The Stateless Rohingya Blog

(Photo: Andre Malerba/Getty Images) By  Sir Geoffrey Nice & Francis Wade Foreign Policy May 13, 2014 Burma's Rohingya minority could fall victim to full-scale genocide if the international community doesn't intervene.  In conflicts that have potential to produce the worst of human atrocities, states and international actors must take action to identify the precursors of mass killing and stop it from ever happening. That's precisely what is needed now in western Burma, where the Rohingya minority faces attacks so violent that state crime experts fear a full-on genocide is in the making. The Muslim minority, numbering around 1 million, shares the state with Rakhine Buddhists, who consider them to be illegal Bengali immigrants. The Burmese government, which shares this view,  denies  them citizenship as well as limiting their access to education and healthcare. Organized mob violence in late March, which wrecked the entire aid infrastructure serving 140,

By Ibrahim Shah Burma Times May 12, 2014 An unauthentic and illogical commentary by Derek Tonkin: ( The ‘Rohingya’ Identity –The British Experience in Arakan 1826-1948 ) Never, I thought I would have to write against Derek Tonkin, former British diplomat to Thailand, Vietnam and Laos, an advisor to Bagan Capital Limited and Editor of Network Myanmar. However, I have to unwillingly write against Derek Tonkin who intentionally writes unjustly for endorsement the genocidal practice of Burmese chauvinistic rulers against Rohingya. The Burmese imperialistic rulers have been imposing double stand policies in western Burma, Arakan( Rakhine) to eradicate an existing ethnic group also known as Rohingya from this earth since 1044 AD. Arakan was a sovereign kingdom until 1784 in which year it was annexed by Burmese king Maung Wei. Afterwards, it became a part of Burma known as western Burma. With the Census in Myanmar on its way to completion, I looked to