The Stateless Rohingya Blog

‘Violence One-Sided With Muslims Specific Target’ AGENCIES London, July 24: Amnesty International has said that communal violence is continuing in western Burma six weeks after the government declared a state of emergency, with much of it directed at minority Muslim Rohingyas who have been beaten, raped and killed, media has reported. According to reports, the rights group accused both security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists of carrying out fresh

TEHRAN  – A number of people held a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Tehran on Tuesday, which was declared the International Day of Solidarity with the Rohingya, to condemn the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.  At the end of the event, the demonstrators issued a statement, in which they called on the relevant international organizations to take serious measures to stop the killings and restore the rights of Muslims in Myanmar.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The concerned authorities- police , Burma border security force (Nasaka) and army- have been arresting Rohingya community since  last Friday, according to a school teacher from Maungdaw. The police officer from Three miles check point arrested 4 Rohingya from Samawna para near the Myothu Gyi villager yesterday evening at about 5:30, said an elder from Myothu Gyi village.

A Rohingya mother is seen in a refugee camp in Teknaf. PHOTO: AFP The calamitous ordeal of the Rohingya community of Myanmar has received woefully  inadequate media coverage  over the years despite having been declared one of the most hectored, tyrannised and aggrieved tribal minorities in the world by the United Nations. This observable fact can be unswervingly attributed to the  media  oligopolists; they are undermining the  copious atrocities  being committed against Muslims in different parts of the world in general, as part of a ploy to legitimise the ongoing war on terrorism.

(Commentary) – Even as the world smiled benignly at the democratic opening up of Myanmar and the extended foreign tour of its opposition leader, Aung San SuuKyi, the country’s complex domestic dynamic, hidden for years, has surfaced.  The spillover of the sectarian violence that began in early June has simultaneously exposed the difficulties of democratision and the plight of Myanmar’s many underprivileged ethnic minorities.

Dr. Habib Siddiqui Last week, I came across Kanbawza Win's long article – “Killing two birds with a stone or a Win, Win Situation” (Eurasia Review, July 19, 2012) – discussing his thesis for solving the Rohingya crisis in western Burma. As a global citizen who has worked for decades to make our world a more inclusive one away from the brunt of racism and bigotry, I could not resist the temptation to read Mr. Win’s piece. After all, Mr. Win is part of the so-called pro-democracy movement for Burma. He has been critical of the military regime that has been ruling Burma. He is also considered by many to be the voice of reason within the Burmese exiles. 

Abid Bahar Which Country is this? If you live in this country through generations and you are a Muslim Rohingya, you might be one of the unlucky persons on earth, because you have your neighbor, a racist named Ko Ko Gyi, who travels to the West but keeps his hoodlums in his neighborhood in Arakan to drive you and your family out of your ancestral home.