Myanmar Policy’s Message to Muslims: Get Out
Arakan News Agency SITTWE, Myanmar — The Myanmar government has given the estimated one million Rohingya people in this coastal region of the country a dispiriting choice: Prove your family has lived here for more than 60 years and qualify for second-class citizenship, or be placed in camps and face deportation. The policy, accompanied by […]
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The Harvard Global Equity Initiative is convening a conference on the worsening situation Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The Harvard Global Equity Initiative is convening a half-day conference on the worsening situation of Burma’s Rohingya minority community on November 4, 2014. Professor Amartya Sen, Chair of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative’s Steering Committee, will be leading the proceedings in collaboration with Felicia Knaul, Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. […]
Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan (BRAJ) based in Tokyo have staged a demonstration in front of the Myanmar Embassy
Arakan News Agency Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan (BRAJ) based in Tokyo have staged a demonstration in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday. Some local NGOs, media and university students join the event with 35 members of BRAJ. The event started at 2 pm and ended at 3:30 pm. During the demonstration, […]
Obama urges Myanmar to protect the rights of minorities
Arakan News Agency US President Barack Obama urged the Myanmar government to make every effort to reach a cease-fire and respect for minority rights and so a few hours of meeting the President of Myanmar, the Supreme Commander of the Army Thein Sein with the opposition parties and leaders of sectarian minorities before. Some critics […]
Mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar following arrests
Arakan News Agency Surprising numbers of Rohingya people have been leaving Myanmar on boats for Thailand and Malaysia following a campaign of arrests, atrocities and persecuted, said by a leading NGO. “In one week we have seen 8,000 Rohingya leaving northern Rakhine state — the amount of people who left the region per month in […]
Push for positive change for Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Malaysia should use its regional and international influence to promote positive changes in Myanmar to stem the tide of people fleeing that country, a Bar Council official said. Datuk M. Ramachelvam, who co-chairs the council’s migrants, refugees and immigration affairs committee, said Malaysia could take the lead in this matter since it […]
Rohingya people fleeing persecution
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslims in north of Phuket are being fed thanks to donations from people on Phuket and in Takuapa, where the men are awaiting a decision on their fateFor at least five years, the Andaman coast of Thailand has been the scene of some horrific abuses, mainly against ethnic Rohingya, a Muslim […]
Oblivious world to the crimes against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The extrajudicial killings of Rohingya have been proven over and over again, especially since the beginning of the state sponsored Rohingya ethnic cleansing programme started in 2012. There are thousands of Rohingya people, young and old, literate and illiterate have been disappeared under the programme of the extrajudicial killings. There are thousands […]
DEMONSTRATION OF EXILED ROHINGYA AGAINST 1982 BURMA CITIZENSHIP ACT
Arakan News Agency A peaceful demonstration regarding ‘the ongoing forced Bengalization over Rohingya through Rakhine Action Plan, arbitrarily detention, disappearance of Rohingya detainees from police custody and controversial Burma Census 2014’ was carried out by about four hundreds exiled Rohingyas including female under authority of Rohingya Youth Union-India at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi In the […]
Myanmar refuses to close the notorious labor camps in the country
Arakan News Agency According to media reports, on Tuesday, that the Government of Myanmar’s parliament rejected a request to close the notorious labor camps in the country. Said Brigadier General Kyaw Kyaw Tun, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, the parliament, on Monday, there were no plans to close the detention camps, because there is no […]
Myanmar Blockades Rohingya, Tries to Erase Name
Arakan News Agency Authorities sealed off villages in Myanmar’s only Rohingya Muslim-majority region and in some cases beat and arrested people who refused to register with immigration officials, residents and activists say, in what may be the most aggressive effort yet to force Rohingya to indicate they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. Immigration officials, […]
Despite promises “Rohingya” was not included on the 2014 census
Arakan News Agency Already widely reduced to statelessness and in many cases forced into camps for displaced people, an 800,000-strong population of Muslims in western Myanmar now faces increasing efforts to eradicate the very word they use to identify themselves as a group. Under pressure from Myanmar’s nominally-civilian government, the international community sometimes appears complicit […]