The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Chiang Mai ( Mizzima ) – The National League for Democracy (NLD) will hold a national conference during the last week of December of this year. Aung San Suu Kyi holds a press conference at her lakeside home in this file photograph. Photo: Mizzima

Around 2,500 Myanmarese refugees have put up camps on a land near Sultan Gauri Ka Mazar in Rangpur near Mahipalpur.  They were camping at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Vasant Vihar from April 9 and were shifted to the Mazar land on May 9.

FOCUS Why does one flee one's country? How does it feel to be State-less? The Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, now camping in Delhi seeking UNHCR's help, share with SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY the trauma that led to their exit  Voicing protestRohingya refugees at Sultan Garhi dargah; (below) a temporary resident card and family list of a refugeePhotos: Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty

The President of Burma U Thein Sein will visit Bangladesh in June, said the Burmese envoy to Bangladesh U Mai Lwin yesterday.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The regional in-charge of Arakan state and two members of Parliament from Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) are going to organize the people of Maungdaw to support their party in coming next election at 2015 today, according to a politician from Maungdaw.

Chittagong, Bangladesh :  Outgoing Burma ’s Ambassador U Min Lwin yesterday said the solution to maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and Burma is a win-win situation for both the countries.

A Rohingya child from Burma carries water from a pond  at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar on 17 August 2009. (Reuters) Burma has never been an easy place to conduct a head count. Dogged by protracted conflicts and populated by communities wary of outsiders, census-takers have had their work cut out in building an accurate dataset of a country rich in demographic diversity, but which for decades has largely been invisible to the world.