Ethnic Rohingya Committee of Malaysia

Source  Eldersledge , 8 Jan   A Look At The Blockades' Affects (part of  The Darkness Visible  series) ( December 03, 2012 Rohingya Children Starving in Burma ) In Burma the blockades still stand. Living testaments to the savagery of a government dedicated to the annihilation of the Rohingya, the police and military still hold back much needed food, water, and medicines.  This incredibly disturbing method of warfare is dead set on starving the Rohingya out of existence. And yet for the past few months I have been unable to pinpoint where and how this method was being used. Today that changed. Thanks to Jamila Hanan, an activist on Twitter, I was able to finally get my hands on some hard facts. The information however is nothing to be celebrated. For the man who sent it out of Burma is still stuck inside living the same hell his Rohingya brothers are suffering through. Aung Aung posted the following information earlier this month. ( Life For The Roh...

Source  Bankokpost , 18 Jan   BANGKOK - Thailand would have to shoulder full responsibility for the wellbeing of the Rohingya refuges if a camp was up for them in this country, Supreme Commander Thanasak Patimapakorn warned on Friday. "It is up to the government to decide whether or not a Rohingya refugee camp is to be established," Gen Thanasak said. "In terms of humanitarian assistance, we'll initially provide them with food and shelter in accordance to regulations, but in the long run they'll have to leave. "Foreign countries want Thailand to help the Rohingya, but they don't  offer  to help us with it." He called on all relevant agencies to jointly find a solution to the Rohingya problem. The supreme commander said Thailand was merely a transit point for the Rohingya migrants, not their intended destination. They were not invading the country, he added. Rohingya migrants are being held at Thung Lung police station in Songkhla'...

Rohingyablogger , 8 Jan: 70 Families Escaping Killed and Raped   Buthidaung: Recently, a group of 70 Rohingya families from Ky auktaw crossed the mountain to come to Buthidaung (particularly to Fuimali village ) due to unbearable situations there and starvation as Rakhines and the authorities blocked all sources of food supply to Rohingya people. On the way many including women and children were brutally killed and raped by Rakhines, Murung, and Naskaka. Many women were seen brought naked without clothes into the Fuimali villages by Nasaka as witnessed by many in the Fuimali markets. Furthermore, those who helped the victims were detained by Nasaka or released by offering hefty money. The situation is by no means bearable by any human beings and the Rakhines and the authorities are fully responsible for all these inhuman crimes against humanity.     Kaladanpress , 7 Dec: Mosque destroyed by Nasaka in Maungdaw Maungdaw, Arakan State: A Mosque (10 yards...