Massacre in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency On Sept. 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar’s restive Arakan state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police. Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist […]
Speaker seeks UN support for solving Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has sought over all cooperation and sincere efforts from the United Nations (UN) for resolving the Rohingya issue, according to an official release issued on Friday. The Speaker’s appeal came while she was holding a meeting with United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs […]
NLD must tell the world ‘no Rohingya in Myanmar’: MP
Arakan News Agency The National League for Democracy government must do more to tell the world “there is no such race as the Rohingya in Myanmar” a military-linked lawmaker said in parliament on Monday. Former army general U Tin Aye (Union Solidarity and Development Party, Matman) asked Immigration Minister U Thein Swe what the government […]
Truck Carrying 21 Rohingya Intercepted in Nyaungdon
Arakan News Agency A truck carrying 21 Rohingya from camps in Arakan State was intercepted by police at Sarmalauk in Nyaungdon Township in Ayeyawaddy Region yesterday afternoon. According to the initial investigation, the drivers of the six-wheel truck, Tin Tun Aung and Tun Tun Naing, were taking the Rohingya to Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial center, when […]
Swiss President Alain Berset in Dhaka
Arakan News Agency Solidarity with Rohingyas, closer ties with Bangladesh on focus A red carpet was rolled out as the President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset arrived in Dhaka on a four-day official visit on Sunday. This is the first official visit by any Swiss president to Bangladesh. President Abdul Hamid received his Swiss […]
Every country needs to involve for Rohingya solution: Japanese musician
Arakan News Agency UNHCR goodwill ambassador and Japanese singer Miyavi has said every single country needs to get involved in a conclusive way to end Rohingya crisis and give Rohingya people a safe and bright future. “This is not a local issue. This is global issue. Every single country needs to get involved to work […]
Almost 4400 Rohingya Killed in Myanmar Since Oct. 2016, Camp Leaders Say
Arakan News Agency The data was collected by Rohingya leaders going door to door in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, according to people who took part in the effort and who shared the list with BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service. “It’s been reported 400 people were murdered in Gu Dar Pyin village, but I […]
Discovery of Rohingya mass graves has US ‘deeply, deeply troubled’
Arakan News Agency The US State Department said on Thursday that it was “deeply, deeply troubled” by new reports of mass graves in Myanmar’s Arakan State, where the military has been accused of atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims. The Associated Press reported earlier it had confirmed the existence of more than five previously unreported mass […]
UN warns of deteriorating conditions for Rohingya refugees
Arakan News Agency A UN special reporter has warned that humanitarian conditions in Bangladeshi camps hosting Rohingya refugees will get worse over the next few months. Plans to resettle the Rohingya people back in Myanmar have also stirred up fear and resentment among the inhabitants of the Cox’s Bazar camps. Refugees have fled what the […]
Myanmar government denies report of Rohingya mass graves
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s government has denied a report by The Associated Press documenting at least five mass graves containing Rohingya Muslim civilians killed by the military with help from Buddhist neighbors, saying that only “terrorists” were killed and they were “carefully buried.” The AP reported on Thursday that the mass graves in the village […]
Myanmar refuses to release the “Reuters” journalists
Arakan News Agency A court in Myanmar declined to grant bail on Thursday for two Reuters journalists accused of violating the country’s Official Secrets Act, although their defense lawyer said information in documents at the center of the case was publicly available. Lawyer Than Zaw Aung said a police witness had accepted during court proceedings […]
United Nations: The plight of the Rohingya bears the hallmarks of genocide
Arakan News Agency UN Special Envoy for Human Rights in Myanmar Ms. Yanghee Lee said the army’s violent military operations against Rohingya carry “features of genocide.” Lee told reporters Thursday in the South Korean capital, Seoul, where she is based, that she can not make a final declaration on genocide until a credible court or […]
“OIC” announces the end of the first phase of a relief project for Rohingya children
Arakan News Agency The first stage of the project to assist the children of Rohingya Refugees ” in the Tambro camp (no Man Land ) between the Bangladesh and Myanmar border, under the title “Assistance from the Ummah to the Ummah, throught the institute of the Ummah (ICIC)” in cooperation with the Bangladesh Red Crescent […]