Interview: The Stateless Rohingya

The growing persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.

By Vanessa Thevathasan
October 24, 2014

The Rohingya are one of the world’s most persecuted ethnic minorities and are internationally recognized as de jure stateless. As Myanmar struggles to form a democratic state during a period of transition after decades of totalitarian military rule, the Rohingya are receiving renewed attention. Vanessa Thevathasan recently spoke with members of The Stateless Rohingya about the plight of the Rohingya and regional responsibility for their human rights.

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You are warmly welcome: On Rohingya Tri-Series Cricket 2014

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It's really great to inform you that we are going to arrange a three-match cricket series among the Rohingya Community "Rohang Star vs Arakani King" in Carlow, Ireland. For the busiest schedule of our only ground in Carlow Cricket Club, we have to play two matches on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 1st match starting Time 11: 00 AM & 2nd match starting Time 04: 00 PM  and other the final match will take place on Thursday, 24 April 2014 match starting Time 11: 00 AM

Rohingya Community in Ireland

Mr. Mohammed Rafique Project Coordinator and the Rohingya Community students

Project Coordinator Mr. Mohammed Rafique says:

The Rohingya Community Ireland represents a tiny portion of Rohingya people who have left Arakan state in Burma (Myanmar), their native land due to the systematic persecutions and discriminations of the state military rules who have been silently committing countless Human Rights abuses and atrocities against Rohingya for more than 50 years.

read more Here : Schools Across Borders 

A short interview with STP

A short interview with Society for Threatened Peoples (STP)

Mohammed Rafique spent 17 years in Bangladeshi refugee camps. Nowadays he is a Project Coordinator of Schools Across Borders and a Council Member of  The European Rohingya Council (ERC). Ilaria Cimino spoke with him about his life and his important work on behalf of the Rohingya. 

- Where are you from?

I am from Burma/Myanmar. I was born in 1982 in Keramoitta Fara,  Akyab (Sittwe) Arakan State.

- When did you leave your homeland?

It was 1992 and I was ten years old. I left with my parents for Bangladesh. 

Photos of Rohingya Community Ireland Activities

community volunteer work

UNHCR Ireland host Statelessness Exhibition

One of the most extreme cases in the exhibition is the Rohingya of Burma, a persecuted Muslim minority in the west of Burma. “For 40 years, a million people have been denied citizenship from the homeland for their birth and the repercussions that has had on them over the decades has been tragic,” he said. “They don’t have freedom to travel, most of them are not recognised as refugees, they live a hand-to-mouth existence and they really have no control over the course of their futures,” he said. In order to gain trust, the photographer spent hours speaking with people before taking out his camera. “They have every right not to trust me.

They have been failed by pretty much everybody,” he said. When they knew his intention “most people want their stories to be heard,” he said. He hopes the photographs will help to make an invisible situation visible. “It’s my way of living up to my end of the bargain to the people,” he said. Nowhere People is showing at the atrium in the Department of Justice, 51 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin from Monday to Friday from 9am-6.30pm, until July 19th; admission is free. http://www.thestateless.com/2012/07/exhibition-records-human-experiences-of.html