The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By PressTV December 29, 2013 Latest media reports show Rohingya women are forced into prostitution and sexual slavery at military bases across the Southeast Asian country. The reports say Myanmar's security forces kidnap Rohingya women and girls and put them to forced labor and prostitution in military bases. “The women have been beaten, drugged, and sexually assaulted by men wearing army fatigues,” media outlets quoted witnesses as saying. The Muslim minority in Myanmar continues to face increasing persecution and hardship. They have no social status in Myanmar as the government denies them citizenship rights. Those who flee Myanmar to neighboring countries, including Thailand, in hope of a better future face similar risks. International bodies and human rights organizations accuse the government of turning a blind eye to the violence against Rohingya women. The United Nations recognizes the Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as one of...

Buddhist monk U Wirathu Press TV December 28, 2013 Hundreds of Rohingya people have been killed; tens of thousands were forced from their homes and live as suffering refugees in Internal Displacement Camps (IDP's) where disease is rampant and food and shelter are scarce. "Terrorist" groups are frequently the banter of network news anchors and analysts; yet few in America devote time to the terrorists of Burma who have behaved treacherously toward the Muslim population for a year and a half now, due to old simmering hatreds and a desire among the majority population to live in a Buddhist only country. The Buddhist answer toward their frustration with having to live with Muslims, is most vividly expressed in the "969" movement led by a Buddhist monk named U Wirathu; which propagates false information that in turn damages the fragile existence of Muslims in this country that was locked down under a military junta for so many years. While all Musli...

MYARF  Report  |  Written by  M.S. Anwar December 28, 2013 (01:00 PM Myanmar Standard Time) Rvisiontv.com The Myoma Kyaung-Htaike (Myoma Monastery) where the 969 Terror Campaign is being held. Maungdaw, Arakan : A 969 Terror Wing from Yangon (Rangoon) arrived in Maungdaw this morning (i.e. on 28 th  December 2013 morning). Hundreds of Rakhine extremists thronged to the Myoma Kyaung-Htaike (Myoma Monastery) where the group’s campaign is being held. The terror group is suspected to have arrived to campaign to destablize the peaceful situation resurfacing in the region. “Authority announced this early morning that a * 969 Group  from Rangoon would arrive in Maungdaw today. So, Rakhine extremists started to attach 969 stickers in their homes and wear T-Shirts with 969 Logos. And they thronged to the Three-Mile Region to welcome the arriving 969 group. As soon as they arrived, they entered the Myoma Kyaung-Htaike (Myoma Monastery) in the downtown o...

By   Engy Abdelkader Huffington Post December 26, 2013 Amid continued communal strife in Myanmar, Muslim women and children are increasingly finding themselves in vulnerable situations that have yet to be adequately recognized and addressed. This post glimpses the related issue of human trafficking. By way of background, Burma's record on human trafficking has prompted the United States to place it on a Tier 2 Watch List for the past two years. The Watch List is reserved for countries that fail to comply with minimum standards -- from preventing trafficking to investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of the crime to protecting victims -- as set forth in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). In Myanmar, security forces have subjected both Muslim men and women to forced labor. Women, however, have been reportedly forced into prostitution and other forms of slavery as well. In fact, according to a U.S. Department of State 2012  human rights report , B...

By   UN News December 26, 2013 The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Thailand to drop criminal defamation charges against two journalists who wrote about the alleged involvement of the Thai Navy with human trafficking.  “Criminal prosecution for defamation has a chilling effect on freedom of the press,”  said  Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ( OHCHR ). “International standards are clear that imprisonment is never an appropriate penalty for defamation.”  Editor Alan Morison and reporter Chutima Sidasathian, who write for Phuketwan, a small English-language newspaper based on one of the Thai islands, cited a Reuters investigative report alleging the involvement of Thai naval security forces in smuggling Rohingya asylum-seekers fleeing Myanmar, where ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims have been clashing since last year.  Mr. Morison and...

By Alan Morison and Premkamon Ketsara Phuket Wan December 26, 2013 PHUKET: The Burmese Navy handed over a boatload of Rohingya men, women and children to people smugglers who killed 12 and savagely beat many others, survivors revealed today. The group of 139, discovered by residents in a rubber plantation north of Phuket last night, were recovering today after a harrowing 22-day voyage south to Thailand with little food and water. Mostly young men and teenagers, some of the children ranged from two, three and four years old.  Survivors showed recent scars from savage beatings to Phuketwan journalists at a community hall in the port of Kuraburi in Phang Nga province. They were being fed by a group of sympathetic local Muslims for the first time in days.  ''We were all facing death,'' one of the men told Phuketwan. ''The smugglers charged us each 200,000 kyat to make the trip. The boat was quite large and stopped along the way to pick up more passe...

By Nurul Islam  Salem-News.com December 23, 2013 In 2012, two eruptions of violence between Rohingyas and majority Buddhists in Rakhine State in western Myanmar killed at least 192 people and made 140,000 homeless. Rakhine Buddhists intent on eliminating Muslims are actually wearing the swastika in public (DHAKA, Bangladesh) - The Rohingya Muslim population is mostly concentrated in the three northern townships: Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung. The Rohingyas speak a Bengali dialect. They suffer from several forms of restrictions and human rights violations. The vast majority of them have effectively been denied Myanmar citizenship. The word ‘Rohingya’, it is claimed, was first suggested by Abdul Gaffar, an MP from Buthidaung, in his article ‘The Sudeten Muslims". Buddhist displays message of hate In 1978 the Burmese junta created a situation for the Arakanese Muslims that forced them leave their country for safety elsewhere. According to ...