The Stateless Rohingya Blog

AP Photo By Bill O’Toole   Myanmar Times April 07, 2014 Criticism of Myanmar’s census hit fever pitch last week when residents of Rakhine State were not allowed to self-identify according to their wishes, with even the United Nations appearing to turn on the government for its apparent back-flip. But experts say the census was “doomed from the start”, and that donors and the UN had more than enough warning of the likely problems but did little to act on them. In particular, a risk assessment commissioned by donors “clearly warned” of many of the problems facing the program now, including flawed data and the inflaming of ethnic tensions, a person familiar with the report told The Myanmar Times. The report was never released publicly and UNFPA did not respond to requests for information about its conclusions last week. But there were many more public warnings about the census’ likely impact. “Many individuals and organisations, both domestic and inter...

By Media release April 06, 2014 The Australian Government is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Rakhine State, Burma.  Violence targeting UN offices and international NGOs on 26 and 27 March has resulted in the destruction of property and relocation of international and local aid workers, including Australians, to secure locations. These organisations deliver vital humanitarian, medical and other assistance to communities throughout Rakhine State.  Many communities now do not have access to medical services, water, sanitation and food. The Australian Government urges the Myanmar Government to provide a safe and secure environment in Rakhine State so that all humanitarian and development personnel can continue providing these vital services.  We also continue to encourage it to address the underlying causes of the conflict there. I also urge the Myanmar Government to ensure the conduct of the country’s first census...

Monday, April 7, 2014 R visiontv.com 1- Sittwe (Akyab) Township, Arakan State - Starting at 8AM on 5 th  April 2014, a group of 200 Police Force, 100 Military, 250 Census Enumerators, immigration officials and other respective authorities visited the villages of Ala-Sin (Alsang), Nga-Point-Gyi (Nappong), Nga-Point-Shay (Mush Khylla Fara) and Doon-Pyin-south (Shabok) one village after another. They just inquired of the villagers of their ethnicity. As people replied ‘Rohingya,’ the group left the respective villages without carrying out the census. In Doon-Pyin-North, they encountered a Kaman family and the cenus team completed all of the 41 questions and census enumeration itself.  (Saed Arkani Report) ………………………………………………………………. - Starting at 8AM on 6 th  April 2014, a crew of 250 census enumerators, 250 Police Personnel, 150 Military, Immigration officials and...

Displacement and discrimination continue to affect Rohingya (Evangelos Petratos EU/ECHO January 2013) By Aung Aung April 06, 2014 One of the beauties of majority people of Myanmar is obedient to the leader. As I mentioned before, majority people are kind, simple, peaceful, obedient and tolerant. The priceless morality of majority became a golden chance for Myanmar dictators who have beenmisusing those good qualities for their selfish carnal desires. Rohingya ethnic cleansing has been a State policy of Burma since 1960s because of ultra-nationalism by General Ne Win. Ne Win failed to make majority Buddhist to hate non-Buddhists in 40 years, why? I believe that majority Buddhists want to prolong friendship and curtail enmity according to their tradition. Military Junta realized it and started implementing another cruel method by building Dhammaryun everywhere after 1988 nation-wide protest for democracy against regime. Military Junta built Dhammaryun, pagodas, monasteri...

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui April 6, 2014 My attention has been drawn to Dr. Paul Fuller's article which has appeared in the DVB. Here below I share my observations. Throughout history there have always been people, even those who appear to be intellectuals, who justified the crimes of despots and ruthless murderers under certain pretexts. There were no shortages of German, Austrian and Italian fascist intellectuals who were not only supporters of the Nazi Fascism of the Hitler era but greatly promoted the evil cause. One would have thought that Nuremberg Trials and the wholesale condemnation of the evil ideology in the subsequent years and decades had put that dark chapter behind us, and no one and surely not the so-called educated intellectuals who teach at the college and university levels would be a devil's advocate. But our expectations have always been unrealistic. There are still evil geniuses around our world who are willing to act as intellectual whores and p...

A resident of Te Chaung camp receives glucose through an IV drip on Friday (Photo: John Zaw) By  John Zaw & AFP UCA News April 5, 2014 IDP camp residents say they need food, medicine and water Thousands of Rohingya residents of a camp in western Myanmar face crippling shortages of food and healthcare services after aid workers pulled out of Rakhine state last week following mob attacks that targeted international NGOs. An official at Te Chaung camp outside Sittwe – home to more than 15,000 displaced Rohingyas – said Friday that food rations have not been delivered since March 16 and residents have been forced to seek food from neighboring villagers. A warehouse used to store rice and other essential food stocks for the camp’s IDPs stood empty near the entrance to the camp during a visit on Friday. “We are suffering from a food and healthcare crisis,” said Maung Hla, a deputy at Te Chaung camp in charge of food distribution, adding that residents are facing...

M.S. Anwar Saturday, April 5, 2014 rvisiontv.com Shafee Alam (23) was beaten up by a group of Rakhine (Magh) terrorists while he was fishing. (Photo: Aung Aung) Kyauktaw, Arakan- Around 9PM on 4th April 2014, Rakhine (Magh) terrorists brutally beat up a23-year-old Rohingya in the village of Pisi-Paik-Thay (Nidam), Kyauktaw township. “Shafee Alam (son of) Alimuddin (Age 23) is a local of Nidham village, Kyauktaw township. He went to net fish in Kaladan river in the evening. As he was waiting on his small peddle-boat for fish to be netted, a group of Rakhine terrorists arrived at the scene. They started beating him up in gang saying ‘don’t you know you kulars are not allowed to fish here?’(Note: Kular is a derogatory term used by racist Burmese and Rakhines against Rohingya and any other people of Indian descends.) Thinking that he was dead, the terrorists left him on the boat. Fortunately, he gained his sense back and managed to come back to the village” said Aung A...