The Rohingya refugees are languishing in the squalid camps in India without any assistance being offered by the concerned quarters, whereas they also have to fear of many deadly poisonous creatures such as poisonous snakes inhabiting around the camp areas.

Although the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has recognized the Rohingya refugees to be the neediest, it is proving to be ineffective in taking care of the refugees and looking after their basic needs. Consequently, the refugees need to live in the self-made fragile and squalid camps in the Shaheen Bagh areas and other areas of New Dehli.

“The UNHCR not only provides help to other refugees financially but also fulfill their other needs. But we are offered none. They are being resettled to other countries but the same procedure is not applied for us.

I don’t know why such an international agency practices discriminations amongst the refugees who hold the similar vulnerable status. It seems UNHCR, the UN Agency for Refugees, doesn’t like refugees like us,” said a refugee in the camp.

“There is no education for children. They often meet with accidents on the roads as they go to pick up recycling materials such as rag, plastics and irons etc,” he continued.

On the other hand, the deadly poisonous snakes inhabit and roam around and in the dirty camp areas. Last year, five children, three boys and two girls, were killed by the poisonous snakes.

“We killed three poisonous snakes in Madhanpur Kader Camps in this month alone: one in the tent of Salimullah’s tent, another Khurshid Alam’s and one more in Dildar’s.

Last Thursday, a local Indian died due to snake-bites nearby the Madhanpur Kader Camps,” said Khan, a refugee in the Madhanpur Kader Camp.

Therefore, on one hand, the prospects of the better future of the Rohingya refugees are limbo, on another hand, they are facing dangers to their lives due to the unprotected and unsafe camps where they have to live in as a result of the negligence by the responsibilities agencies such as UNHCR.

“This is very shameful for us that People dying by snake bite in this modern age, especially in New Delhi (Capital of India),” said Priyanka Sharma, a Journalism student of Jamia Millia Islamia.

[Edited by M.S. Anwar]

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A group of Rakhine extremists in cooperation with the Myanmar’s authorities have been attempting to confiscate the farmlands belong to the local Rohingyas in Rathedaung Township, according to the local reports.

The lands are owned by the people of ‘Anauk Pyin,’ a village set ablaze and destroyed by the Rakhine Buddhist extremists led by the ex-policeman U Than Kywe during the violence in June 2012. Now, U Than Kywe, hails from ‘Ku Taung’ village, with the help of the authorities, have taken over the lands and cultivated the lands by force.

“We can’t go to the forest for logging. We can’t go for fishing. Worse, the police and the military from their respective bases in the village have been brutally oppressing us.

They stop us from harrowing and cultivating our lands. On the other hand, they threaten us that our lands will be confiscated if we don’t cultivate the lands. They say that it is against the policy of the government,” said a local of Anauk Pyin village.

“Even before attempting to seize our lands, U Than Kywe, the leader of a Rakhine hooligan group dismissed from the police service for his connection with Dacoits (robbers), invaded into the lands and cultivated paddy by force. He said that he did it with the permission of the Rakhine State Government.

Now, we get nothing to do for our survival. Our lands are being confiscated by using military and police force. Kindly help us by any means” he continued.

Anauk Pyin is a Rohingya village in Rathedaung Township is surrounded by Rakhine villages from all sides. The villagers have been blocked and their access to outside has been cut off since June 2012.

Thousands of internally displaced Rohingyas in Sittwe (Akyab) and other townships are facing shortages of food and highly likely to suffer from starvation as the ration supplies have been cut off, according to the reliable sources.

The WFP (World’s Food Programme) that used to provide rations to more than 70,000 internally displaced people (IDP) in Sittwe is said to have cut off ration supplies post ‘Komen’ Cylone hit the region.

When one of the IDP Camps Committee members contacted the WFP office, they responded saying that they had no more rations for them. The food rations in their stores have run out as the President Thein Sein asked the WFP to provide Rice to the ‘Buddhist Rakhines’ affected by the floods.

“WFP used to provide rice to us in every first or second of the month. This month, they didn’t provide anything saying they had no more rice for us. We have to depend on them because our movements and access to livelihoods have been severely restricted by the government. We have been under genocidal blockage since June 2012.

Now, we, more than 70,000 IDP in the concentration camps here, have been hit the worst by the recent cyclone and the floods. Hardly can any NGO or INGOs reach out to us to provide reliefs. Besides, the government has asked even WFP to help only Buddhist Rakhines, not us. It is blatant discrimination amongst the natural disaster victims on the basis of ethnicity and religion,” said Mr. Kabir Ahmed, an internally displaced Rohingya in Manzhi Camp.

“Rakhines have the full citizenship rights; they are helped by everyone; and they can move freely. We have none! We have no right to work for survival. Since the WFP has cut off the rations, we are now facing starvation,” he continued.

Mr. Maason, another internally displaced Rohingya, said “we are afflicted by hunger as we have no rice to cook. I went to Dar Paing and begged rice for my children. But I don’t know what my tomorrow holds for me.”

Since last July, the WFP has cut off rations supplying rations to 27 families in ‘Parein’ village and other 517 people at ‘Yanthay’ village in Mrauk-U Township and 61 people in Kyaukphyu IDP Camps without valid reasons.

The Rohingyas there are suffering from extreme hunger. While some people choose to beg to eat for survival, while some do not beg but stay starved having just meals for one time a day.

Maungdaw, Arakan State Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) arrested three innocent Rohingya women in southern Maungdaw Township last Saturday night.

It has been learnt that the police arrested them on pretext of attempt to murder a Rohingya man in Alay Than Kyaw (Haishshu Rata) on Friday (on August 14) night.

The victims are identified to be Ms. Humaira Rahimullah, 29; Ms. Toyuba Khatun, 67; and Azeem Bibi Hanifa, 17. They all hail from ‘Montula’ hamlet of ‘Alay Than Kyaw village tract.

“A group of Border Guard Police (BGP) led by G-1 Lieut.Col. U Aung Min Htwe raided their homes and have arrested and detained them since then.

Rohingya men in Myanmar do not possess any lethal weapons such as guns at all. Yet, arresting the innocent women on the accusations of possessing weapons and attempt to kill another man is illogical and sheer injustice and arbitrary actions by the authority,” said an elderly Rohingya asking to withhold his identity.

Kyaw Zeya Oo — a Rohingya man works as the right-hand man of the ‘Alay Than Kyaw’ village administrator, Maung Than Naing – was shot at by some unknown people, most probably the Border Guard Police themselves. However, after one hour of getting shot down, he was sent to Maungdaw General Hospital for treatment. Hence, he is still alive.

Locals view that the people that attempted to kill him can be none other than Border Guard Police in the village and Maung Than Naing, a Rakhine extremist. They are said to have been having feuds over the shares of the money they extorted from the local Rohingyas.

 Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) arrested three innocent Rohingya women in southern Maungdaw Township last Saturday night.

It has been learnt that the police arrested them on pretext of attempt to murder a Rohingya man in Alay Than Kyaw (Haishshu Rata) on Friday (on August 14) night.

The victims are identified to be Ms. Humaira Rahimullah, 29; Ms. Toyuba Khatun, 67; and Azeem Bibi Hanifa, 17. They all hail from ‘Montula’ hamlet of ‘Alay Than Kyaw village tract.

“A group of Border Guard Police (BGP) led by G-1 Lieut.Col. U Aung Min Htwe raided their homes and have arrested and detained them since then.

Rohingya men in Myanmar do not possess any lethal weapons such as guns at all. Yet, arresting the innocent women on the accusations of possessing weapons and attempt to kill another man is illogical and sheer injustice and arbitrary actions by the authority,” said an elderly Rohingya asking to withhold his identity.

Kyaw Zeya Oo — a Rohingya man works as the right-hand man of the ‘Alay Than Kyaw’ village administrator, Maung Than Naing – was shot at by some unknown people, most probably the Border Guard Police themselves. However, after one hour of getting shot down, he was sent to Maungdaw General Hospital for treatment. Hence, he is still alive.

Locals view that the people that attempted to kill him can be none other than Border Guard Police in the village and Maung Than Naing, a Rakhine extremist. They are said to have been having feuds over the shares of the money they extorted from the local Rohingyas.

ARAKAN, Devastation of floods and Cyclone Komen in Arakan, lead 1000s of Rohingyas starved without adequate shelters, and 1000s are in of need immediate medical assistance. 

Authority evacuated Rakhine Buddhists, provided them food and other necessary things. General Min Aung Hlaing visited Arakan and met only Rakhine Buddhists.

Moreover even President Thein Sein visited Arakan, where he met  Rakhine except in Buthidaung where he met only 15 Rohingya.

Chinese delegation accompanied by Chinese Ambassador visited Arakan and donated only to Rakhine Buddhists. Government, Rakhine State authority, leaders and Myanmar Movie Stars used all their capacity to help Rakhine but left Rohingyas to die.

In Kyauktaw, more than 25000 Rohingya need rice and in Min Pya nearly 15000 Rohingya are in urgent need of rice. In Sittwe, Buthidaung and Rathedaung too, 1000s of Rohingya floods victims are starving.

Mrauk U where 20000 Rohingya need food and water immediately, there town Administrator of Mrauk U provided some biscuits only for 4 Rohingya villages.

A Rohingya IDP from Mrauk U reported that camp committee of Paring demanded 10000kyats from each family whose ration were cut by staffs of WFP.

The Committee told them “We don’t demand the money, the staffs who bring ration here commanded us to collect 10000kyats from each family if they wanted their ration.” Where can we find 10000kyats, we don’t have 10 kyats even ” said a local named Bilkis whose ration has been cut since July 2015.

Soon after the floods ceased in some places such as Pauktaw, Myay Bon, Kyauktaw, Min Pya, authority met Rohingya floods victims who are desperately waiting for help. They had to receive genocidal green cards instead of aid, which is designed only for Rohingyas to make them illegal immigrats from Bangladesh in their own homeland.

Instead of helping Rohingya floods victims, authority has started genocidal greed cards operation.

 Sittwe (Akyab) Township Court sentenced 18 Rohingyas to one-and-half-year Imprisonment each under immigration act Section 13 (1) on August 5, a local said.

All of the people imprisoned are locals of Sittwe Township with most of them being internally displaced people (IDP) living in the IDP Camps. They were arrested and charged by the Sittwe Immigration under ‘Illegal Border Crossing’ on April 7, 2014 for returning from Bangladesh after getting medical treatments.

“They are all innocent. There were no access for the Rohingyas here to medical and health services after the INGOs and the foreign humanitarians were ousted by the violent Rakkhine extremist mob at the end of March 2014.

They travelled to Bangladesh to have medical treatment required critically. As they returned, they were arrested and charged by the immigration,” said a local in Sittwe.

On August 5, they were sentenced to one and half year imprisonment. There were some very sick and elderly people among those imprisoned,” he added.

The locals view that the imprisonments are extremely unjust, unsympathetic and prejudicial because it happened at a time that everyone is facing miseries in the region and all over the country as the result of disastrous aftermaths of the recent Komen Cyclone and they didn’t do anything illegal by returning to their own country after taking medical treatments in Bangladesh.

On one hand, the government has declared amnesty for many prisoners in the country and released many, on another hand; they have imprisoned many innocent people.

The 18 people are

No	Name	Father’s Name	Age	Address
1	U Mohammed Rashid	U Mohammed Hussein	60	Bawdupha IDP Camps
2	Daw Gul Bahar [sic]	U Abdur Rashid	82	Darpaing Rwa Haung
3	Daw Salima	U Abul Fazal	76	Darpaing IDP Camps
4	U Kyaw Min	U Noor Ahmed	69	Bumay village
5	Daw Shafica	U Sharif	53	Bawdupha IDP Camps
6	Daw Aishah	U Mohammed Hasan	52	Bawdupha IDP Camps
7	U Siddique	???	54	Bawdupha IDP Camps
8	Daw Monira Begum	U Hasan	40	Thakkay Pyin IDP Camps
9	???	U Abdu	40	Bawdupha IDP Camps
10	Daw Rahima	Muhammad Hasan	48	Bawdupha IDP Camps
11	Nesar Ahmed	???	28	Bawdupha IDP Camps
12	Mohammed Hussein	U Nazir Ahmed	29	Thay Chaung Village
13	Ismail	U Mohammed Rashid	27	Darpaing Rwa Haung
14	???	USiddique	14	Bawdupha IDP Camps
15	Mohammed Shafi	U Omar Siddique	10	Bawdupha IDP Camps
16	???	U Maung Hla	10	Bawdupha IDP Camps
17	???	U Abdu Nabi	10	Bawdupha IDP Camps
18	???	U Abdu Nabi	7	Bawdupha IDP Camps

Of the 18 people, three women, Daw Gul Bahar [sic], Daw Salima and Daw Shafica are facing severe diseases. Daw Gul Bahar [sic] was later transferred to Sittwe General Hospital for treatment.

Daw Salima is patient of Heart Disease, Chronic Gastric Pains and Kidney Diseases, Daw Shafica has asthma and had her one-eye operated and another one also needs treatments.

Later, the four under-aged children, three of age 10 and one of age 7, were released.

[Edited by M.S. Anwar]

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 Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) shot and killed a Rohingya man in Maungdaw Township yesterday after being high on alcohol.

The deceased is identified to be Kyaw Zeya Oo hails from ‘Alay Than Kyaw (Haishshu Rata)’ village in southern Maungdaw. The BGP personnel responsible for the killing are serving under the camp based at the premise of the government school in the village.

“A few patrolling BGP personnel led by a deputy lieutenant got drunk and encountered with Kyaw Zeya Oo in front of his home around 8:00PM last night. The BGP officer demanded him to give them a place at his home to drink alcohol some more.

Upon that, he (Kyaw Zeya Oo) replied that it would not be good for him to give them a place for drinking as there is a patient at his home. He also advised them that it would not be good for them either if they drank more since they (the BGP personnel) had already been high on alcohol.

It led to an argument between him and the BGP officer (the deputy lieutenant). Amidst the quarrelling, the BGP officer opened fires at him. Three bullets hit him causing him fatal injuries. Subsequently after that, the BGP officer left the place screaming ‘there won’t be any problems for me if I kill all the *Kulars in this village.  

Soon after, some villagers saw the victim (Kyaw Zeya Oo) ailing at the place with the fatal injuries. Therefore, the villagers picked him up and rushed to the Maungdaw Hospital with him,” said an eyewitness who saw the victim in ailing condition.

It has been learnt that the doctors in the Maungdaw Hospital said that the injuries caused by the bullets were fatal and his situation was critical. Hence, the doctors asked the people that admitted him to the hospital to discharge him and take him back home.

However, he passed away 10 minutes after that. His dead body was discharged after the postmortem, according to the reports.

The deceased person, Kyaw Zeya Oo also known as Asadullah Kadir Hussein, was a collaborator and right-hand man of Maung Than Naing, the administrator of Alay Than Kyaw village. Maung Than Naing, a Rakhine extremist, is also notorious for his complicity in human trafficking in the region.

Note: It is still uncertain why exactly Kyaw Zeya Oo was shot dead. It will be updated soon.

Latest reports say that the person shot at didn’t die but still in critical condition with the injuries. As of now, it’s difficult to take exact information as the Security has been tightened in the region.

*Kular= a derogatory word used against the people of Indian descends, now notoriously used against the Muslims population after 2012

ARAKAN -15 Rohingya villages in MinPya severely affected by the calamities of flood and cyclone, which devastated properties of the locals including cattle, rice, etc, but losses are in higher ratio among the Rohingya population.

Flood victims were on mountain tops for shelter, where they were in hunger and thirst. Although water level has dropped but the areas are still muddy up to 3-4 feet. No Authorities were sent there for inspection and rescue the Rohingya.

In MinPya and Kyauktaw, 50000 Rohingya are in urgent need of rice, water and medical assistance for children and aged. Moreover 600 Rohingyas urgently need shelters.

Even in this critical situation Rakhine Authority in only concerned about the aids and protection of Rakhine people. Up till now no aids have reached the helpless Rohingyas in affected areas.

In Kyauktaw Floods and cyclone destroyed 100s of Rohingya’s houses including their properties like cattles, rice, and other households.In another 9 villages, more than 1000 houses were also destroyed by the floods and strong wind.

A Rohingya lady, Nur Ajiza from Pauktaw Palaung of Kyauktaw died. In Lama Ywa of MinPya, two boys and a lady are still missing. Many people were injured while moving to the safe shelters.

Some houses which are two stories had some rice remained which they cooked to feed people once in the whole day as they do not have enough rice for two times.

ANOTHER HEARTBREAKING STORY

Two brothers, sons of Muhammad Jalil, one ten years old Rashid and another 15 years old Rafique, from Sakkya Ywa of Min Pya.

They went out of their houses when the water level was 4 feet high, holding each other. Than they slipped into the drain of roadside and floated away until they both grasped a small tree, they both held the tree for 2 hours.

Rafique told his brother to move another place as speed of water became stronger, Rashid warned not to move. Rafique didn’t listen to his younger brother and left. Rashid holding the tree remained there another three hours.

When he saw a boat of Rakhine, he shouted for help but they didn’t care. One hour later, Rashid father with another two Rohingya on a boat reached to Rashid and saved him. Rafique is still missing, they couldn’t find him.