The vast majority of aid workers assisting the Rohingya in Arakan

Burma 'creating humanitarian crisis' with displacement camps in Arakan Aid groups fear Rohingya minority being starved into fleeing country as they struggle to reach those hit by sectarian violence

Myanmar's president Thein Sein told impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas

Myanmar president asks UN to look after 'illegal' Rohingya
YANGON: Myanmar's president Thursday told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country.

Thein Sein, who had previously struck a more conciliatory tone during fighting that left at least 80 people dead in Rakhine State last month, told the chief of the United Nations refugee agency the Rohingyas were not welcome.

"We will take responsibility for our ethnic people but it is impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our ethnicity," he told UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, according to the president's official website.

နိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္တိုင္းရင္းသားမဟုတ္ဘဲ ခိုးဝင္လာသည့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို လက္ခံရန္ မည္သို့မ်ွ မျဖစ္နိုင္ေၾကာင္း႔ေျပာၾကား

"ဘဂၤါလီမ်ားကိစၥ

ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သမၼတၾကီးက UNHCRသို႔ေျပာၾကား"

ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၁

ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတျမန္မာနိုင္ငံေတာ္ နိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္သည္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာ ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းျကီး Mr. Antonio Guterres ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ့အား ယေန့နံနက္ (၁၁) နာရီတြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ နိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတအိမ္ေတာ္ သံတမန္ေဆာင္ ဧည့္ခန္းမ၌ လက္ခံ ေတြ႔ဆုံသည္။

The UN "Questioning" in Burma About detentions and kiling of Rohingya in

YANGON: Ten aid workers including some UN staff have been detained in western Myanmar in the wake of deadly communal unrest, the body said Friday, as rights groups warned of mass detentions of Rohingya in the restive area.

 In a bulletin on the situation in violence-wracked Rakhine state, the UN said humanitarian staff have been held for "questioning" -- adding that Myanmar's government has failed to respond to queries about those detained.

RIGHTS-BURMA: Junta Lets UN Continue Helping Muslim Rohingyas

For now, the United Nations’ refugee agency has been given breathing room to operate in a western corner of military-ruled Burma, where humanitarian programmes offer some comfort to the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The uncertainty stems from the predicament the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) faced as 2008 drew to a close. The junta in the predominantly Buddhist country ‘’appeared reluctant to renew UNHCR’s contract to work in Burma,’’ a diplomatic source revealed.