Global singer: leader of Myanmar’s biggest perpetrators of ethnic cleansing
Arakan News Agency Irish international pop star Bob Geldof described Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi as “the biggest perpetrators of ethnic cleansing” and sharply criticized several world leaders, including presidents of the United States, China, Turkey and Russia. Geldof, who is also known for his political activism, spoke at the World Youth Congress in the […]
Rohingya refugees are suspicious of Myanmar’s assurances of their return
Arakan News Agency The Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh on Tuesday questioned the chances of their return to Myanmar despite her government’s assertion that it would accept the return of those found to have fled to Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya fled a military campaign launched in Myanmar’s Arakan province in late August and […]
Myanmar official: Major challenges for underdeveloped democracy in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency A senior Myanmar official on last Monday called for democracy in the country to be “a chance to stay” amid international outrage over a military campaign against the Rohingya Muslims described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing. Some 507,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since August 25th. National Security Adviser […]
Myanmar tells the United Nations that Rohingya refugees can return from Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency Myanmar told the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on last Monday that its top priority is to repatriate the Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh but more should be done to “strengthen stability” in the troubled Arakan state in the north of the country. Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abulhasan Mahmood Ali said […]
Myanmar dodges the international platforms to withhold facts about its crimes against the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities have been blocking facts about UN envoys to hide their crimes against the Muslim minority of Rohingya. The Myanmar government has postponed a visit by officials from the organization to Arakan state in the west of the country to inspect the situation of Muslims. The Myanmar authorities have invoked bad […]
Myanmar agrees to form a group coordinating the return of Rohingya refugees
Arakan News Agency Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali said on Monday that the representative of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi had agreed to set up a working group to coordinate the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who had fled to Bangladesh. “The talks took place in a friendly atmosphere and Myanmar […]
Myanmar is opening its doors to foreign insurance companies
Arakan News Agency Myanmar plans to open its doors to foreign insurance companies by granting work permits to 24 companies during the current financial year, according to a local official in the Ministry of Financial Planning. “The Myanmar government is preparing to lift restrictions on local companies and to grant work permits to other […]
Myanmar to force the Rohingya to receive aid and desperate attempts to improve its image in front of the world
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar government has forced the Rohingya community to receive what it calls “food aid under the pressure of the threat and photographing it” to try to improve its image in the face of accusations of racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Rohingya minority in Arakan state. . One of […]
The Government of Myanmar disposes of the bodies of the Rohingya by burying them in secret graves
Arakan News Agency The Government of Myanmar has recently set up urgent committees to collect the bodies of Rohingyas and bury them in hidden graves away from the places where they were killed by the army in the east and west of the city of Rathidaung. Arakan news agency reported that dozens of Rohingya bodies […]
Myanmar army displaces Rohingyas from their homes and encircles them in the open
Arakan News Agency Myanmar army besieged dozens of Rohingya families who fled their homes to escape excessive violence against them in the city of Buthidaung. Rohingya families were stuck due to a river and can’t move, the correspondent said on the video, after fleeing their homes to escape abuses by the Myanmar police and armed […]
Myanmar takes over the territory of the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s Minister for Social Development, Relief and Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, said the government would undertake the redevelopment of villages burned during the violence in Arakan state that led to the exodus of about half a million Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh. The plan to redevelop the fire-ravaged areas, which the government blamed on […]
Rohingya activist: The government of Myanmar has practiced ethnic cleansing and burned mosques
Arakan News Agency On Wednesday, a member of the Rohingya community in Sudan accused the government of “ethnic cleansing” of the Muslim minority of “Rohingya” and “burning mosques” in the western province of Arakan. Since August 25th, the Myanmar army and Buddhist militias have committed genocide against the Rohingya, killing nearly half a million Muslims, […]
Rohingya Bangladesh capsize death toll rises to 23
Arakan News Agency IOM official says 40 other fleeing Rohingya Muslims remain missing as boat overturned in bad weather Twenty-three Rohingya Muslims are now thought to have perished in the Bay of Bengal when their boat capsized in bad weather, the Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. The fishing vessel was carrying Rohingya fleeing […]