Rohingya refugees stranded in a neutral zone on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border
Arakan News Agency About 6,000 and 300 Rohingya Muslims have been stranded in a neutral area on the Bangladesh border after fleeing the injustice they have suffered in Arakan by the army and Buddhist fanatics since August 25th. According to the Bangladeshi Daily Star, the Myanmar Border Guard (BGB) is preventing the medical and humanitarian […]
Trapped Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar get first substantial food aid in months
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslim villagers cut off from food and threatened by Buddhist neighbours in Myanmar’s violence-racked Arakan state received their first substantial food supplies in months on Wednesday after international pressure on the government to help. Diplomats and aid groups called on the government to step in after Reuters exclusively reported the dire […]
Observers: The international community is not serious in pressing the Myanmar government to resolve the Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Groups of Rohingya fleeing genocide in Myanmar continue to cross over to bangladesh for more than six weeks to this moment, despite all the international appeals to their Government. Photographs of thousands of displaced people from the Buthidaung region came along the border with Bangladesh in the hope of saving their lives. […]
Myanmar army accuses Rohingya Muslims of burning their own villages despite international reports
Arakan News Agency Myanmar army chief General Min Aung Hlaing on Thursday accused the Rohingya of burning their homes in Myanmar in order to continue the massive exodus of the Muslim minority towards Bangladesh. “The investigation shows that the one who set the house on fire is one of the Rohingyas,” Aung Hlaing wrote on […]
Pictures of Rohingyas trying to flee Myanmar despite the horrors and dangers ahead
Arakan News Agency The waves of Rohingya exodus from their villages and areas in Arakan state continue towards the border areas due to continued violence against them. Correspondents reported that hundreds of Rohingyas from the cities of Maungdaw and Buthidaung had fled north to the villages bordering Bangladesh, after a three-day trek through rugged […]
Myanmar: Confiscation of Rohingya property and settling Buddhists on their lands
Arakan News Agency Videos showed that gangs of ethnic Mogh Buddhist took herds of cows from the villages of Rohingya after the displacement of their people and the burning of their homes. “We are recording this with high risk” the correspondent said, adding very few videos or pictures could be taken of such thefts. The […]
Pope Francis will meet Buddhist monks and military leaders in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Pope Francis will meet senior Buddhist monks and military generals in Myanmar as well as its civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in November during a visit to the country and Bangladesh, which are facing a crisis because of the Muslim minority of Rohingya. According to the program of the full visit, […]
High-level UN official visits Myanmar on Friday
Arakan News Agency UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman will visit Myanmar on Friday,UN Secretary-General ‘spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. “The visit will continue on October 17,” the statement said. He said the move came for consultations with the relevant authorities in Myanmar on the crisis of the Rohingya Muslims in the province of Arakan, […]
Sources: The West is going to punish Myanmar generals because of the Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Officials familiar with the ongoing discussions say the EU and the United States are considering specific sanctions targeting military generals in Myanmar because of the attack that has led to more than half a million Rohingya Muslims leaving the country. Interviews with more than a dozen diplomats and government officials in Washington, […]
Saad Hariri announces his support for the Rohingya issue in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The Ambassador of Bangladesh to Lebanon Abdul Mutallab Sarker paid tribute to the position of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on the issue of the Rohingya Muslims and the efforts of the Government of Bangladesh to cope with the refugee crisis. “Bangladeshi Ambassador Abdul Mutallab Sarkar talks about suffering in Myanmar and […]
Myanmar continues its policy of disinformation about its crimes against the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Rohingya activists reported that the Government of Myanmar continues to manufacture false news and fabricate false accusations against the Rohingya and disseminate it through various media in application of its policy of disinformation in the face of serious facts, crimes and violations committed by the Myanmar army since it escalated incineration, murder […]
Myanmar army accuses Rohingya Muslims of burning their villages despite international reports
Arakan News Agency Myanmar army chief General Min Aung Hlaing on Thursday accused the Rohingya of burning their homes in Myanmar in order to continue the massive exodus of the Muslim minority towards Bangladesh.“The investigation shows that the one who set the house on fire is one of the Rohingyas,” General Min Aung Hlaing wrote […]
Al-Azhar observatory: In the age of human rights, Myanmar’s Muslims still have no life
Arakan News Agency The Al-Azhar Observatory published a report stating that in the era of the United Nations and human rights, a Muslim man in Myanmar still lacks the most basic elements of life, a place to shelter for himself and his family; it is the age of double standards; Thousands, and nearly half a […]