The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rohingya Muslims have started moving to Bangladesh once again in the backdrop of fresh ethnic violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Locals in Cox’s bazaar said that nearly 3,000 Rohingya refugees, boarded on around 50 boats were waiting in Bay of Bengal to cross the Naff river from Myanmar. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sources said they had pushed back 52 Rohingyas in the last few days.

This picture taken on Oct 11, 2012 shows Muslim Rohingyas in the courtyard of a school sheltering Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the village of Theik Kayk Pyim, located on the outskirts of Sittwe, capital of Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. — Photo by AFP SITTWE, Myanmar: Thousands of displaced people have surged towards already overcrowded camps in western Myanmar, the UN said Saturday, after vicious new communal violence that has left dozens dead.

The Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are suffering centuries of abuse, with Britain complicit in the crime, a prominent political analyst tells Press TV More than 100 Rohingya Muslims have recently been killed in a recent wave of sectarian violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine.

(Reuters) - A human rights group expressed concern for the safety of thousands of Muslims on Saturday after revealing satellite images of a once-thriving coastal community reduced to ashes during a week of violence in western Myanmar.  The images released by the New York-based Human Rights Watch show "near total destruction" of a predominantly Rohingya Muslim part of Kyaukpyu, one of several areas in Rakhine state where battles between Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists threaten to derail the former Burma's fragile democratic transition.

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