The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By Kyaw Win TSR News  The inaugurated Ahesan Ullah Memorial Football Tournament held among the Rohingya in UK ended with the victory of Arakan Sunrisers 4-2 against BD3 Tigers on last 1st September 2014.  The tournament held as a memorandum of Murder Ahesan Ullah. How Rohingya Refugee can take the mirror of their past, spent in Bangladesh refugee camp and still facing. Ahesan Ullah(15?) was shot to death by police on 18th November 2004 with Mohammed Saber and Mohammed Saleh at Kutupalong Registered Refugee camp while breaking a demonstration of Rohingya Refugee against inhumanity. On that Ahesan Ullah wrote with his blood that he was shot by Bangladesh police. Even that many more innocent Rohingya Refugee were imprisoned for that fabricates case. Bangladesh government also harassed his parents.  Now his parents are living in New Zealand under the resettlement process of UNHCR. From that day on Rohingya Refugee have been celebrating 18th Novembe...

BROUK Facebook Photo By PressTV April 29, 2015 They are one of the world's most persecuted minorities. Caught in a cycle of violence and poverty. Denied citizenship in Myanmar, over one million Rohingya Muslims are without a country of their own. Facing decades of a persecution and destruction that UN human rights envoys say could amount to "crimes against humanity". For the first time, this event brings together, activists, academics, judges and survivors of genocide, to discuss whether what happening to the Rohingya Muslims can be called genocide. The event started with a prayer and a minutes silence for genocide victims; from Armenians, Bosnians to Palestinians…and the Rohingyas. Last month, aid agencies were forced to halt operations to Rohingyas after hundreds of extremist Buddhists attacked them. The government is accused of turning a blind eye. Even Nobel peace prize winning opposition leader, Aung Sun Su Ki has remained silent. For surv...

British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire delivers a speech during a press conference at the British Council in Yangon on January 30, 2014. Photo: Hong Sar / Mizzima By Manny Maung Mizzima New s Junuary 30, 2014 Violence targeting Muslims and the escalating humanitarian situation in Rakhine State could gravely undermine Myanmar’s reform process, Britain’s Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire warned in Yangon on January 30. Mr Swire expressed disappointment at the government’s apparent reluctance to address inter-communal violence. “I have been appalled to hear of further tragic deaths this month in northern Rakhine and we have called for an investigation into this,” Mr Swire said. “On the humanitarian front, the rise of intimidation and threats towards UN and international staff attempting to deliver life-saving food and medical supplies … is utterly unacceptable and actually quite shocking,” he said. Mr Swire said other violent incidents targeting Muslims throu...

President U Thein Sein meets former British PM, Speaker of House of Common (photo President Website) By Maung Zarni  Asia Times  July 19, 2013 LONDON - Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding "ethnic cleansing" of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country's controversial 2014 national census.  Ex-general and head of Myanmar's quasi-civilian government Thein Sein made an official visit to Britain this week, during which his hosts announced a new 30 million-pound (US$45.6 million) development assistance package and resumption of arms sales. One third of that amount is earmarked to bankroll the former colony's census, "which is essential to make sure support is getting to those who need it more", according to an official British government statement. Because Thein Sein's government is forcing the Rohingya people to register as "Bengali"...

President of Myanmar, Thein Sein (L) in 10 Downing Street Photo: EPA By Michael Harris Telegraph UK : July 18, 2013 Unless the Foreign Secretary ups the pressure on Burma the apparatus of the military dictatorship will remain, writes Michael Harris If you want to know how much has changed in Burma since the much-vaulted transition, try and put on a punk gig in the capital, Rangoon. It’ll take two months and require the signatures of eight bureaucrats from varying levels of government. You may never get permission. But to punks in Burma, the idea they may even be able to play publicly at all is progress. This is transition Burma, a country full of contradictions where the military no longer hold captive Aung San Suu Kyi and have released some of the thousands of her fellow political prisoners – yet the full apparatus of the military state still exists. The worry is, while the UK and US drop sanctions and William Hague took the time to congratulate President Thein Sein i...