Leeds urged to help Rohingya during ´odd´ Myanmar tour
Arakan News Agency Amnesty International has urged Leeds United to play their part in helping to ease the human rights crisis in Myanmar during a post-season tour to the country. The club will play two friendly matches against an MNL All Star Team and the Myanmar national team next month in Yangon and Mandalay, in […]
Australian military cooperation with Myanmar ‘untenable’, Labor says
Arakan News Agency Military cooperation with Myanmar is currently “totally untenable” due to the treatment of Rohingyas, Labor’s shadow defence minister has said. The comments on Tuesday came after a speech to the National Press Club in which Richard Marles argued Australia should develop its domestic defence industry. Australia has been criticised for continued cooperation […]
Myanmar policeman testifies arrested reporters were set up
Arakan News Agency A Myanmar police officer testified Friday that he and several colleagues were ordered to entrap two reporters working for the Reuters news agency, dealing a major blow to the government’s case against the journalists. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been detained since Dec. 12 on charges of violating the colonial-era […]
Did Soldiers Jailed for Killings Go Free? Myanmar TV Says Yes (Briefly)
Arakan News Agency For about an hour on Wednesday, the website of Myanmar National Television carried a surprising report: A mass prisoner amnesty the previous day, it said, had included seven members of the country’s military who were briefly jailed for a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. The report was quickly taken down and was strongly […]
Myanmar must ensure citizen rights of Rohingyas: US ambassador
Arakan News Agency United States ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback on Wednesday emphasized on ensuring religious freedom and citizen rights of Rohingyas in Myanmar. Talking to the reporters after visiting the Rohingya camp at Kutupalong in Ukhia, Brownback said United States was working to ensure religious freedom and citizen rights of Rohingyas after […]
Bangladesh calls for pressure on Myanmar over Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday it was necessary to exert greater international pressure on Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees to their homes. “The international community should increase pressure on Myanmar to regain its people and ensure their security,” she said in a speech in London. UN officials say some […]
Bangladesh rejects Myanmar’s claim of repatriation
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh has rejected a recent claim by Myanmar of taking back a Rohingya family in no man’s land. Last Sunday, the Myanmar government in an official statement on Facebook said: “The five members of a family… came back to Taungpyoletwei town repatriation camp in Arakan State this morning.” Photos posted alongside the […]
“Rohingya” .. Conflict in Myanmar and tensions in Bangladesh!
Arakan News Agency In addition to the rigidity of the migration route, the Bangladeshi authorities have delayed in the opening the border to allow them to enter, after fleeing Myanmar, as a result of violence against them by the government last year, Rohingya represented a Muslim majority in a predominantly Buddhist country, 700,000 people fled […]
Washington Post: Myanmar returns the Rohingya to their villages and denies them citizenship
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has accepted what appears to be the first five among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape military-led violence against the minority group, even though the United Nations says it’s not yet safe for them to return home. A government statement said Saturday that five members […]
Myanmar’s women face routine pregnancy tests and sexual harassment in sweatshops
Arakan News Agency Myanmar garment worker Ohn Mar Khaing doesn’t bat an eyelid as she shares her standard work routine — six days a week, 8.00am to 9.00pm. But she’s suddenly nervous talking about the journey to and from the factory. “If I am working overtime, there is no bus, so I have to walk […]
Foreign Minister of Bangladesh: Army of Myanmar changes the names of the Rohingya villages in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Saturday that the Myanmar army was changing the names of the Rohingya Muslim villages in the western province of Arakan, which would harm their return to their homes. In a press statement in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, Ali said Myanmar’s Foreign Minister and State […]
Myanmar: ICC has no jurisdiction to probe Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction over the country and hence cannot try it over allegations that hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas were deported to neighbouring Bangladesh. In a statement, the Ministry of the Office of the State Counsellor — headed by the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Despite UN warnings and not guarantee of safety, Myanmar vows early Rohingya return
Arakan News Agency The country’s social welfare minister made the comments after visiting one of the Bangladesh camps struggling to provide for some of the one million Muslims who fled Rohingya refugees will be allowed to return to Myanmar “as soon as possible”, a minister said, despite a stillborn repatriation process and UN warnings that […]