The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Members of a Muslim family react to the loss of a relative who died in the recent spate of violence in Thapyu Kyain village, outside of Thandwe. (Photo: Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun) By Fayas  KPN News  October 10, 2013 In the background of recent violence (0n October 1, 2) in Sandoway Town, Arakan (Rakhine) State, the continuous persecution of Kamans has made news again. Unfortunately, it is becoming all-to-familiar a tale. This time, majority Buddhist community showed their wrath over a news item that a Muslim shopkeeper had verbally abused a Buddhist taxi driver as he was trying to park outside his shop. People point out, how deeply rooted communal tensions are and the increasing likelihood small brawls turning into bloody riots. In recent violence in Sandoway Township, even as the President Thein  Sein came to western Burma’ to urge and end to sectarian violence, security forces---police and military--- could not prevent  Buddhist mobs from torching ...

A.F.M. Khairul Basher  The Daily Star October 9, 2013 IN the backdrop of recent violence in Rakhine province, the incessant persecution of Rohingyas has made news again. Unfortunately, it is becoming all-to-familiar a tale. This time, majority Buddhist community showed their rage over a news item that a Muslim shopkeeper had verbally abused a Buddhist taxi driver as he was trying to park outside his shop. This, political analysts say, indicates how deeply-rooted communal tensions are and the increasing likelihood of small scuffles turning into bloody riots. Bangladesh, having sea and land border with Myanmar, needs to draw due attention of the international community to this issue through diplomatic channels. The Bangladesh government must have means to identify Rohingyas for security reasons, and deal with the issue considering national interest and the human rights charter. On the diplomatic front, the UN and OIC along with leading countries like China and US...

The Buddhist Rakhine consider Muslim Rohingya to be Bengalis and have directed most of the sectarian bloodshed at them, writes Francis Wade [EPA] By  Francis Wade Al Jazeera October 9, 2013 Myanmar's president made his first trip to the violence-hit town of Thandwe last week, days after a  94-year-old Muslim woman was slain by Buddhists  in a nearby village. Spurred on by an unrelated argument between a Muslim political leader and a Buddhist taxi driver two days prior, a mob approached her home in a nearby village on October 1. Her daughter managed to escape, but returned to find a charred house and a mother with cuts to her neck, head and stomach.  The state-run New Light of Myanmar later quoted President Thein Sein as saying that he had suspicions about the nature of the Thandwe attacks, where close to 100 houses were razed. "Ethnic Rakhine [Buddhists] and ethnic Kaman [Muslims] have been living here in peaceful co-existence for many years,” he s...

An ethnic Rohingya boy and woman eat at a camp for displaced Muslim families in Arakan State. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) By Nyein Nyein Irrawaddy News October 8, 2013 RANGOON — The UN agency for children’s rights has called for an end to communal violence in west Burma, where clashes last week between Muslims and Buddhists left hundreds of people homeless.   Unicef issued a statement on Tuesday urging an end to violence in Arakan State, following the third major wave of communal violence to hit the state since last year. The clashes last week near the southern town of Thandwe left five people dead and destroyed some 110 homes.   In the two waves of unrest last year—elsewhere in Arakan State, in June and October—more than 140,000 people were displaced, and more than 105,000 were children affected by the violence, according to statistics from Unicef, which is providing aid locally.   “We are concerned the inter-communal violence is spreading ...

( Burma times ) by Ibrahim Shah – “Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! In Burma, isn’t it: Alas! What—? “To disband the pernicious virus that interrupts fragile reform in Burma—the newly registered neo-Nazi party known as Rakhine Nationalities Development party (RNDP) that has founded by a gang of pernicious viruses of racists in 2010—.” It is critically important for a scrutinous analysis or observation concerning the current perpetual strife against Rohingya, Kaman, Ka Bya, Burma Muslim that is a great challenge or obstacle for the country’s fragile reform which earned a bad reputation  since June 2012 as the country failed to protect its ethnic minorities due to  lack of rules of law for the ethnic minorities in particular while so called fragile reform is going on. After the stepped down of the notorious Hitlerite Burmese Junta in 2010, on the double, another pernicious virus party known as neo-Nazi  RNDP that is deadly worse than the ex-generals was founded by some...

A protestor demonstrates near Shwedagon pagoda in Rangoon on 15 October 2012. (DVB) By Aye Nai DVB News Two locals from the Arakan capital Sittwe have been sentenced to three months in jail for staging an unauthorised protest against a Turkish government-backed plan to build housing for displaced Rohingyas. “We learnt that Nyo Aye and Kyaw Soe were each sentenced to three months in prison by the court around noon today [Tuesday],” said Khine Pray Soe, general secretary of the Rakhine Nationalities Development, adding that they had repeatedly requested permission to stage a protest from the authorities. “They sought permission with local authorities to demand that [the government] only build houses for those who are verified as citizens under the 1982 Citizenship Law,” said Khine Pray Soe, referring to the legislation which renders most Muslim Rohingyas stateless. It followed reports in March that the Turkish government had offered to help build 5,000 houses for...

KPN News October 07, 2013   Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Police accompanied by Hluntin (riot police) made arbitrary arrest and extorted money from Rohingya villagers in Maungdaw Township without finding any fault, a businessman named Liyakat Ali (not real name) said from Maungdaw.  “Moulana Abdullah,41; son of Rashid Ahmed, hailed from Nari Bill south of Maungdaw Township, was called by police and Hluntin when he was walking on the road nearby the out-post camp on October 5, at around 11:00pm. The Maulana was kept in a room and tortured by police and Hluntin without giving any allegation after entered to the outpost camp.”                When the victim asked why he was tortured severely, the Hluntin replied that--- “You, Moulana (religious leaders) become eye-sores of us.” Md. Jalil (not  real name), a close relative of the victim said.  However, he was released after taking a big cock. A big cock was c...