The Stateless Rohingya Blog

                                          Anti-Rohingya rally kutupalong,Ukhiya photo 2010 Teknaf, Bangladesh: A group of locals including Member Mohamed Ali of Upazila Phorishat (UP) – village admin member- are protesting against the INGOs who are working in the Nayapara camp, said a schoolteacher from the Nayapara camp. “ They protested against the INGOs because some local staffs were expelled from their jobs from INGOs on January 8. But, INGOs are trying to recruit some refugees to replace against the local posts.”

Former Asean Secretary General Dr Surin Pitsuwan on Phuket last yearPhoto by phuketwan.com/file By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian Thursday, January 10, 2013   PHUKET: Indonesia is interceding in Burma as the Asean partners desperately try to stem international damage from years of Asean subterfuge and inaction on the Rohingya issue. Dr Surin Pitsuwan, who has just retired after five years as Secretary General of the 10-nation group, told   Phuketwan  today that human rights in Burma was an issue that had to be addressed.

Children being treated today inside the people smugglers' campPhoto by Metee Mooktaree By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison Thursday, January 10, 2013 PHUKET: Thai authorities raided a secret transit camp for Rohingya on the border with Malaysia today, apprehending 366 men, women and children and seven alleged people traffickers.  Sixty-two of those being held were aged under 15 with three babies less than a year old, and 11 women, local police said. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State : Bogyi Wi Myo Pyain, commander and head of NaSaKa camp based no-24 Kyein Chaung village tract (Boli Bazar),under region-4 has been looking for Hafez-Nurul Haque s/o Md Husain aged 39 hailed from Kyein Chaung village tract since three months over the false accusation that he uses Bangladeshi mobile  phone . However, as he refrained getting out, he had not been caught. But when he came out yesterday to participate in census check-up process (carried out by Na-Sa-Ka twice a year which is a must for Rohingyas only, unless they will be delisted from the census), coincidentally he was arrested by the Na-Sa-Kas lead by the above mentioned officer and placed under detention cell till they succeeded to extort 350000Ks from this poor victim.

by Salman Haidar THE UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Mr Guterres, on a recent visit to India, was lavish in his praise for India’s treatment of refugees. In this season of discontent, where so much has gone wrong and only disgruntlement about public policy is being voiced, his words are a rare acknowledgement of something good in Indian practice.   India has long been a haven for the displaced and threatened from its neighbourhood, many of whom have been assimilated and become a virtually indistinguishable part of the larger society, while others have retained their distinctiveness and historic way of life, in either case able to live here without anxiety about the morrow.

In this photo taken Jan.1, 2013, Rohingya refugees sit in a boat as they are intercepted by Thai authorities off the sea in Phuket, southern Thailand. (AP Photo)  Phil Robertson, Sunai Phasuk, Brad Adams, John Sifton (Human Rights Watch) Source  The Nation January 9, 2013 The Thai government should immediately halt its plan to deport 73 ethnic Rohingya back to Myanmar. Thai authorities should allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee agency, unhindered access to these and other boat migrants from Myanmar's Arakan State, to determine whether they are seeking asylum and whether they are qualified for refugee status. 

Source The Nation: January 9, 2013 Jakarta - The Rohingya Muslim minority group in western Myanmar needs long-term support to recover from recent sectarian violence, the Indonesian foreign minister said Wednesday after a visit to the area. "We must quickly move beyond emergency response," Marty Natalegawa said. "The people in the affected area are showing resilience, they are showing constant willingness to recover quickly, but they need crops to harvest and seeds to grow." Natalegawa on Monday visited areas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state affected by last year’s communal violence between the minority Rohingyas and the majority Buddhist population.