The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By M.S. Anwar RvisionTV May 4, 2014 Some of the people injured during the shootout by armed terrorist. Maungdaw, Arakan - Around 1:40AM on 3rd May 2014, a group of armed terrorists in disguise of robbers killed the administrator of the village of Thinbaw Kway (Kullon) and other two villagers in southern Maungdaw. They injured 9 other people as well. Authority blames some armed robbers in a nearby forest for the killings. However, locals strongly believe that they were not just the robbers but militants from Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) and some member of Security Force also involved in the killings. “There is a gang of robbers in a forest in southern Maungdaw. Leader and some members of the gang are Rohingya themselves. Gang leader is called Abdul Hakim. They often kidnap wealthy Rohingyas in the region and extort millions of Kyats (Myanmar Currency) from them. Local Rohingyas frequently complain to the authority to take action against the dacoits. However, inste

The body of Nur Husain, 27 was prepared for burial. it was unclear precisely what killed him, according to a western doctor who reviewed the four medicines that were given to him. But almost certainly, proper monitoring and the oxygen ordinarily administered by Doctors Without Borders could have saved him, the doctor said.  Adam Dean for The New York Times By Jane Perlez New York Times May 02, 2014 SITTWE, Myanmar — By the time the baby girl was brought to the makeshift pharmacy, her chest was heaving, her temperature soaring. The supply of oxygen that might have helped was now off limits, in a Doctors Without Borders clinic shut down by the government in February. A hospital visit was out of the question; admission for Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority, always requires a lengthy approval process — time that the baby, named Parmin, did not have. In desperation, the pharmacy owner sent the family to the rarely staffed Dapaing clinic, the only government