The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets migrant workers in Mahachai on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters)   Thousands of Burmese migrants in Mahachai, near Bangkok, came to hear pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speak on Wednesday morning during her first trip abroad for 24 years.

Burma is a multi-cultural society with multi-ethnicities. During its independence a feeling of awareness for an ethnic togetherness and comprehensive identity to form joint feelings for tranquillity and safety developed. On the basis of the agreed upon principle of  ‘unity in diversity’, articulated by the father of the nation General Aung San, the ‘Union of Burma’ came to existence on January 4, 1948.

BURMA opposition leader  Aung San Suu Kyi  has left the country for the first time in 24 years. Previously the pro-democracy campaigner was either under house arrest or too fearful that if she left  Burma , the government would never let her return.

A Rohingya refugee from Nayapara camp died on the way to Cox’s Bazar government hospital on May 27. One camp resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, claimed the deceased man, who has been identified as Moggul Hussain, was not getting adequate treatment at the camp. “He visited the camp clinic frequently for treatment but the medical team leader neglected his medical condition.”

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh:  The Cox’s Bazar government hospital staffs –word guards- beat a refugee while the refugee was trying to bring patient cart by on duty doctor ordered on May 27 about 5;00am, according to Salim, a refugee who tried to admit his serious ill father.

Chittagong, Bangladesh:  Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) James Lynch met Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr M Abdur Razzak where discussed Rohingya refugees’ repatriation at his office on May 27, according to an official.

Gautam Debroy, New Delhi (May 26):  When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be reaching Naypyidaw on Sunday for a three-day official visit, majority of Rohingya refugees living in India, with a good number of their presence in Northeastern states, will be hoping for an early return to their home at Arakan region of Myanmar.