The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The authority of  Maungdaw Township  didn’t allow to land the Rohingya load boats – escape from killing by Rakhine in Kyaukpru – at  Kyauk Pandu under Burma border security    (Nasaka) area  8 of Maungdaw south since yesterday, according to a village admin office member.   “The 4 Rohingyas load boats arrived at Kyauk Pandu village yesterday night, but the Nasaka personnel didn’t give permission to land in the areas and the Rohingyas are still on the  boats.”

Akyab, Arakan State:  More than 360 people have been killed and more than 3500 homes destroyed in the renewed clashed – Rohingyas and Rakhines- in Arakan State on October 21, according to a lawyer from Akyab. “We are receiving information day by day increasing death numbers and burning homes from the ground, but, the Arakan State government saying only 56 people dead and only

25/10/2012 | 10:38 PM ,WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (KUNA) -- The United States on Thursday expressed deep concern over recent ethnic and sectarian violence in Burma's Rakhine state, calling for immediate action by Burma's government to quell the unrest. The State Department urges all parties to exercise restraint and halt attacks against Buddhists and Muslims, while joining the

YANGON: Hundreds of homes burned and gunfire rang out as sectarian violence raged for a fifth day between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in western Myanmar on Thursday, testing the country's nascent democracy. Security forces struggled to stem Myanmar's worst communal unrest since clashes in June killed more than 80 people and displaced at least 75,000. The latest violence has spread over

In this photo taken on Sept. 8, 2012, Muslims gather during a visit by a delegation of American diplomats including U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, unseen, at a refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Three-and-a-half months after some of the bloodiest clashes in a generation between Myanmar’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslims known as Rohingya left the western town of Sittwe in flames, nobody is quite sure when -or even if- the Rohingya will be allowed to resume the lives they once lived here. (AP) She came, she saw, she conquered. The photograph of  Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi  standing proudly with America’s smiling political elite at her  Congressional Gold Medal ceremony last month  in Washington, D.C., provides a powerful image of this heroine of democracy. She has justifiably  caught the world’s attention  and earned its love. Arizona Sen. John McCain called her “his personal hero.”

Kyaukpru, Arakan State: More than 40 boats of Rohingyas are floating in the river near the Akyab today evening, according to a reliable person from Akyab. “The boats tried to land in Akyab as the boats had no fuel, water, foods and medicines, but the security forces and Immigration officers were not allowed to land on Akyab.”

  A fire burns in the Pike Sake quarter in Kyout Phyu, Rakhine state, western Myanmar Photo: EPA More than a thousand homes have been razed in renewed ethnic violence between Burma's Rakhine Buddhists and its Rohingya Muslim minority. Curfews were enforced in two towns in Rakhine state in north-west Burma following new clashes just months after more than 80 people were killed in June.