Rohingya Issue Is Of Concern To ASEAN – Anifah
Arakan News Agency The Rohingya issue is not just Myanmar’s problem, but of concern to ASEAN too, says Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman.… He noted that the matter required ASEAN’s engagement for a resolution as it had now affected neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. “They (Myanmar) are saying that it’s their […]
Report Slams Malaysia, Thailand and Bangladesh Over Plight of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh and Myanmar must do more to protect vulnerable refugees – particularly Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya Muslims – from being victimized by human traffickers, says Fortify Rights, a U.S.-based human rights advocacy group.… A year-long investigation by the group documented how huge numbers of Rohingya Muslims, driven from Myanmar by deprivation […]
Rohingya Muslim first to accept resettlement in Cambodia
Arakan News Agency Man sole refugee to volunteer, get clearance to travel to Southeast Asian country under Australian resettlement program… The sole refugee to volunteer and get clearance to travel to Cambodia under an Australian resettlement program is a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, a Cambodian official has confirmed. General Khieu Sopheak, a spokesman for the […]
Burma among top ten most censored countries, says CPJ
Arakan News Agency Burma features alongside North Korea, Eritrea and Saudi Arabia in a newly compiled shortlist of the world’s ten most censored countries, following a year that saw deaths and arrests among journalists in the supposedly transitioning state. The index drawn up by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) details the tactics used by […]
Exiled to nowhere: The story of the stateless Rohingya by photographer Greg Constantine
Arakan News Agency KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 — This Saturday, Malaysians will be able to put a face to the persecuted Rohingya people of Myanmar courtesy of an exhibition by American documentary photographer Greg Constantine. Open to the public from tomorrow to May 1, 2015 at Prototype Gallery L4 at Wisma Central on Jalan Ampang, […]
Forced separation: life inside Myanmar’s Rohingya and Buddhist camps
Arakan News Agency SITTWE, 23 April 2015 (IRIN) – After violence exploded in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in 2012 between Muslims and the Buddhist majority, some 140,000 Rohingya now live in segregated camps. About 10,000 Buddhists also remain displaced by the conflict that still simmers three years on. … IRIN has gained rare access […]
Myanmar population control law threatens minorities – rights group
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s religious and ethnic minorities may be targeted, abused and suppressed by a proposed population control law which could be a serious setback for the country’s maternal health advances, according to a U.S.-based human rights group. The bill introduces the practice of birth spacing, requiring women to wait three years between pregnancies, […]
Rohingyas caught between militant military clash
Arakan News Agency Continued clashes between Rakhine militants and the army around Pidong Sherua in Kyauktaw is creating uncertainty for the Muslim population in the area. Following increased pressure from the army, the militants have hidden among the local populace where there is much support. As the militants are known for anti Muslim purges, Rohingyas […]
Buddhists burned 25 Muslims inside a mosque during prayer
Arakan News Agency Oko Abdul Rashid, a 17-year-old Muslim from Burma at the global competition participant of the Holy Quran organized by the Ministry of Awqaf in Cairo that the Muslims in the country Burma are suffering the most from the Buddhists atrocities and the work they are doing for killing and torturing them. Abdul […]
Seeds of Hatred, the story of the Rohingyas
Arakan News Agency THE people of Myanmar suffered tremendously under a harsh military regime, but to this day the Rohingya minority in the northern Rakhine state remain the most persecuted – stateless in their own homeland, said independent documentary filmmaker Mahi Ramakrishnan. Mahi’s 30-minute documentary – Seeds of Hatred, highlights the persecution of Rohingya Muslims […]
Parliamentarians call on ASEAN to address Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency ASEAN leaders must urgently respond to the escalating crisis situation for Rohingya Muslims and other vulnerable minorities in Myanmar, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said on April 22 in a public call on regional governments on the eve of the 26th ASEAN Summit. In an open letter to ASEAN heads of […]
Another Rohingya shot by Burmese troops in Arakan
Arakan News Agency A Rohingya man was wounded in the thigh by gunshot by Burmese troops during an arbitrary campaign waged for several days against Rohingyas in Forma village Northern Maungdaw city as a reporter ANA said, adding that the forces imposed security cordon and a curfew on the village, women and children are prevented […]
Rohingyas insist on praying in the mosque, despite the suppression of the Burmese authorities
Arakan News Agency A number of Buddhist monks accompanied by security forces horrid through Rohingya dense areas in eMaungdaw of Arakan during performing of their Friday prayers with the intentions of spreading terror in them also disperse them by chasing and arresting some of Rohingyas as the correspondent of ANA said, adding that the intruders […]