Plight of Rohingya refugees filmed
Arakan News Agency Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) has filmed a documentary on Rohingya Muslims’ struggle and their plight at the refugee camps in Bangladesh. The documentary titled “Stay Alive” is filmed by the foundation’s three-member team, which had been to Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar district to document tough conditions at the refugee camp and the hospital […]
New exhibition highlights harrowing cost of ethnic cleansing in Burma
Arakan News Agency A new photographic exhibition documents the plight of Rohingya refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing in Burma and currently in refugee camps in Bangladesh. A launch event was attended by members of the UK’s Rohingya diaspora community, some of whom met with Government officials in November last year to share their views on the […]
Egypt and Bangladesh discuss Myanmar issue and how to protect the Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Egyptian and Bangladeshi officials held a meeting to discuss the Myanmar issue and how to protect the Rohingya Muslims from abuses against them by the Myanmar forces. Assistant Foreign Minister for Asian Affairs Ambassador Khaled Tharwat said on Sunday that the Egyptian side was in the first round of political consultations between […]
UN chief hits out at Myanmar army chief over Rohingya comments
Arakan News Agency UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday criticized Myanmar’s army chief after he declared that the Muslim Rohingya had nothing in common with the country’s other ethnic groups. Guterres said he was “shocked” at reports of General U Min Aung Hlaing’s remarks at a military gathering and urged Myanmar’s leaders to “take a […]
Myanmar to elect new president on Wednesday
Arakan News Agency Myanmar will elect its new president on Wednesday, one week after President Htin Kyaw abruptly resigned from his position, parliament announced on Monday. Htin Kyaw said he wanted to “take a rest” from his current work after becoming Myanmar’s head of state in March 2016, the first civilian leader after over a […]
Never again? With Rohingya crisis, we’re once again bystanders to horrific atrocities
Arkan News Agency “All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror.” Thus president Bill Clinton apologized to the people of Rwanda when Air Force One briefly […]
‘Rohingya Under Attack’ Wins at 79th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards
An Associated Press project supported by the Pulitzer Center has won the Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or news service reporting from abroad at the 79th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards. This award was given to the Associated Press Staff for its coverage of the Rohingya refugee crisis and the ensuing human rights violations. The […]
Two Reuters Reporters Have Now Spent 100 Days Behind Bars in Myanmar for Exposing a Massacre
Arakan News Agency Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo would normally spend their days chasing sources and writing stories. But on Wednesday, after a full 100 days in jail, the two Reuters reporters spent their hours in a dusty Myanmar courthouse, where they could face up to 14 years in prison if convicted of possessing […]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Passes Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Burmese Ethnic Cleansing, Calling for Safe Repatriation of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Todd Young (R-IN), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and John McCain (R-AZ) today announced that a bipartisan Senate resolution condemning the Burmese campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya and calling for the “safe, dignified, voluntary and sustainable return” of the refugees who have been displaced […]
Australia AG rejects lawyers’ bid to prosecute Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
Arakan News Agency Australia’s attorney general said that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has diplomatic immunity, rejecting a bid by activist lawyers to have her face charges for crimes against humanity over the country’s treatment of minority Rohingya Muslims. Lawyer Alison Battisson said she filed the private prosecution on behalf of Australia’s Rohingya community […]
Relief Commission calls on the British government to contribute to the fairness of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency In mid-March, IRO addressed the British Parliament and the House of Lords to discuss the tragedy of the Rohingya, urging the British Parliament and the British government to fulfill their duty towards human rights and equality among all peoples. The two speeches were made by the President of the Commission, Madouh Badawi, […]
Myanmar denies involvement in genocide against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Senior Myanmar officials denied that the army has committed any crimes against the Rohingya Muslims, a day after a UN expert said the government was involved in the genocide against the oppressed Muslim minority. “There is no ethnic cleansing or genocide in our country. The charges are very easy, but we do […]
Myanmar official says returning Rohingya will not remain in camps “forever”
Arakan News Agency A local official in Arakan state said on Saturday that the returning Rohingya refugees would not be held in camps that were recently set up “forever” amid mounting fears about their thorny return. “I can not ask them to stay (in the camps) forever,” said Ye Htut, who is in charge of […]