The Stateless Rohingya Blog

President, United to End Genocide By Tom Andrews Huffington Post April 2, 2014 Deteriorating conditions have put Burma on a downward trajectory that could end in the world’s next genocide without immediate action. Yet, while the death toll mounts in Burma, its business as usual for the U.S. government. Today Defense Secretary Hagel is hosting the Defense Minister of Burma among others to discuss the Obama administration’s commitment to “peace and security” in the region. But there is no peace and security for the ethnic minorities in Burma. The government of Burma continues to allow violent attacks on the Muslim ethnic minority Rohingya in Rakhine State while expelling aid groups from the area including Doctors Without Borders. The mass atrocities that have already occurred threaten now to produce the world’s next genocide  without immediate action by the United States. Burma has one of the largest armies in the world. It is also one of the most brutal. Not only h

Photo: Reuters By KPN April 02, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : The authority sent more security forces- Hluntin, police and Army- with enumerators and supervisors to the Rohingya villages to show the power of authority and threaten the Rohingya to use race in the census forms as Bengali today, said Halim, a Human Rights Watchdog from Maungdaw. Whenever the census collecting group –enumerators and supervisors – with them more than 8 security forces went to a Rohingya house, where the Rohingya family saw the situation will afraid and follow their the plan to say Bengali. But, the authority received from the Rohingya family, will join the census process when Rohingya will write in Race column and number 914 together with Islam as a religious, Halim more said. Today, morning, 8 security forces and 4 census officers came to our home to ask to join the census, but, I said I need Rohingya as race with code number 914 and Islam as religious, then they left from my home, sai