The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Maungdaw,Arakan State:  The security forces – Police, Hluntin and Burma border securityforce (Nasaka) – are harassing Rohingya females while they areentering Maungdaw, according to a security officer fromMaungdaw. “The security forces charged the Rohingya females tocheck their body while they are entering to Maungdaw. The malesecurity personnel are checking the body of Rohingya females.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) will send a 30-ton cargo of humanitarian aid, including foodstuff and other basic needs, to Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims tonight, an IRCS official announced on Saturday. "A total of 30 tons foodstuff, including biscuits, milk, date, and canned food will be sent to help the people of Myanmar," Head of IRCS's Relief and Rescue Organization Mahmoud Mozaffar told FNA on Saturday. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  3000 Bangladeshi Rakhines were settled in Natala villages in Maungdaw south since end of the December, said a village administration officer. “The Maungdaw officials brought the Rakhines people who recently enter to Burma from Bangladesh, to the Natala villages along the Maungdaw- Alaythankyaw road.”

Phyo Wai Aung has been sentenced to death for alleged involvement in the Rangoon water festival bombing. (Photo: AHRC) Phyo Wai Aung, the man accused of carrying out a deadly bombing during the Burmese water festival in 2010, has died just months after his release from prison from an illness that went untreated while he was still in custody. Family members said he died at his home in Rangoon’s Kyauk Myaung Township at around 3 am on Friday. The 33-year-old engineer was sentenced to death in May of last year for his alleged role in a series of bombings that killed at least 10 people and injured around 100 others during festivities to mark Thingyan, the Burmese new year, in April 2010. He was subsequently released under a presidential pardon on Aug. 3, 2012.

Chittagong, Bangladesh:  The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) today called on Thai authorities to give United Nations refugee agencies unhindered access to Rohingya boat migrants, so that they can ascertain whether or not they are asylum seekers and if they are eligible for refugee status,” according to a AIPMC statement. Rohingya boat people near Bon Island in Phuket province “Thai authorities should suspend plans to deport at least 73 Rohingya migrants back to Burma.” “Thailand has a history of mistreatment of Rohingya refugees, and their push-back, or ‘help on’

Maungdaw, Arakan State:   The Maungdaw authority passed an order today to hold the border pass of Rohingya who are living in Ward number 3 and 5, according to village administration office member. Maungdaw Exit and entry point No.1 “The Rohingya – living in Ward number 3 and 5 – who denied to take digital fingerprints and photographs for registration  process with Bengali race.” The Burma border security force (Nasaka) entered today ward number 3 to collect so-called family population list with computerized digital fingerprints and photographs as Bengali which Rohingya community denied to register  and no one went to register with them, said a politician.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Three young cowboys were arrested by army on December 30, while grazing cows on paddy field – After harvesting – nearby their village of Maungdaw south, Arakan State, Burma, according to a close relative of the victims. “The arrested cowboys are identified as—Rashidullah (17), son of Mohamed Nazir, Rafique (16), son of Imam Hussain, hailed from Zaw Metet village and Jubair (20), son of Ahmed Sharif, hailed from Thayaigontan village.”