EU top diplomat to visit Rohingya camps Nov 19th
Arakan News Agency The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will be paying a visit to Bangladesh on November 19th. Federica Mogherini, also vice-president of the commission, will visit Rohingya camps at Kutupalong in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar, according to sources at the European Union Embassy in Dhaka.
Red Cross warns short-term aid for Rohingya refugees not enough
Arakan News Agency In Myanmar’s Arakan State, more than half a million Rohingya have been displaced by a military offensive. Some have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, but many have remained on Myanmar’s side of the border. While groups like the Red Cross are doing what they can to help, they are also warning their help […]
Ambassador Jazairy: “Myanmar’s Rohingyas are denied the right to have rights”
Arakan News Agency The Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue (hereinafter “The Geneva Centre”) Ambassador Idriss Jazairy emphasized – during a lecture on 10 November at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies – that the denial of equal citizenship rights to the Rohingya population is breeding radicalization and […]
Foreign Secretary : BD, Myanmar to sign Rohingya repatriation deal ‘soon’
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh is likely to sign an agreement with Myanmar ‘soon’ to send back the Rohingya refugees, Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque has said. He said the two countries would form a joint working group after Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali’s visit to Myanmar by the end of this month. “Then the two […]
Myanmar sets 4 conditions for Rohingya return
Arakan News Agency Rohingya crisis has taken a critical turn as the Myanmar government has drawn four criteria before it proceeds with the repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Quoting Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary U Kyaw Zeya, Kolkata based newspaper Anandabazar said, “Those Rohingyas who can provide documented proof of long-term residence in Myanmar, want […]
Anifah: Asean summit to discuss Rohingya refugee crisis
Arakan News Agency The Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar is expected to be raised at the 31st Asean Summit and Related Summits, which kicks off here tomorrow, with the possibility of it being discussed behind closed door. Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said even Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who will be leading […]
UN chief says violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya must end
Arakan News Agency Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday it is “an absolutely essential priority” to stop all violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, allow them to return to their homes, and grant them legal status. The U.N. chief told reporters Friday that the U.N. is also insisting on “unhindered humanitarian access” to all areas of northern […]
Trudeau, Suu Kyi hold face-to-face on Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency ‘I think it’s fair to say that we feel more needs to be done and more could be done,’ Canadian envy says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi more needs to be done to stop the slaughter of Rohingya Muslims, Canada’s special envoy to Myanmar said Friday. […]
An umbrella for shade: Rohingya refugee boy works to support family
Arakan News Agency Twelve-year-old Nur Hafes would rather be in school or playing football with friends at home in Myanmar. Instead, he waits by the road in Palong Khali refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, looking for visitors who might give him money for his family. Sole breadwinner for seven younger siblings and his mother since […]
Rohingya row to Bangladesh as Myanmar’s Suu Kyi runs summit gauntlet
Arakan News Agency Blessed by calmer seas, several hundred more Rohingya Muslims on Thursday joined a multitude of refugees in Bangladesh, as calls grew for upcoming regional summits to exert more pressure on Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to stem the crisis. A Myanmar military operation has driven out more than 600,000 Rohingya since late […]
Bangladesh Officials Face Daunting Task in Counting Rohingya Refugees
Arakan News Agency Sanjida Begum looked nervous as she waited in line at a refugee camp in Bangladesh for her biometric registration – a fingerprinting procedure meant to ease the counting of Rohingya who have arrived from neighboring Myanmar since August. She and her husband have lived for eight years in a hut at the […]
Turkish rector sends 1,000 letters to universities all around the world on Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency A Turkish rector’s letter about persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar received more than a hundred replies from around the world, he said Wednesday. Batman University’s Rector Prof. Aydın Durmuş sent letters to 1,000 rectors in several countries on Sept. 9. The letters were written in six different languages: English, German, French, Russian, […]
World Myanmar cardinal to Pope Francis: Don’t say ‘Rohingya’
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s most senior Catholic prelate has urged Pope Francis to avoid using the term ‘Rohingya‘ during a visit this month, when he is expected to raise the humanitarian crisis faced by the Muslim minority after a Myanmar army offensive in August. The pope is set to visit largely Buddhist Myanmar from Nov 27 to […]