Non-binding UN resolutions cannot help Rohingyas: Iran MP

A Muslim Rohingya woman cleans her pots by her burnt house at a village in Minpyar in Rakhine state on

An Iranian lawmaker says non-binding resolutions adopted by the UN will not help improve the situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, urging the UN to take practical measures.

Mehrdad Baouj-Lahouti on Friday dismissed non-binding resolutions as ineffective in resolving the problems of Rohingyas, saying that the UN must deal with human rights violations across the globe without double-standard behaviors.

Rohingya Trucked North: Checkpoint Exposes 127 in Minivan Convoy

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison

Thursday, December 27, 2012

PHUKET: A total of 127 Rohingya have been arrested in southern Thailand and trucked back to the Thailand-Burma border.

Those held were in five minivans in a convoy bound for the Malaysian border crossing at Padang Besar in Songkhla province.

Rohingya arrested in southern Thailand await return to the Burma border, Photo by 77 nation channel

Breaking News: Authority Carrying Out Mass Arbitrary Arrests in Maung Daw

M.S. Anwar

29.12.2012

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.

BROUK Welcomes UNGA Resolution on Burma

On 24 December 2012 the United Nations General Assembly expressed serious concern over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Burma (Myanmar) and called upon the Government to address reports of human rights abuses by the authorities.

The 193-nation General Assembly approved by consensus a non-binding resolution, which Burma said last month contained a “litany of sweeping allegations, accuracies of which have yet to be verified.”

“Briefing Report on Rohingyas at the MAS-ICNA Annual Convention in Chicago”

“BRAFA Report on Rohingyas on December 23^rd, 2012”

“Briefing Report on Rohingyas at the MAS-ICNA Annual Convention in Chicago”

(MAS-ICNA Convention held on December 21^st to 25^th, 2012)

First of all, I would like to thank the organizing Committee members of this 11^th Annual Convention of MAS-ICNA for giving me an ample opportunity to present the plights of Burmese Rohingya ethnic minority of Arakan-Burma with current update information.

Before briefing the situation of Burmese Rohingya people, I want to introduce all of you about myself and our organization called “The Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association. My name is Shaukhat (aka) MSK Jilani and currently, I am carrying the duty as a Chairman in the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association.

U.N. General Assembly voices concern for Myanmar's Muslims

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern on Monday over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar and called upon its government to address reports of human rights abuses by some authorities.

The 193-nation General Assembly approved by consensus a non-binding resolution, which Myanmar said last month contained a "litany of sweeping allegations, accuracies of which have yet to be verified."

A Muslim woman, displaced by recent violence in Kyukphyu township, cries after arriving at the Thaechaung refugee camp outside of Sittwe in this October 28, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/Files

Statement on International Human Rights Day (2012)

BURMESE ROHINGYA AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION (BRAFA)

4818 South 14th Street, Milwaukee Wisconsin 53221, USA

Tel: (414) 736 4273, (414) 306 1751, Fax: (414) 817 0656

E-mail: contactinfo.brafa@yahoo.com, http://www.brafausa.blogspot.com/

Ref: BRAFA 03/12
Date: December 10, 2012

In commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as adopted and proclaimed by the UN General Assembly, the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association reaffirms its commitment to the human rights norms as declared in the UDHR, and pursues accountability of gross injustices and multiple repressions by the democracy branded Burmese Authoritarian Government led by President Thein Sein.

UN Humanitarian Chief Says Rohingya Plight ‘Dire’

The United Nations humanitarian chief described the plight of Burma's Rohingya Muslims as “dire,” as she toured crowded refugee camps filled with those who have fled deadly communal violence.

Humanitarian chief Valerie Amos says she witnessed thousands of people in “overcrowded, substandard shelter with poor sanitation” during her tour on Thursday of several camps in western Rakhine state.

Rohingya camps in western Myanmar 'dire': UN envoy

06 December 2012 - 05H41  

Muslim Rohingya are shown in Mayebon Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Mayebon township in the western Myanmar Rakhine state in November 2012. The UN's humanitarian chief has described conditions for thousands of displaced Muslim Rohingya in western Myanmar as "dire" 

 

Graphic on the migration of stateless Rohingya Muslims

Muslim Rohingya children eat lunch in a tent at the Bawdupha Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine state in November 2012. Crammed into squalid camps, thousands of people who fled communal violence in Myanmar face a deepening humanitarian crisis with critical shortages of food, water and medicine, aid workers say. 

Expert warns of Rohingya genocide

December 03, 2012

“Warning signs” are in place for a genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, an Al Jazeera investigation has been told by a leading expert in the field.

According to Professor William Schabas, until recently President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the findings of an Al Jazeera documentary reveal that “we’re moving into a zone where the word can be used”.

In June, Myanmar state media reported 78 deaths during sectarian violence between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities. The Al Jazeera team discovered that official statements provided only a small part of what took place.

Announcement from Burmese Rohingya Majority Representing Organization in USA

BURMESE ROHINGYA AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION (BRAFA)

4818 South 14th Street, Milwaukee Wisconsin 53221, USA

Tel: (414) 736 4273, (414) 306 1751, Fax: (414) 817 0656

E-mail: contactinfo.brafa@yahoo.com, http://www.brafausa.blogspot.com/

Ref: BRAFA 02/12

Date: November 30, 2012

Announcement of the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association

With pleasure, we, the members of Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) are very pleased to announce the formation of BRAFA formed on the date of September 01, 2012 by the Rohingya American and residents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin State after extensive consultation and discussion among the Rohingya members to advocate the cause of UN documented the most persecuted ethnic Rohingya minority people of the world as well as to draw world-public opinion in favor of the Rohingyas’ rights to survive as equal Burmese citizens with dignity and honor in their homeland of Arakan-Burma.