The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Monk Wirathu Seen with Ex-General Khin Nyut Recently After five decades when Myanmar dictatorial regime has to step down unwillingly due to international pressings, in 2008, the notorious dictator Junta Than Shwe held referendum throughout the state with his adopted Hitlerite fiddles senior talented militaristic officials to rule the state militaristically as quasicivilian regime. To implement perpetually the ancient pre-planned propaganda against Muslims, in particular, Rohingya across the country that were unwillingly postponed amidst ongoing democracy transition from military transition, the histrionic military backed president Thein Sein triggered continual riots with some Buddhist ultra-nationalists, as well as  in corporation, with Buddhist radical monks and racialistic Buddhist youth clubs. Then, the president empowered the Rakhine terrorists with all the necessary tasks conspiring with the current Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) not only to massacr...

ANADOLU AGENCY July 24, 2013 Young Turks used every means possible to take care of needs of Rohingya people settled in various parts of Melbourne  Turkish youth in Australian province Melbourne embraced the Rohingya Muslims who fled the humanity tragedy in Myanmar. A group of 20 young Turks used every means possible to take care of the needs of Rohingya people settled in various parts of the city including providing food, clothing, furniture and money. Apart from all the initiatives to collect money, the group hosted a fast breaking meal and charity night where they called on families to foster for a Rohingya family. Adem Temel, organizer of the charity group, drew a similarity between Rohingya Muslims and the migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina, adding that they should act like the Ansar, "helpers" and embrace the displaced Rohingyans. Nur Alum, a Rohinya Muslim who has fled the violen...

Grant Bayldon The New Zealand Herald July 24, 2013 Getting tough is not the answer: Australia and NZ must work with Asian nations to help, writes Grant Bayldon.   Asylum seekers can end up in desperate conditions in receiving countries. (Photo/AP) The Asia Pacific region is probably the worst part of the world to be a refugee in. Not only does it have more refugees, it has less protection for them than anywhere else in the world. This month while in Thailand, I visited Rohingya women and children who had fled from appalling atrocities in Burma. I should be used to hearing such stories by now, working for Amnesty International, but the stories are always so far removed from my life in New Zealand that I don't think I ever will be. These women had been so desperate to escape that they had fled to Thailand, a terrifying three-week journey in a small open fishing boat packed with 100 people. Some were pregnant - one delivered her baby on the boat. All had...

Chit Thura Ko Ko, a Myanmar political prisoner who was released from Insein Prison after receiving amnesty from Myanmar's President Thein Sein, talks to journalists outside the entrance of the prison Tuesday, July 23, 2013, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar started releasing nearly 70 political prisoners Tuesday, just days after the president promised during a European tour to free all who remain behind bars by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win) UN News Centre July 23, 2013 23 July 2013  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the release of 73 political prisoners in Myanmar yesterday, as well as the announcement by the country’s leader that the rest will be freed by the end of the year. Hundreds of political prisoners have been released, including some 650 in January 2012, since President Thein Sein initiated a series of reforms two years ago following the establishment of a new Government. He stated during a recent visit to Europe that all remaining prisoners ...

Displaced Rohingya in Rakhine State. PHOTO: Evangelos Petratos/EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection/Flickr By Kay Zin Oo Mizzima News July 23, 2013 Myanmar’s Minister of Immigration and Population Khin Yi told reporters on July 21 that his office has requested assistance from Islamic leaders and international organizations in collating the names and numbers of Muslim refugees from the communal violence that plagued Rakhine State last year. Minister Khin Yi said, “We asked for help from Islamic leaders and international organizations to persuade the Bengali [Rohingya] people to accept the work being conducted. Many refuse to collaborate with the authorities, but accept the non-government bodies and international organizations.” He said that they must finish this head count in Rakhine State before a nationwide census which is scheduled to be conducted from March 30 to April 10, 2014. “Conducting a census has nothing to do with the military or politics,” he ...

Zawbader Hattu, 31 (left), sitting at a government-run shelter for women and children in Phang Nga in southern Thailand, on June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj   Thomson Reuters Foundation July 23, 2013 PHANG NGA, Thailand - Record numbers of stateless Rohingya Muslims are fleeing Myanmar following  two bouts of sectarian violence last year  that left scores dead and some 140,000 displaced, most of them Muslims. Estimates on the number of people leaving on boats from the Bay of Bengal between June 2012 and May 2013 range from 27,000 to nearly 35,000 - the biggest exodus in years. Some passengers were from Bangladesh but most were  Rohingya , who have lived in Myanmar for generations but are denied citizenship.  Zawbader Hattu, 31, was one of them. Detained in a government-run shelter in southern Thailand with about 60 other women and children since February, she told Thomson Reuters Foundation why she left Myanmar.  “The main re...

KPN News: July 22, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State: The authority from Arakan State used new tactic after dissolving the Burma border security force (Nasaka), but policemen and Para police (Hluntin) are arbitrary arresting and harassing the Rohingya people in Maungdaw south, said a local elder on condition of anonymity. Four Rohingya were arrested from Donkhali village by police and Hluntin personnel from Bodawpara police outpost, over the allegation that they were using Bangladeshi mobile phone on July 18, according to villagers. However, the four Rohingya – Amir Hussain (17), son of Eliyas, Sadek (20), son of Kobir, and another two – released after taking Kyat 400,000. There was no file for arrested and detained in the police out post. The police and Hluntin used this method for extorting money from Rohingya community in northern Arakan, said an aide of police outpost. “We believe that the harassment will be decreased after central government dissolved Burma border secur...