The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Photo Rathedaung Jetty By Saiful Rohin  November 02, 2014 Rathedaung is the administrative town of Rathedaung Township in the Arakan State, the westernmost part of Myanmar (Burma). It is 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of Sittwe, where 40 thousand Rohingyas live in 24 villages. Since the beginning of the state-sponsored violence against the innocent, defenseless and helpless Rohingya populations in June 2012, at least 12 major casualties have been reported, while unknown number of tragedy cases remains behind the silence. It is true that most of the Rohingya villages are located in adjacent and in between Rakhine villages and model villages (call NaTaLa). According to some recorded documentations, on June 13, 2012, at least 35 Rohingya innocent people including children, women and elderly persons were brutally killed by the extremist Rakhine hooligans in collaboration with the Government forces. Meanwhile, 120 households were burnt to ashes in Zeekun Dan vil...

By Saiful Rohin  Rvisiontv.com October 19, 2014  Rathedaung, Arakan State: Rakhine extremists blocked WFP’s access to the few remaining Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township leading the hundreds of innocent Rohingyas to face starvation, according to a source of WFP. Post the state-sponsored violence against ethnic Rohingya in 2012, only few Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township survived from destruction. Two of them are Anauk-Pyin village and Muzair (Nyaung Pin Gyi) village. “The Rohingyas in the villages of Anauk-Pyin and Muzair have been besieged and economically crippled by the majority Rakhine extremists. WFP, the UN’s World Food Program, has been providing them starving people with some food rations monthly. Now, the Rakhine extremists have blocked the WFP’s access to the villages by building an unnecessary bamboo bridge in an attempt to starve the boycotted people. WFP asked the Rakhine community to dismantle the bridge as it was blocking t...