Rohingya Muslims without food and the Myanmar authorities continue to burn their homes
Arakan News Agency In a further deterioration of the humanitarian situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the World Food Program (WFP) suspended the distribution of aid to civilians in northwestern Myanmar due to fighting in Arakan state amid worsening humanitarian crisis as death toll rises and tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya residents flee. […]
“Rohingya” witnesses scenes of “horrific crimes” committed by the Myanmar army
Arakan News Agency Eyewitnesses from Arakan state reports horrific moments of crimes committed by the Myanmar army against the “Rohingya” Muslims in the state. “Buddhists are committing persecution, burning our homes, raping our daughters and killing our children,” said a Rohingya Muslim, Rashida Bagum, 25, in a videotape recorded in the Bangladesh border region of […]
Mevlut Cavusoglu: We will hold an international summit on Arakan in New York
Arakan News Agency Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that a summit would be held at the initiative of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss a radical solution to the problem of the Muslim minority of the Rohingya in Myanmar on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September […]
Cavusoglu discusses with Annan the situation in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held a telephone conversation with former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the attacks against Arakan Muslims in Myanmar. Turkish diplomatic sources told Anadolu that Cavusoglu discussed with Annan about the situation in Arakan (Rakhine) province, as the latter as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Territory. […]
A protest in front of the Embassy of Myanmar in Berlin, condemning the violence against the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency On Saturday, the Turkish community in Germany held a protest in the vicinity of the Myanmar embassy in the capital Berlin to demand a halt to violence by the government forces against the Muslim minority of Rohingya in the western province of Arakan. Participants at the protest, organized with the support of […]
“Rohingya” in Myanmar is a Muslim minority oppressed and deprived of nationality
Arakan News Agency The situation of the oppressed and deprived minority Rohingya Muslim in Myanmar will be at the heart of an unprecedented visit by Pope Francis in late November to the Buddhist country. Rohingya has been living for decades in western Myanmar, where new clashes have killed more than 3000 people in recent days. […]
The Myanmar army burns another Rohingya village on the second day of Eid al-Adha
Arakan News Agency Burmese army troops burned the village of Dumi, north of the city of Maungdaw, on Friday morning. The smoke of fire have risen from several miles high through green lawns and rice fields. The village of Dumi is a village of the Muslims of the Rohingya; however, they were displaced and their […]
Pope is preparing to visit Myanmar and Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency The pope is almost certain to visit Myanmar and Bangladesh, two countries experiencing a crisis over the Muslim minority Rohingya, before the end of the year, a senior Vatican source said on Wednesday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the visit was likely to be formally announced before the […]
Washington Post: Myanmar covers its systematic violations against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The Washington Post has accused the Myanmar government of covering up its systematic violation of the Muslim minority of the Rohingya. At the beginning of its editorial, the newspaper comments on a UN report published in February this year, dismissing human rights abuses against the long-suffering minority in Arakan, noting that abuses […]
Myanmar seeks to improve its image with the United Nations
Arakan News Agency The Government of Myanmar has announced that it intends to send a special envoy to the United Nations to explain the Arakan mandate to the international community and to win the United Nations position on its side. This was made by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs U Kyaw […]
Rohingya The first victims of the new army battalion in “Arakan”
Arakan News Agency Eight Rohingya people were brutally attacked by security forces in the city of Rathidaung, which is witnessing an upsurge in attacks on Muslims. The attack resulted in severe and critical injuries, according to local residents. Arakan news agency reported that about 15 vehicles of the security forces arrived in the city and […]
Rohingya group says Myanmar engaged in ‘genocide’
Arakan News Agency European Rohingya Council says extra troops sent to Arakan state to advance destruction of Muslim minority The deployment of extra troops to Myanmar’s troubled Arakan state is to further the “Rohingya genocide”, according to a group representing the Muslim minority on Tuesday. The army dispatched a battalion, around 500 soldiers, to the […]
Myanmar forces demolish Muslim buildings and confiscate their property
Arakan News Agency A group of Myanmar troops raided a village inhabited by Muslims Rohingyas in Rathidaung city, razed a number of shops and residential buildings and confiscated goods and private property, Arakan News Agency correspondent reported. The correspondent said that the group was divided into three small groups and spread in the village and […]