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The Refugee   I suffered      from violence            and discrimination. Fear in children’s eyes           tore                  at my heart. I anguished—     brain tortured,           heart bleeding,                  guts screaming. I did not dare. I thirsted        for trust—                given,                      received. I hungered         for freedom:                to come,                       to go,                              to be. I journeyed,      hope kin...

  Effect of military coup in country led to even more pressure on Rohingya after decades of oppression, says Arakanese activist Halil Ibrahim Medet  ISTANBUL:  After suffering decades of oppression, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are now caught between two fires from the country’s repressive military junta and the rebel Buddhist Arakan Army, according to local Arakanese activists. The UN and other international human rights organizations have called the violence against the country’s Rohingya “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide,” saying the Muslim group is “the most persecuted minority in the world.” Mohammed Rafik and Nay San Lwin, Arakanese activists spoke with Anadolu Agency about the rights violations that Rohingya Muslims have been facing since the February 2021 military coup. Human rights violations Saying that what has been done to Arakanese society is not new, Rafik stressed: “In addition to human rights violations, numerous military campaigns have been carried out to el...

By Ruma Paul | Reuters BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP , Bangladesh (Reuters) - After losing her husband, two young sons and her home, Noor Banu thought she had seen the worst of life. She made the perilous journey from her village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to the refugee camps in Bangladesh in 2017, with nothing except her four surviving boys. Now she fears she has lost another son to the massive blaze that ripped through the Cox's Bazar camps, reducing tarpaulin and bamboo shelters to ash. More than 300 refugees are missing. Eleven-year-old Mohammed Karim is among them. "I can’t take this pain any more," Banu said, breaking into sobs as she spoke to Reuters inside a temporary shelter on Friday. "I believe Karim is dead, and I may not even be able to identify his body." The 32-year-old Rohingya Muslim has already seen two sons die by fire. In 2016, as the Myanmar army poured into Rohingya villages in response to coordinated insurgent attacks on security posts, Banu sai...

By  Christian Caryl   Op-ed Editor/International The coronavirus has unleashed  so many problems around the world  that it’s almost impossible to keep track of them all. Even so, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the situation facing one of the planet’s most vulnerable groups. They’ve been persecuted, maligned and terrorized — and now  they’re preparing to confront the virus  with minimal protection. In the summer and fall of 2017, the Myanmar military launched  a campaign of terror  against the ethnic group known as the Rohingya, driving some 700,000 of them across the border into neighboring Bangladesh. Myanmar’s predominantly Buddhist ruling elite has long discriminated against the Muslim Rohingya, treating them as a nefarious alien presence in the country’s midst even though most have lived there for generations. Periodic waves of persecution had already sent many Rohingya fleeing across the border in the decades before the  2017 atr...

by VOA ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္း ျဖစ္ပြားတဲ့ ပဋိပကၡေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔ AA က သတင္းမွားေတြ ထုတ္ျပန္ေနတယ္လို႔ တပ္မေတာ္ဘက္က စြပ္စြဲလိုက္ျပီး AA ဘက္ကလည္း သူတို႔ရဲ႕ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ေတြ မွန္ကန္တယ္ဆိုတာ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့လာလို႔ ရတယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ႏွစ္ဘက္ အျပန္အလွန္ စြပ္စြဲေျပာဆုိေနတဲ့ တုိက္ခိုက္မႈေတြအတြင္းမွာေတာ့ အရပ္သားျပည္သူ ေသာင္းနဲ႔ခ်ီ အိုးအိမ္စြန္႔ခြာ ထြက္ေျပးေနၾကရပါတယ္။ ဒီအေၾကာင္း ဗြီအိုေအျမန္မာပိုင္း သတင္းေထာက္ ကိုေဇာ္ထက္ ရန္ကုန္ကေန ေပးပို႔ ထားပါတယ္။ တပ္မေတာ္က အျပစ္မဲ႔ အရပ္သား ရခိုင္လူမ်ိဳးေတြကို ပစ္မွတ္ထားသတ္ျဖတ္တာေတြ၊ တိုက္ပြဲတုေတြ ဖန္တီးျပီး လက္နက္ၾကီးေတြနဲ႔ တိုက္ခိုက္တာေတြကို သတင္းဌာနေတြ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ႔လာမယ္ဆိုရင္ ပူေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔အသင့္ရွိေၾကာင္း ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္ AA အဖြဲ႔ကသတင္းထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သလို၊ တပ္မေတာ္ဘက္ကလည္း AA ရဲ႕ သတင္းမွားထုတ္ျပန္တာေတြကို ေဒသခံတိုင္းရင္းသားေတြအေနနဲ႔ မယံုၾကဖို႔နဲ႔ လံုျခံဳေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္ေတြကို သတင္းေပးဖို႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၉ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၄ ရက္မွာ AA အဖြဲ႔က ရဲစခန္းေလးခုကို ဝင္ေရာက္တုိက္ခိုက္တာ၊ ရန္ကုန္-စစ္ေတြလမ္းမွာ မိုင္းေထာင္...

ဘူးသီးေတာင္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ။ ။ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ ရခိုင္ တပ္မေတာ္ (ေအေအ) တို႔ အၾကား ျပင္းထန္ေသာ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ အေ႐ွ႕ေတာင္ဖက္႐ွိ ဆင္ေသျပင္ ေက်း႐ြာမွ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ႐ြာသား ၆၃၆ ေယာက္ အသက္လု ထြက္ေျပး ခဲ့ရ သည္။  ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလတြင္ ရဲစခန္း အမ်ားအျပားကို တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ေသာ ရခိုင္ တပ္မေတာ္ အား ျမန္မာ အစိုးရ တပ္မ်ားက ႃပုလုပ္ေသာ စစ္ဆင္ေရးတြင္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အမ်ားအျပား ပိတ္မိေနခဲ့သည္။ တိုက္ပြဲ စတင္ခ်ိန္မွ စ၍ က်ည္ဆံ၊ ဒုံးက်ဥ္ႏွင့္ မိုင္္းမ်ား ထိမွန္၍ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အမ်ား အျပား ေသေၾက ဒဏ္ရာ ရခဲ့ ၾကသည္။ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ လူမ်ိဳး အမ်ားအျပားမွာ လက္နက္ကိုင္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔ မ်ား၏ မတရား ဖမ္းဆီး ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ ျခင္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။ မတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ ေန႔တြင္ ဆင္ေသျပင္ ေက်းရြာမွ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ႐ြာသား မ်ားသည္ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ ျပတ္လပ္ျခင္း၊ လံုႃခံုမႈ ႏွင့္ အကာအကြယ္ မဲ့ေနျခင္း မ်ားေၾကာင့္  ဖံုညိဳလိပ္ ေက်း႐ြာသို႔ ထြက္ေျပး ခဲ့ၾကရာ ယင္းရြာ တြင္လည္း အမိုးအကာ မလံုေလာက္ျခင္း၊ စားနပ္ရိကၡာႏွင့္ ေဆးဝါးမ်ား ျပတ္လပ္ျခင္း မ်ား ႐ွိေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။  “ျမန္မာ စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ ရခိုင္တပ္ (ေအေအ) တို႔ အဆက္မျပတ္ တိုက္ခိုက္ ေနလို႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တိ...

বাংলাদেশের আশ্রয়শিবিরে বসবাসকারী রোহিঙ্গা শরণার্থীদের কোনোই ভবিষ্যৎ নেই বলে মন্তব্য করেছেন রোহিঙ্গা বিষয়ক আইনজীবী রাজিয়া সুলতানা। তিনি এই আশ্রয়শিবিরকে চিড়িয়াখানার সঙ্গে তুলনা করেছেন এবং রোহিঙ্গাদের ফেরত পাঠানোর জন্য একটি উপযুক্ত কৌশল নির্ধারণের আহ্বান জানিয়েছেন। কয়েকদিন আগে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ের ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ওমেন অব কারেজ এওয়ার্ড (আইডব্লিউসিএ) পুরস্কার পান রাজিয়া সুলতানা। সাহসিকতা দেখানোর জন্য সারা বিশ্ব থেকে বাছাই করা ১০ জন নারীকে এ পুরস্কার দেয়া হয়।  রাজিয়া সুলতানার একটি সাক্ষাৎকার নিয়েছে বার্তা সংস্থা রয়টার্স। তাতে তিনি রোহিঙ্গাদের পরিণতি নিয়ে হতাশা প্রকাশ করেন। রাজিয়া সুলতানা বলেন, মিয়ানমারের মুসলিম সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়ের রোহিঙ্গা শরণার্থীদের মধ্যে আশার অভাব রয়েছে। ২০১৭ সালের আগস্টে মিয়ানমারের সেনাবাহিনীর নৃশংস নির্যাতনের ফলে তারা পালিয়ে এসে বাংলাদেশে আশ্রয় নিতে বাধ্য হয়। রাজিয়া সুলতানা বলেন, এই আশ্রয় শিবিরে যত বেশি সময় শরণার্থীরা থাকবেন ততই পরিস্থিতির অবনতি ঘটতে থাকবে। ওই সাক্ষাৎকারে তিনি আরো বলেন, হ্যাঁ, এ কথা সত্য যে, শরণার্থীরা খাবার পাচ্ছে। কিন...

Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release 10th November 2018 ASEAN leaders must push Myanmar to end Rohingya genocide Southeast Asian leaders must stop burying their heads in the sand and pressure Myanmar to end the ongoing genocide against Rohingya when they gather in Singapore next week, said the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK). ASEAN heads of state are meeting for the 33rdASEAN Summit in Singapore between 13 and 15 November, when they are expected to discuss political and economic issues facing the region. “ASEAN’s response to the crisis in Rakhine State has been marked by shameful silence and inaction. As heads of state gather in Singapore next week, they must pressure Myanmar to end all abuses against the Rohingya and show that they will not stand idly by while a genocide is unfolding in one of their member states,” said Tun Khin, President of BROUK. “The almost complete lack of regional pressure on Myanmar will onl...

ROHINGYA PROVERBS "Dhúl or bari hoor bútore shom noó." "Hawa e hattol haiye boga funot aanra baaje." “Hawa ye gawa hattol sine.” “Lati hade hattol lati nahaile noo faage.” “Gaas sine baahol le; manuic sine aahol le.” “Sook hana gojjo/ok; desh hana noo gojjo/ok.” “Luwa loi luwa loi bari maile oine shuile.” “Tou idta modur baat hayefan.” “Bilai baikko ye sickka shir je.” “Angul hai noo faille horo oi jagoi.” “Ful lo shathe kella shuttua mattar diya fore.” “Ze kuror les behan; sunat bolle yo he behan.” “Suror dos din; giros or ek din.” Ruáingga Abas 1. Doc or laçí, ek or fuñzá. (Like a stick if shared by ten, but heavy if carried by one) 2. Zoudi fore hoór(khoór) tóu no sáijjó cóor. (Even fallen curse do not abandon the town) 3. Zar baáb ré Quñúir é háiye déñi deéile dhora. (Whose father was preyed by crocodile is even afraid of a log) 4. Undoijjallá undurni bála. (Male-mouse is suited only with female-mouse) 5. Háñt dóroni ...

We Must Not Repeat the Shameful History of Returning Rohingya Refugees : By Jeff Crisp / News Deeply As Rohingya refugees poured out of Myanmar into Bangladesh last fall, the two countries were already negotiating mass returns. This wouldn’t be the first premature repat…

NaSaKa (defunct notorious Myanmar's Border Security Forces) used Noor Ali as a forced labourer to carry the goods extorted from Rohingya shops in U Shey Kya (Bura Shida Fara), Northern Maungdaw, Rakhine State, accompanying the village vice-administrator Abdul Salam on January 16, 2012. Rohingya men perform Visitation (Ziyarat) of a grave in Buthidaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar (Photot: TheStateless.com)

The bride's hands are covered with decorative patterns inked in henna, the groom is perfumed and the guests feast and dance the night away in a colourful tent. In most ways, the happiest day of Shofika Begum and Saddam Hussein's lives mirrors that of couples getting married the world over. Read full story  

Rohingya being killed despite Myanmar-Bangladesh Bilateral Refugee Repatriation Deal : By The Stateless Rohingya On December 17, two bodies of religious students were handed over by officers from Maungdaw Police Station. Mohammed Noman, 14, son of Mohammed Rashid and a son of Molvi S…

Burma: Methodical Massacre at Rohingya Village : By Human Rights Watch Hundreds Killed, Raped in Tula Toli (Rangoon) – The Burmese army carried out systematic killings and rape of several hundred Rohingya Muslims in Tula Toli village in Rakhine S…

Armed Rakhine Mob leaves Rohingya Fisherman in Critical Condition : By The Stateless Rohingya A Rakhine mob armed with machetes and spears attacked a Rohingya youngster in Buthidaung on December 24. Kabir Ahmed, son of Abdu Rahim, is a fisherman by profession who h…

Oxfam calls on UN to resolve Rohingya crisis before situation worsens in 2018 : More than 620,000 Rohingya people have poured into Bangladesh since August. THE PLIGHT OF the Rohingya people is going to further deteriorate in 2018, with more forced to flee to Bangladesh and set…

By The Stateless Rohingya Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) killed a Rohingya inside a detention centre in Buthidaung. The victim is identified as Mohammed Siddique, 65, from Tin Set hamlet of Sein Hnyin Pyar village track. He was arrested along with four other Rohingya on false-allegations by BGP from Yaung Chaung Station on June 21, 2017. Following the prolong torture and harassment in the detention over the six-month period of arbitrary arrest, he was admitted to Buthidaung General Hospital on December 20, with life threatening condition – internal and external injuries. He was pronounced dead at 2AM (GMT +6:30) on December 24. Instead of handing over the body to his family members and his own villagers, the police transferred the body to Imam Uddin Para villagers at 4:45AM. >>> Read More  Rohingya killed in Myanmar Detention :

By The Stateless Rohingya MAUNGDAW: Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) is harassing the remaining Rohingya civilians with extortion and arbitrary arrest under the pretext of photo census across Maungdaw and Buthidaung township since last week. A team of BGP officers arrived in U Shey Kya (locally known as Bura Shidda Para) of Maungdaw on December 19. The team arrested Movli  Zafar Alam (43, son of Molvi Bodiur Rahman) while he was attending the photo shootout for the census at 10AM (GMT +6:30). Similarly, another Rohingya, Rozi Alam (28, son of Kuilla Miah) from the same village was also detained on December 13 by the same officers. The BGP team reportedly roams the remaining Rohingya villages in Maungdaw to constantly extort money and harass the villagers. >>> Read More  Photo Census – another tactic employed to harass remaining Rohingya in Myanmar : 

By  Poppy McPherson /  The Guardian December 27, 2017 Myanmar state counsellor refused to engage in substantive talks about alleged violence against the Muslim minority, says envoy Aung San Suu Kyi  avoided discussing reports of Rohingya women and girls being raped by Myanmar troops and police when she met a senior UN official, according to an internal memo seen by the Guardian. Pramila Patten, the special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, travelled to the country for a four-day visit in mid-December to raise the crisis with government officials.

Kristen Gelineau, The Associated Press  UKHIA, Bangladesh -- The use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, The Associated Press found in interviews with more than two dozen Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. Yet their stories were hauntingly similar. The military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. Here are the accounts as told by 21 women and girls. They agreed to be identified in this story by their first initial only, out of fear the military will kill them or their families. WARNING:  Graphic details The Associated Press reported this story with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. SHE IS ONLY 13 She is only 13, but R had already learned to fear the military men. Last year, she says, soldiers stabbed her father to death. One day in lat...