The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Buthidaung, Arakan State:  The Judge court of Buthidaung sentenced to some Rohingyas from Buthidaung jail to 10-year imprisonment per each on October 29, who had been arrested by security forces after the June riots, said a relative of the victim on condition of anonymity. “The Rohingya villagers were arbitrarily arrested by police and Hluntin (riot police) after the June 8 riots between Rakhines and Rohingyas in Maungdaw Township.” “The arrestees (prisoners) were produced two to three times in the court and asked no questions from them. They have no rights to say anything and did not make any interrogation from the witness.”

Mrauk- U, Arakan State:  The humanitarian aids are needed to supply urgent in the village of Zula Para ( a Rohingya village) of Maruk- U as the condition of village is very serious of foods crises , according to a villager of Maruk- U. “ In our village, we had 430 houses before burning by Rakhine mobs on October 23 and now we have only 7 houses remaining.”

01/11/2012 Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is calling on the international community to invoke the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principle, in light of the Burmese Government’s failure to end the conflict in Arakan State, western Burma, between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. Under the principle of ‘Responsibility to Protect’, which is aimed at halting Mass Atrocity Crimes such as ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, the international community has a responsibility to help states fulfil their responsibility to protect their citizens.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:   Two ministers of Thein Sein government had stated two different statements on Rohingya rights issue in Burma, according to a politician who didn’t want to mention his name. “In an interview with The Hindu newspaper, Burma’s information minister, U Aung Kyi, said his government is working towards a “win-win solution for all stakeholders” and acknowledged that the statelessness of its Rohingya Muslim minority is a key cause of its suffering in the country, according to Telegraph.co.uk on November 1, 2012.”

Burma Campaign UK today called on the British government to work for UN mandated international observers to be stationed in Rakhine (Arakan) State, Burma, following almost five months of violence, arrests, and restrictions on humanitarian assistance to Burma’s ethnic Rohingya minority. Burma Campaign UK has written to British Foreign Secretary William Hague asking him to make the placement of UN mandated international observers the main British policy objective in response to what have become systematic attacks against the Rohingya.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burmese authorities have ordered people from Arakan – conflict areas- of western Burma to surrender guns, swords and other weapons to the police within three days or face legal action, according to the state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper today.

Burma has acknowledged the persecution of its stateless Rohingya Muslim minority and is considering giving citizenship to thousands of members of the group as a first step to finding a solution to the conflict with local Rakhine Buddhists.  A Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he stands in front of a house that was burnt during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities Photo: REUTERS The government's search for a 'win-win' solution to the conflict between the two groups follows a new outbreak of violence last week in which attacks by Buddhist mobs left 89 dead and forced more than 28,000 to flee their homes. An estimated 130 Rohingya refugees from the violence are missing off the coast of Bangladesh after their boat sank while heading to