BGP threatens Rathedaung raid
Arakan News Agency A BGP official in charge of the Rathedaung township have called all Aishwaramus of the area on Saturday. The official told the collaborators that they must collect 1000 kyats from every Rohingya Muslim family and hand it over. Otherwise the BGP would raid Muslim villages and make arbitrary arrests. Anyone refusing to […]
Assaulted and fined for home improvement
Arakan News Agency A man has been assaulted and fined by police for erecting a fence around his house. Police came to the house of Abdus Salam (49) s/o Abdul Majid from Firing dong, Rathedaung on Saturday. He was then beaten in front of his family members. They left after the payment of 270,000 kyats. […]
Resolving Rohingya statelessness issues central to Malaysia’s leadership of ASEAN
Arakan News Agency It’s really nothing more than a group of powerful people who indulge in much backslapping and handshakes, sit at dinner tables pretending all is well and ignore raising crucial issues to ensure they themselves are not put in a tight spot. How else could one describe ASEAN? ————————————- Last year, as meetings […]
“Organization of Islamic Cooperation” discusses the development of Rohingya minority in Jeddah
Arakan News Agency Independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation announced they held its seventh session to discuss the minority Muslim Rohingyas conditions in Burma and a number of issues on its agenda in the period from 19 to 23 April 2015 in the city of Jeddah. The body will […]
Burmese authorities are forcing Rohingyas to take off the veil and the head scarf
Arakan News Agency Burmese authorities have recently intensified the checkpoints on the streets, exits and entrances and the joints of the main roads in the cities where there is a concentrated presence of Rohingya in Arakan like Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathidaung as the correspondent of the ANA said, adding that authorities have exercised many acts […]
Resolving Rohingya statelessness issues is key
Arakan News Agency It’s really nothing more than a group of powerful people who indulge in much backslapping and handshakes, sit at dinner tables pretending all is well and ignore raising crucial issues to ensure they themselves are not put in a tight spot. How else could one describe Asean? Last year, as meetings wrapped […]
Human traffickers find easy prey among Myanmar’s minorities
Arakan News Agency It’s been 47 days since Abdul, a scrawny Rohingya male in his 40s, sent his 14-year-old daughter Dildar away from the Internally Displaced Persons camp where they’d been living in squalid conditions with little food or health care. Dildar left on a fishing boat crammed with other Rohingya Muslims escaping oppression in […]
Thailand asked to drop charges against reporters
Arakan News Agency Human Rights Watch says two journalists among few who still regularly report on pervasive human trafficking of Muslim Rohingya in Thailand. Human Rights Watch has called on Thai authorities to drop all charges against two journalists who wrote a 2013 report suggesting the navy was involved in the trafficking of Muslim Rohingya […]
Rohingyas village in Arakan groaning under the weight of financial blackmail
Arakan News Agency Rohingyas in village of Khasarbil in Arakan is under pressure of financial blackmailing on regular basis by the mayor of the village with “strange” charges in the words of reporter, adding that the mayor is to impose large fines on Rohingyas “almost daily” he said. And the reporter also added that the […]
Al-Jazeera Channel detected murder
Arakan News Agency Al-Jazeera Channel detected murder, torture and arbitrary detention cases of Muslim minority during past two months in Arakan State, Myanmar. Periodic report of the human rights sector, Global Rohingya Center (GRC) confirmed that the local police of Burmese continued to commit serious human rights violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar’s western province, […]
Delegation (ARU) and (GRC) will meet the Foreign Minister of Taiwan
Arakan News Agency Delegation Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU) and Global Rohingya Center (GRC) met the Deputy Foreign Minister of Taiwan Mr. Simon Shen-Yeaw Ko on the sidelines of a conference “Contemporary Challenges of Muslim minorities”, which was held in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei. The delegation also met diplomatic personalities and heads of the participating […]
Rohingyas village in Arakan groaning under the weight of financial blackmail
Arakan News Agency Rohingyas in village of Khasarbil in Arakan is under pressure of financial blackmailing on regular basis by the mayor of the village with “strange” charges in the words of reporter, adding that the mayor is to impose large fines on Rohingyas “almost daily” he said. And the reporter also added that the […]
Requisition order issue to Rohingyas’ vehicles for Songkran transport in Maungdaw
Arakan News Agency Maungdaw high level officers issued an order to the traffic police department to requisition all Rohingyas’ vehicles to transport civilian Buddhist community to join the opening ceremony of Songkran stage of district admin office on April 12, said Mohamedullah, a Tawlagyi driver from Maungdaw. “Police called all the Rohingyas’ Taxi only and […]