The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Burma Times ( Milwaukee)- A Conference Organizing Committee announced that a Historic Rohingya Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), the first-ever this kind in the USA, will be held on the date of December 14, 2013 from 12:30 pm to 7:00 pm, open to the public, with a select group of Speakers and Rohingya activists for advocacy and public awareness in regard with the plights of Rohingya ethnic minority people of Burma (Myanmar) who are the victims of systematic ethnic cleansing, state sponsored slow burning Genocide and denial of their ethnic citizenship rights in their ancestral homeland of Arakan, the north-western region of Burma (Myanmar). A Historic Rohingya Conference in the USA jointly sponsored by the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association and Rohingya Concern International is as following. “STOP THE GENOCIDE & RESTORE THE ROHINGYAS’ CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS IN MYANMAR (BURMA)” We are delighted to announce the First Rohingya Conference in the...

Date: December 4, 2013 Conference Announcement & Invitation  “STOP THE GENOCIDE & RESTORE THE ROHINGYAS’ CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS IN MYANMAR (BURMA)” We are delighted to announce the First Rohingya Conference in the USA which will be held on December 14th, 2013 (12:30 pm to 7:00 pm) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). The Conference is jointly sponsored by the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) and the Rohingya Concern International (RCI). It is also co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hmong Diaspora Studies Program and Risale Center of America. We cordially invite you to join the conference which is open to the public. Your presence will greatly honor us. Registration is not required. The Purpose of the Conference The primary objective of the conference is to make the American people aware of the plights of the Rohingyas and draw their opinion and support in favor of the Rohingyas’ demand f...

“Rohingyas' Legal Rights to live as dignified Human-Beings in Burma” BRAFA July 14, 2013 Although the call of Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations to the Burmese Government President Thein Sein is not too late to grant the citizenship to the ethnic Rohingya minority people of Burma, it is the moral responsibility of President Thein Sein not to delay the restoration of the citizenship rights of the Rohingya people to establish its democratic standing and show of respect to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) so as Burma becomes a dignified, democratic and credible nation in the world. Not only Mr. Ban Ki-moon but also the Governments of Indonesia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Australia, Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Ambassadors form Islamic nations, ASEAN, OIC Secretary General, European Union, international Nobel Peace Prize winners, International NGOs and Humanitarian Organizations, Geneva b...

“Regarding Situation of suffering Muslims in Burma” BRAFA Chairman Shaukhat Kyaw Soe Aung alias MSK Jilani highlighted the situation of suffering Muslims in Burma at the MAS Convention- Milwaukee Chapter are as follows.  - Burma is located in Southeast Asia and it is majority Buddhist country with a population of an estimated more than 60 million people consisting of Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu and other religious groups. Muslim settlements and propagation of Islam in Burma has been widely documented by Arab, Persian, European and Chinese travelers in the 8 century A.D.  - The current Muslim population in Burma are an estimated 8 to 9 million and they are descendants of Arabs, Persians, Turks, Moors, Indians, Pakistanis, Pathans, Moghuls, Bengalis, Chinese Muslims, Malays and other indo-Mongoloid people who settled down and intermarried with the local people and other ethnic Burmese groups in Burma according to historical survey.  - So, Muslims...

To:- President Barack H. Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Date: March 14, 2013 Sub: An Urgent Appeal to save the Rohingyas of Arakan-Burma Dear Mr. President, First of all, we, the members of the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) would like to thank you for your historic visit to Burma (Myanmar) on November 19, 2012 and your great speech in Yangon University Convocation Hall in which you brought the issue of the suffering Rohingya people to the audience of the people of Burma. The Rohingya community of Arakan, Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most downtrodden ethnic minorities of the world. They are victims of political, racial and religious oppression, economic exploitation and cultural slavery in their ancestral homeland-Arakan where they have been living for many centuries. In this regard, we would like to bring to y...