Preying Upon The Weak Children Targeted By Rakhine Nationalist

25 Feb 2013

In every genocide the weakest and most vulnerable are the most likely to be targeted for extermination. For those communities that find themselves the target of ethnic cleansing their children are preyed upon without mercy. The aim of this merciless method of slaughter is aimed at depriving the targeted community of their next generation. It is a tactic that is employed to ensure that the "undesirables" have not opportunity for a future.

When Stalin wanted to weaken his imagined foe in the Ukraine he commanded his forces to work the adults to death while starving the children. In doing this Uncle Joe damned an entire generation to a fate worse than death. He desired to starve them slowly as they watched their parents wither away and

Burmese Muslims Stateless at home and no refuge elsewhere!

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 05:03 AM PST

Mayu Press:

February 26th, 2013

By Syed Neaz Ahmad

 

Dhaka: THEY are thought to be the world’s most persecuted refugees. It is also argued that they are one of the most forgotten too. In Jeddah prison I saw and met hundreds of inmates from Burma. Thousands of Burmese Muslims from Arakan – often called Rohingyas – were offered a safe haven in Saudi Arabia by King Faisal but with the change in rulers in Saudi Arabia the rules underwent a change too. A permanent abode of peace that was offered to these uprooted Arakanese is now nothing less than a chamber of horrors.

There are some three thousand families of Burmese Muslims in Makkah and Jeddah prisons

Mothers, children flee Myanmar on desperate voyage

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 02:55 PM PST

Muslim Rohingha asylum seeker Nuru, 24, with her one month old baby, Muhammad Ayik, at a Thai government shelter in Khao lak, southern Thailand. AFP

The Sun Daily:

26 February 2013

KHAO LAK, Thailand (Feb 26, 2013): Homeless, hungry and nine months pregnant Nuru boarded a rickety boat filled with Rohingya asylum seekers fleeing a wave of deadly sectarian violence in western Myanmar.

Six days later she gave birth at sea, far from any hospitals or doctors.

Since Buddhist-Muslim tensions exploded last June in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, thousands of Rohingya boat people – including a growing number of women and children – have joined an exodus from the former junta-ruled country.

Those who arrived in neighbouring Thailand have been “helped on” by the Thai navy

ERC delegation visited OIC Head Office in Jeddah

Tuesday, February 26, 2013  ERC, OIC  No comments

ERC delegation from KSA branch has visited OIC head quarter in Jeddah today and held important discussion with Dr. Sulaiman Al Quid and Dr. Zakaria Adam Ahamed. ERC delegates comprised of Mr. Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Rauf along with Mr. Abu Islam from Jaliyat attended the meeting where the delegates oriented OIC representatives on the current catastrophic situation faced by Rohingya in Arakan state of Burma and Bangladesh.

Mr. Jafer Al Shomry gave the introduction of ERC and told that it is a legitimate non-profit umbrella organization based in Europe, and advancing towards its goals of restoring basic

Myanmar: Rohingyas face long-term misery in IDP camps

Tuesday, February 26, 2013  European NGO, Rakhine, Rohingya

       Photo Credit: DevrigVelly, EU/ECHO January 2013

Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection:

February 25, 2013

Sittwe, January 2013: Standing amongst heaps of woven bamboo panels and corrugated iron sheets, Abdul oversees more than 20 fellow Rohingya workers building over a dozen barrack-type shelters, each to house ten families displaced by the recent inter-communal fighting.  “I used to work for a European NGO”, Abdul explains. ”So I am using my skills to work with contractors who have been tasked to build these shelters. This way my people have at least a roof over their heads”.

1,600 families have found shelter in this camp called “Say Tha Mar Gyi”, located about 8 km north-west of Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital. Here the construction of the barrack-type temporary shelters is just one of the activities underway.  Latrines have been constructed,

BROUK delegation joined European Burma Network Meeting in London

BROUK delegation joined European Burma Network Meeting in London
February 27, 2013

London: Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK delegation attended European Burma Network (EBN) meeting held in London from February 23-24 according to Burmese Rohingya Organisation, UK.

The EBN is working for campaigning together in Europe and has 15 organisation representatives to promote Democracy and Human Rights. BROUK delegation takes account of President Tun Khin, General Secretary Jamal, Education & Cultural Secretary Mohammed Siddique and Information Secretary Aye Nu Saynu Wara.

Rohingya Document

ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေထာက္အထားကုိ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ား သိရိွေစရန္

MP U Shwe Maung seeks advice and help from Nobel Laureate Tutu Dy

MP U Shwe Maung seeks advice and help from Nobel Laureate Tutu Dy February 26, 2013 Letter, U_Shwe_Maung

Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu arrived in Myanmar on Monday. According to the message posted by MP U Shwe Maung on Twitter, Tutu would give a speech at the American Centre in Yangon on Wednesday.

U Shwe Maung, Member of Parliament, Buthidaung constituency, Rakhine State, Myanmar, has sent a message to the Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu via Twitter as follow:

Dear Honorable Nobel Peace Laureate,

Welcome to Union of Myanmar. Welcome to Rohingya Community of Myanmar. Rohingyas appreciate Reconciliation and love Peaceful Co-existence in Rakhine State. But they are suffering from Discrimination and Segregation. Consequences are very unpleasant

The Existence Of Arakan

The Existence Of Arakan

Preface About Identity: History is not God given and it is potentiality of man research and his conscience and historical evidences. The work of History research is humanitarian and academic concern.
Racial name is not God given, but there is a trend that the different ethnic groups invent their racial/ethnic name as their ethnic identity in order to enjoying their fundamental rights from their central Government. But it depends on demographic and geographical situation of the ethnic groups. Muslim is not a name of ethnic group because ethnic name not depends on Religion.  (Rohingya Historian)

 

 

Note About The Arakan: (compiled by The Sail)
The Land & people:
The land of the Arakan’s creation was 5 million years ago, and the origin people of Arakan entered from part of India in about 5,000 years ago.
At present two major ethnic races, the Rohingyas and the Rakhines (Maghs) inhabit in Arakan. The Rohingyas are Muslims and the Rakhines are Buddhists. Its unofficial total population now is more than 5 million, both inside and outside the country.  In addition there are about 2 lakhs tribal people [Saks, Dinets (Chakmas) and Mros (Kamais)] and 2 lakhs Burman people in Arakan.  The Rohingyas are mostly concentrated in the riparian plains of Naf, Mayu and Kaladan. Arakan is the only Muslim majority province among the 14 provinces of Burma. Out of the 7 million Muslim population of Burma half of them are

Rohingya are made stateless by altering the history of Burma

Friday, February 22, 2013 Article, Nay_San_Lwin


Burmese government records of Rohingya:

In his article, “A friend’s appeal to Burma”, published on June 19, 2012, Benedict Rogers included that the first President of Burma, Sao Shwe Thaike, a Shan, said that “Muslims of Arakan certainly belong to the indigenous races of Burma. If they do not belong to the indigenous races, we also cannot be taken as indigenous races”.

“The people living in Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships are Rohingya, ethnic of Burma” said by Burma’s first prime minister U Nu in his pubic speech on September 25, 1954 at 8 pm. “The Rohingya has the equal status of nationality with Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Mon, Rakhine and Shan” said the prime minister and minister for defense U Ba Swe at public gatherings in Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships in

Burmese Authority supplies guns to Rakhine Second Time in Northern Maungdaw

Wednesday, February 20, 2013  ALP, Arakan Burma, Mayu Press, Mogh, Rakhine, Rohingya, Terrorists 

Arakan Liberation Army (ALA)

Source Mayu Press: 

February 20th, 2013

Edited By Mohamed Farooq

The Burmese government supplies ten guns to each Rakhine village on 16 February 2013 in Northern Maungdaw. The Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) and Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) formed a youth group having a leader to every Rakhine village who are under training with gun and long swords to attack Rohingya at any time.

Rakhine can move and carry their activities openly as there are no barriers and attachments from government. The Rakhine terrorists target to rise up third massacre of Rohingya within their water festival will held in April. The president of RNDP and Member of Parliament, Dr. Aye Maung stated about the third violence in the Parliament of Burma.

Rakhine terrorists are well trained up and ready to attack Rohingya again in their desired time. The Rakhine terrorists and Burmese authority aim to root out all the Rohingya

Rohingyas not ‘illegal immigrants’ in Myanmar, say Nobel laureates

Thursday, February 21, 2013  Arakan Burma, Article, Mizzima News, Myanmar, Rakhine, Rohingya

On November 20, 2012, President Ramos-Horta (left) visited the Yunus Centre and Grameen Bank with fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. (Photo: ramoshorta.com)

The charge that the Rohingya are illegal immigrants to Myanmar is false, say Jose Ramos-Horta and Muhammed Yunus, respectively the 1996 and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winners.

The comments by Ramos-Horta, the former President of Timor-Leste, and Bangladeshi banker and philanthropist Yunus are sure to raise eyebrows in Myanmar where

MP hits back at official denial of Rohingya

Friday, February 22, 2013  Arakan Burma, DVB, MP U Shwe Maung, Parliament  No 

Shwe Maung represents Buthidaung constituency in northern Arakan state. (Photo: DVB)

Hanna Hindstrom

Democratic Voice of Burma

February 22, 2013

A member of parliament has fired back at claims that Rohingya Muslims do not exist in Burma, after a senior government minister allegedly accused the group of fabricating its history in a parliamentary discussion on Wednesday.

It follows media reports that the Deputy Immigration Minister, Kyaw Kyaw Win, on Wednesday formally denied the existence of a Rohingya race in Burma, referring to a stateless Muslim minority isolated near the Bangladeshi border.

But Shwe Maung, who is a native Rohingya, slammed the allegations, quoted in the English-language version of Burma’s state media outlet the New Light of Myanmar, as historically and factually

Thein Sein to hit European trail

Friday, February 22, 2013  European, Mizzima News, President Thein Sein

Myanmar President Thein Sein met with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti in the Lao capital Vientiane in November 2012. (Photo: President's office)

Mizzima News:

February 22, 2013

Thein Sein has received official invitations to visit five European countries in the near future, according to an announcement in state-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar on February 22. 

The Myanmar president will travel to Norway, Finland, Austria, Italy and Belgium in what will be the first of his official overseas trips of 2013.

The latest invitations come following the relaxation of sanctions and improvement in bilateral relations with the European countries.

UN concerned about refugees crossing deadliest stretches of water' to flee homes

Friday, February 22, 2013  Menafn, Myanmar, Rohingya, Thailand, UN 

Friday, February 22, 2013   (Menafn - M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is calling for urgent action to prevent the rising numbers of people killed trying to cross the Indian Ocean in smugglers' boats, particularly the increasing numbers of women and children from the stateless Rohingya community.

"It is clear that the Indian Ocean has become for people fleeing their countries one of the deadliest stretches of water in the world," the agency's spokesman, Andrej Mahecic, told journalists in Geneva.

The agency estimates that out of the 13,000 people who left on smugglers' boats in 2012, close to 500 died at sea when their boats broke down or capsized in the Bay of Bengal.

"Already in 2013, several thousand people are believed to have boarded smugglers boats

Are Rohingyas and Kamans Less (Than) Human Beings?

Saturday, February 23, 2013  Bangla Times, M.S. Anwar 

Bangla Times:
 February 21, 2013
 M.S. Anwar

The world has been witnessing the well-planned Genocide of Rohingyas and Kamans in Arakan, Burma for more than eight months now. Consequently, Rohingyas and Kamans are now without foods, any access to medical treatments and their other ways to livelihoods are blocked. They are being arbitrary arrested, tortured and killed. Their properties are being looted and women being raped. Religious buildings are locked down and so and so atrocities have been being carried out against them under the so-called international radar. Not surprisingly though, the heinous crimes Rohingyas and Kamans are successfully being covered up. Their outcries are falling into deaf ears. Less attention and (less) importance are given to their dying plights. No effective steps to prevent the continuing Genocide of them have been taken yet. Nor does it seem

Carr rules out Aust asylum for Rohingya

Saturday, February 23, 2013  9News World, Arakan Burma, asylum seekers, Australia, Rohingya 

Muslim refugees gather at Thechaung camp refugee camp upon arrival in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP / Khin Maung Win)

9News World

February 22, 2013

Australia will boost aid by $2.5 million to Myanmar's (Burma's) displaced ethnic communities, but has ruled out an "open door" policy to ethnic Muslim Rohingya seeking asylum in Australia after fleeing sectarian violence.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr, after meeting Thai counterpart Surapong Tovichakchaikul, said Australia ruled out allowing the Rohingya to be part of its resettlement policy after advice by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

"We don't want to give the impression that for Rohingya, (those) desperate people (who) come to Thailand, they have a route to Australia because the settlement, the settlement of this displacement lies in changing policies to (give) effect to changed policies within Rakhine province," Senator

UNHCR calls for urgent action to prevent Rohingya boat tragedies

Saturday, February 23, 2013    

UNHCR:

Briefing Notes, 22 February 2013

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 22 February 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNHCR is concerned about a rising numbers of deaths in the Indian Ocean involving people fleeing their countries for safety and better lives elsewhere. This includes many Rohingya from Myanmar.

Already in 2013, several thousand people are believed to have boarded smuggler's boats in the Bay of Bengal, among them Rohingya from Rakhine state or from Bangladesh's refugee camps

U.N.: Indian Ocean claims hundreds as 'one of the deadliest' waters

Saturday, February 23, 2013    

Rescued Rohingya Muslims sit at a Sri Lankan immigration detention center in Colombo on Wednesday.(Eranga Jayawardena / Associated Press / February 20, 2013)

Los Angeles Times

 February 22, 201

 By Emily Alpert 

By the time their rickety boat was rescued last week off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, nearly a hundred of the weakened passengers had lost their lives – roughly three times as many as survived.

The starving people had endured nearly two months at sea, trying to flee the western state of Myanmar where hundreds were slain last year, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. The Rohingya Muslims say they undertook the arduous journey out of fear for their lives.

The outpouring of Rohingya from western Myanmar and Bangladesh refugee camps has made the Indian Ocean “one of the deadliest stretches of water in the world,” the U.N.

Rohingya camps ‘more like prisons’, says UN envoy

Monday, February 18, 2013  Arakan Burma, Mizzima News,

The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, visited this camp for displaced Rohingyas in Myebon in Rakhine State. (PHOTO: UNIC)

  Mizzima News

18 February 2013 

The United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, says that the use of excessive force by Myanmar’s government forces against local communities and ethnic groups was worrying to the UN. 

Speaking at a press conference at Yangon International Airport before leaving the country on Saturday, Quintana said nearly 120,000 people are now living in

Breaking News: Eleven starved Rohingya died in 3 restricted villages in Akyab

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  

Akyab, Arakan State: Eleven  starved Rohingya Muslims died at Moloubi Vira, Keramotta Para and Kusung Para respectively in Akyab township. These neighboring villages are surrounded by Rakhine villagers and an army’s cantonment. These villagers did not attack in the violence of last June 2012, but they are facing the worst situation now as most of inhabitants of those villagers are poor. They have to use to work in the town to support their families. Being lost of their ways to work, they have not only been restricted by authority and Rakhines, but they are also kept in threat

Myanmar migrant survivors tell of throwing dead overboard

Monday, February 18, 2013  

Sri Lanka's navy soldiers assist an injured Myanmar national to a navy ship in Galle February 17, 2013. The navy said it rescued rescued 32 Myanmar nationals who were stranded after their wooden vessel begun to sink in the deep seas off the eastern coast. Picture taken February 17, 2013.

Credit: Reuters/Stringer

(Reuters) - Myanmar nationals rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan Navy have told of throwing 98 people overboard after they died of starvation and dehydration, Sri Lanka's police said on Monday.

Sailors rescued 31 adult males and a boy on February 16 when their damaged

Buddhist extremist mob attacks an Islamic Religious School in Yangon, Myanmar

17 February 2013
A mob of about 300 Buddhist extremists attacked an Islamic Religious School in Thar-Kay-Ta Township, Man-Pyay region 18×19 Street, Yangon, Myanmar today 17th February 2012. The mob began the attacks around 12 PM today while some member of the NLD party and ex-political prisoners tried to settle the outbreak, however according to the Yangon local sources, the Buddhist extremist mob refused to listen to them.
Two Muslim men, U Tin Maung Than and his colleague U Zaw Min Lat were fiercely attacked by the Buddhist extremist mob and were injured. The two Muslim men were there this afternoon just to find out the situation. U Tin Maung Than is an ex-member of Rakhine Conflict

Rohingya camps ‘more like prisons’, says UN envoy

Monday, February 18, 2013  Mizzima, Rohingya_News  

The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, visited this camp for displaced Rohingyas in Myebon in Rakhine State. (PHOTO: UNIC)

Mizzima News
February 18, 2013

The United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, says that the use of excessive force by Myanmar’s government forces against local communities and ethnic groups was worrying to the UN. 

Speaking at a press conference at Yangon International Airport before leaving the country on Saturday, Quintana said nearly 120,000 people are now living in camps in Rakhine State with a lack of adequate healthcare, and noted that conditions were worse in camps sheltering Rohingyas

Pushed from Burma, Stateless Rohingya Flee by Boat

Monday, February 18, 2013  Article, Jason_Motlagh, TIME, World_Media_Article

An ethnic Rohingya man climbs aboard his boat in Sittwe, Burma on Jan. 31, 2013
(Photo - Jason Motlagh)

Jason Motlagh
TIME
February 18, 2013

A large chunk of Abdul Rahman’s home is gone, and so is his oldest son, Shakur. The ethnic Rohingya farmer tore down nearly half his home for scrap needed to secure his son’s passage on a boat bound for Malaysia. In the wake of bloody sectarian violence last year that left hundreds dead and forced tens of thousands of minority Muslim Rohingya into camps outside the coastal city of Sittwe, Rahman, 52, insists his people are being “strangled” by a Burmese government that does not

A Muslim School Attacked in Yangon: Puzzles with Municipal Office and The Voice Journal

 

M-Media
February 17, 2013
the voice

The Voice Weekly journal posted photos about the incident on its Facebook page, captioning it as “Conflict Due to Building A New Mosque in the Name of a School”

A crowd of about 300 Buddhists today attacked a Muslim school in Yangon’s Thar Ka Ta township, which was established since 2001 as permitted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

A puzzle arises as an official letter from the Municipal office appears today on February 17, which is Sunday. The letter is concerned with the school’s application for permission

Nasaka kills 4 villagers in Maungdaw

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Arakan Burma, Kaladan Press,

a Rohingya man killed by Rakhine terrorist, photo 2012

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers who were arrested on February10 were killed in the local Nasaka camp for severe torturing in the camp on February 12 , said a relative of the victims.

“The victims were identified as— Nazir Hussain (35), Ms Hansoma  Khatun (30), Amir Salim (30), and Nadu (50). They all belong to Ludine village of Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw Township.”

Females were also arrested in the absent of their husbands, sons and brothers in the house. Many Rohingya villagers (not known exact figure) were arrested by security forces-Nasaka and police- from Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw north regarding the killing of one Rakhine man and three others wounded  on February 10, by unknown criminals,  said a local elder on condition of

UNICEF gives assistance Rohingya children and women in shelters in southern Thailand

Friday, February 15, 2013  Press Release, Refugee,

Source UNICEF:

BANGKOK, 14 February 2013 – UNICEF began this week delivering footballs and other play and recreation supplies to eight Ministry of Social Development and Human Security shelters caring for Rohingya children in southern Thailand.

Some 270 Rohingya children, many who were separated from their parents or who came to Thailand unaccompanied by adults, are being cared for at nine shelters in eight provinces across the South.

About 70 Rohingya women are also being assisted at the shelters, while more than 1,400 Rohingya men are in government immigration detention facilities.

UNICEF supplies include footballs, volleyballs, badminton sets and other sports equipment, drawing and art supplies, and toys and other play items for young children. UNICEF staff delivered the first bags

No life security of Rohingya people in Arakan

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Arakan Burma,

Commentary by Fayas

Repeatedly, ruthless stories on Rohingya people in Arakan under the racist Burma’s security forces are taking since long. There are many tragedies that remain untold. As human beings, regardless of the one’s religion, a human being deserves his/her honor and dignity of being human at the place where he/she is present.

Today, every Rohingya has his/her own tragedy concerning their relatives or friends in the unruly Arakan where killing and torturing of Rohingyas, torching of their properties and raping their women and girls. Burmese security forces and some Rakhine extremists have been committing grave crimes against Rohingya

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers who were arrested on February10 were killed in the local Nasaka camp

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers who were arrested on February10 were killed in the local Nasaka camp for severe torturing in the camp on February 12 , said a relative of the victims.
“The victims were identified as— Nazir Hussain (35), Ms Hansoma Khatun (30), Amir Salim (30), and Nadu (50). They all belong to Ludine village of Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw Township.”
Females were also arrested in the absent of their husbands, sons and brothers in the house. Many Rohingya villagers (not known exact figure) were arrested by security forces-Nasaka and police- from Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw north regarding the killing of one Rakhine man and three others wounded on February 10, by unknown criminals, said a local elder on condition of anonymity.
But, the dead bodies were not handed over to their parents or relatives and were buried to unknown place by

Burma police ‘used white phosphorous’ on mine protesters

Friday | 15/02/2013

Rohingya News Agency – (BBC): Burmese police fired military-issue white phosphorus grenades to disperse protesters at a controversial copper mine, a new report says.
Scores of people, many of them monks, were injured and burned when authorities moved in to violently end months of demonstrations in November.
Burmese lawyers and the US-based Justice Trust compiled the report.
It was based on eyewitness testimony, photos and forensic analysis of a used grenade cartridge.
The mine at Monywa is jointly owned by a Chinese company and the Burmese military. Local villagers had embarked on months of sit-in protests, claiming they had been unfairly forced to give up

OIC To Set Up Financial Network To Support Palestinians

Thursday | 14/02/2013

Rohingya News Agency – (RTT): The 56-nation bloc Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) plans to establish a secure financial network to support the Palestinians, according to OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
The network aims at meeting major needs of the Palestinian people in the context of Israel scaling up tough fiscal measures against them by imposing new taxes and making their life difficult, he said during talks with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Wednesday.
The two also discussed the developments in Syria and Mali as well as

Rowboat capsizes in Naff River, many still reported to be missing

Rowboat capsizes in Naff River, many still reported to be missing

Thursday | 14/02/2013

Rohingya News Agency – (KNP): A row boat carrying 41 Rohingyas sank in the Naff River on several days ago.
The group was illegally crossing the river to Burma at night after returning from Bangladesh where they were getting medical treatment and visiting relatives.
The boat capsized after getting caught in fishing net. Three people were rescued by fishermen but 37 people – including women and children – are still reported to be missing

Six Rohingyas killed by Rakhine extremists in Pauk Taw

Friday, February 15, 2013 Min Bya: Seven Rohingya men from Latma Chay village and Nagara Village Tract, Min Bya Township went to buy food from Pauk Taw Towship, where they were brutally murdered by Rakhine and Police force.
On February 11, 2013, seven Rohingya men left their village for Sitkay Pyin village, Pauk Taw Township in early morning with small fishing boat. About 8:30 am they arrived at Yartike village in Pauk Taw Township and got off the boat assuming that it was Sitkay Pyin village. Soon they became weary as they came across many Rakhines. Upon realizing that it was a Rakhine village they tried to go back to their boat but unfortunately they could not escape. The six unlucky Rohingya were arrested by Rakhine villagers, and one managed to escape and ran onto the mountain nearby. His name is Monir Ahmed.
The arrested six were brought to the monastery. As Monir Ahmed was on the mountain top hiding,

Breaking News: Forced Registration of Rohingyas as Bengali Resumed

Friday, February 15, 2013 Maung Daw, Arakan – The forced registration of Rohingyas as Bengali has been resumed in the village of Khala Defa and its surrounding villages, the northern most part of Maung Daw Tsp. Today, the NaSaKa (border security force) forced around 200 Rohingya families to sign them as Bengali.
“This forced registration of Rohingyas as Bengali was ceased after the costly defiance from Rohingya community and the international condemnations. Instead, since then, the authority (i.e. NaSaKa) has been carrying out an operation like their regular and decades-long operations on Rohingya populations. But it was all to lessen the pressures upon them.
No sooner were the regular operations against Rohingyas coming to the end than the forced registrations

President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win cordially greet Pyithu Hluttaw Representative for Buthidaung U Shwe Maung (a.k.a) U Abdul Razak

President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win cordially greet Pyithu Hluttaw Representative for Buthidaung U Shwe Maung (a.k.a) U Abdul Razak at the reception and dinner to mark 66th Anniversary Union Day in Nay Pyi Taw on 12 February 2013.

Sri Lanka rescues more Myanmar boatpeople

Afp, Colombo : 17.02.13

Sri Lanka’s navy yesterday rescued 38 Myanmar nationals who were drifting off the island’s east coast, the second batch of boatpeople to be saved in as many weeks, officials said.

Sri Lankan naval craft responding to a distress call plucked the 38 people from a rickety boat drifting about 250 miles (400 kilometres) off the east coast, a navy official said.

Four of the rescued passengers required treatment for dehydration and they were being brought to the southern port of Galle, he said.

“Four people required medical attention and are out of danger,” the navy official, who asked not to be named, said. “They will reach shore by tomorrow (Sunday).”

On February 3, the navy rescued 138 Bangladeshi and Myanmar nationals

Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

Steven Seeker

မစၥတာကင္တားနားကိုမဟုတ္မဟတ္ေျပာၾကားသူေတြ….မိုက္မိုက္ရိုင္းရိုင္းေျပာသူေတြကို….အရွက္မရိွဘူးလားလို ့ေမးခ်င္ပါတယ္….အခု ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္ကို တစ္ကမၻာ လံုး သိေအာင္ဖြင့္ခ်မယ္လို ့ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ပါတယ္

Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
By Tomas Ojea Quintana, 16 Feb 2013, Yangon International Airport, Myanmar
I have just concluded my five day mission to Myanmar – my seventh visit to the country since I was appointed Special Rapporteur in March 2008. I would like to express my appreciation to the Government of Myanmar for its invitaion, and for the cooperation and flexibility shown during my visit, in particular for my visits to Rakhine State and Kachin State.
—–In Rakhine state, i visited muslim and buddhist IDP camps in Sittwe, Myaybon, Pauk Taw and also visited Sittwe Prison. In Kachin State, I visited IDP camps in Myitkyina and Waingmaw

Scores of Rohingyas seek refuge in Thailand

Scores of Rohingyas seek refuge in Thailand

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  DW, Rohingya_News, Ron_Corben, World_Media

Ron Corben

Deutsche Welle

February 13, 2013

Activists say that up to 19,000 people - mostly Rohingya Muslims - have set sail from Myanmar's western Rakhine state to Thailand to escape violence and deteriorating living conditions.

There are around 800,000 Rohingyas living in Myanmar, also known as Burma. The minority group lives predominantly in the western state of Rakhine. They are not officially recognized by the Myanmar government as an ethnic minority group, and for decades they have been subjected to discrimination and violence by the Buddhist

Children Targeted By Rakhine Nationalist

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Alders_Ledge, Article, Jack_Lee 

Preying Upon The Weak

Children Targeted By Rakhine Nationalist
(part of The Darkness Visible series)

Jack Lee

Alders Ledge

February 14, 2013

In every genocide the weakest and most vulnerable are the most likely to be targeted for extermination. For those communities that find themselves the target of ethnic cleansing their children are preyed upon without mercy. The aim of this merciless method of slaughter is aimed at depriving the targeted community of their next generation. It is a tactic that is employed to ensure that the "undesirables" have not opportunity for a future. 

When Stalin wanted to weaken his imagined foe in the Ukraine he commanded his forces to work the adults to death while starving the children. In doing this Uncle Joe damned an entire generation to a fate worse than death. He desired to starve them

Tough time at Rohingya shelter

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  Bangkok_Post,

(Photo - Phuket Wan)

Bangkok Post

February 13, 2013

Rohingya illegal immigrants in temporary shelters face a rough time in the near future, forced to deal with psychological and physical challenges as isolated women and teenagers receive little or no information about their husbands and sons.

Communications is the most common and urgent issue in the holding centres, as quarrels among the Rohingya escalate, and psychological problems increase.

The International Committee of Red Cross, United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef),

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers who were arrested on February10 were killed in the local Nasaka camp

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers who were arrested on February10 were killed in the local Nasaka camp for severe torturing in the camp on February 12 , said a relative of the victims.
“The victims were identified as— Nazir Hussain (35), Ms Hansoma Khatun (30), Amir Salim (30), and Nadu (50). They all belong to Ludine village of Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw Township.”
Females were also arrested in the absent of their husbands, sons and brothers in the house. Many Rohingya villagers (not known exact figure) were arrested by security forces-Nasaka and police- from Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw north regarding the killing of one Rakhine man and three others wounded on February 10, by unknown criminals, said

Aung San Suu Kyi offers to mediate Burma peace talks

Wednesday | 13/02/2013
Rohingya News Agency – (THE GUARDIAN): Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she is willing to mediate an end to violence between the government and ethnic minority groups, a move that could lead to a formal invitation from the government to take part in negotiations with Kachin rebels.

The Nobel laureate made the announcement on Union Day, which celebrates the day in 1947 when her father, the late General Aung San, signed an agreement with leaders of Burma’s ethnic minorities to wrest independence from British

UN Expert Visits Refugee Camps

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:20 AM PST

Source Radio Free Asia:

February 13, 2013

The special rapporteur on human rights travels to Burma to investigate camps for the displaced in Rakhine and Kachin states.

AFP U.N. Human Rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana talks to journalists at the Rangoon international airport, Aug. 4, 2012

A U.N. human rights envoy on Monday visited refugee camps in Burma’s restive Rakhine state, where nearly 200 people were killed in communal violence last year, as part of a fact-finding mission on ethnic conflict in the country.

Tomas Ojea Quintana, who is on his seventh trip to Burma as the U.N. Special Rapporteur monitoring the rights situation in Burma, spent time speaking with refugees at camps in Myay Pone township near the state capital Sittwe.

He was accompanied by U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator

Human Rights Bid to Speak Out for Stateless, Voiceless Rohingya Boatpeople

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Human Rights,

Source Phuket_Wan:

February 14, 2013

By Human Rights Urgent Appeals Program

THAILAND: Rohingya asylum seekers arrested in southern provinces of Thailand

ISSUES: Refugees, IDPs and asylum seekers; human trafficking; minorities Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned for the fate of Rohingya asylum seekers who have been arrested in the past weeks in police sweeps of remote areas in Songkhla’s Sadao district near the border with Malaysia and the other provinces. They have fled from Burma, where they have been subjected to various types of persecution.

Even though Rohingya migrants are entering into Thailand without

No life security of Rohingya people in Arakan

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Arakan Burma,

Commentary by Fayas

Repeatedly, ruthless stories on Rohingya people in Arakan under the racist Burma’s security forces are taking since long. There are many tragedies that remain untold. As human beings, regardless of the one’s religion, a human being deserves his/her honor and dignity of being human at the place where he/she is present.

Today, every Rohingya has his/her own tragedy concerning their relatives or friends in the unruly Arakan where killing and torturing of Rohingyas, torching

UNICEF gives assistance Rohingya children and women in shelters in southern Thailand

Friday, February 15, 2013  Press Release, Refugee,

Source UNICEF:

BANGKOK, 14 February 2013 – UNICEF began this week delivering footballs and other play and recreation supplies to eight Ministry of Social Development and Human Security shelters caring for Rohingya children in southern Thailand.

Some 270 Rohingya children, many who were separated from their parents or who came to Thailand unaccompanied by adults, are being cared for at nine shelters in eight provinces across the South.

About 70 Rohingya women are also being assisted at

Nasaka kills 4 villagers in Maungdaw

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Arakan Burma, Kaladan Press,

a Rohingya man killed by Rakhine terrorist, photo 2012

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four Rohingya villagers who were arrested on February10 were killed in the local Nasaka camp for severe torturing in the camp on February 12 , said a relative of the victims.

“The victims were identified as— Nazir Hussain (35), Ms Hansoma  Khatun (30), Amir Salim (30), and Nadu (50). They all belong to Ludine village of Loung Don village tract of Maungdaw Township.”

Females were also arrested in the absent of their husbands, sons and brothers in

OIC and UN discussed the situation of Rohingya

Friday, February 15, 2013 Arab_News,The Organization of Islamic Cooperation intends to establish a secure financial network to support the Palestinians, OIC Secretary-General Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said yesterday.

Ihsanoglu made this announcement during a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York. The two also discussed the developments in Syria and Mali as well as the situation of Rohingya in Myanmar. The OIC chief told the UN secretary-general the need to take necessary measures for protecting the Muslim minority in Myanmar

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