Updated information from Riot Scene Arakan State Burma from 16 to 19 of June

Below are brief report received from the Arakan State Burma Riot Scene. Burning and killing are still going on in Remote Cities of Arakan State. Eventhough Burning and killing are stopped in Sittwe and Maungdaw township, arresting for nothing, looting and lack of food, shelters and medical in need and are the most urgent requirement by displace people. Please see below details report for the past few days

Date: 19/06/2012 (Tuesday)

1. There are about more than 12,000 displaced Rohingyas (Confirmed) Aung Min Galar Quarter , evacuations Camp, Sittwe .4 old man were died because of lack of food and medicine. According to our reliable source most of the people they don’t even water to drink. They need Food and medicine is urgently.

2. The authorities mentioned that they will not allow Rohingyas to settle in Sittwe city.Government authorities said burned down Rohingya’s villages will be provided to Rakhine who were intentionally brought from other towns of Arakan.

3. Rakhine burned down a Rohingya village – Anauk Pin – in Rathidaung Township today morning at about 8:30 am, where 60 Rohingya’s houses were burned down into ash, died 8 Rakhines (unconfirmed) and 8 Rohingyas. More villagers were wounded.

4. Another Rohingya village –Muzardiya- was also burned down today where 6 Rakhines killed (unconfirmed) and 2 Rohingyas. Similarly Rohingya village –Tharapin- was also completely burned down and most of Rohingya villagers were slaughtered. These villagers are stranded between Rakhine villages and Mayu River.

18/06/2012 (Monday)

1. Na Sa Ka (Border Security Forces) of No. 9 region completely destroyed a large two floor religious school building in Taungbazar village , Buthidaung. In the beginning, Na Sa Ka themselves destroyed the building and then the local villagers were forced destroy it. The building was made of wood and the roof was of tin sheets.

2. 24 Rohingya leaders were arrested in Maungdaw Town including Dr Hla Myint, High School Teacher Hussein (Former Executive Member of NDPHR- National Democratic Party for Human Rights) , Dr Nazumuddin and U Fazzal ( NDPHR – elected member in 1990 election). They were invited for a meeting then taken to the NaSaKa headquarter.

3. 70 Rohingya villagers from Baguna, Nurulapara village Maungdaw were invited to a meeting by Government authorities (NaSaKa , Police, and Paramilitary Forces) . When the villagers arrived they were forced by authorities to hold the gun and taken video and pictures by the authorities. Some people said from the ground they were killed by NaSaKa (unconfirmed).

4. More than 2000 Rohingyas are taking shelter in Nyaung chaung village high school ,Buthidaung. They were escaped from Rathadaung Town while their houses were burned down by Rakhine. 3 people died as they don’t have food.

5. Most of the Rohingyas who were found with mobile were arrested by NaSaKa.

Date: 17/06/2012 (Sunday)

Stranded Rohingya 15 boats in Naf River are disappearing with more than 2000 Rohingyas since early morning 16th June who fled because of attacks by Rakhines, Police Officers and Paramilitary Forces.

The Rohingya who were drifting in the Naf River as the authority of Bangladesh didn’t allow to enter its land, hit heavy rain and windy since Wednesday night. The stranded Rohingya boats are not seen in the Naf River and no body know where the boat gone, according to local from Shapuri Dip.

In Sittwe, Government authorities are planning to allocate Rakhine on Rohingya’s villages which were burnt by Rakhine.

Rakhines burnt 100 houses Bara Bara Village ,Kyuaktaw Town.and killing Rohingyas in every houses. Rakhines are killing Rohigyas with the collaboration of Police and Paramilitary Forces.

Maungdaw USDP secretary Phan Phyo’s (Quater 1) son Tun Hla Sein jointly organized with his collaborators Mg Nyi Mg Chay@Hla Myin son of Ni Mg (Quater1), Paun pae son of Aung Gyi (Quater

4) and Kyaw Aye(Quater 3) were formed a gang to rape Rohingya women and to loot Rohingya villages. Tun Hla Sein provided his gang Police Uniform and sort of weapons according to reliable source from the ground.

Almarajan(age-20) and Shafika(age-17) from Taray kundan (Sairkumbar-hoinna fara) village,Maungdaw are allegedly gang raped by Burmese military at 15:00 pm 16th June, in Maungdaw.25 numbers of youth are arrested by NaSaKa camp and taken to NaSaKa Headquarter. Around 20 trucks of Rohingyas are arrested and sent to NaSaKa Head Quarter.

(1) Robis Ahmed - head of 100 house ( Ra Ayin Mu)-- Zaw Ma Thet- Salimma para shot dead by Na Sa Ka (17:00 pm 16th June)

(2)Sho Fiullah - 10 household head ( Say Ayin Gong) Lomba Goona village shot dead

(3) Sakina-One 11 years old girl from Tha Yee Kon Tan village shot dead

(4) Roshid Ahmed- Tha Re Kon Tan Village (Shopkeeper- Tha Re Kon Tan Mar Ket ( Sair Konbor Bazar)- Strongly beaten by Na Sa Ka looted all Commodities and destroyed

(5) Nobi Hussein- THa Re Kon Tan Village seriously beaten and dead.

Another 27 Rohingyas arrested from southern Maungdaw today 10:00 am Locatime-17.06.2012).Arrested people never comeback believed killed by NaSaKa(Border Security Forces).

NoNameFather’s Name

1 AzimullahAli Ahmed

2 Hamid HussainIsmail

3 AnzulloIsmail

4 Halo MiaShida Ali

5 Mv. Hashim UllahNazir Ahmed

6 Abu SoyedWali Ahmed

7 Abu KalamWali Ahmed

8 KalayaNazir Ahmed

9 Mohammed EliasKalaya

10 SayedulllahAbdu Mozid

11 Dil MohamedYounus

12 EliasShari Hossain

13 Anamatullah unknown

14 ZonaidNur Hossain

15 Mr. AzizullahMv. Hanifa

16 Amir HamzaMiyo Hossain

17 Ex-chairman KollimullahBodur Rahman

18 BaittaNazira

19 Mv. Noor HossainYounus

Note: from serial no. 1 to 13 = Anauk Ywa, Udan village ,Maungdaw

From serial no. 14 to 19 = Zumma Ywa, Udan Village Maungdaw

In other towns of Maungdaw, Nasaka called Rohingya villages and meeting and arrested. While they call the meeting the other groups of Rakhine and military groups entered Rohingya’s houses and looting their valuable things and took Rohingya’s girls and raped them. In Muslim evacuation center, there is no food and medicine authorities are not providing food to Rohingya.

Date: 16/06/2012 (Saturday) 

Last 4 hours ago, Hamid (age-12 yr girl) was killed Rakhine Police in Kiladang Village Maungdaw .Her brother confirmed it from the ground.

Received some people name who were involved attacks on Rohingya villages in Maungdaw .Rakhine are Maung Soe Win ,Mg Mg Che,U Kaung ,Pho Tha Tu ,Ney Min Twe. Maungdaw Ward(4) Ploice officers Hla Myint ,Tun Tun Kyaw, Maung Cha, Tin Aye ( Who killed 10 yr Rohingya girl),Bo Latt, Aung Kyaw Thein. They killed more than 150 Rohingya people (confirmed).Dead body found 36 and other taken by Police Trucks.There are more than 100 people still missing in Maungdaw.

Rakhine people burnt in Haindapara Village, Maungdaw ,Arakan State.The attacks taken place in Arpauk Warr village Kyauktaw Town ,Arakan State and clashed with Rohingyas. 1 Rohingya died (confirmed) and Rakhine burnt 21 houses.

Rakhines rounded up by Aung Dine village and Sakyar village in Min Bya Town, Rakhine State. Rohingya people from Min Bya town are worrying and do not know what time Rakhine will set fire their villages. This information is confirmed and received it it our contact in Rangoon just now.

Rohingya people are seriously and painfully suffering from food shortage as authorities are not at all helping Rohingya with food while Rakhines has been enjoying all sorts of cares from authorities. Moreover, Rakhines public is not selling food to Rohingya making things extremely difficult for Rohingya's survival.

They need immediate supply of food, clothes and medicine. People are dying of hunger and lack of medical care, shelters and clothing. We need immediate UN and international help to save the Rohingya people. It is clearly understood that Military government is not doing any to help save lives of Rohingya people in the most effected areas such as Akyab, Maungdaw, Rathidaung, Buthidaung and other cities.

In Santoli of Akyab Rohingyas Muslims are being circled by Rakhine mobs and most of the Rohingyas didn’t have food one week now. 

The authority is not allowing the general public to bring supply of food from other areas to the effected areas. Therefore it is seriously important to give international pressures to the military junta to immediately allow the public supply necessary food, medicine and clothing as well as sheltering equipment

Who will save the Rohingya Muslims?

DR. ALI AL-GHAMDY

Arakan (Rakhine) province was an independent kingdom for much of its history. A vast region stretching from western Burma to the Bengal region, Arakan was weakened when war broke out with the Mughal rulers in India, especially when it lost the Chittagong region to the Mughals. The region’s weaker position and instability led to its annexation to the Burmese state.

The British were represented in Burma by the East India Company, which initially began with commercial activities and ended up by establishing a government. With the expansion of British domination beginning from the eastern part of India, or Bengal, a series of wars broke out between the British and the Burmese. This subsequently resulted in the British invading Burma and making it part of the British Empire.

Arakan was the site of many battles during the Second World War. With the end of the war and following Britain’s decision to give independence to some of its colonies, Burma became independent in 1948. Thus, Arakan became part of the newly independent Union of Burma. However, it did not stop the people of Arakan from demanding their own independence and eventually they rebelled.

In 1974, the socialist government under General Ne Win granted self rule to Arakan province. However, this failed to satisfy Arakan Muslims, who calling themselves mujahideen, carried out an armed rebellion and vowed to create an Islamic state. The people of Arakan region belonged to various sections of the pluralist Burmese society, and Muslims were from the minority Rohingyas. Muslims found that their nationality was abrogated and the majority Buddhist population began to take repressive measures against them with the tacit approval and support of the government.

Since the beginning of the crisis in the 1960s, heinous crimes have been committed against Rohingyas such as perpetrating massacres, depriving them of their rights, and driving a large number of them out of their country. As a result, the Rohingyas were forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh authorities set up tents for the refugees and extended them help with the hope that their problems would be quickly resolved. However, since the 1990s, the persecution and massacre of Muslims has increased and a large number of them have been pushed out of the country to Bangladesh where new tents have been erected for them. Many of these refugees later fled to Saudi Arabia and other countries.

The mounting international pressure on the Myanmar government and the growing resistance of the opposition under the leadership of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi had kindled new hope that the usurped rights of the Rohingya Muslims would be restored and that those who had been driven out of their homes would be able to return. But all of these hopes were shattered again and the Rohingyas became victims of massacres at the hands of Buddhists with the clandestine support of police and security forces who made no effort to save these people. This triggered another exodus of boatloads of refugees fleeing to Bangladesh in order to save their lives.

However, the Bangladesh government has issued orders to close its borders to these refugees despite repeated calls from the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) and several other global rights groups as well as organizations, such as the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Asian Human Rights Commission. These groups have asked Dhaka to offer refugee status to Myanmar’s minority Muslim Rohingyas against the backdrop of the deadly violence in the country’s Buddhist dominated Arakan state.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni announced that her country is not in a position to shelter any more refugees as the densely inhabited state is already over-burdened with nearly half a million refugees. She urged the global human rights groups, as well as the UNHCR to pressure the Myanmar government to create a conducive atmosphere for the return of the refugees as well as to restore their rights instead of asking Bangladesh to open its borders to more of them.

Still there is public pressure from civil rights organizations as well as some prominent Muslim leaders and the media to ensure the protection of these refugees after allowing them to return to their country and to extend humanitarian assistance to them in addition to restoring all of their legitimate rights. At the same time, some Bangladeshi observers have come forward to support Dhaka’s decision not to allow any more refugees into the country. They have pointed out that the disturbances that took place and are taking place in Arakan are the outcome of Myanmar domestic policies. They also indicate that allowing more refugees to enter the country may create a misunderstanding in Myanmar at a time when its head of state is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month.

In a bid to save the Rohingya Muslims from massacres, Salimullah, chairman of the Rohingya Rights Organization, has talked by phone with officials of several Muslim governments as well as with leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation and several international human rights organizations. He has praised the position of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with regard to their problem. However, he was not able to brief her on the latest turbulent situation because she was in Europe to receive the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded to her two decades ago. She addressed the International Labor Organization in Geneva before delivering her Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo, 21 years after winning the award while under house arrest. Even though she referred in the speech to the ongoing bloodshed in her country, she did not as expected specifically refer to the massacres being perpetrated against Muslims besides demanding that the world and the Myanmar government protect their lives which would have made the Nobel Peace Prize more meaningful.


— Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdy is a former Saudi diplomat who specializes in Southeast Asian affairs. He can be reached at algham@hotmail.com

Burmese Muslims and Rohingya Rally in front of UN Headquarter and Permanent mission of Burma at New York City

More than 200 hundred people from all over USA gathered here today to show solidarity for the victim of riot in Arakan, Burma. Muslim from Burma were united regardless of differences in ethnicity and geographic location to demand for Justice for the victims whose voice have not been heard accurately by the world. CNN reporters were on the scenes recording and interviewing demonstrators.



Demonstrators highlighted that international media are reporting fabricated reported generated by Perpetrators of the Riots. AS long as independent media are not reporting from the ground, Genocide in Arakan state will continue until Rohingya will be wipe out completely from their ancestral land.



Memorandums were given to UN Secretary general Ban-ki moon and Burma President U Thein Sein and demanded Justice for the victims, rule of law, to restore citizenship right to Rohingya, to stop prompting hate, to stop inciting racial riot in the future for political interest, to provide emergency Humanitarian assistance such as food, medicine and shelters etc. They also demanded to stop religious persecution and to allow returning refugee without any condition, and to allow rebuild mosques and villages, which were burnt down by the mobs and militia.

LSE discussion roundtable on "Rule of Law" with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi told an LSE audience that fairness and freedom can only be restored to her country under the rule of law.

Speaking on her first visit to the UK for 24 years, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said that unity in Burma and a new constitution could only be achieved within a legal framework. “This is what we all need - unless we see that justice is to be done, we cannot proceed to genuine democracy”, she told an audience of students, staff and visitors.

She said that she condemned violence wherever it occurred, but that a full understanding of its causes was key: “Resolving conflict is not about condemnation, it’s about finding the roots, the causes of that conflict and how they can be resolved in the best way possible.”

The leader of the National League of Democracy in Burma, who has spent much of her life under house arrest on the orders of the country’s military rulers, was speaking as part of a round-table discussion at LSE featuring academic and legal experts.

LSE Director Judith Rees reminded listeners that the event was taking place on Aung San Suu Kyi’s 67th birthday and that everyone wanted to celebrate that she was able to enjoy the day in freedom.

Professor Rees said: “Your trip to the UK will go down in history and I’m sure that it’s an emotional trip for you.”

She also invited the crowd to sing Happy Birthday, adding: “It’s a tribute not just to you but to all those who have campaigned for freedom in Burma.”

Alex Peters-Day, General Secretary of LSE’s Students’ Union, presented the guest with a surprise present - a photograph of her late father taken in London in 1947 - and with an LSE baseball cap, a traditional gift for visiting leaders.
The panel discussion also involved LSE professors Mary Kaldor and Christine Chinkin, Burmese activist and visiting fellow Dr Maung Zarni, Oxford professor Nicola Lacey and barrister Sir Geoffrey Nice QC.

Professor Kaldor ended the event by passing on a question from a student who’d asked Aung San Suu Kyi how she had found her strength to continue her campaigning. She answered: “It’s all of you, and people like you, who give me the strength to continue. And I suppose I have a stubborn streak in me.”

Speaker(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Nicola Lacey, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Dr Maung Zarni

Recorded on 19 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of Parliament of Kawhmu constituency in Burma. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1991.

Christine Chinkin, FBA, is currently Professor in International Law at the London School of Economics. She has widely published on issues of international human rights law, law, including as co-author of The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis.

Nicola Lacey holds a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, and is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford, having previously held a chair at the London School of Economics. Nicola’s research is in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on comparative and historical scholarship. In 2011 she won the Hans Sigrist Prize for scholarship on the rule of law in modern societies.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC is a barrister; he is a signatory of Harvard’s Crimes in Burma report. Sir Geoffrey is a member of Burma Justice Committee and works with NGO's and other groups seeking international recognition of crimes committed in conflicts; represents government and similar interests at the ICC.

A Burmese native, Dr Zarni is a veteran founder of the Free Burma Coalition, one of the Internet's first and largest human rights campaigns and a Visiting Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, LSE. His forthcoming book, provisionally titled Life under the Boot: 50-years of Military Dictatorship in Burma, will be published by Yale University Press.

Mary Kaldor is professor of Global Governance in the Department of International Development and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at LSE. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

Rohingyas demonstrate peaceful in front of European Parliament, Belgium

Rohingyas organizations and individuals from European demonstrated peacefully in front of European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium on June 18 at about 2:00pm, according to Ibrahim, Burmese Rohingya Association in Deutschland (BRAD).

“The peaceful demonstration was held to stop on going genocide on Rohingya in Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar).”

The Rohingyas organizations – Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO), Burmese Rohingya Organisation – UK (BROUK) base in England, Burmese Rohingya Association in Deutschland (BRAD) base in Germany, National Democratic Party for Human Rights (in exile) base in France and many

individuals from Denmark and Netherlands – urged to send an EU special inquiry team to the conflicted areas – Maungdaw and Akyab- and Humanitarian Aids; to replace the displaced Rohingya to their own villages and to recognize Rohingya as Burmese ethnic citizenship.

Mr. Nurul Islam of ARNO, Mr. Mohammed Siddique of BROUK and Dr. Anita Haroon of BRAD delivered speech in the demonstration. 

The Rohingyas handed over a memorandum to European Parliament staff at the end of demonstration.