Myanmar attacks Rohingyas refugees stranded on border
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities have attacked a number of Rohingya Muslims stranded on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh in the border area of the city of Tambro. The Arakan news agency learned from its sources that the Myanmar authorities had attacked Rohingyas stranded in the city of Tambro by beating and insulting them […]
Myanmar bars U.N. rights investigator before visit
Arakan News Agency The U.N. independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar called on Wednesday for stronger international pressure to be exerted on Myanmar’s military commanders after being barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure. Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur, had been due to visit in January to assess human rights […]
Myanmar military using rape as tool of terror against Rohingya women: UN
Arakan News Agency Doctors are treating scores of Rohingya women who have fled Myanmar’s violence-wracked Arakan State for injuries consistent with horrific sex attacks. Tasunba Nourin, a doctor with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told Reuters injuries include bite marks, vaginal tearing and “signs that a firearm was used to penetrate women”. Nourin Tasnupa, […]
Establishment of the Coordination Center for Rohingya Refugees
Arakan News Agency The Consultative Council of Malaysian Islamic Organizations collaborated with NGOs in Bangladesh to establish an aid coordination center to assist Rohingya refugees in refugee camps in the city of Coxs-Bazeer, Bangladesh. “The center was set up last Friday and started to operate,” Vice President Ahmed Ramzi Suleiman told reporters at Kuala Lumpur […]
Myanmar evacuates Buddhist civilians and leaves Rohingya in areas of engagement
Arakan News Agency Myanmar security forces have evacuated hundreds of Buddhist residents and workers from the western state of Arakan because of clashes between the police, the army and the Rohingya rebels. The authorities evacuated civilians from military areas and border guard areas, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Arakan has been witnessing a […]
Bangladesh sets its border guards on alert amid fears of influx of Rohingya refugees
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh has put its border guards on alert after violence erupted in Myanmar’s Arakan state amid concern over a new influx of refugees from the Rohingya. Lieutenant Colonel Arif al-Islam of the Bangladeshi border guards said the soldiers turned a boat carrying 146 Rohingya Muslims who were trying to cross into Bangladesh […]
Myanmar continue to burn Rohingya the villages and they calls to save them from this new humanitarian crisis
Arakan News Agency Buddhist soldiers from the Myanmar army burned the village of Shil Khali, in the far south of Maungdaw, west of Rathidaung. At least 250 Rohingya Muslim homes were set on fire by the army, describing the bloody scene as extremely dangerous and the violence extended to several villages south of Maungdaw, including […]
URGENT: Myanmar army breaks into new villages in Arakan and Rohingya defends themselves
Arakan News Agency A number of military vehicles of the Myanmar army have launched a massive wave of arrests in Rohingya areas over the past two months, according to Arakan News Agency sources. After midnight on Thursday, army and border guards raided the villages of Rohingyas and locals reports about hearing successive explosions and gunfire. […]
Thousands of Muslim Rohingya fled to Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled to Bangladesh in the past 10 days, fleeing military operations in western Myanmar, minority officials said Wednesday. Since October, the army has been carrying out an offensive in Arakan, amid criticism from the United Nations, which described the move as a “terror policy” against the […]
The siege of the Rohingya villagers amid new tensions in Arakan State of Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Residents say hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are trapped in their area by their Buddhist neighbors in a village in western of Myanmar as religious tensions in the restive Arakan province in the region have grown more intertwined. Violence has so far been largely confined to the mainly northern Rohingya region of Bangladesh’s […]
Myanmar man arrested for telling life as child soldier
Arakan News Agency No bail set, he faces up to two years in prison, a fine or both A former Myanmar child soldier was sent to prison Saturday, for telling how he was abducted and forced to serve in the military, his family members told Anadolu Agency. Aung Ko Htwe, a resident of Kalaware Village, […]
More than 150,000 UNHCR-registered refugees, asylum-seekers in Malaysia
Arakan News AgencyAs of May 31 this year, a total of 150,204 refugees and asylum seekers from 59 countries have been registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said from the amount, 94,361 were refugees while the remaining 55,843 were asylum seekers. […]
Secretary General of Islamic Cooperation visits Bangladesh and expected to visit Rohingya refugees
Arakan News Agency The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, will be on a working tour in Bangladesh from August 2, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It will be Al-Othaimeen’s first visit to Bangladesh since he took over as secretary-general in November last year and is […]