The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Hundreds of Rohingya IDPs in Rakhine State wait outside this makeshift clinic outside Sittwe, which has only a dozen cots and limited stores of medicines. Health workers predict rising cases of sickness and disease with the onset of the monsoon season. An estimated 140,000 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, were displaced by sectarian violence in 2012 © Brendan Brady/IRIN  By IRIN News July 07, 2014   YANGON-  Recent heavy rain, coupled with the after-effects of a recent aid worker pull-out, is prompting  health  concerns in Myanmar ’s western Rakhine State for the more than 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) mostly from the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority. Riots in March amid tensions over perceived  bias  towards Rohingya Muslims in the area forced international humanitarian  workers  to pull out. Aid has trickled back but IDPs displaced by communal violence in 2012 remain in squalid camps. According to the UN, there are also 700,000 vulnerable people 

By World Bulletin July 07, 2014  Canadian Senator Mobina S. B. Jaffer addressed her colleagues in the Senate to birng attention to the oppression of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. 'The United Nations has called the now-stateless Rohingya one of the most persecuted minorities on Earth. The Rohingya have been in Myanmar since the 8th century, yet the government refuses to grant them citizenship. Instead, they are called Bengali insurgents who are in Myanmar illegally,' she said. Noting that some Buddhist leaders compare Rohingya Muslims to 'jackals and wolves in order to dehumanize them', she referred to the acts of the Arakanese Buddhists as 'ethnic cleansing'. To put her point across she also told of an account of a 24-year-old Rohingya man from the Yan Thei village who said that the Arakanese had stormed his village in October 2012, burning it down to the ground and killing at least 30 children were killed, 25 women, and 10 men. &