Be vigilant against Rohingya influx, Rajnath tells states
Arakan News Agency Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh asked states on the Indo-Bangla border to remain vigilant against influx by Rohingyas into India. “The states should remain alert and conscious to foil any kind of illegal immigration,” the minister said. Talking to mediapersons here after a meeting with representatives of states having border with Bangladesh, […]
Rohingya refugees still fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh: UNHCR
Arakan News Agency Rohingya refugees continue to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh even though both countries set up a timetable last month to allow them to start to return home, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR)said on Thursday. The number of refugees appears to have slowed. 625,000 have arrived since Aug. 25. 30,000 came last month and […]
OIC demands cessation of all hostilities against Muslim Rohingya population
Arakan News Agency Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) demands cessation of all hostilities against Muslim Rohingya population and calls for sustainable return and rehabilitation of all Rohingya refugees According to foreign office announcement, Pakistan, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has demanded immediate cessation of violence against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities […]
Human Rights Council Condemns Crimes Against Rohingya in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution, on Tuesday, strongly condemning alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses committed against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar’s Arakan state. The resolution received 33 votes in favour, three against, including China, and nine abstentions. It called on the Myanmar […]
UN official urges accountability for Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’
Arakan News Agency The international community must take “swift and serious action” in response to the “ethnic cleansing” of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, the U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict told Security Council members Tuesday. “Over the course of three days, I heard the most heartbreaking and horrific accounts of sexual atrocities reportedly committed in […]
Diphtheria kills 9 in Bangladesh Rohingya camps
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh on Tuesday (Dec 12) launched a massive drive to vaccinate Rohingya children against diphtheria after a suspected outbreak killed nine refugees and infected more than 700. Health workers in Bangladesh said they had been caught unawares by the outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Rohingya refugee camps of south-east Bangladesh. […]
Rohingya crisis: Muslim women reveal rape and torture inflicted by Burma military forces
Arakan News Agency Harrowing stories follow offensive by Burmese military which UN said was ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’ Rohingya women have come forward with stories of sexual assault, beatings and torture at the hands of Burmese security forces. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh to escape an offensive by the Burmese […]
Rohingya atrocities could have amounted to ‘genocide’
Arakan News Agency Violence in Myanmar may constitute ‘ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, or even genocide’, UK parliament report says The violence targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minority “amounts to ethnic cleansing,” a U.K. parliament report has stated. “The violence against the Rohingya in Northern Arakan in Burma … may also constitute crimes against humanity and even […]
How Trump is spreading the “fake news” virus around the world
Arakan News Agency After President Trump tweeted that CNN International “is still a major source of (Fake) news,” Libyan media published an article questioning the authenticity of a major CNN report on the Libyan slave trade. “It is reported in international political circles that many of the reports broadcast by the American channel often come […]
Aid groups to boycott camps for Rohingya returning to Myanmar, say refugees should settle in their homes
Arakan News Agency Global aid groups on Saturday warned Myanmar they would boycott any new camps for Rohingya returnees to Arakan state, saying refugees must be allowed to settle in their original homes. The joint statement, signed by more than a dozen humanitarian organizations including Save the Children and Oxfam, said the groups were “concerned” […]
Turkish aid agency builds playground for refugee Rohingya children
Arakan News Agency Turkish charities have been working hard to provide for Rohingya Muslims who are living in rough conditions in Bangladesh’s refugee camp. Included in their efforts, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) built the camp’s first playground and the biggest modern kitchen in the region. According to U.N. data, the number of […]
U.N. warns against any hasty returns of Rohingya to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Peace and stability must be restored in Myanmar’s northern Arakan state before any Rohingyas can return from Bangladesh, under international standards on voluntary repatriation, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. Some 20,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to Bangladesh in November, and at least 270 so far in December, bringing the […]
Myanmar social media anger after Pope uses ‘Rohingya’ word
Arakan News Agency Pope Francis’s embrace of the Rohingya during a trip to Bangladesh has sparked some angry comment on social media in Myanmar, where just days earlier he chose not to publicly air their plight. On Friday the head of the Catholic church met a group of refugees from Myanmar’s stateless Muslim minority in the […]