The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By  Eric Paulsen Statelessness and Burma’s democratic transition. Rohingya children in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state. Images:  Eric Paulsen In the midst of the cautious excitement accompanying Burma’s seeming democratic transition, one of the key human rights issues that international leaders and Burma’s pro-democratic and ethnic activists have failed to address is the continuing statelessness and marginalisation of the Rohingya, the Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in northern Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Rakhine (formerly known as Arakan), one of the poorest and most isolated states in Burma, is home to some 800,000 Rohingya, who are among the world’s most persecuted communities, on par with the Roma in Europe and the Hmong in Laos.

News Analysis                                               Rohingya who landed on Phuket last year await their fate                                                                          Photo by phuketwan.com/file PHUKET: A compact between Thailand and neighboring countries is keeping treatment of Rohingya boatpeople secret as details are emerging of their continued imprisonment in India, on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar  :By the lack of treatment many patients have been suffering and dying in Refugee camp.  As at 8:30 am on 24 Feb 2012  Jannatara, a seven year old school girl sank into toilet tank of No: 08  which school is implemented by RTMI. The lid of the tank has been being damaged for a long time, but the Refresh Training Management International's does not want to repair anything in camp except retrenching. The mentioned Janatara while she was  coming at the back side of the school, she slipped and felt into the tank, but she unfortunately sank into  scrota water.

မင်းကိုနိုင်​၊​​ ကိုကုိြကီး​​၊​​ ​ကိုြမေအးတို့ အပါအ၀င် ၈၈ မျုိးဆက်ေကျာင်းသားအဖွဲ့ဟာ ဒီကေန့ ကချင်ြပည်နယ်အတွင်း တုိက်ပွဲေတွေြကာင့် ဒုက္ခေရာက်ေနြကတဲ့ ကချင်စစ်ေြပး​ ဒုက္ခသည်ေတွကို ကူညီဖုိ့ သွားေနပါတယ်။ ကချင်ြပည်နယ် ခရီးစဉ်အေြခအေနနဲ့​ ပတ်သက်ြပီး ၈၈ အဖွဲ့မှ ကုိြမေအးကုိ ေမးြမန်းထားပါတယ်။

 Kaladan News Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Maungdaw township authority had given warning to trustees from administration office of Muslim religious gathering center (Tabaleak Markaz) in Maungdaw in the evening of February 19, said an elder from Maungdaw.

Kaladan News Chittagong, Bangladesh:  Rohingya attended European Burma Network (EBN) meeting in Brussels, Belgium on February 18-19, according to Tun Khin, the President of Burmese Rohingya Organization, UK (BROUK). BROUK delegations with European Burma Network (EBN) members after meeting in Brussels “We also met with European Officials from European Parliament and European Commission in the meeting.”

By BA KAUNG / THE IRRAWADDY Burmese President Thein Sein, center, addresses the Parliament as Vice-Presidents Tin Aung Myint Oo, left, and Sai Mauk Kham, right, listen, in Naypyidaw on Aug 22, 2011. (Photo: Getty Images) For decades in Burma, the headmen of villages and wards used to work as government informers and were usually on the payroll of those close to the military junta. Directly appointed by local authorities, these village heads have long played a key role in the state apparatus and in oppressing any form of political dissent.