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...

Source  m-mediagrop , 27 Dec   The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) was sent in and warned by the Union Election Commission on 25 December in Nay Pyi Taw about three matters. Among the three matters is the writing offending Islam and Muslims of Myanmar featured in the Toe-Tat-Yay Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 12), a political publication of the RNDP. The author with the pseudonym "Marga Thitsar" of the article, titled "If Rakhine State Disintegrates" and featured in the Toe-Tat-Yay, hatefully insults Islam and Muslims of Myanmar. By violating (i) the Constitution, (ii) existing laws, and (iii) the Political Parties  Registration  Law, the official political publication of the RNDP leader Dr. Aye Maung who himself chairs the  Citizens ' Fundamental  Rights , Democracy and Human  Rights Committee at the Amyotha Hluttaw (the Upper House) has  committed the following- (a) Offense against Islam adhered by millions of people ...

Source  Rohingyablogger , 29 Dec Maung Daw, Arakan  - Since 5AM this morning, the village of Khadir Bil (Nyaung Chaung), Maung Daw has been under the besiege and blockage of a joint department of Police, Hluntin (Security Forces), NaSaKa (Border Security Froces) and Military. The joint department is carrying out mass arbitrary arrests of innocent Rohingyas in the village. "At 5AM, a joint department of Police, Hluntin (Security Forces), NaSaKa (Border Security Froces) and Military besieged the village Khadir Bil (Nyaung Chaung).They have put blockades around the village since then so that no Rohingya from the village can escape. Now the joint department is raiding every house in the village and arbitrarily arresting innocent Rohingyas. Besides, they have been harassing Rohingya women in the village. Meanwhile, some innocent Rohingyas are being released after extorting money. U Khin Maung Shwe [sic], the Judge of the Court of Maung Daw Tsp, has been issuing a...

Source Aljazeera, 9 Dec   Pl watch the video of   "The Hidden Genocide" This is the story of a people fleeing the land where they were born - the Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar.   Earlier this year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in western Myanmar. The authorities charged three Muslim men. A week later, 10 Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next was hidden from the outside world. Bloodshed pitted Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their homes, which were burned down in what they said was a deliberate attempt by the predominantly Buddhist government to drive them out of the country. "They were shooting and we were also fighting. The fields were filled with bodies and soaked with blood," says Mohammed Islam, who fled with his family to Bangladesh. There are 400,000 Rohingya languishing in Bangladesh. For more than three decades, waves of refugees have fled Myanmar. But the government of Ban...

Source  Kaladna Press , 5 Dec   Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Burma border security force (Nasaka) open fired to the villagers of Bagona villagers but, no one was wounded today night at about 9:00pm, according to an elder from Bagona village. "A group of Nasaka numbering about 40, entered Bagona east village with the name of family list checking and arrested 5 villagers with false allegation – involving in the riot- where the villagers screamed for help. Hearing the scream, the west side of villagers rushed to the spot. The Nasaka released the villagers when they saw villagers." After half an hour, the Nasaka again entered to Bagona west, but the villagers screamed for help, similarly, the east side villagers rushed to the west side where Nasaka open fired to the villagers when they saw the come to the village, said Anwer from Maungdaw who had connection with his relative in Bagona village. "At last, the Nasaka entered to the village market and set on fire the fish...

Source  Force migration ,   As stateless Rohingya in Burma face containment in IDP camps and within their homes and communities in what is effectively segregation, their human rights are on the whole being ignored by countries keen either to support reform in Burma or to return refugees who have fled to their shores. It is no coincidence that the current crisis in Rakhine State in Burma has taken place against the back-drop of Burma's widely hailed, yet still fragile, democratic reform process, the beginnings of which were marked by the elections of 2010.  The toxic mix of general racism and an illiberal ex-military government  seeking  domestic support and democratic legitimacy has proved lethal to the rights of the stateless Rohingya in Burma. The 1982 Citizenship Law of Myanmar, which ignored the Rohingya's claim to citizenship and thus rendered them stateless, has formed the legal basis for arbitrary and discriminatory treatment against the Rohi...

Source Asiancorrespondent, 4 Dec   A few weeks ago I  warned  that a witch-hunt may begin in western Burma after a group of influential monks in the town of Sittwe instructed Arakanese to seek out and harass local Muslims. Following a meeting in October at a local monastery, the monks had  circulated a document  calling on Arakanese to "expose sympathisers of Bengali Kalars [Kalar is a derogatory term for people of South Asian descent] as national traitors along with photos and spread the information to every township". It came in the wake of months of fighting between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Arakan state that has resulted in discoveries of mass graves  and apartheid-like segregationist measures. Now two photos have emerged that apparently show this witch-hunt to be well under way. Two Arakanese men are pictured being paraded around with placards around their neck. One man, allegedly from the town of Myebon near Sittwe, wears one sign ...

Source from:Rohingya bloer.   December 2: BRUNEI is in a unique position to address the plight of the Muslim   Rohingya   people in Myanmar who are facing persecution and ethnic cleansing, the chief of the   Organisation   of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ) said yesterday. "Brunei being both a member of  OIC  and ASEAN is in a unique position to help address the violation of human rights and the plight of the  Rohingya  people, particularly (since) they are suffering from ethnic cleansing," said Ekmeleddin   Ihsanoglu  at a press conference following a public lecture he gave at  Universiti  Brunei Darussalam  ( UBD ). Ihsanoglu  is in the Sultanate on a three-day visit, where he also met with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang  Di-Pertuan  of Brunei  Darussalam . The  OIC  secretary-general said the monarch expressed particular concern for the violence between Muslims and Buddh...

Source  CNN , 26 Nov   By  Dan Rivers,  CNN November 26, 2012 -- Updated 1109 GMT (1909 HKT) Myanmar's minorities fight for survival STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority living in Myanmar's Rakhine state Thousands have been forced to flee the region amid persecution from Buddhist majority They are driven to refugee camps where conditions are extremely poor U.S. President Barack Obama raised the issue during his recent visit to Myanmar Sittwe, Myanmar (CNN)  -- It's been three years since I reported on the plight of the Rohingya Muslim people of western Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh. We called our documentary "A Forgotten People," and it looked at appalling incidents where boatloads of refugees fleeing poverty and persecution arrived in Thailand only to be towed back out to sea and abandoned by the Thai security forces. Hundreds died or went missing. WATCH: The Forgotten People:  Part 1  ...