UN rights envoy: Myanmar losing credibility
Arakan News Agency The UN Human Rights envoy to Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, says the country’s government will lose credibility if it continues to defend the reported human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims. Speaking at a news briefing held in Yangon at the end of her 12-day visit to the country, Lee said the Myanmar government […]
Myanmar rebuffs Malaysia for organizing OIC meeting on Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar rebuffed Malaysia on Saturday for organizing a meeting of Muslim governments to put pressure on Myanmar over the plight of Rohingya Muslims following a military crackdown that sent at least 66,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh. Hosting a meeting of representatives from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Thursday, Malaysian Prime Minister […]
Retno Marsudi delivers humanitarian aid to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi left for Sittwe, Arakan State, Myanmar, to deliver humanitarian aid from Indonesia in the form of 10 containers of food and clothing. “The minister arrived in Yangon yesterday. The minister left for Sittwe, Arakan State, this morning,” according to a press statement from the Ministry of […]
Dalai Lama urged to end conflict in Myanmar, Syria
Arakan News Agency An Indian based organisation of the representatives of different belief systems, Inter Faith Forum, has sought Nobel Peace Prize winner and Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s intervention to ensure justice for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, who are perceived to be victims of atrocities of local Buddhists. Buddhism symbolises peace, non-violence and compassion […]
Myanmar Muslims hope UN envoy’s visit will bring change
Arakan News Agency Muslim villagers in western Myanmar’s troubled Arakan state said that they hope positive change will result from a U.N. envoy’s visit to the region, where soldiers are accused of widespread abuses against minority Muslims, including murder, rape and the burning of thousands of homes. U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Yanghee Lee […]
When will Israel stops supplying Myanmar with weapons to kill Rohingya?
Arakan News Agency The leaders of the military regime in Myanmar went in a “Shopping trip” to security industries in Israel, and met with the head of the Israeli General. Israel recently sold weaponry to Myanmar. Although uncertain about continuing to commit war crimes, Israel continues to establish large – scale security relations with Myanmar. […]
Buddhist group in Myanmar mocks Kofi Annan!
Arakan News Agency Buddhist anti-Muslim group criticized former Secretary General of the United Nations Dr. Kofi Annan, in its publications on the social networking sites. The Ma Ba Tha, led by Buddhist monks said Annan is helping to incite violence in the region, which has left hundreds of Muslims dead in 2012, according to news […]
The death of a Rohingya man in Myanmar after being tortured in prison
Arakan News Agency Rohingya man has died of his wounds from the torture practiced by the Myanmar forces against him after he was arrested earlier on unknown charges. A correspondent of ANA reported, that victim who was at his sixties was arrested together other five individuals – including two of his sons from the village […]
Zarif criticizes the international community for ignoring the issue of Myanmar Muslims
Arakan News Agency The Iranian Foreign Minister , Mohammad Javad Zarif, criticized in his speech before the emergency meeting of foreign ministers of the OIC in Kuala Lumpur , the international community for ignoring to the cause of Muslims in Myanmar, calling on the United Nations to focus on this crisis. In his speech before […]
Othaimeen: we welcome Myanmar democracy but there is still persecution of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Dr. Yousef Al – Othaimeen said that the organization and the international community welcomes the democracy in Myanmar but they still practice discriminatory policies toward Rohingya minority. In his speech at the opening of Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the state members in Organization […]
Myanmar military tortures one Rohingya Muslims to death
Arakan News Agency Burma’s (Myanmar) military forces have tortured one Rohingya Muslim civilian to death and arrested scores of others in the country’s state of Arakan. The victims name was Ibadullah aged 60 years old and father’s name Mujaffar Chowdhory. Local sources reported that the killings had taken place during a series of sporadic raids […]
Buddhist hardliners attack Myanmar Muslims celebrating Prophet Mohammed’s birthday
Arakan News Agency Hardline Buddhist nationalists stopped a Muslim religious ceremony in Yangon on last Sunday, witnesses and organisers said, as Islamophobic tensions boil over amid a bloody military campaign against Rohingya in northern Arakan state. Dozens of people, led by a handful of maroon-robed monks, marched to the YMCA in Myanmar’s commercial capital to […]
Myanmar authorities subjecting Muslims with their names
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities have arrested seven Rohingya Muslims out of 25 people those were subjected to investigations due to their names and they are wanted by the government says security personnel. A reporter of Arakan News Agency said that police in the town of Goudawthara in Arakan state asked to bring any Rohingyas […]