The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Abdul Alam (left) has taken 15 people from his family and village in Myanmar to stay in his rented home in Kuala Lumpur. (Photo: UNHCR/B.Baloch) By Vivian Tan UNHCR April 28, 2014 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Fourteen years ago, Hazzurahman fled Myanmar's Rakhine state on a boat and ended up in Malaysia. With time, he found work, a place to live, and started a family in exile. Fourteen years later, his nephew Hassan* has followed in his footsteps with one exception – the 16-year-old couldn't walk and had to be carried to safety in Kuala Lumpur. Far from being a rite of passage, the arduous journeys they undertook were prompted by a cycle of violence that has driven tens of thousands of Rohingya in Rakhine state to seek refuge in the region. In Malaysia, the UN refugee agency has registered more than 35,000 Rohingya over the years, and believes there are more out there. While UNHCR provides documentation, and support for the most vulnerable among them, a

hlamyint-ruddock By KPN News April 27, 2014 Dr. Hla Myint, the coordinator of International advocacy group – Bangkok Rohingya conference held in 2013 – and other Rohingya living in Australia met the Chief Government Whip, Federal member for Berowra and Australia’s longest serving Minister for Immigration, Phillip Ruddock, MP, at an open forum in the University of Western Sydney (UWS)’s Parramatta campus on April 24, 2014, according to Rohingya advocacy group. Dr. Hla Myint and Rohingya  with the Chief Government Whip,Phillip Ruddock, MP The open forum which focus on the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority from the Arakan (Rakhine) State in Burma (Myanmar) and Dr. Hla Myint and Dr. Sev Ozdowski, – Former Human Rights Commissioner and Director of Equity and Diversity at UWS- organised the forum, the group said. The Hon. Philip Ruddock, MP was the chief guest speaker at the Open Forum at the UWS, gave a very strong pro-Rohingya speech and addressed the audienc

Severely malnourished 25-day-old twins are held by her mother Norbagoun, a displaced Rohingya woman, in their house at the Dar Paing camp for internally displaced people in Sittwe, Rakhine state, April 24, 2014. By Aubrey Belford Reuters April 28, 2014 As three-month-old Asoma Khatu approached her final, laboured breaths, her neighbour Elia, a 50-year-old former farmer, dug through the strongbox holding some of the last medicines in this camp for Myanmar's displaced Rohingya. First, some paracetamol for the severely malnourished girl's fever and a wet towel for her forehead. Then some rehydration salts for her diarrhoea. There was nothing else left. The death of Asoma in a dusty, stifling hot camp a two-hour boat ride from Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State in west Myanmar, is part of a growing health crisis for stateless Muslim Rohingya that has been exacerbated by restrictions on international aid. "I think my child would have made it if someone

By KPN News April 27, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Rohingya from Maungdaw district –Maungdaw and Buthidaung – opposed the proposal which U Myit Kyine, head of the Immigration and Population Department, while his first visited these areas to register as Bengali or to keep the column blank, today at 4:00 pm, said Halim , a Human Rights Watchdog said. U Myit Kyine, called some Rohingya elders including ruling party MP from Maungdaw at Maungdaw Township Administration office’s hall today to discuss about the update process of census which he had proposed last visit. But, Aung Myo Min alias Jangir, on behalf of Rohingya community from Maundaw, said that all Rohingya will register in census as Rohingya as race and didn’t accept the Bengali and to keep blank, Halim said. The Rohingya from Maungdaw didn’t accept the Bengali as the government exposed in the country that Bengali mean illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh and it is not ours, said Jangir in the meeti