The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By   BBC News June 2, 2014 Clashes between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar may have subsided, but there is a new crisis brewing in the camps housing Muslim Rohingya. Some readers may find details of this report by the BBC's Jonah Fisher disturbing. Arriving by boat near Kyein Nyi Pyin camp, there's no obvious sign that something is wrong. The rickety wooden jetty is busy. A pile of timber has just been offloaded and a procession of Rohingya men is transporting the logs to the camp about 1km inland. The full force of the monsoon rains are due in Rakhine 1state soon and the wood is being used to build more houses and to strengthen those that have already been built. It's nearly three years since the 4,000 Rohingya Muslims of Kyein Nyi Pyin were driven off their land by gangs of Rakhine Buddhists, and the camp now has a permanent feel. There are corrugated iron roofs, latrines and drainage ditches. Work has even started on a solar powered "Video Ho...

Mohammed Taher (Age 6) (Left in the pic) Survived and Abdul Ghani (Age 10) (Right in the Pic) died By  Saed Arakani RvisionTV June 02, 2014 Pauktaw, Arakan : Two Rohingya Children fell into an Unprotected Well at IDP (internally displaced people) camp No. 1 in Pauktaw Township at around 2:00PM on 31st May 2014. One of them died afterwards, while another was saved. “Abdul Ghani (son of) U Zahirullah (of Age 10) and Mohammed Taher (son of) Mohammed Osman (of Age 6) are two internally displaced Children belong to Nget-Chaung Rohingya IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camp No.1 in Pauktaw Township. Around 2:00PM on 31st May 2014, being children, they were playing nearby an Unprotected Well constructed by UNHCR. Meanwhile, both of them fell in the well and got drown. When people saw them drowning, they hurried to save them. Children were taken out of the well. But by then, it was too late for one child. Abdul Ghani (of Age 10) passed away. And Mohammed Taher was c...

Rohingya Dies as she was deprived of right to medication. By H Kyaw Rvision TV May 28, 2014 Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan - A 35-year-old internally displaced Rohingya woman hail from Kyauktaw Township died in Sittwe Hospital on 24th May 2014. She was suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding and was not able to receive medical treatment in time. “Daw Azarah Khatun, Age 35, (daughter of) Abdu Sattar and (spouse of) Mohammed Yunose, was from the village of Kanbaw, Kyauktaw Township. She was suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding. Her relatives tried to admit her to Kyauktaw Government hospital on emergency. But there is no admission for Rohingya patients to the hospital. Therefore, her relatives, having spent more than Kyat 100,000, brought her to Sittwe Hospital. She was admitted to the hospital around 10:00AM on 24th May 2014. But by then, it was too late. She passed away two hours after she had been admitted to Sittway Hospital. And the hospital authority did postmor...

The body of Nur Husain, 27 was prepared for burial. it was unclear precisely what killed him, according to a western doctor who reviewed the four medicines that were given to him. But almost certainly, proper monitoring and the oxygen ordinarily administered by Doctors Without Borders could have saved him, the doctor said.  Adam Dean for The New York Times By Jane Perlez New York Times May 02, 2014 SITTWE, Myanmar — By the time the baby girl was brought to the makeshift pharmacy, her chest was heaving, her temperature soaring. The supply of oxygen that might have helped was now off limits, in a Doctors Without Borders clinic shut down by the government in February. A hospital visit was out of the question; admission for Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority, always requires a lengthy approval process — time that the baby, named Parmin, did not have. In desperation, the pharmacy owner sent the family to the rarely staffed Dapaing clinic, the only governm...

Motherless at Birth!! The mother passed away as soon as the baby was born. (Photo: Hussein) By Hussein and M.S. Anwar  RvisionTV  May 03, 2014 Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan - A 28-year-old Rohingya woman passed away right after her delivery in Thakkay Pyin (Sakki Fara) IDP Camps in Sittwe (Akyab) around 7:45PM (Myanmar Time) on 2nd May 2014. She apparently died from shock due to heavy loss of blood. There is no medical treatment available for Rohingya people in the camps. “Shabikun Nahar (daughter of) Mohammed (of Age 28) was facing difficulties to deliver her baby. She was laboring and feeling pain. Besides, she was suffering from heavy loss of blood. There are no medical opportunities or access to healthcare for Rohingya people in the camps. Some experienced people tried to give her treatment. But unfortunately, she passed away at around 7:45PM on May 3, 2014. However, she left her baby behind. Hence, the baby is still alive. The woman had been living in ...