The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Photo Reuters By Tim Robertson Newmatilda February 14, 2014 Burma's Rohingya Muslim minority are once again under savage attack. They have little international or domestic political support, writes Tim Robertson from Yangon When I arrived in Yangon, the first thing I was told was that was that my hotel was a very bad one, in a very bad part of town, full of far too many Muslims. Then, a couple of hours later, driving past the Shwedagon pagoda, the taxi driver proffered a prediction: in 2500 years Buddhism will be wiped out. It will be erased by Muslims who, he told me earnestly, kill without compunction. Buddhists — variously described as "peaceful", "non-violent" and "loving" — will be unable to defend themselves. The opposite is closer to reality: the United Nations has demanded the Burmese Government investigate "credible information" of violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State between 9 - 14 Januar

Photo :Nayapara refugee camp By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka Gulf Times February 14, 2014 Bangladesh has decided to document Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar as they pose a serious threat to the country’s security, according to a senior official in Dhaka. The state-run Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics is set to conduct a survey to profile undocumented Rohingyas living in the country. “Many undocumented Rohingyas are living in Bangladesh and we need to have their profiling due to security reason,” foreign secretary Md Shahidul Haque said. Rohingyas, the Myanmar nationals, had started to come to Bangladesh since their first influx in late 1970s following sectarian violence in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, close to  Bangladesh border. Bangladesh now hosts 30,000 refugees in Cox’s Bazar camps, and in addition to the number, about half a million undocumented Rohingyas are residing in other parts of the country, “posing serious threat to security, environme