The Stateless Rohingya Blog

More appeals for international focus on the plight of the stateless Rohingyas of Burma are being made daily. The latest is a call by five Asian  human rights  groups asking for “immediate steps to protect all persons from all forms of religious or ethnically motivated violence and discrimination, and promptly conduct an independent, impartial and effective investigation into the violence.”

Bangladesh says it will not accept any Rohingya refugees fleeing a new spate of ethnic violence in neighbouring Myanmar’s western  Rakhine  State.  "We are not interested in more people coming to Bangladesh," Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told an impromptu press briefing at her office, noting that Bangladesh is already a densely populated country and cannot a afford a fresh influx. 

International and Bangkok-based Myanmar rights activists called on the United Nations and Asean to send an independent fact-finding team into Rakhine as the sectarian conflict in the country's western state worsens. Describing the violence as a possible ''genocide'' against the Rohingyas, a Western rights activist told a seminar at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand on Wednesday night the international community could no longer sit by and let the situation subside by itself.

In this June 13 file photo, BGB members on high alert at Shah Parir Dwip to prevent intrusion of Myanmar citizens. The United States has expressed concern over pushing back the Rohingyas seeking refuge after fleeing the ethnic and religious violence in Myanmar and urged Bangladesh  to allow the refugees.

NEW DELHI -- Security forces struggled to contain clashes in western Myanmar on Tuesday after days of ethnic and religious violence left at least a dozen people killed and thousands displaced. The fighting between majority Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims is posing a serious challenge for the national government and its reform agenda as it seeks to end decades of isolation and military rule.

TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar living in refugee camps in Bangladesh called on Wednesday for democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for them and help end their persecution.

BANGKOK — They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse — when their existence is even acknowledged. Asia’s more than 1 million ethnic Rohingya Muslims are considered by rights groups to be among the most persecuted people on earth. Most live in a bizarre, 21st-century purgatory without passports, unable to travel freely or call any place home.