The Stateless Rohingya Blog

People gather and watch boats with refugees on board arrive in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP / Khin Maung Win) By  Matthew Pennington The Associated Press March 24, 2014 WASHINGTON  -- A former U.S. congressman who visited camps housing tens of thousands of people displaced by communal violence in western Myanmar is warning that minority Rohingya Muslims face a life-threatening lack of medical care and live in fear of attack. Tom Andrews, president of the U.S.-based activist group United to End Genocide, was issuing a hard-hitting report on Monday after a monthlong trip to the country also known as Burma. The former Democratic lawmaker is calling for President Barack Obama to use his leverage with Myanmar's government to demand protection for the stateless Rohingya. "Clearly the danger signs are very present and growing that we could be seeing a catastrophe. There's been significant loss of life already," Andrews told The Associated

MYARF Report | Written by M.S. Anwar Rvisiontv.com 23rd March 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan- A video shooting of a fake violence incidence involving Rakhine Extremists and the Security Force (HlunHtein) took place in Maungdaw around 8:30AM on 22nd March 2013. Local Rohingyas suspect that the video shooting was meant to cover up any possible fortcoming violence against them around the time of the population census and to subsequently deceive the international community. “Around 8:30AM on 22nd March 2013, a video shooting by the Maungdaw authority took place at the road junction to the north-east of Maungdaw Football Stadium. Around 300 Rakhine extremists armed with swords, daggers, sticks and stones gathered at the place. Standing opposite to the extremists were Security Force (HlunHtein) in their standby position. Every time Rakhine extremists made a run towards the security force (pretending as though they were attacking the Security Force), they (the security force) gave war

An MSF doctor gives a rehydration solution to a child with diarrhoea at MSF clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Pauk Taw township, February 2013. Photo  Kaung Htet By MSF March 24, 2014  Since Médecins Sans Frontières  (MSF)  Holland  was ordered to suspend all activities in Rakhine State on February 26, the organisation has been engaged in high-level discussions with the Union Government of Myanmar on the need to maintain essential medical services for the many hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in the state currently facing a humanitarian medical crisis. MSF International President  Dr Joanne Liu  arrived in Myanmar on March 16 to participate in the discussions and was invited to take part in a recent high-level Union Government and joint UN-INGO visit to Sittwe, Mrauk U and Minbya in Rakhine State.  Dr Liu also met with the Minister of Home Affairs, the Minister of Health and the Deputy Minister of Border Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw. “I have been encoura