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 […]
Stop Mincing Words: Aung San Suu Kyi Is Complicit In Rohingya Genocide
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s army has reportedly been carrying out unspeakable atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim community since October. Before the military crackdown, extremists Buddhists, under the leadership of “Buddhist bin Laden” Ashin Wirathu committed violence against the ethnic community in 2012. Yet, Myanmar’s de facto leader and former Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu […]
Islami Andolan Bangladesh declared strict program against Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Islami Andolan Bangladesh declared strict program against Myanmar- Demonstration was held in Dhaka. Planning to protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka on 6th December and planned a Long March towards Myanmar on 18th of December. Spokesman of Islami Andolan Bangladesh said in the statement that Muslim world should be […]
Khaleda Zia urges Myanmar to stop Rohingya genocide
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday called the repression of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar forces as ‘genocide’, asking the Bangladesh authorities to give them shelter as much as possible. “I am deeply shocked and concerned over the brutal genocide being carried out by the government forces of neighbouring Myanmar […]
Investigate Suu Kyi for the crime of genocide
Arakan News Agency Dictator Watch organization says Investigate Suu Kyi for the crime of genocide which is being perpetrated in Myanmar against the Rohingya ethnic group in Arakan state. Other crimes against humanity are also being perpetrated against other ethnic nationalities living in the country’s active war zones. The Myanmar regime’s ideological foundation is the […]