Huge Tatmadaw operation underway in Buthidaung and Rohingya many face arrest and torture
Arakan News Agency Scores of Rohingyas, including at least 15 women have been arrested from Sain Dee Prang in Buthidaung as Tatmadaw officials declared that they would be starting ‘clearance operations’, and allegedly Rohingya men and women in the village were taking militant training. The first round of arrests occurred on the morning hours , […]
Myanmar bars Rakhine documentary from film festival
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Arakan state, a film festival organiser said Thursday, highlighting deep sensitivity over a conflict that has bedevilled Myanmar’s new civilian government. The 18-minute documentary, titled “Sittwe” after Arakan’s state capital, follows Buddhist and Muslim teenagers affected […]
Trudeau urged to press Suu Kyi for Muslim minority rights in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The meeting Wednesday had the look of a feel-good visit between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar, also known as Burma. But a major international human rights watchdog and groups representing Burmese refugees in Canada called on Trudeau to push Suu […]
OIC appoints new envoy to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Ambassador Ilham Ibrahim Mohammed Ahmed, member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Permanent Standing Committee for Human Rights, has revealed as the new envoy of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to Myanmar, who will soon be named successor to Mr. Hamid Albar. “The issue of the Rohingya […]
Myanmar arrests dozens of Rohingya for anti-government charges
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar army and security forces arrested dozens of Rohingyas from different parts of the city of Maungdaw in last two weeks on charges of associating to an armed Rohingya group and took them to an unknown destination. Local sources confirmed that the joint forces of the Myanmar army and security raided […]
Two mutilated bodies of Rohingyas were found in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency A few days ago, local residents of Rohingya found two bodies decomposed on the outskirts of Maungdaw town in Arakan province believed to belong to members of the same minority who were attacked by the military a few months ago. Arakan news agency correspondent said that the local residents said the bodies […]
Aung San Suu Kyi: There is no ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has denied the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Muslim minority, despite many reports of repression and torture. In an interview with the BBC, Suu Kyi, a Nobel Prize laureate, said she was aware of some of the problems Rohingya was facing in Arakan. The […]
CM Mehbooba not happy with the JCCI for threatening and intimidating Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti assured action against Jammu commerce chamber leaders for threatening and intimidating Rohingya Muslims. “All those who will try to take law into own hands will face action,” Mehbooba said here after addressing a gathering in Dak Banglow Khanabal. “All those who will try to threat […]
UN pushes Myanmar to release detained Rohingya children
Arakan News Agency More than 600 people were arrested in an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the north of the restive state. The UN children’s agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar’s government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping military campaign in Arakan state. More than 600 people were arrested in […]
Indian authorities demolish Rohingya refugee huts and assaulted women
Arakan News Agency Indian authorities in the Jammu have demolished huts of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar’s Arakan province and settled there for several years. One of the victims told Arakan news agency that security forces in the area raided the place where they live last Sunday, and drove people out of the huts they […]
Rohingya Muslim was killed in Myanmar by unknown Buddhists
Arakan News Agency A Muslim Rohingya man was stabbed to death by unknown assailants in the city of Maungdaw, believed to be extremist Buddhist gangs, according to Arakan News Agency reporter. The reporter said the victim was killed by knife stabs late on Sunday night, while the perpetrators were not found at the site and […]
The Rohingya are being forced to build government and Buddhists buildings in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar government has begun to build government departments and settlements for Buddhists in Arakan state by using funds and workers from Rohingya minority without any wages in places where the Rohingya were forced to leave as a result of the military crackdown launched last October. Arakan news agency correspondent reported that […]
Only 40 Rohingya UN cardholders have registered for work under local pilot scheme
Arakan News AgencyMigrants thought to be from Myanmar’s Muslim-minority Rohingya are pictured at a detention centre after they were rounded up in raids on hidden camps in the Thai south, in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat on January 16, 2013. The UN’s refugee arm said on January 16 it had permission from Thailand to access […]