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 […]
Opinion: Rohingya women have suffered enough. They don’t deserve discriminatory health care.
Arakan News Agency Rape has been used as a weapon of war in conflicts all over the world. And has been used against women and girls caught up in the massive humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees. In the past few months, nearly 600,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, and more continue to seek refuge […]
Angelina Jolie Focuses Attention On Rohingya Refugees
Arakan News Agency Angelina Jolie, the actress and special envoy for the UN’s refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is calling global attention to the plight of the Rohingya in a new video. Suffering ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Myanmar government, many in the Muslim sect have fled over the […]
Turkish PM to visit Bangladesh, Rohingya camps
Arakan News Agency Turkey’s prime minister will pay a two-day official visit to Dhaka next week at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Ministry Press Center said on Saturday. The center said in a statement that Binali Yildirim will hold a number of high-level meetings during his visit on Dec. 19-20. […]
U.S. says identified target for sanctions over Myanmar crackdown
Arakan News Agency The United States has identified one person it might impose sanctions on over the brutal crackdown in Myanmar against minority Rohingya Muslims and is examining others, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday. Tillerson, who last month declared the violence against the Rohingya to be “ethnic cleansing,” has said Washington […]