The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Kristen Gelineau, The Associated Press  UKHIA, Bangladesh -- The use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, The Associated Press found in interviews with more than two dozen Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. Yet their stories were hauntingly similar. The military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. Here are the accounts as told by 21 women and girls. They agreed to be identified in this story by their first initial only, out of fear the military will kill them or their families. WARNING:  Graphic details The Associated Press reported this story with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. SHE IS ONLY 13 She is only 13, but R had already learned to fear the military men. Last year, she says, soldiers stabbed her father to death. One day in lat...

Highlights • 624,000 new arrivals (Since 25th August) are reported as of 25 November ((IOM Needs and Population Monitoring)). • Since the latest weekly situation report on 22 November, there have been 3,000 new arrivals. • As of 25 November, the Bangladeshi Immigration and Passports Department has registered 663, 694 people through biometric registration.

By   Aman Ullah One of the prominent features of socio-cultural history of Arakan in the 17th century was the extensive Muslim influence on the Arakan society, which was not an outcome of some sudden occurrences. It was a result of an age-long intercourse between Arakan and Muslim countries that dated back to the period of Arab contacts with Arakan during the reign of Maha-Taing Tsandaya (788-810 AD). Various historians and scholars have recorded that Islam began to spread from the eastern bank of Meghna to Arakan since eighth and ninth centuries, long before the establishment of a Muslim kingdom in the frontier region. Since then, the influence grew fast and was consolidated fully by the 17th century.

Mr Maung Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK By TANG CHEE SENG tangcheeseng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE — The closely watched appointment of the Chief Minister in Myanmar’s Rakhine state would have implications on both the humanitarian situation for Rohingya Muslims and the country’s parliamentary composition, said a prominent Rohingya activist. In an interview with TODAY earlier this week, Mr Maung Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, noted that the political jockeying for Rakhine state’s top post was being played out between the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), the ultra-nationalist Arakan National Party (ANP), and the country’s military — which remains a potent political opposition in Parliament.

By Vice News  The Rohingya people, a Muslim minority community, suffers from widespread persecution and discrimination in the majority Buddhist country of Myanmar. Violent sectarian clashes and rioting have destroyed villages and homes, leaving many Rohingyas with no option but to live in government-controlled camps for the internally displaced. The camps are overcrowded, and medical facilities are in short supply. 

Hasina Begum with her four children in unregistered Kutupalong Refugee Camp with no shelter to live and husband to support in the miserable time. By  The Stateless Rohingya When misery strikes, it strikes thrice for Rohingya refugees in  Bangladesh . KUTUPALONG : For more than 42,000 Rohingya refugees residing inside the congested and dreadful unregistered Kutupalong refugee camp, a felicitous life is a rare treasure, but misery in abundance, striking the hapless ones more than what they can bear its pain - Rohingya women.

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.