The Stateless Rohingya Blog

A group of Rohingya Muslims are seen at a camp in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. (File photo) Human Rights Watch says new satellite images reveal that Buddhist extremists in Myanmar carried out attacks against the Rohingya Muslims with the support of state security forces and local government officials in October. The rights agency said on Saturday that the local security forces killed Muslim villagers and assaulted people trying to flee the violence in the western state of Rakhine in late October. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Arbitrary extortion money is being increased by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) from Rohingya villagers in Maungdaw Township is unbearable for the villagers, a Rohingya elder from Maungdaw north on condition of anonymity.    “On November 6, a group of Nasaka personnel from Aung Min Gala Nasaka out-post, under the Nasaka Headquarters or Nasaka area No.6 went to Maung Nama village tract of the same Nasaka area and arrested many villagers without any accusation and asked them to pay money to be released.”

Ukhiya Cox's Bazar:  A Protest for Rohingya repatraition and resistance Rohingya entry in Bangladesh is held on 18-11-2012 by Rohingya Resistance Committee (RRC) in Kutupalong refugee Bazar wherein many media and channel were present.  During the meeting the leader of present govt Hamidul Hoque Chudary who is the p resident of Rohingya Resistance Committee (RRC) urged to government to resistance the entry of Rohingya and start the repatraition as soon as possible. 

Myanmar's President Thein Sein (Asahi Shimbun file photo) YANGON, MYANMAR   — Myanmar's president has pledged to consider new rights for the stateless Rohingya minority ahead of a landmark visit by President Barack Obama, but stopped short of a full commitment that citizenship and other new freedoms would be granted. In a letter sent to the United Nations on Friday, President Thein Sein made conciliatory remarks that condemned the "senseless violence" in western Rakhine state between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya.

The European Commission is increasing by one million euros its funding for victims of recent inter-communal violence in Rakhine state in Burma/Myanmar. Thousands of people have been left homeless by the fresh outbreak. The extra €1 million will be used to provide food to the victims and will be implemented by the World Food Programme, which is already active in the area. Today’s announcement brings the total Commission's humanitarian funding in 2012 for helping the people of Rakhine State to €8 million. More than 110,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since June, mostly Rohingya Muslims.

Democracy or hypocrisy?  Although a normal person like me doesn’t deserve to point to a person recognized by the world as ‘peace icon’ and called ‘Mother’ by a nation of 60 million sometimes and ‘aunt’ sometimes, I believe the situation of rapes of hundreds of virgins, killing of thousands of innocents, being refugee of about 100,000 person in their own homeland and burning of thousands of houses, mosques and properties into ashes justifies my writing here few words. Here is a NLD membership card signed by the Lady. Let me translate it first for non-Burmese speakers. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State : The Rohingyas internal displace peoples (IDPs) who fled from Rathedaung Township to Oo Daung and Kyack Pandu villages of Maungdaw during the ethnic cleansing  in June, are needing tents and warm cloth, said an elder from IDPs. “We are living under the leaves and bunches and now the winter is entering, so we need tents and warm cloth- blankets- to save ourselves.”