Is Myanmar blocking the return of Rohingyas?
Arakan News Agency Around 28,000 people are working round-the-clock to manage the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community to keep up the pressure on Myanmar to take back Rohingya Muslims who have taken refuge in her country. Bangladesh has given shelter on humanitarian grounds to more than […]
U.N. in talks with Bangladesh about relocating Rohingya to safe areas as monsoon looms
Arakan News Agency UNITED NATIONS – Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled to camps in Bangladesh from Myanmar must be relocated to avoid floods and other dangers from the monsoon, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. About 150,000 Rohingya are living in flood-prone areas in the crowded camps of Cox’s Bazar and could […]
Buddhist Extremists assaulted a Rohingya elderly in his 50s
Arakan News Agency A Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar was attacked by Buddhist extremists, those who have inflicted many injuries on the victims body while he went fishing on Friday morning. Ahmad Hussein, 57, who runs the village of Noyapara in the town of Minbya, was beaten by Buddhist extremists at seven in the morning while […]
Bangladesh government finalizing list of 10,000 Rohingya for repatriation to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency DHAKA: Bangladesh’s government is finalizing a list of 10,000 Rohingya refugees whom it wants repatriated to Myanmar. The list will be given to Myanmar for verification during the next Joint Working Group meeting scheduled in Dhaka at the end of April. “To facilitate the repatriation, we are building two transit centers at […]
Bob Geldof describes Aung San Suu Kyi as a ‘pig’ as he opens up about handing back Freedom of Dublin
Arakan News Agency Bob Geldof has said he didn’t want to hand back the Freedom of Dublin but didn’t want to be associated Aung San Suu Kyi, who he described as a “pig”. The Boomtown Rats frontman publicly handed back the honour in November to protest against the Myanmar leader also having received the award. […]
Myanmar has bulldozed entire Rohingya villages to make way for a massive camp at the centre of a stalled plan to house returning refugees, an analysis of new satellite imagery shows.
Arakan News Agency One rights group describes the imagery as evidence of an escalating push to demolish former Rohingya land and militarise vast swathes of northern Arakan State – the flashpoint for violence that last year drove out more than 671,000 Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh. An analysis of satellite images done for IRIN by UNOSAT, a […]
Human Rights Council supports UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
Arakan News Agency By a vote of 32 in favour, five against and ten abstentions, the Human Rights Council extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar for a further period of one year. In December 2017, the Government of Myanmar denied access to the country to the […]
Myanmar on board with UNHCR initiative for Rohingya repatriation
Arakan News Agency ‘A hurried repatriation might lead to problems’ Myanmar has finally agreed to the initiative by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam. The minister made the statement at the end of a seminar at […]
Myanmar clears some Rohingya for return but no date on horizon
Arakan News Agency A Bangladesh official said on Thursday (Mar 29) that Myanmar had approved several hundred Rohingya from a list of thousands to return to their homeland, but provided no indication of when the long-delayed process would begin. Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed in November to repatriate three-quarters of a million Rohingya but the deal […]
Amal Clooney agrees to represent two Reuters journalists on trial in Myanmar over Rohingya ‘massacre’ reporting
Arakan News Agency Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will serve as counsel to two Reuters reports on trial for allegedly breaching the Official Secrets Act in Myanmar. Clooney, wife of Hollywood actor George, has been instructed by Reuters and the two defendants: Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The pair of investigative reporters were arrested […]
Rohingya persecution similar to genocide by Nazis: US interfaith group
Arakan News Agency A visiting US interfaith group on Wednesday said that persecution and murders of Rohingyas was similar to genocide committed by Nazis in Europe. At a press conference in Dhaka, they urged the world community to play role in establishing a safe zone for Rohingyas in Arakan State of Myanmar with protection of […]
Myanmar agrees to take back Rohingyas from Bangladesh: Envoy
Arakan News Agency Following intense engagement and continuous global pressures, Myanmar last week entered an agreement with Bangladesh to repatriate, in phases, the Rohingyas who took refuge there, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali said on Tuesday. “We need to sustain the ongoing international pressure. We believe India would continue its support in […]
Plight of Rohingya refugees filmed
Arakan News Agency Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) has filmed a documentary on Rohingya Muslims’ struggle and their plight at the refugee camps in Bangladesh. The documentary titled “Stay Alive” is filmed by the foundation’s three-member team, which had been to Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar district to document tough conditions at the refugee camp and the hospital […]