The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By   BBC News June 2, 2014 Clashes between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar may have subsided, but there is a new crisis brewing in the camps housing Muslim Rohingya. Some readers may find details of this report by the BBC's Jonah Fisher disturbing. Arriving by boat near Kyein Nyi Pyin camp, there's no obvious sign that something is wrong. The rickety wooden jetty is busy. A pile of timber has just been offloaded and a procession of Rohingya men is transporting the logs to the camp about 1km inland. The full force of the monsoon rains are due in Rakhine 1state soon and the wood is being used to build more houses and to strengthen those that have already been built. It's nearly three years since the 4,000 Rohingya Muslims of Kyein Nyi Pyin were driven off their land by gangs of Rakhine Buddhists, and the camp now has a permanent feel. There are corrugated iron roofs, latrines and drainage ditches. Work has even started on a solar powered "Video Ho

Mohammed Taher (Age 6) (Left in the pic) Survived and Abdul Ghani (Age 10) (Right in the Pic) died By  Saed Arakani RvisionTV June 02, 2014 Pauktaw, Arakan : Two Rohingya Children fell into an Unprotected Well at IDP (internally displaced people) camp No. 1 in Pauktaw Township at around 2:00PM on 31st May 2014. One of them died afterwards, while another was saved. “Abdul Ghani (son of) U Zahirullah (of Age 10) and Mohammed Taher (son of) Mohammed Osman (of Age 6) are two internally displaced Children belong to Nget-Chaung Rohingya IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camp No.1 in Pauktaw Township. Around 2:00PM on 31st May 2014, being children, they were playing nearby an Unprotected Well constructed by UNHCR. Meanwhile, both of them fell in the well and got drown. When people saw them drowning, they hurried to save them. Children were taken out of the well. But by then, it was too late for one child. Abdul Ghani (of Age 10) passed away. And Mohammed Taher was comat

By Ibrahim Shah  Burma Times June 02, 2014 Yangoon, Burma : It is reliably learnt by a Major from Yangoon who concealed the name for security that the Burmese united armed unit (BUAU) is well prepared to confront the western gate, Burma- Bangladesh border if the Border Guard Bangladesh Patrol Team (BGBPT) move forward following the most recent incident in which a member of BGBPT was killed by Burmese Border Police(BBP). Moreover, Burmese troops are well prepared to severely confront with Bangladesh which is proportionally one-fourth of Burma. Burma draws policy of zero-tolerance in border-tensions and Burmese ‘Tatmadaw’ (army) determined to occupy from Teknaf to Chittagong hill tract if Bangladesh moves forward against the Burma, he added. According to Nay Pyi Taw(Central government) source, the Burmese united armed unit—paramilitary, police force, border guard police, navy, army and intelligence department— already mobilized in western gate in order to protect

By Nicholas Kristof New York Times June 1, 2014 MRAUK U, Myanmar — AS we hiked on a bamboo bridge over a river, past a police checkpoint, by water buffalo, over abandoned rice paddies, and past a hamlet where 28 Muslim children had been hacked to death, word raced ahead of us. Farmers poured out to welcome us from two besieged villages that for two years have been mostly cut off from the world. One man, a teacher who spoke a bit of English, thrust a handwritten letter in my hands. Puzzled, I asked him whom he had written the letter for. He explained that he had drafted it in hopes that a foreigner might visit some day and transmit news of the villagers’ suffering. “Many people are by violent wound died,” the letter recounted in painstaking English. “Now our Rohingyas many people are homeless. We do not have home, food and living very difficulty. Now we are to the cage prison sent.” The villagers are Rohingya, a dark-skinned Muslim minority that is deeply resented