The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By M.S. Anwar RvisionTV May 4, 2014 Some of the people injured during the shootout by armed terrorist. Maungdaw, Arakan - Around 1:40AM on 3rd May 2014, a group of armed terrorists in disguise of robbers killed the administrator of the village of Thinbaw Kway (Kullon) and other two villagers in southern Maungdaw. They injured 9 other people as well. Authority blames some armed robbers in a nearby forest for the killings. However, locals strongly believe that they were not just the robbers but militants from Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) and some member of Security Force also involved in the killings. “There is a gang of robbers in a forest in southern Maungdaw. Leader and some members of the gang are Rohingya themselves. Gang leader is called Abdul Hakim. They often kidnap wealthy Rohingyas in the region and extort millions of Kyats (Myanmar Currency) from them. Local Rohingyas frequently complain to the authority to take action against the dacoits. However, inste...

The body of Nur Husain, 27 was prepared for burial. it was unclear precisely what killed him, according to a western doctor who reviewed the four medicines that were given to him. But almost certainly, proper monitoring and the oxygen ordinarily administered by Doctors Without Borders could have saved him, the doctor said.  Adam Dean for The New York Times By Jane Perlez New York Times May 02, 2014 SITTWE, Myanmar — By the time the baby girl was brought to the makeshift pharmacy, her chest was heaving, her temperature soaring. The supply of oxygen that might have helped was now off limits, in a Doctors Without Borders clinic shut down by the government in February. A hospital visit was out of the question; admission for Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority, always requires a lengthy approval process — time that the baby, named Parmin, did not have. In desperation, the pharmacy owner sent the family to the rarely staffed Dapaing clinic, the only governm...

Motherless at Birth!! The mother passed away as soon as the baby was born. (Photo: Hussein) By Hussein and M.S. Anwar  RvisionTV  May 03, 2014 Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan - A 28-year-old Rohingya woman passed away right after her delivery in Thakkay Pyin (Sakki Fara) IDP Camps in Sittwe (Akyab) around 7:45PM (Myanmar Time) on 2nd May 2014. She apparently died from shock due to heavy loss of blood. There is no medical treatment available for Rohingya people in the camps. “Shabikun Nahar (daughter of) Mohammed (of Age 28) was facing difficulties to deliver her baby. She was laboring and feeling pain. Besides, she was suffering from heavy loss of blood. There are no medical opportunities or access to healthcare for Rohingya people in the camps. Some experienced people tried to give her treatment. But unfortunately, she passed away at around 7:45PM on May 3, 2014. However, she left her baby behind. Hence, the baby is still alive. The woman had been living in ...

The Arakan National Conference was held in Kyaukphyu Township. (Photo: Facebook / Arakan National Conference) By Ibrahim Shah  Burma Times May 03, 2014 Kyaukphyu, Arakan state - All the participated Rakhine Buddhist politicians, monks and community leaders including Rakhine armed party ALP at a Rakhine Buddhist conference which was held in Kyaukphyu Township, Rakhine(ARakan) state  from April 27 to May 1,   demanded the Burmese government to establish a “Rakhine Buddhist National Defense Army”  which would protect majority Buddhists from minority Muslims in Rakhine state(Arakan). The majority of the participants agreed a proposal by Buthidaung Township representative Tun Aung Thein to demand the central government for permission to establish the “Rakhine Buddhist National Defense Army”, said Nyi Nyi Maung, a spokesperson from Rakhine Buddhist National Conference. Union Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann and the President Office’s Minister Aung Min at...

By Nurul Islam, Chairman, ARNO May 01, 2014 The Rohingya people are one of the world’s most persecuted, voiceless and underrepresented peoples. Their longstanding problem is an ethnic, religious and political persecution. It is a manmade tragedy deeply entrenched in Burmese regime’s anti-Rohingya policies of de-Muslimization, exclusion, intolerance and extermination. Their aim is to rid Arakan of the Muslim population and turn it into a Rakhinized Buddhist region. Particularly from 1962 military rule, the Rohingya have been subjected to institutionalized persecution. The human rights violations and abuses against them include severe restrictions on their basic freedoms – freedom of worship, movement, marriage, education – deprivation of citizenship, summery execution and mass murder, rape, razing houses and destruction of villages, forced eviction, torture, disappearance, arbitrary detention, looting, extortion, forced labour, forced relocation, and food insecurity. On top...

UN envoy Vijay Nambiar (Photo AP) By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press May 2, 2014 NEW YORK — The top U.N. envoy on Myanmar said Thursday the most pressing priority for Muslims in violence-torn Rakhine state, who are considered illegal immigrants, is to get on the path to citizenship. Vijay Nambiar, the secretary-general's special adviser on Myanmar, warned in a speech to the International Peace Institute that unless this is done the security of the Rohingya Muslims will remain threatened, "and that is sure to affect the international reputation of the country." Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation which only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule, considers the Rohingya Muslims to be immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship and related rights, even though many were born to families who arrived in the country generations ago. In the last two years members of the religious minority have been the target of bloody a...

By KPN News May 01, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingya who tried to protect his own property –fishing pond- had to pay bond sign not to do next time to security force at Kyaw Pyin Seik (Nari Bill) on April 29, said Rashid, an elder from Maungdaw. The Rohingya- Mohamed Syed, 25, Nurul Alam, 16, Hashim 16 and Zawla Mood 20 – all hailed from Kyaw Pyin Seik village , were working in the fishing pond as a guards and the fishing pond was owned by Abdul Salam, 53. The four Rohingyas were working in a drain pipe while two Rakhine from Natala (modern) village entered to fishing pond. One Rakhine name unknown tried to fishing in pond and another one sited inside the shack, Rashid said. When the Rohingya guard stopped the Rakhine who tried to fishing and the Rakhine quarrel with verbal and he left the fishing pond, said the Rohingya guards. The Rakhine who sited inside the shack ate some crabs which he grilled. The Rakhine who left the pond, brought police force with him ...