The Stateless Rohingya Blog

By  Chandan Sarkar /  The Oslo Times Dhaka : Saidiya Begum-22 was newly married. Not long after she was married the Burmese soldiers entered her village, captured and killed the men house after house, soon the army got inside her home grabbed her husband and shot him down in the fields, they later raped her right beside her husband's body.

Arakan Army troops on parade in Laiza, Kachin State, in April 2014. (Photo: Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy) By Lawi Weng /The Irrawaddy January 8, 2015 RANGOON — A commander and “several” other members of the Burma Army have been killed in recent fighting with the Arakan Army in Kyauktaw Township, according to state-run media, which on Friday reported that the military intended to “remove” the ethnic armed group from Arakan State.

A forgotten silent minority known as the Rohingyas, who are effectively stateless, continue to endure appalling conditions in closely guarded camps in countries that refuse to accord them rights as humans, let alone refugees. Read more ~  The forgotten Rohingya Muslims

Mohammed Eliyas, son of Haji Abul Huson from Hayon Hali, Maungdaw who was sentenced to jail in Saudi Arabia for not processing a valid residential permit. He is now cell no. 8 where he spends sleepless nights on top of his frail physical health. Mohammed Eliyas desperately calls for help in order to release from the prison since he has no relatives in Saudi Arabia. He has fled Burma after facing persecution under the hands of Burmese government where Rohingya continuously suffer repeated discrimination and persecutions causing many to leave the county through dangerous journey. He is one of thousands of Stateless Rohingya put behind the bars in Saudi Arabia and many other countries in the Gulf, Southeast Asia and East Asia for not processing legal documents to reside in the countries. Many Rohingya prisoners are yet to receive legal aids from NGOs and Rohingya organizations from across the world. Desperate Call of Rohingya Prisoner from Saudi Arabia

Burma border guard police (BGP) forcefully collecting money from Rohingya villages under the areas of BGP through village admin officer in the name of football tournament which started since December 5, said Kafayat, a football player from  Maungdaw .The BGP forcefully collecting 1000 kyat from a Rohingya family even the family is poor or widow and there are eight BGP areas in Maungdaw where BGP had gotten more thousands of kyats from Rohingya villages, Kafayat more said. The football tournaments have been starting in Maungdaw Township under all BGP areas since December 5, said an officer from Maungdaw who denied to be named. The BGP will not use the money they collected in their areas for tournament, it is just collecting money from Rohingya indirectly for them in the name of football tournament, the officer more said. “It is indirectly extorting money from Rohingya community, even the BGP treat  Rohingyas  as foreigners and harassment on their daily life ...

By   European Rohingya Council  Date: 11 December 2015 Since the start of December, murders of Rohingya Muslims have increased suddenly creating fresh fears of large scale ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya population is small, and diminishing each day as increasing numbers of people flee Arakan. In such a small community, the murder of four people in a single week is creating panic and will hasten the exodus of the Rohingya people which serves the purposes of the military backed regime and their Buddhist nationalist allies. The government of Myanmar has long formulated a blueprint for a Rohingya free Arakan state. Since 2012, the plans for the final solution have been finalised by Thein Sein’s government. The first involved the riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Muslims. Since then, the government had relied on a subtler approach, a means of committing slow burning genocide designed to escape international uproar. Following the riots, the entire Muslim po...

Life after the Ethnic Cleansing