Jessica Kahawaty is engaged in a human experience with Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Lebanese actress Jessica Kahawaty traveled to Bangladesh on an official and emergency mission with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support her mission with the Rohingya who fled from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Kutupalong camp. Kahawaty expressed her happiness at participating in this humanitarian mission and revealed that […]
Rohingya appeal to the European Union to end their suffering in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The European Union’s (EU) High Representative for Foreign, Political and Security Affairs, European Commission (EU) Vice President Federica Mogherini and all European foreign ministers on Saturday urged them to take further measures to end the violence against Myanmar’s Muslim minority. The message was sent at an important time as the EU focused […]
Turkish PM calls Rohingya killings in Myanmar ‘genocide’
Arakan News Agency Turkey’s prime minister on Wednesday dubbed the killing of minority Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar by its security forces “genocide” and urged the international community to ensure their safety back home. Binali Yildirim met several Rohingyas in two refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in neighboring Bangladesh. Almost 870,000 Rohingya fled there, about 660,000 […]
Assistant Director of Arakan Rohingya Union ARU in Bangladesh: The return of the refugees is an urgent requirement for the international community
Arakan News Agency The Assistant Director of the Federation of Rohingya Arakan ARU Abdullah Maruf said that the return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Arakan is a very important and necessary requirement in accordance with the conditions set by the Security Council that is to, the return of refugees safe and sustainable, dignified and […]
Rohingya language to go digital
Arakan News Agency For decades, the Rohingya have been denied recognition in Myanmar, but the persecuted minority is close to securing a crucial symbol of their identity – their own unique digital alphabet. The language of the stateless Muslim people has been included in the planned upgrade to the Unicode Standard, the global coding system […]
Myanmar team to visit Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya issue
Arakan News Agency A six-member Myanmar delegation is arriving here on Monday for a meeting to set up the joint working group (JWG) to facilitate the repatriation of Rohingyas who fled violence in northern Arakan State between August 25 and now. According to the Daily Star, Permanent Secretary of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry Myint Thu […]
‘Shockingly brutal’: Suu Kyi could be culpable for Rohingya genocide says UN human rights chief
Arakan News Agency Aung San Suu Kyi and the head of Myanmar’s military junta, General Aung Min Hlaing, could face future genocide charges for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar according to the UN human rights chief. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – while not in […]
Persecuted Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents on the Myanmar security forces in Arakan State triggered a response by the army and Buddhist vigilantes so brutal a senior U.N. official denounced it as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Days, weeks and months after the Aug. 25 violence, more than 600,000 Rohingya fled to Muslim […]
NGOs decry delay in Rohingya relief project clearance
Arakan News Agency NGOs running Rohingya relief programmes got none of their fresh projects cleared by the government authorities over the past one month, alleged leaders of the non-government organisations yesterday. Briefing newsmen at Jatiya Press Club today, the NGO leaders said they didn’t get ‘no objection’ clearance against their projects since mid-November. They urged […]
Rohingya Muslims daunted by idea of return to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslims who have fled persecution in Myanmar and taken refuge in neighboring Bangladesh since the beginning of a brutal military crackdown in late August say the prospect of returning to Myanmar is a daunting or even impossible one. Since Aug. 25, some 650,000 Rohingya have crossed from Myanmar’s western state of […]
Rohingya ‘rather die’ than return to oppression in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Disease, hunger and misery stalk the Rohingya living in Bangladesh’s refugee camps but despite the grinding hardship, few are willing to consider the alternative — returning home under a deal struck with Myanmar. The arrangement signed by Myanmar and Bangladesh in November to start repatriating refugees within two months is viewed with […]
Fleeing Rohingya carry one key asset: solar panels
Arakan News Agency When Rohingya refugees began arriving in Bangladesh, after violence erupted in Myanmar’s northern Arakan State in August, local residents were puzzled to see some toting small solar panels on their shoulders. “When we saw they were carrying a solar panel with them, I was surprised. I would never do this in such […]
Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of the Freedom of Dublin as Burma’s Rohingya crisis deepens
Arakan News Agency Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the Freedom of Dublin over her perceived attitude to the plight of the Rohingya people in Burma. City councillors voted to strip the Nobel laureate of the award with immediate effect following months of international condemnation of the military’s crackdown on the Rohingya people […]