The Stateless Rohingya Blog

URGENT PRESS STATEMENT 29 September 2014 Dear Chief Editors, Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) is deeply concerned on the Myanmar government’s plan to grant citizenship to the ethnic minority Rohingya as it clearly contradicts with the International law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).  The plan by the Myanmar government clearly shows that the government continuously wants to eliminate Rohingya from Myanmar. This is part of their ethnic cleansing policy towards ethnic Rohingya. This is clearly GENOCIDE against ethnic minority Rohingya. In the recent months the Myanmar government has banned the term Rohingya. The term Rohingya cannot be used anymore in Myanmar. The act of the Myanmar government draws lots of criticism from the human rights group and the International community.  As a result some United Nations agencies working in Myanmar have avoided the word Rohingya because it angers officials...

Myanmar limits its Genocide victims, the Rohingya Muslims, to two children per family. (RANGOON, Burma) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) strongly condemned the new policy introduced by the Myanmar government that restricted the minority Rohingya Muslim from having more than two children. This is a gross human rights violation as it’s contradicting the basic human rights as stated in UDHR. This new policy only applies to the minority Rohingya Muslim in the country. As of now Myanmar is the only country in the world that practices this kind of sanction towards a particular religion. MERHROM cannot accept the fact that the new policy was introduced as an effort to reduce the ethnic conflict between the Buddhist and Muslim. We could not understand how the reduction of the numbers of minority Rohingya will reduce the conflict as the number of minority Rohingya is already very low, 4% from the total population 60 million. Furthermore we are...