The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By MYARF & Rohingya Eye ׀  RvisionTV October 25, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : Myanmar’s Border Guard Police brutally beat up and killed a Rohingya Religious Scholar in northern Maungdaw Township on Thursday night, according to a reliable source in the region. The victim is identified to be the 40-year-old Mv Hussein Ahmed (son of) Zahir Ahmed hails from the western hamlet of Kyi Kan Pyin (also called Khawar Bil) village, northern Maungdaw. “The Myanmar Border Guard Police known as BGP frequently raids and besiege Rohingya villages. They arrest random people under false and arbitrary accusation of having links with *RSO. Then, they torture and kill the people in the detentions. They commit extrajudicial killings with impunity. Mv Hussein hails from Kyi Kan Pyin village was on a visit to his sister’s home in Kyauk Pyin Seik (also known as Naari Bil) in northern Maungdaw on October 23. Unfortunately, the BGP and around 30 Rakhine extremists raided the villag...

Maungdaw, Arakan State : Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) personnel are watching religious buildings – Mosques, Madarasas (religious schools) and cemeteries at night since 2nd week of October, said Farous, a village admin officer from Maungdaw south. “The BGP personnel stayed near the religious building and cemeteries at night after people entered to their home and watching the areas. The BGP returned early in the morning to their stations.” The BGP personnel started this operation after they started arresting Rohingya youths and religious students where some Rohingyas were died under BGP custodies, said the officer. The BGP are suspecting the areas – religious building and cemeteries – for hideout of Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO) which the authority declared that RSO entered to Maungdaw. But, it is a pre plan of authority to harass the Rohingyas community and to show international community that Rohingyas are doing against the law, said Rafique, a politician from ...

By The Stateless October 17, 2014 When a country has no rule of law, a country where every government officer is above the law, and a country where the majority ethnic group is above its sister minorities, the killings become an easier and common practice. It is the country none other than Burma also known as Myanmar which is branded and promoted as ‘Democratic’ after more than 50 years of dictatorships. Rohingya, is a common scapegoat minority which has been under the programme of extrajudicial killings under the hands of Burmese Police, Border Security Guards and armed forces ever since the status of Rohingya is systematically altered from being a recognized Burmese ethnic minority group to a complete stateless. It is the distinguished characteristics of Rohingya (being Muslim and difference in appearance) and the laws that remove the right to be citizen, the right to freedom of religion, the right to freedom of movement, the right to freedom of education, the right to...

By Joshua Carroll  October 11, 2014 Dozens of men from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have been arrested and tortured because of alleged ties to a militant Islamic organization, according to a rights group. The Arakan Project, a Thailand-based group that documents abuses against the Rohingya, says one man has been tortured to death in Myanmar’s far north-west, near the border with Bangladesh. Authorities have rounded up at least 58 men in the last two weeks from several villages in the north of Rakhine state, according to figures compiled by the Arakan Project and seen by the Anadolu Agency . The wife of the dead man told the group she was forced to sign a statement that her husband died of natural causes. Last month, al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri announced plans to expand his terror network to include Myanmar. The recently arrested Rohingya men were accused of having ties to a group called the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, or RSO. ...

Mohamed Farid, 35, a Rohingya from Kha Moung Zeik (Fakira Bazar) was tortured to death by the Burmese Border Guard police (BGP) at their headquarters in Maungdaw, Arakan State between 3rd October and 5th October according to Halim, a Maungdaw based human rights watchdog. Halim said that Farid, who lived in BGP area No. 2, was arrested on 3rd October by the BGP who alleged he was linked with the rebel group the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO). He was then sent to BGP headquarters in Maungdaw where he was tortured to make him confess to being a member of the RSO. Farid refused to admit being a member of the RSO or to name any other RSO members. He told the BGP he was a trader and had no links to the RSO. The BGP then tortured him from 3rd to 4th October until he was seriously injured. He was then sent to Maungdaw hospital during the night of 4th to 5th October and he died there on 5th October according to a village administration officer who wishes to remain anonymous. ...

Myanmar police officers stand guard near barricades as they provide security in Thandwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. AP By KPN  September 29, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: Creating new method, the Burmese Border Guard Police (BGP) arrested six innocent villagers from Maungdaw north on September 27, over the allegation that they had linked with Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), a rebellion group of Burmese Government, Shoffee (not real name) , a village leader preferring not to be named.  “On September 25, in the morning, a group of army went to Burma- Bangladesh border and made two separate small groups and fought each other group about 15 minutes pretending as they met a suspected armed group at the border.” On September 27, Radio Free Asia (RFA) released a news about a fight between BGP and a suspected armed group on September 26, at the Burma-Bangladesh border, nearby pillar Nos. 46-47, about 15 minutes but, there were no casualties in both sides. As a r...

Photo: BD Military Staff Correspondent,   BDNews24 June 01, 2014 Myanmar has returned the body of a border guard, missing since a border firing at Bandarban's Naikhangchharhi. Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed, the head of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB), said the trooper missing since Wednesday was identified by a BGB team on Saturday evening. “He was identified as our Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman .” The 10-strong team completed all formalities to bring the body back at 6pm, he told reporters at BGB headquarters in Dhaka. Earlier, Myanmar border police officer Tun Oo confirmed to Irrawaddy, a Myanmar news portal that a BGB personnel had been killed by his unit during the border skirmish. “They told us last night that they would bring the body to the 52 border pillar between 11:00 to 11:30 am today (Saturday). They set the ground rule, saying ten of our men, led by a major, should meet ten of them,” said the BGB chief. But Myanmar’s border police did not b...

By Khan S RvisionTV April 29, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan state- A Rakhine (Magh) Police officer severely beat up an elderly Rohingya man in the village of Kyein Chaung, northern Maungdaw yesterday. And that killed the elderly man this (on 29th April 2014) morning. “Rakhine Police squeeze money from every Rohingya vehicle that passes through or stops at the market of Kyein Chaung (Bawli Bazaar), northern Maungdaw. On 28th April 2014, a Police Officer and a collaborator of his started was beating up a Rohingya lorry driver as he (the lorry driver) was not paying the mount of the money that the Police officer had demanded. The Police Officer is U Kyaw Kyaw Win, a Corporal, from Kyeing Chaung Police Station. Meanwhile, Liakaut Ali (son of) Fauzu (of age 65) asked them why they were beating the driver and requested them not to beat him up. Liakaut Ali is an elderly Rohingya man that runs a small grocery shop nearby the place of the incident. Upon that, the Policeman and his coll...

Myanmar police officers stand guard near barricades as they provide security in Thandwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. AP By KPN April 08, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burmese government setup more Army Battalions in Maungdaw since the authority started the population of census in Maungdaw, Anwer, a politician from Maungdaw. The Army Battalions setup in the areas of Maungdaw are;- Waythali  Natala village (3 miles), Myothugyi village, Myoma Kayoungdan High School compound, Myinn Hlut in Maungdaw south and Nga Kurah in Maungdaw north, the politician said. “Each of the battalion station has 300-400 army personnel and they were well equipped.” The Army Battalions are suddenly setup in Maungdaw and the local peoples – especially Rohingya community – become surprised and worried for more Human Rights violation in the areas, said Halim, a Human Rights Watchdog from Maungdaw. The Battalions setup is good for Maungdaw local peoples, but the Rohingya will ...

By KPN April 01, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Security forces- Army and Hluntin- had tortured severely for claiming their ethnicity as Rohingya today at Phaung see (Taunggul) under Tamanthar village tract, according to an elder from the village ( declaim to say the name for security reason). The census processing group –enumerators, supervisor, Army and Hlunti- entered the village at 8:00am and the security forces called all the villagers to gather in front of school without conducting the census by visiting house by house according to the rule of census, the elder said. The Army officer from security forces – station near the village and belong to Battalion number 536 – asked the villagers what they want to write in their ethnicity in the census forms. All the villagers said they want Rohingya as their ethnicity in the column race with number of 914, then the officer pulled out two Rohingya and asked again their ethnicity where they replied same before. The ...

By KPN April 01, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Hluntin personnel and Ward number 4, admin officer U NYo Htun had burgled a Rohingya home yesterday night at Bomu para under Ward number 4, Maungdaw, said Hasu from Maungdaw. The house is owned by Ms. Haseinna Begun and it was locked for the fear of attack in the night and living with her relative home,  Hasu said. But, the U Nyo Htun and his colleague Hluntin who are station near the Maungdaw Hospital jointly broke the lock of the Haseinna home and toke all the valuable things from the home, said Haseinna. But, the Ward admin officer U Nyo Htun said they entered the house for seeing locked and suspected there will be some criminals living inside the house. The Ward admin officer also said they didn’t know about the valuable things and didn’t know who toke that. The authority are harassing Rohingya in the census to include their ethnicity as Rohingya and other side the security force and Rakhine rob...

The attacks were said to have taken place near the town of Maungdaw BBC News January 23, 2014 More than 30 Rohingya Muslims were killed in attacks by Buddhists last week in Burma's Rakhine state, the BBC has been told. Two international aid officials who were granted access to the area in the far west of the country said they had found evidence of a mass killing. Human rights group Fortify Rights claims a series of attacks took place over five days last week. The government and local officials have strongly denied claims of a massacre. Revenge attacks The latest development follows reports of clashes between Rohingyas and the police in the Maungdaw township over the past month. It is thought tensions initially arose amid reports that several Rohingyas had been killed trying to flee over the border into Bangladesh. Things escalated after a local policeman was reported missing, presumed killed. Local Rakhine Buddhists aided by the...

January 21, 2014, I just received a call from Maungdaw: The present situation in Kilaidaung, Arakan, Myanmar is very serious that the township head called the Buddhist villagers and forces this morning and told them to do more violences against muslims. "We do not care about UN, US and OIC because this is our country we can do whatever we want", said the Township Officer. So,Monks and security polices with guns and weapons are still seized the village, so nobody is allowed to enter the villages nor come out except Buddhists to loot the properties and rape female of muslims. Some alive people of that village are estimated that at least 200 hundreds muslims people of that village have murdered by Buddhists and polices. According to previous record the Kilaidaung village was very rich, but presently the whole village is totally destroyed by Myanmar government forces and Buddhists. This types of mass massacre are daily happening in Myanmar where Muslims live because the governme...

Photo Credit: Christophe Reltien EU/ECHO January 2013 By KPN News  January 17, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Security forces – Police, Hluntin and Army- arrested four Rohingyas from Gawdusara village near Kila Dong village which was destroyed recently by Rakhine community with the help of security forces, on January 17, at about 3:00am, said Hamid Husson from Maungdaw south.  The security forces  surrounded the village – Gawdusara – after Maungdaw high level authority officers and Kila Dong village administration officer and members ( especially Sayeim gone –Ten houses leaders) at Gawdusara village school yesterday evening at 4:00pm, Hamid said. The Maungdaw officers took sign from Village administration members on Blank paper to inform the detail list of Rohingyas who involved on 13 January night event. The officers also asked to find out the missing sergeant Aung Kyaw Thein and his gun, said a members of village admin office. The miss...

By KPN News January 16, 2014   Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Burmese security forces—police, Hluntin and army— are still hunting and committing serious human rights abuses against the Rohingya villagers of Kila Dong East village of Maungdaw south  since yesterday, said Malik (not real name), a village elder of Kilai Dong. “They also deliberate targeting of civilians— arbitrary killing, detention, torture, injures, looting, destruction of properties and houses of Rohingyas. Nobody is allowed to enter the village. At least 100 houses and one mosque have been destroyed and the entire paddy, rice, grains and other valuable goods had been taken away by the Rakhine villagers,” Malik said. Some dead or slaughtered bodies of women, girls and children have been found in the houses of the village. It is very difficult to confirm what is happening inside the village as the villagers are not allowed to enter their village.  Most of the male villagers fled from the vil...

By  KPN News January 06, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: Over two thousand Buddhist people including monks, government officers and staff, local people led by U Kyi San, Maungdaw Township Administration officer (TAO) went to “Kasim Mountain Tip”, under Phar Wut Chaung village tract of Maungdaw north yesterday, according to  a local elder named Mamun Ali ( not real name).   “On that day, Buddhist People were starting to go there from 4:00 am to 2:00 pm by cars, motor bikes and even on foot. All the people were wearing same dresses – T shirts and marked on their shits ---climbers of hill top ‘Aung Mingala’.” The TAO officer needs to hold a meeting on the hill top and wants to announce with loudspeaker to rename the ‘Kasim Mountain’ into “Aung Mingala Mountain.” As a result, they held a meeting on the mountain tip yesterday in the aiming of to change topographical change, said another local trader who denied to be named. For the meeting, the local ...

BY KPN November 20, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State : A team of immigration with security forces- Army and Hluntin- started removing Rohingya from their family lists who are not present at the time since November 18, Rofique told the Kaladanpress from Khonzabill village under Maundaw Township.  The security forces are seen as going to operation while the Immigration went to check the Rohingya family lists in the village. The Immigration officers with village admin called  and ordered the villagers to bring their family lists where the immigration officers removed the person from list who are not present  which seen the authority are doing systematic reducing Rohingya population in the area, said Halim (not real name) , a  Human Rights watch dog from Maungdaw. The security forces are opening a pathway to the Rohingya who want to go Malaysia by risky boat, taking tolls from them. It is a kind of program to reduce Rohingya population, harassing the Rohingya...

Maung Daw ( Burma Times ) Maung Hla Myint, A student of the village, U Shin kya (Bura-shida para¬) said, a group of police came to the village , U Shin Kya (Bura-shida para) under the Maung Daw township. The group said that they got information of a group of armed robbers who came to the said village. So the group of police came to prevent the armed robbers from committing any kind of robberies inside the village and to avoid the any bad occurrence. The police are provisionally staying at a shop near the U Shin Kya river bank closed to the village. Until the student reporting, none of the police enter to the village and disturb to any villager. The villagers are worrying a lot though there was no any report of harassment by the police to the villagers. It is because the police and military personnel carried out arbitrary arrest to the villagers by making false charge since the violence outbreak in the region. That is why many villagers are hiding and leaving the village keepin...