Britain suspends Myanmar military training
Arakan News Agency Britain’s junior foreign minister Mark Field has said the UK armed forces provided vocational courses, focused on language training, governance, accountability, ethics, human rights and international law to the Myanmar military Britain said Tuesday it had suspended its educational training courses for the Myanmar military due to the ethnic violence in Arakan […]
Myanmar army accompanied by Buddhist monks continue killings and genocide against the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Members of the Myanmar army killed a number of Rohingyas in the village of Tulatuli, north of the Maungdaw region. The source said: A number of men and women were killed after a random firing by members of the Myanmar army; while seeing a number of civilians rolled in their blood and […]
Myanmar plans to prevent US official from entering Arakan conflict zone
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s government authorities said on Friday they would not allow Patrick Murphy, assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, to enter the conflict zone of Arakan province in the west this weekend. A local official in Arakan state, as saying Murphy would visit Akyab, capital of Arakan state, but would not […]
Myanmar Army Defended his forces operations against the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar army chief General Min Aung Hlaing on Saturday defended his forces’ operations against the Rohingya (Muslim minority), asking his country to “unite” against them because they are “Bengali” as he sees fit. General Min Aung Hlaing repeated the theory in comments posted on his Facebook page on Friday. “They demand recognition […]
The Myanmar army blackmailed the Rohingya villages after hundreds were burnt
Arakan News Agency Several villages of the Rohingya in Maungdaw region are constantly being blackmailed by Buddhist soldiers and gangs. A source reported that a number of police and Buddhist gangs, come by every two or three days, threatened to burn the villages of Rohingya unless they pay them, causing the people to live […]
Cardinal of Myanmar: We face the threat of military coup
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s Catholic Christian cardinal Charles Maung Bo warned of the risk of a military coup in the country because of the fragility of democracy and the weakness of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government. “Suu Kyi faces a huge challenge because the army continues to control all key ministries, such as the interior, […]
Myanmar army in collision with Buddhist gangs have killed dozens of defenseless civilians from Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Members of the Myanmar army and groups of Buddhist gangs have slaughtered dozens of Rohingyas. The source said in an urgent report: The security members and Buddhist gangs broke into several villages in the area of Rathidaung and fired heavily and indiscriminately to frighten the people; while armed gangs of dozens of […]
Myanmar minister: “Who wants to rape the Rohingya women?!”
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s local border security minister, Col. Phone Tint, has denied charges against government forces of raping women of the Muslim Rohingya minority and of sexual assault as a weapon of war against this oppressed group. In an interview with the BBC, the colonel said in response to reports accusing his country’s army […]
Myanmar faces pressure on mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Pressure has mounted on Myanmar to end the violence that has caused some 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, where the United States has called for the protection of civilians and urged Bangladesh to provide safe areas to enable refugees to return to their homes. But China, which is competing with […]
“Myanmar has been completely deaf to our requests,” says UN secretary general Antonio Guterres
Arakan News Agency The number of Rohingya refugees pouring into Bangladesh since Aug. 25 is nearing 400,000, and UN secretary general Antonio Guterres seems exasperated. “We are very much active in relation to the Rohingya crisis but unfortunately it has not been easy because the government of Myanmar until now has been completely deaf to […]
The Myanmar leaders have not attended the UN General Assembly because of the Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Myanmar Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi’s office announced last Wednesday that it would not attend a UN General Assembly session due to the Muslim Rohingya crisis. Suu Kyi is outraged by ethnic violence in her country, which forced some 400,000 Rohingya minorities to flee to Bangladesh. The mass exodus, which began […]
Myanmar army torches 62 Rohingya villages: Rights group
Arakan News Agency Satellite imagery, sensory data show 62 villages and 948 buildings targeted by arson attacks, says Human Rights Watch Myanmar army has burnt over 60 villages and destroyed more than 900 buildings of Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western state, an international rights body said in a statement Friday. The Human Rights Watch […]
Uzbekistan calls on Myanmar to stop the violence against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Uzbekistan on last Wednesday called on the government of Myanmar to stop the violence and “pursue peaceful ways” to put an end to the worsening Rohingya crisis in the western province of Arakan. In a statement issued by the Uzbekistani Foreign Ministry expressed the concern of the Government of Myanmar about the […]