The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By Nurul Islam, Chairman, ARNO May 01, 2014 The Rohingya people are one of the world’s most persecuted, voiceless and underrepresented peoples. Their longstanding problem is an ethnic, religious and political persecution. It is a manmade tragedy deeply entrenched in Burmese regime’s anti-Rohingya policies of de-Muslimization, exclusion, intolerance and extermination. Their aim is to rid Arakan of the Muslim population and turn it into a Rakhinized Buddhist region. Particularly from 1962 military rule, the Rohingya have been subjected to institutionalized persecution. The human rights violations and abuses against them include severe restrictions on their basic freedoms – freedom of worship, movement, marriage, education – deprivation of citizenship, summery execution and mass murder, rape, razing houses and destruction of villages, forced eviction, torture, disappearance, arbitrary detention, looting, extortion, forced labour, forced relocation, and food insecurity. On top

UN envoy Vijay Nambiar (Photo AP) By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press May 2, 2014 NEW YORK — The top U.N. envoy on Myanmar said Thursday the most pressing priority for Muslims in violence-torn Rakhine state, who are considered illegal immigrants, is to get on the path to citizenship. Vijay Nambiar, the secretary-general's special adviser on Myanmar, warned in a speech to the International Peace Institute that unless this is done the security of the Rohingya Muslims will remain threatened, "and that is sure to affect the international reputation of the country." Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation which only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule, considers the Rohingya Muslims to be immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship and related rights, even though many were born to families who arrived in the country generations ago. In the last two years members of the religious minority have been the target of bloody a

By KPN News May 01, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingya who tried to protect his own property –fishing pond- had to pay bond sign not to do next time to security force at Kyaw Pyin Seik (Nari Bill) on April 29, said Rashid, an elder from Maungdaw. The Rohingya- Mohamed Syed, 25, Nurul Alam, 16, Hashim 16 and Zawla Mood 20 – all hailed from Kyaw Pyin Seik village , were working in the fishing pond as a guards and the fishing pond was owned by Abdul Salam, 53. The four Rohingyas were working in a drain pipe while two Rakhine from Natala (modern) village entered to fishing pond. One Rakhine name unknown tried to fishing in pond and another one sited inside the shack, Rashid said. When the Rohingya guard stopped the Rakhine who tried to fishing and the Rakhine quarrel with verbal and he left the fishing pond, said the Rohingya guards. The Rakhine who sited inside the shack ate some crabs which he grilled. The Rakhine who left the pond, brought police force with him