Ethnic Rohingya Committee of Malaysia

Cox's Bazar: A 19-member delegation comprised of diplomats from western countries has recently visited the Burmese Muslim refugee camps in southeastern Cox's Bazar District in Bangladesh.  The team visited the Kutupalong and Nayapara official refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on 6 April, 2011, and assessed the living conditions, health, and education of the refugees, said a refugee from Kutupalong Camp. "The delegates inspected the sheds and had some interviews with the refugees about our living condition, health, and education, and also asked us if we are willing to go back to Burma," said the refugee. 

By  Aarabu Ahmad Sultan Huffington Blog February 7, 2015  This winter, as a bitter cold wave swept across north India, the daily life of Rohingya refugees housed in different slums across Jammu was rough.

A Rohingya Muslim family poses in a village at Maungdaw June 6, 2014.  Photo: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun By  Jared Ferrie Reuters February 7, 2015 YANGON  - Nationalist monks and some political leaders in Myanmar have threatened to hold mass rallies to protest a parliamentary decision giving the Rohingya ethnic minority voting rights in a referendum to amend the constitution.

Rohingya children play by a relief tent at Bawdupah's Internally Displaced People camp on the outskirts of Sittwe. Photo: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images  By  Oliver Griffin  NewStatesMan February 7, 2015 The status of Burma’s Rohingya people has devolved to the point where even naming them has become controversial. We need to do more. Last month Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma (also known as Myanmar), criticised the Burmese government’s attitude towards its own Rohingya people. In Burma’s Rakhine province, there are currently more than one million Rohingya – an Islamic ethnic group – living in apartheid-like conditions.

A Buddhist monk prays at the Sule Pagoda in Yangon. The pagoda was the gathering point for protesters during the 2007 monk-led saffron revolution against the former military dictatorship. Photograph: Jennifer Duggan  By  Jennifer Duggan The Irish Times February 7, 2015 Social media and free expression may be working against Muslim 4% of population Burmese political blogger Nay Phone Latt was jailed for sharing news online about the monk-led saffron revolution in 2007 against the country’s brutal military dictatorship. Released under an amnesty for political prisoners three years ago, he is involved in another kind of revolution, one against hate speech targeting Muslims that is becoming more and more prevalent in Burmese society.

Rohingya Muslims pass time near their shelter at a refugee camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar. By   Voice of America February 7, 2015 Myanmar, also known as Burma, has slammed a visiting U.N. official for using the term "Rohingya" to refer to a beleaguered ethnic minority group the government does not officially recognize.

 Headquarter of Border Guard Police (BGP) in Kyi Kan Pyin, Maungdaw Township [Photo: Irrawaddy] February 05 By Rohingya Eye Maungdaw, Arakan ( Rohingya Vision ) —  Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) severely beat up three Rohingya firewood gathering teenagers and robbed their belongings in Maungdaw Township on January 31, according to the local sources. The incident took place when the teenagers, on their way back home in the evening, encountered a gang of BGP from the head-quarter based in Kyi Kan Pyin village also known as Khawar Bil. Upon that, the BGP held them for no reason, arbitrarily beating them up and robbed their firewood and wood-cutter knives.

February 05 By Md Elias Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh ( Rohingya Vision ) —  The Rohingya Refugees in a refugee camp of Cox’s Bazaar District, Bangladesh, are facing severe crises resulting from the shortage of drinking water, sanitation and other health related issues, the refugees in the camps said. The crises have prevailed as the Bangladesh Government has halted the humanitarian works and assistances by a few INGOS known as ‘Muslim Aid’ and ‘NGOForum’ to the refugee camps in ‘Ledaa’ area of the district.

By  Dr Maung Zarni February 5, 2015 The news of Myanmar regime allowing the Rohingya white card holders - temporary resident permits - to vote in the 2015 has triggered loud protests from political groups and parties in Myanmar.

A woman in a displacement camp in Arakan State’s Myebon Township holds up her white card, October 2014. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) - By  Lawi Weng The Irrawaddy February 3, 2015 RANGOON  — Burma’s Union Parliament on Monday passed a law granting temporary citizens the right to vote in a constitutional referendum slated for later this year. The 2015 referendum law automatically enfranchises about 1.5 million “white card” holders, who live in Burma but do not enjoy full citizenship rights.

February 03 By MYARF Buthidaung, Arakan ( Rohingya Vision ) —  An attempt to gang-rape a Rohingya minor girl by Myanmar’s Military took place in Buthidaung Township on January 21, according to the local sources. The incident happened as the 14-year-old girl identified to be ‘S’ (daughter of) ‘Mr. H’ hailed from Du-Oo-Thay-Ma village was on her way to receive her parents after the work in their farm in the evening of the day.

February 03 Report by MYRAF Maungdaw, Arakan  (Rohingya Vision )  — Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) arbitrarily arrested three Rohingyas in southern Maungdaw last Thursday, whereas one of whom is believed to be dead due to the tortures in detention, a local said.  The three innocent people hail from Thinbaw Kway village also known as Kullon were arrested by the Border Guard Police from the camp base at the village in southern Maungdaw.

SEKILAS PANDANG – PENUBUHAN KNOWLEDGE GARDEN LEARNING CENTRE (KGLC) Orang pelarian Rohingya (Myanmar) tidak mempunyai dokumen sah disisi undang-undang Malaysia. Kebanyakan orang pelarian Rohingya sudah berdaftar dengan UNHCR dan membolehkan mereka mendapatkan bantuan kewangan dan akses perubatan di hospital dan pusat perubatan kerajaan dengan kadar separuh harga. Namun, masih terdapat sebahagian yang masih belum berdaftar dan ini menjadikan mereka hidup dalam keadaan terumbang-ambing.

By   Democratic Voice of Burma January 31, 2015 Human rights in Burma saw serious setbacks in 2014, according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Progress made since President Thein Sein took power in 2011 has derailed, with the international community not meeting its responsibility to shore up the reform process, the Washington-based rights group says in its  World Report 2015 , released on Thursday.

RB News  January 31, 2015 Pauktaw, Arakan  – A group of Rohingya fishermen from Sin Tat Maw (Sandama) village of Pauktaw Township of Arakan State were attacked by a Rakhine group on January 28, 2015.  Sin Tat Maw or Sandama is an ancient historical Rohingya village in Pauktaw Township of Arakan State. Most of the villagers are fishermen and only a few are surviving as farmers. There are about 40 fishing boats, those belonging to the villagers of Sandama. On January 25th, 2015, seven fishing boats carrying eight fishermen on each boat left for fishing from Sandama.