The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By The Stateless October 17, 2014 When a country has no rule of law, a country where every government officer is above the law, and a country where the majority ethnic group is above its sister minorities, the killings become an easier and common practice. It is the country none other than Burma also known as Myanmar which is branded and promoted as ‘Democratic’ after more than 50 years of dictatorships. Rohingya, is a common scapegoat minority which has been under the programme of extrajudicial killings under the hands of Burmese Police, Border Security Guards and armed forces ever since the status of Rohingya is systematically altered from being a recognized Burmese ethnic minority group to a complete stateless. It is the distinguished characteristics of Rohingya (being Muslim and difference in appearance) and the laws that remove the right to be citizen, the right to freedom of religion, the right to freedom of movement, the right to freedom of education, the right to...

By Ibrahim Shah  Burma Times  October 17, 2014 UN, the world’s leading institution for peace establishment, must be able to make Burma withdrawal from implementation of ‘Rakhine Action plan’ that is being conducted in western Burma under 1982 controversial Burma Citizenship Act which is aimed at deportation of many Rohingya and forcing registration to them as Bengali. If UN becomes miscarriage over Rohingya issue, Democracy movement will be struck by Communism in south East Asia (SEA). The mixed descendents of the Indo-Aryan people, the ethnic Rohingya people (the first settlers of Arakan), densely inhabit generations by generations in western Myanmar (formerly Burma) known as Rakhine state (formerly Arakan) since before the advent of Myanmarese (formerly Tibeto-Burman). The ethnic Rohingya community, internationally declared as one of the most persecuted minorities, has been experiencing long state-sponsored discrimination and persecution since 1962. ...

Rohingya people wait to receive their share of food aid from the World Food Program (WFP) at the Thae Chaung camp for internally displaced people in Sittwe, Rakhine state.   By  Steve Herman October 17, 2017  BANGKOK — The Rohingya minority community in Myanmar should rank as one of the most excluded, persecuted and vulnerable communities in the world. That is the conclusion of a pair of studies, prepared over a three-year-period, looking at the plight of the stateless group. The reports examining discrimination and inequality faced by the Rohingya paint a bleak picture. The London-based Equal Rights Trust, and Bangkok’s Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies of Mahidol University, detailed through direct testimony and interviews with officials the layers of discrimination against the Rohingya, who are a Muslim ethnic group of uncertain origin. In Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, the Rohingya are stateless. Those who have left the coun...

By MYARF Rvisiontv.com October 16, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Myanmar’s tyrannical Border Guard Police (BGP) has been arbitrarily arresting and detaining innocent Rohingya people all over Maungdaw Township since late September, the local Rohingyas report. The police raid Rohingya villages and vandalize and ransack their homes. Besides, they harass Rohingya women and beat and torture Rohingya men passing by different police-check posts located at every-three-mile on high ways. Most of the arrests of the innocent people have been being made under the false allegation of having links with *RSO in Bangladesh.   Myanmar's Border Guard Police Raid and Vandalize Rohingya at Any Gven Time (Photo: MFQ/ Rohingya Vision) “BGP arrested a 16-year-old Rohingya teenager, Sadek Hussain (son of) Aamir Hamza, in Ngakura (also called Nagpura) village around 11AM last Monday. He was (falsely) accused of using Bangla SIM Card and having links with RSO. He was severely...

Rohingya living in a displacement camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar By Sarnata Reynolds Refugees International October 15, 2014 When I met Amir two years ago in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, he had just graduated with a degree in Physics from Sittwe University. He was a fluent English speaker and planned to pursue a career as an engineer. Amir lived in Aung Mingalar, the only neighborhood in the capital city of Sittwe where the Rohingya still maintained a residence after 140,000 had been driven out of the city by mobs assisted by the police. When I returned to Myanmar last month, I met Amir again. He is now living in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) outside Sittwe – one of more than 1 million Rohingya who are living in apartheid-like conditions across Rakhine State. He is not allowed to leave the camp, he does not have a job, and he does not know what will happen to him. And things may still get worse. At last month’s UN General Assembly, Myanmar’s Foreign Mi...

  By  Dr. Habib Siddiqui It is good to read Bertil Lintner’s latest article “The Muslims of Myanmar” in the Irrawaddy. For years, his misconstrued article in the Far Eastern Economy has been the only staple for pseudo-experts on terrorism watch in south and south-east Asia. It was a flawed article on several points. The most striking assertion being the so-called link of al-Qaeda with some Rohingya groups that have been vocal about human rights of their people. Based on my own research on this sensitive subject I found out that there was absolutely no truth to the myth propagated by him, which was based on secondary and tertiary sources. We can probably guess who were feeding him such mis- or dis-information at the expense of the Rohingya people and their legitimate rights. The fascist,  hatemongers within the Rakhine and Buddhist community inside Burma exploited his half-baked flawed thesis towards fear-mongering against the Rohingya people as if the mythical Mu...

(Photo: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun) By Emanuel Stoakes The Diplomat October 14, 2014 A new government strategy looks like a blueprint for additional ethnic cleansing. Late last month, Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin announced to delegates at the UN General Assembly that a long-expected “action plan” for Rakhine state, the site of the country’s most urgent human rights crisis, was “being finalized and will soon be launched.” The minister claimed the strategy was designed to ensure “peace, stability, harmony and development” for “all people” in the region; he urged the international community to “contribute pragmatically and objectively” to their plan so that a “durable solution” to the problems in the area could be realized. While this appeal did not fall on deaf ears, around the time of his speech revelations in the international mediathrew light on what parts of the plan might actually involve: a set of measures that risked worsening the conditions of li...