Villagers harassed as they return from work in night
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslim villagers in Hansar Bil, Maungdaw North are regularly being harassed on their way back to their homes at night. Locals say that a night time curfew is in place after 11 pm. However anyone coming back from work as soon as darkness falls is being harassed and often assaulted by […]
Couple fined 500,000 for losing white cards
Arakan News Agency A couple has been fined 500,000 kyats for losing their white cards on Tuesday. Md Amin and his wife lost their cards when they ran away from their homes in Gorjondia, Maungdaw South during the 2012 riots. When the government declared that all white cards will be withdrawn they went to Aishwaramu […]
Refugees not welcome here – Shahidan
Arakan News Agency Malaysia will not open its doors to refugees and asylum seekers, especially to the Rohingyas from Myanmar, even under humanitarian grounds, as they have become a security threat here. Reiterating the government’s stand in not recognizing or accepting refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri […]
Maungdaw high level officer orders to inform about insurgent movement and house repairing
Arakan News Agency Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw township administration officer –U Hla Myint – called to all village admin officers to inform about insurgent group and house repairing of Rohingya community in northern Arakan at Maungdaw Township admin office hall on April 9 at about 2:00pm, according to a village admin officer who denied to […]
Rohingya homes burning in Arakan for unknown reasons
Arakan News Agency Ten houses were burned in the late hours of the night in a village of northern Choctaw in Arakan for some unknown reasons according to a source, the source added that the people in the village believe that unidentified Buddhists used a new technical method which is indescribable by the local populations, […]
Burmese troops have surrounded Rohingyas village in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Burmese forces has besieged Sidirkul village of Kyukto south for nearly two weeks and has directed 100 Rohingya families to leave their homes and forced them to homelessness on the streets as a correspondent of ANA reported, adding that troops confiscated fishing nets from the people of the village they own from […]
Rohingya refugees in India are facing difficult living conditions
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Activists in India sends these pictures through “What’s App” Rohingya refugee families in Hyderabad, India reflects the difficult living conditions and situations of tragic living in the shadow as they have no food, health care or water that is fit for human consumption; what led to contracting rare diseases strange symptoms. […]
Myanmar civil society ‘divided’ over citizenship of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency The Burmese civil society is “divided” over the issue of citizenship for Rohingya refugees mostly lodged in Bangladesh, a Myanmar political analyst has said in a Dhaka conference. “Some have liberal views and others have extremist views. But it is democracy now, so you can hear the cacophony of different voices,” said […]
Myanmar high-level meeting political talks consider reforms
Arakan News Agency Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with Myanmar’s top political and military leaders in what a government spokesman described as a “successful meeting,” but there was no sign the participants bridged their differences on political reforms ahead of an election later this year. Without at least a broad agreement, the […]
Being a Muslim woman in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency While the world has mostly focused on the Shia – Sunni conflict or the violent assault of radical terrorism in the Middle East, the Rohingya Muslims have been subjected to ruthless massacre for years. Some nationalist Buddhist terrorists that set the villages, homes and mosques of Muslims on fire and viciously slaughtered […]
Citizenship, ethnicity and electioneering in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has had a shaky few years of reform. As many commentators have indicated, the process has, at times, seemed to go backwards. That assessment sells short the significant changes the country has made in recent years, yet it highlights the key issues holding the complex process back. At the heart of […]
Fishing Boat Sinks off Arakan State
Arakan News Agency All 16 crewmembers of the fishing boat, the Htoo Htet Aung (36) were saved when it sank 17 miles offshore of Kyaukpyu Township in Arakan State on the night of 8 April. The captain of the fishing boat, U Kyaw Shwe, said the boat was heading to shore at 9.30pm after having […]
Engage proactively setting aside Rohingya issue, Myanmar activist tells Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency A Yangon-based activist has suggested Bangladesh to be “proactive” in its engagement with Myanmar, keeping the decades-old Rohingya refugee issue aside for the benefit of both the neighbors. “Bangladesh should appoint a PR in Myanmar for improving relations,” Khin Zaw Win says, “and solve refugee issue using third party, UN or others”. […]