The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Mayupress: April 9, 2013 The article by Mohamed Ibrahim Frankfurt I do not agree with the views of international media and their various news articles, for the last few months, on the conflicts between Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims. It is true that Rohingyas are majority in Maungdaw and Buthidaung while they are not more than 10% in Mrauk Oo , Minbya, Kyauk Phyu, Myae Bon and Pauk Taw. As such the claim by certain media groups that the Rohingyas that has been oppressed for many decades could attack the overwhelming majority Rakhines who have full support of state apparatus, is totally absurd and is very unfortunate for the suffering Rohingyas. One should ask himself and use commonsense before publishing such destructive news articles. Many Rohingya Organizations around the world are demanding UN intervention to provide UN security forces because they are helpless and do not possess any mean to defend themselves from this well-coordinated plan of genocide...

SahilOnline News: April 10, 2013 Delhil: Indian Muslim organizations and human rights bodies today demonstrated near Myanmar embassy in the capital against the non- stop violation of human rights, atrocities and inhuman cruel activities meted out on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Indian Muslim organisations and civil society under the banner of an umbrella body of Muslim organisations All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) today condemned the Burmese government in the strongest terms for its inaction and collaboration to stop violence against, and expulsion of, its minority Rohingya population in the Rakhine [Arakan] state. The demonstration was planned in front of Myanmar Embassy in Chankyapuri Delhi but Delhi police stopped Muslim leaders and protesters at Teen Morti Marg, near Chankyapuri police station. Therefore, protesters were forced to express their protest merely in front of Chankyapuri police station near embassy, instead of Myanmar Embassy. -We ...

Maungdaw, Arakan State: More than 200 Bangladeshi Buddhists were settled in Maungdaw north on April 9, according to an elder from Maungdaw who denied to mention his name. “The Bangladeshi Buddhists were first given settler in Alodawpey monastery by the Maungdaw high officials – U Kyi San, Township administration officer and U Aung Myint Soe, District administration officer- when the Bangladeshi Buddhists arrived from Bangladesh Hill tract to Maungdaw on April 6.” The Bangladeshi Buddhist are being settled in the villages of Kha Maung Zeik and Taungbro where the authority confiscated arable lands of Rohingyas. The authority also giving houses to them with some arable lands, said a village admin officer from Maungdaw north. “The authority built the houses by forced labors of  Rohingya community near the areas for Bangladeshi settlers. Rohingyas lost their lands and also had to pay forced labor for new settlers.” The Bangladeshi Buddhist settlers are living in the hillside wi...

Ahlul Bayt News Agency: April 9, 2013 Expressing solidarity with the victims, an Indian Muslim leader Tuesday urged the UN to play a pivotal role in stopping the violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Dr. Zafrul Islam Khan, President of All India Muslim Majlis Mushawwarat (AIMMM) said: “The root of the problem is the racist attitude of the government of Myanmar that does not recognize them as its own citizen. As the result, the atrocities committed on Rohingya Muslims seems planned, and organized. The involvement of Myanamr government in widespread bloodshed and destruction could not be ruled out”. Noting that the Myanmar government has systematically persecuted the Rohingya Muslims for years, stripping them of their basic rights and subjecting them to poverty and oppression, the AIMMM leader urged the UN to intervene immediately and pressurize the Myanmarese government to stop the persecution of the Rohingya minor...

Facing a long stay: Detainees at an immigration detention centre in Belawan, North Sumatra. Photo: AP Jakarta Post: April, 9, 2013 A number of Rohingya refugees currently living in the Pasar III temporary shelter on Jl.Jamin Ginting, Medan, North Sumatra, have asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to immediately resettle them in a third country. M.Habib, 43, one of Rohingya refugees in Medan, said on Monday that he had never made a problem out of which third country they would be resettled to. This issue would fully depend on the UNHCR’s policy because it was the only institution that had been dealing with issues concerning the Rohingya refugees so far, he added. “The most important thing for us is how we can find a way to not live in the temporary shelter anymore,” said Habib as quoted by Antara news agency. He said the Rohingya refugees in Medan had been living in the city’s temporary shelter for about two to four years. “It’s very...

By AP News April 8, 2013 FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Members of one of the largest U.S. communities of Burma immigrants held a demonstration Sunday to call attention to sectarian violence targeting Muslims in the Southeast Asian nation. About 100 former Burma residents who resettled in the Fort Wayne area gathered outside the Allen County Courthouse to protest the violence in their homeland, officially known as Myanmar. Ex-refugee AyeMin Zaphun tells WANE-TV the protest was called to spread awareness about the Burma government and extremist Buddhists who are targeting Muslims. Dozens of people were killed last month when violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims shook the central Burma city of Meikhtila. And a pre-dawn fire Tuesday at a religious dormitory at a mosque complex killed 13 children. Authorities blamed the fire on an electrical short circuit, but some Muslims in Burma have said the fire was set intentionally. “We want the world to know t...

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) is using new tactics to extort money from Rohingya villagers in Arakan State, said a local villager (Abdu, not real name).  “A group of Nasaka personnel from Shilkhali Nasaka-out-post of Maungdaw south went to Khonza Bill (village) and arrested three villagers over the allegation that they crossed the Burma- Bangladesh border on April 5.” The arrested were identified as— Habib Ullah (40), son of Mohameddu, Tazumuluk (55), son of Mohamed Amin and Jaker (50), son of Abu Shama. They all belong to   Khonza Bill village under Aley Than Kyaw village tract of Maungdaw south. The Nasaka personnel forcibly entered their houses at night after breaking the doors and arrested. After arrest, they were severely beaten up on the spot. It is the normal action by the Nasaka to show their relatives to get money quickly, said a relative of an arrestee. However, they were brought to the Shilkhali Nasaka out- post under ...