The Stateless Rohingya Blog

( Burma Times ) BY Maung Hla Myint - According to the villagers of Atwin Nga Tay village tract, City peace and development council (Ma-Ya-Ka) and land registry has released notification to submit petition for the confiscated Rohingya land. The land was confiscated for the battalions and pagoda in 1988 and 1994. There were hundreds of acre land that was confiscated for battalions and one hundred acre for the pagoda that is located in Dom Pine village, a Buddhist village near the Kin Daung village tract. In fact it was belonged to Kin Daung villagers. The land which was seized for the pagoda was allocated two acre to every family of the Dom Pine villagers (Buddhists) in last may. Incredibly, the City peace & development council and land registry have sent letters to the village administrator of kin Daung about submitting petition for the confiscated land of kin Daung villagers before second December. The petition Is for those hundred acre land which are locating a...

Report by Maung Thein Zaw, Sallam Oic Group  |  Written by M.S. Anwar November 21, 2013 Kyauktaw, Arakan:  Three innocent Rohingyas in Kyauktaw township were alleged of raping and killing a minor Rakhine girl and  subsequently  arrested on 18 th  November 2013. However, the actual criminal who  had  committed the crime was a Rakhine from the village of Kya-Nyo-Pin of the same township. The detailed account of the case and an interview with a Rohingya in Kyauktaw are mentioned below. Ma Mimi Nge (Age 6) Raped and Killed by a cruel Rakhine extremist. Extremist Monks are taking advantage of her unfortunate death and spreading propaganda to incite violence against Muslims. (Photo: FB of an Extremist Monk, U Nya Na) “At around 9PM on 18 th  November 2013, Shwe San Aung (Age 29) (from the village of Kya-Nyo-Pin of the Kyauktaw township) luredMa Mimi Nge (Age 6), fourth daughter of U Shwe Aung (father) and Daw Moe...

BY KPN November 20, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan State : A team of immigration with security forces- Army and Hluntin- started removing Rohingya from their family lists who are not present at the time since November 18, Rofique told the Kaladanpress from Khonzabill village under Maundaw Township.  The security forces are seen as going to operation while the Immigration went to check the Rohingya family lists in the village. The Immigration officers with village admin called  and ordered the villagers to bring their family lists where the immigration officers removed the person from list who are not present  which seen the authority are doing systematic reducing Rohingya population in the area, said Halim (not real name) , a  Human Rights watch dog from Maungdaw. The security forces are opening a pathway to the Rohingya who want to go Malaysia by risky boat, taking tolls from them. It is a kind of program to reduce Rohingya population, harassing the Rohingya...

By Esther Htusan November 21, 2013 A year after Buddhist mobs forced almost all members of the minority Rohingya Muslim community from this northwestern Myanmar city, creating a state-sanctioned sectarian divide, thousands of children while away their long, empty days in dusty displacement camps. Because Rohingya children are no longer welcome in many government schools, the so-called Rohingya Village Madrassa on the outskirts of Sittwe has opened its doors to some of those boys and girls, teaching not just Islamic studies, as it did in the past, but Burmese and English. In this Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a Muslim boy learns the Quran by rote at Rohingya Village Madrassa in The’ Chaung Village on the outskirts of Sittwe in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Because Rohingya children are no longer welcome in many government schools, the so-called Rohingya Village Madrassa has opened its doors to some of those boys and girls, teaching not just Islamic studies, as it did in the past, but Burmese...

A police officer stands near a mosque, which was burnt during a riot between Buddhist and Muslims in Lashio, Shan state on 29 May 2013. (Reuters) By AFP   November 20, 2013 Burma police said on Wednesday they had arrested three people suspected of planning bomb attacks on mosques, as the country grapples with religious tensions after waves of anti-Muslim violence. The suspects are all Buddhist men from the western state of Rakhine [Arakan], where two bouts of unrest last year left scores dead and some 140,000 displaced, mainly Rohingya Muslims. “They were planning to plant bombs at mosques, after attending training on the border in Karen state,” a police official in Rangoon told AFP on condition of anonymity, referring to the country’s eastern frontier. He said authorities were continuing to investigate the “ongoing case”. Burma remains tense after eruptions of religious conflict that have killed around 250 people and cast a shadow over much-praised polit...

Report by Aung Aung | Written by M.S. Anwar November 19, 2013 rvisiontv.com Buthidaung, Arakan - At 6:35PM on 17th November 2013, a gang of Rakhine hooligans beat up a Rohingya at the village of Pun-Chaung in Buthidaung Township for no reason. As a result, the victim got severe injuries and lost conciousness. “At 6:35PM on 17th November 2013, Rakhine hooligans led by Maung Hla Myint (son of) U Tin Aung surrounded and severely beat up a Rohingya called Zafar Hussain (son of) Noor Hussain (Age 25) at the village of Pun-Chaung, Buthidaung Township. He got fainted and lost conciousness consequently and people tried to get him admitted to Buthidaung General Hospital. However, the doctor in charge of the hospital denied the victim of admission to the hospital saying “Rakhine authority has instructed us to not treat any Kular here.” Now, the victim is under the care of Dr. Bashir, a Rohingya physician. The Rakhine hooligan leader was from the village of Pun-Chaung and the beaten ...

The majority of Rohingya in Bangladesh live in informal settlements, slums, or communities, with limited or no assistance. According to UNHCR, there are more than 200,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees in the country © Kyle Knight/IRIN By IRIN November 19, 2013 COX’S BAZAR - Limited humanitarian access continues to have an adverse effect on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh. Aid workers and activists say Rohingya communities fear that what little support they have might disappear as a result of threats made by the Bangladeshi government to further limit humanitarian activities.  “When we hear the humanitarians might leave I feel really bad. Whatever [medical] treatment and support we get, we wouldn’t get it anymore,” said Munrul Indrus, a Rohingya employee of an international humanitarian organization in the Cox’s Bazar area, who declined to give his real name. “At least now we have a latrine and running water and som...