Turkish PM calls Rohingya killings in Myanmar ‘genocide’
Arakan News Agency Turkey’s prime minister on Wednesday dubbed the killing of minority Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar by its security forces “genocide” and urged the international community to ensure their safety back home. Binali Yildirim met several Rohingyas in two refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in neighboring Bangladesh. Almost 870,000 Rohingya fled there, about 660,000 […]
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 […]
‘It breaks my heart’: A Rohingya mother’s pain after 60 family members murdered
Arakan News Agency Almas Khatun saw her seven children and husband murdered during a wave of massacres in Myanmar. She and thousands of other survivors now face new threats as they languish in refugee camps. Sitting on the dirt floor in a flimsy bamboo shelter, Almas Khatun pulls a pink shawl from her face to reveal […]
The Myanmar authorities forces the remaining Rohingya people to acquit the army of arson and genocide charges
Arakan News Agency Rohingya activists said the Myanmar authorities had recently set up special commissions to claim fair investigations into charges against the army of burning Rohingya homes and villages, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, shooting and raping their women and girls since sectarian violence erupted on Aug. 25th. A well-informed source explained that […]
Rohingya Muslims Are Being Wiped off Myanmar’s Map
Arakan News Agency For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic group is being wiped off the map. After a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month, security forces and allied mobs retaliated by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the […]
Rohingya group calls Suu Kyi ‘partner in genocide’
Arakan News Agency Europe-based Rohingya advocacy group says Myanmar wants to wipe them out and take their land A Europe-based Rohingya group said Friday that Aung San Suu Kyi, state counsellor for Myanmar and Nobel Laureate, is supporting the “genocide” of Rohingya Muslims in her country. Hla Kyaw, head of the European Rohingya Council, told […]
Rohingya are trying to flee to Bangladesh with renewed violence in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency BANGLADESH (Reuters) – Authorities have arrested nearly 1,000 Muslim Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar on the border with Bangladesh as fighting raged in Arakan state in northwestern Myanmar, security officials said on Saturday. The Myanmar army said the death toll from attacks by Rohingya gunmen on Friday rose to 89, including […]
Rohingya group says Myanmar engaged in ‘genocide’
Arakan News Agency European Rohingya Council says extra troops sent to Arakan state to advance destruction of Muslim minority The deployment of extra troops to Myanmar’s troubled Arakan state is to further the “Rohingya genocide”, according to a group representing the Muslim minority on Tuesday. The army dispatched a battalion, around 500 soldiers, to the […]
Fortify Rights : Authorities should reopen the investigation into the trafficking of tens of thousands of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency A Criminal Court in Thailand yesterday sentenced 62 defendants, including senior government officials, to up to 94 years’ imprisonment for crimes including trafficking and murdering Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladeshis in 2015. These verdicts mark a step forward for Thailand’s efforts to combat human trafficking, but authorities should reopen the investigation […]
UN Human Rights Envoy Pays Sixth Visit to Western Myanmar’s Arakan State
Arakan News Agency A United Nations human rights envoy met on Tuesday with residents of the deep-water port town of Kyaukphyu in western Myanmar’s troubled Arakan state, where tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have been on the rise and the security situation is intensifying. Yanghee Lee, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar […]
“Rohingya” exhibition by photographer David Verberckt opened in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Arakan News Agency An exhibition of “Rohingya” photographs by David Verberckt has been opened in the National Theater Mostar, in honor of remembering the genocide in Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina, reported by Anadolu Agency. The Mostar audience has the opportunity to see 49 photos of members of the Muslim ethnic minority Rohingya who inhabit […]
The Human Rights Council should adopt a strong resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Excellency, We write on behalf of Human Rights Watch to urge you to support a strong item 4 resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar at the upcoming 34th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, renewing the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, engaging with the reform benchmarks requested of […]
Myanmar Official expressed anger to Malaysian Ambassador Over ‘Genocide’ Comments
Arakan News Agency Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak participated in a rally on Dec. 4 in the capital Kuala Lumpur during which he condemned violence against Rohingya Muslims as “genocide” and urged other Asian nations to increase pressure on Myanmar to stop the violence. The move prompted Myanmar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kyaw […]