China draws three-stage path for Myanmar, Bangladesh to resolve Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency China called for a ceasefire in Myanmar’s Rakhine State so that Rohingya Muslim refugees can return from Bangladesh, proposing a three-stage approach to the crisis as diplomats from 51 mostly Asian and European countries gathered in Myanmar on Monday. More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven […]
Bangladesh says it’s in talks with Myanmar on Rohingya repatriation deal
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh is in negotiations with Myanmar aimed at a deal to repatriate displaced Rohingya and Dhaka’s foreign minister will address the matter at talks in Myanmar this week, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said on Sunday. More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a […]
Over 100 Rohingya refugees killed in two months while fleeing Myanmar, says UNHCR report
Arakan News Agency United Nations: More than 100 Rohingya refugees have drowned in shipwrecks and boat capsizes as they fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh, according to a UN official. Stephane Dujarric, the chief UN spokesman, on Friday said that the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has received reports of some 30 improvised rafts, carrying more than […]
IMF sees stronger growth in Myanmar, but Rohingya crisis may hurt investment
Arakan News Agency The International Monetary Fund on Friday forecast an economic rebound in Myanmar this year, but said the Rohingya refugee crisis may dampen investment as the country faces international pressure over its treatment of the Muslim minority. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military […]
French FM expresses support for Myanmar leader
Arakan News Agency French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Monday expressed strong support for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, amid criticism of her administration of the Rohingya crisis, stressing that it guarantees the demands of the United Nations. “I have accepted these demands in a very courageous way because the political conditions […]
Israeli writer: Arms sale to Myanmar is proof that Israel is neither free nor democratic
Arakan News Agency Israeli writer Yossi Melman stressed that Israel is not a free democratic society as it claims, citing three reasons to refute the allegations, including the sale of undeclared arms to Myanmar. “Israel prides itself on being a free and democratic society, and part of the Western world, well, not at least exactly […]
Pope advised not to use term ‘Rohingya’ in Myanmar but rights groups disagree
Arakan News Agency Leading figures in the Catholic Church and international politics have advised Pope Francis not to use the term Rohingya during a trip to Myanmar due to political sensitivities but human rights groups want him to uphold international law on self-identity. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled Myanmar following a military […]
Tillerson, in Myanmar, calls for credible probe of atrocities
Arakan News Agency U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Wednesday for a credible investigation into reports of human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims committed by Myanmar’s security forces after a meeting with its civilian and military leaders. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a […]
US Holocaust Museum says evidence of genocide against Rohingya in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The United States Holocaust Museum says there is “mounting evidence” of genocide in Myanmar, after a year-long investigation with Southeast Asia rights group Fortify Rights into atrocities against persecuted Rohingya Muslims. The report, published on Wednesday and based on more than 200 interviews with Rohingya and aid workers, says Myanmar’s security forces […]
UN chief meets Myanmar’s Suu Kyi on Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency UN chief Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to return, when they met Tuesday at a summit in the Philippines, his office said. The meeting added to global pressure on Suu Kyi to take action to end the crisis for the Muslim minority, […]
Myanmar assures ASEAN nations it is attending to Rohingya
Arakan News Agency A Philippine official says Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has assured other Southeast Asian nations that her government is implementing the recommendations of a commission led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the situation in Arakan state, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh. […]
Last exit from Myanmar, Rohingya wait for weeks on beach
Arakan News Agency Some 1,000 Rohingya Muslims desperate to leave Myanmar are camped on this exposed, sun-baked beach on the Bay of Bengal waiting for a boat to carry them to sanctuary in Bangladesh. Having kept northern parts of Arakan State virtually off limits since it launched a counter-insurgency operation there in late August, Myanmar’s […]
Brazilian envoy terms Rohingya persecution as ‘atrocities of the millennium’
Arakan News Agency Brazilian Ambassador in Dhaka Joao Tabajara de Oliveira Junior has described the persecution of Rohingya ethnic minority by Myanmar security forces as ‘atrocities of the millennium’. “This is something difficult to understand. This is unthinkable. Rohingya persecution is atrocities of the millennium,” he said at a view-exchange meeting at the Daily Sun […]