Wirathu is not the only leader of 969 gangs, he was just a murderer, 969