The Stateless Rohingya Blog

In this June 27 2014 photo, Yusuf handovers the corpse of his niece to a community elder to place on the ground for burial at Dar Paing village cemetery in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The child is one of the latest and smallest victims in an unfolding humanitarian crisis in camps with more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims that live under apartheid-like conditions. GEMUNU AMARASINGHE — AP Photo By Esther Htusan  The Associated Press July 08, 2014 SITTWE — Hours after Shamshu Nahad gave birth to her second child, a beautiful baby girl, her husband was digging its grave. The tiny corpse, wrapped in white cloth, was placed on a straw mat and lowered into the moist earth, neighbors and relatives bowing their heads as they quietly recited Muslim prayers. Like the child’s life, the ceremony was brief, over in a matter of minutes. For tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims trapped in displacement camps in western Burma, it is a scene that is becoming all...

GENEVA -- It's shaping up to be a lost generation: The number of child refugees fleeing Syria's violence has now topped the 1 million mark. The grim milestone announced Friday by U.N. officials means as many Syrian children have been uprooted from their homes or families as the number of children who live in Wales, or in Boston and Los Angeles combined, said Antonio Guterres, the head of the Office for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "Can you imagine Wales without children? Can you imagine Boston and Los Angeles without children?" Guterres told reporters in Geneva. Roughly half of all the nearly 2 million registered refugees from Syria are children and 740,000 of those are under the age of 11, according to the U.N. refugee and children's agencies. Guterres said the horrors of war experienced by these children puts them in grave danger of becoming a "lost generation." With emotion he recounted some of his personal visits with Syrian ...