The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Burma border guard police (BGP) forcefully collecting money from Rohingya villages under the areas of BGP through village admin officer in the name of football tournament which started since December 5, said Kafayat, a football player from  Maungdaw .The BGP forcefully collecting 1000 kyat from a Rohingya family even the family is poor or widow and there are eight BGP areas in Maungdaw where BGP had gotten more thousands of kyats from Rohingya villages, Kafayat more said. The football tournaments have been starting in Maungdaw Township under all BGP areas since December 5, said an officer from Maungdaw who denied to be named. The BGP will not use the money they collected in their areas for tournament, it is just collecting money from Rohingya indirectly for them in the name of football tournament, the officer more said. “It is indirectly extorting money from Rohingya community, even the BGP treat  Rohingyas  as foreigners and harassment on their daily life struggle,” Ham

By   European Rohingya Council  Date: 11 December 2015 Since the start of December, murders of Rohingya Muslims have increased suddenly creating fresh fears of large scale ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya population is small, and diminishing each day as increasing numbers of people flee Arakan. In such a small community, the murder of four people in a single week is creating panic and will hasten the exodus of the Rohingya people which serves the purposes of the military backed regime and their Buddhist nationalist allies. The government of Myanmar has long formulated a blueprint for a Rohingya free Arakan state. Since 2012, the plans for the final solution have been finalised by Thein Sein’s government. The first involved the riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Muslims. Since then, the government had relied on a subtler approach, a means of committing slow burning genocide designed to escape international uproar. Following the riots, the entire Muslim population