The Stateless Rohingya Blog

We know that America has some sway in the country. Surely they should exert pressure to help these people. Revelations of widespread violence against ethnic minorities in Burma’s north-western Rakhine state fleetingly drew the eye of the world’s media last week. Headlines and op-eds reflected the shock felt by the international community at the slaughter of the local Rohingya population and other predominantly Muslim groups, such as the Karan. 

TEHRAN –  Iranian MP Kazem Jalali has criticized the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for remaining silent about the killing of Muslims in Myanmar.    Jalali made the remarks in an interview with the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday in reference to a new wave of sectarian clashes between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar.    “Why does not the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which held a special meeting to suspend Syria’s membership, hold an extraordinary meeting about Myanmar? And why has it remained silent in this regard?”

KUWAIT: Kuwait deplores in the strongest terms acts of violence, including killing, displacing, and terrorizing, the minority Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar, a highplaced source at the ministry of foreign affairs said here yesterday. Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have been killed, their homes burned, their villages pillaged, all of which acts are a flagrant violation of basic human rights and tantamount to crimes against humanity, noted the source. Kuwait, in its commitment to

Muslim refugees on a boat arrive at a port outskirt of Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. More refugees arrive in town, escaping from ethnic violence. Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has displaced more than 32,000 people over the last week. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win) by Mohamed Ibrahim, Frankfurt I do not agree with the views of international media and their various news articles, for the last few months, on the conflicts between Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims. It is true that Rohingyas are majority in Maungdaw and Buthidaung while they are not more than 10% in Mrauk Oo , Minbya, Kyauk Phyu, Myae Bon and Pauk Taw. As such the claim by certain media groups that the Rohingyas that has been oppressed for many decades could attack the overwhelming majority Rakhines who have full support of state

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Thousands of Rakhine mobs led by Rakhine ruling political party – Rakhine Nationalities Development Party-(RNDP) had restarted mass attacking, burning and destruction of Muslims villages and houses, in Minbya, Mrauk Oo, Kyaukpru, Pauktaw, Ratheydaung, Myebone, and Kyauktaw Townships since October 21, 2012, according to joint statement of 11 national and international Rohingya organizations. “This was the second time of genocide and persecutions of Muslims in Arakan in 2012 by the RNDP led Buddhist Rakhine people including Buddhist Monks with the direct help and

                      A leading advocate for human rights in Burma argues that international ignorance of what  is                      happening in Rakhine State is a tragedy in itself. The  latest attacks against ethnic Rohingya , with thousands of homes destroyed and probably more than a thousand killed, have once again drawn attention to Rakhine State in Burma. International attention had largely moved on following the first large scale outburst of violence in June, but attacks against Rohingya hadn’t ended, they had just taken on a new form.

Egyptian Presidential Adviser Erian condemns feeble, inept international efforts to end the plight of Burma’s predominantly Muslim Rohingya people, who have suffered persistent prosecution for long months of continuous bloody massacres.  Dr. Essam El-Erian, Adviser to Egypt’s President Morsi, stressed that “it is a shame on the international community that it has so far failed to stop massacres against Muslims in Myanmar”.