The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By Ibrahim Shah / Mohamed Ibrahim Burma Times October 18, 2014 New Delhi: Today, on Saturday, 18thOctober, a peaceful demonstration regarding ‘the ongoing forced Bengalization over Rohingya through Rakhine Action Plan, arbitrarily detention, disappearance of Rohingya detainees from police custody and controversial Burma Census 2014’ was carried out by about four  hundreds exiled Rohingyas including female under authority of Rohingya Youth Union-India at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. In the demonstration, the participants disclosed that the exclusion of Rohingya national from controversial Burma census 2014 is one of the concealed plots of quasi-military regime led by President Thein Sein to persistently deprive of citizenship rights of Rohingya. Moreover,the demonstrators demanded that UN should be able to immediately prevent  Rakhine Action  Plan which is being conducted under 1982 Burma Citizenship Act drafted by Dictator Ne Win as the Burmese authorities in

By Saiful Rohin  Rvisiontv.com October 19, 2014  Rathedaung, Arakan State: Rakhine extremists blocked WFP’s access to the few remaining Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township leading the hundreds of innocent Rohingyas to face starvation, according to a source of WFP. Post the state-sponsored violence against ethnic Rohingya in 2012, only few Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township survived from destruction. Two of them are Anauk-Pyin village and Muzair (Nyaung Pin Gyi) village. “The Rohingyas in the villages of Anauk-Pyin and Muzair have been besieged and economically crippled by the majority Rakhine extremists. WFP, the UN’s World Food Program, has been providing them starving people with some food rations monthly. Now, the Rakhine extremists have blocked the WFP’s access to the villages by building an unnecessary bamboo bridge in an attempt to starve the boycotted people. WFP asked the Rakhine community to dismantle the bridge as it was blocking their acce

Malaysia currently hosts one of the largest urban refugee populations in the world, with some 146,020 refugees and asylum seekers registered with the UNHCR as of June 30. ― Reuters pic   By Yiswaree Palansamy The Malay Mail Online October 17, 2014 KUALA LUPUR ― Putrajaya’s unwillingness to commit to key global rights treaties is exacerbating the vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers here, a London-based human rights foundation said today. In its report launched today on stateless Rohingyas in Malaysia and Thailand, Equal Rights Trust pointed out that Malaysia has only ratified three core international human rights treaties, despite being an active member of regional human rights bodies. The report states that while Malaysia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), it had rejected