The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Reporting from Bangladesh, Pulitzer Center grantee Greg Constantine discusses a web of issues faced by the Rohingya community—an ethnic minority group stripped of citizenship in Myanmar (Burma). Their plight exemplifies the consequences of statelessness worldwide. Constantine has been documenting the implications of statelessness for the past six years, exposing the impact that the denial of citizenship has on different ethnic minorities around the world. His work emphasizes how citizenship is being used as a tool by governments to disenfranchise particular groups of people, and the implications that statelessness has not only for individual security but also international stability. create here

Andrew R.C. Marshall Cho Cho May knows who she will vote for in next month's Myanmar by-elections: the candidate for the party created by the former military junta. "No need to ask me that question," she says. The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) candidate is her boss.

By  ​ေအး​နိုင်    ြမန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အေမရိကန် အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဒဲရက်မစ်ချယ်  ဦးေဆာင်တဲ့ အဖွဲ့ဟာ မန္တေလးတိုင်းကို သွားေရာက်ြပီး ေရွးေကာက်ပဲွ အြကိုကာလ အေြခအေနေတွကို ေလ့လာ စုံစမ်းမှုေတွ ြပုလုပ်ေနပါတယ်။ မတ်လ ၁၅ရက်ေန့ သတင်းစာ ရှင်းလင်းပွဲ တွင် ေတွ့ရေသာ အေမရိကန် အထူးကုိယ်စားလှယ် ဒဲရက်မစ်ချယ် ဒဲရက်မစ်ချယ်နဲ့ အဖွဲ့ဟာ မန္တေလး အမျုိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် တိုင်းရုံးမှာ အမျုိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် မန္တေလးတိုင်း တာ၀န် ရှိသူေတွ၊ ေရွးေကာက်ပွဲ   ေအာင်နိုင်ေရး တာ၀န်ရှိသူေတွကို ဒီမနက် ေတွ့ဆံုြပီး ရန်ကုန်နဲ့ ေနြပည်ေတာ်မှာ သာမက နယ်ေတွက နိုင်ငံေရး အေြခအေန နဲ့ ြကားြဖတ်ေရွးေကာက်ပွဲ အြကို ကာလ အေြခအေန ေတွကို အဓိက စုံစမ်းေမးြမန်းတယ် လို့ ေတွ့ဆုံရာမှာ ပါ၀င်သူ မန္တေလးတိုင်း ပါတီ တာ၀န်ရှိ သူ ဦးမျုိးနိုင်က ေြပာပါတယ်။ ေ

By Kazi Fahmida Farzana National University of Singapore Citation  Farzana, K. F. (2011). Music and Artistic Artefacts: Symbols of Rohingya Identity and Everyday Resistance in Borderlands. ASEAS – Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 4(2), 215-236. This study looks at the creation of music and art by Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as a symbol of social resistance and identity. Ethnographic research on the Rohingyas’ use of music and art suggests that these non-conventional means play an important role in communicating their coherent identity and expressing their resistance to the discrimination and oppression experienced in their country of....

Ukhiya, Bangladesh: The newly appointed makeshift camp committee beat a Rohingya refugee family-wife and husband- without any reason on March 14, said Mohamed Ullah , an elder from the Kutupalong makeshift camp. 

Kaladan News Chittagong, Bangladesh:  We cannot afford Rohingya for long with their number increasing as they can come to our land easily by spending only $2 each, said Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, the food and disaster management minister to the reporters after a meeting with a delegation of the European Union at the secretariat for support to repatriate the Rohingya refugee on March 13. The statement came out after Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, the food and disaster management minister called on the European Union to support the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh on March 13.

By Kaladan News Dhaka, Bangladesh:  Bangladesh won a great victory in the maritime boundary case with Burma in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) as it delivered the judgment in Homburg today, according to ITLOS website and United News of Bangladesh (UNB).