The Stateless Rohingya Blog

South African peace activist Desmond Tutu speaks at the Baldwin Library in Rangoon on Feb. 27, 2013. (Photo: Kyaw Phyo Tha / The Irrawaddy) The Irrawaddy February 27, 2013 RANGOON — South African peace activist Desmond Tutu called on Burma’s leaders to embrace the idea that “freedom is cheaper than oppression” during his first visit to the country, and pressed them to end violence against Rohingyas and other minorities. Speaking on Wednesday at Rangoon’s Baldwin Library, run by the US embassy, Tutu laced his talk with coded references to the ongoing racist attacks against Rohingya Muslims and wars in ethnic areas, which he said threatened a “new apartheid.” “If you want to truly be free then it must be all of you together,” he told the 100-strong audience that included former political prisoners, ethnic leaders and monks who spearhead the 2007 Saffron Revolution. “Very many people around the world have held you in their hearts, have prayed for you and continue to do so,” h...

The Independent UK February  27, 2013 By Emanuel Stoakes The international community has been shamefully unresponsive to this crisis The news last week that around a hundred refugees from Burma had slowly starved to death after 25 days at sea may have shocked those unfamiliar with the current state of affairs in Asia’s newest ostensible democracy. The harrowing  reports more recently of mass rapes, involving torture, in the country’s western Rakhine state will likely have had a similar impact. But to those who have been keeping up with the daily reports of intimidation, harassment and violence directed at ethnic minorities in Burma news of these latest horrors was heartbreaking, but unsurprising. It was likewise grimly un-startling to read that in both cases the victims were from the most vulnerable of all ethnic groups in the country, the imperiled and desperate Rohingya minority. This is because the Rohingya are perhaps Asia’s most vulnerable r...

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Natala (New settlers) villagers – -living along the Maungdaw – Alay Thankyaw highway road- torched thatch fields from mountain near the Natala villages and Rohingya villages on February 12,, said a Rohinya – an owner of a thatch field – on condition of anonymity. “A group of Natala villagers -settled by the concerned authorities – went to mountain and torched the thatch fields which were belong to Rohingyas community.” Mostly thatch fields from mountain are belonging to Gawdhu Sawra,Du Nyaung Pin Gyi ( Dong Khali),  Noapara, Sarcombo and Thayai Gonetan(Knonena para) of Maungdaw south, said a farmer on condition of anonymity The farmer also said that Rohingya community is facing difficult to cut thatches from the mountain side as all the thatches field are burned down. Some thatches fields are in the mountains side, but the Natala didn’t allow the Rohingya to cut the thatches and disturbing the Rohingya who went to the mountain. “Rohingya c...

Enlarge: Ethnic Rohingya boat people from Burma sit at Malahayati harbour after they were rescued in the Indonesia's Aceh province on February 16, 2011. © 2011 Reuters By AFP + DVB   27 February 2013 Fishermen have rescued more than 100 ethnic Rohingya asylum seekers from Burma who were found drifting in a wooden boat off western Indonesia, an official said Wednesday. The 121 Rohingya, including six women and two children, were found adrift late Tuesday by fishermen around 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the village of Cot Trueng, on the northernmost tip of Sumatra island in Aceh province. “Their boat ran out of petrol as they tried to sail from Myanmar [Burma] to Thailand,” village chief Mukhtar Samsyah told AFP , adding that they had fled Burma to escape sectarian conflict. He said the Rohingya were found in a weak condition but had recovered after being given food, water and a place to sleep. “They’ve all been sent to an immigration detent...

Rohingya boat people under arrest on the Andaman coast Photo by supplied police photo By RSIS  Eurasia Review  February 26, 2013  The exodus of many Rohingya over the past year has brought increased international awareness to their plight, as well as Southeast Asia’s inability to deal effectively with forced migration. A regional approach is needed to find a durable solution to the influx of Rohingya boat people. By Eliane Coates SINCE THE communal clashes began in Arakan State in June 2012, the scale of Rohingya fleeing by boat to neighbouring Southeast Asian countries has increased significantly. According to a reliable source from the human rights organisation The Arakan Project, it is estimated 19,500 registered and unregistered Rohingya, including some Bangladeshis, have fled by boat from Bangladesh and North Arakan State, with an estimated 100 people having drowned during the process. With an estimated 115,000 people in Arakan displaced...

Fundamentally, the earth has been designated with full of varieties of creatures having mixed-colored   as dwelling at ease only for the super creature, human beings. Human beings deserved super dignity by birth naturally .The Creator Himself witnessed that the most good-looking creature on the earth surface is the only one: human being. Every human being both male and female is equal in the sight of God except the deeds. The main intention of creation human beings and jinns is to worship the God alone without any associates. According to the sacred teachings of glorious Quran we learnt that to let know the law to the man kinds particularly how to lead the life He, God sent the final Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) with final revelation Quran. There are two types of rights which are mandatory on us to fulfill strictly without any excuse for every individual: 1. rights of God, 2. rights of slave  and   two types of compulsory  duty : 1. Individual compulsory duty ...

ERC delegation from KSA branch has visited OIC head quarter in Jeddah today and held important discussion with Dr. Sulaiman Al Quid and Dr. Zakaria Adam Ahamed. ERC delegates comprised of Mr. Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Rauf along with Mr. Abu Islam from Jaliyat attended the meeting where the delegates oriented OIC representatives on the current catastrophic situation faced by Rohingya in Arakan state of Burma and Bangladesh.  Mr. Jafer Al Shomry gave the introduction of ERC and told that it is a legitimate non-profit umbrella organization based in Europe, and advancing towards its goals of restoring basic human and political rights of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar (Burma) with cooperation with the government agencies and NGOs worldwide. In this connection ERC delegates requested cooperation and political help from the OIC. The delegates also requested to open a OIC’s liaison office in Chittagong Bangladesh which can work for Rohingya both in Arakan and Bangladesh....