Myanmar publishes a list of the most wanted Rohingyas
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities published a list of the names of Rohingya villagers from Maungdaw city, and asked them to pay a fine of one million Myanmar kyat under the false accusations of having links with militants those have carried out attacks on police stations on 9th October 2016. According to a source of […]
Hidden video shows Myanmar troops forcing Muslims by demolishing their homes
Arakan News Agency A video clip was filmed secretly shows the actions of Myanmar forces against Rohingya Muslims by forcing them to demolish their homes themselves in a provocative step aimed to the displace Muslims. According to video footage obtained by the ANA, it appeared two members of army oversees the demolition of a Rohingya […]
Myanmar Regime forces caused the displacement of tens of Rohingya families and reported cases of killings
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar regime forces caused displacement of dozens of Rohingya families after surrounding a Rohingya village in Arakan on Tuesday morning and intensify its attacks against the civilian population. A video received by Arakan News Agency- ANA from displaced family of Rohingya activist from the village of Shaf Bazar and other […]
Malaysian opposition calls for pressure on Myanmar to stop violence against “Rohingya”
Arakan News Agency Malaysian opposition demanded on Tuesday the leaders of Southeast Asian countries, should keep the pressures on Myanmar, to get it to stop the violence against the Rohingya minority Muslim in Arakan State. In this regard, The opposition leader Aziza Wan Ismail called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to “exercise […]
Myanmar forces attacks on Rohingya in regular basis
Arakan News Agency A number of Rohingya Muslims suffered on Sunday to brutal assaults by the government security members in the city of Maungdaw which included the elderly, children and women. According to the correspondent of the Arakan News Agency ANA, the security members surrounded the villages of Burashida Faara and Rabaila south of the […]
22 global leaders write to UN Security Council to end Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Fifteen Nobel laureates including Muhammad Yunus and eight other global leaders on Thursday wrote an open letter to the United Nations Security Council to immediately intervene to stop “persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar”. They noted that a human tragedy “amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar”, according […]
Bangladesh Border guards push back more than 400 Rohingyas
Arakan News Agency More than 400 Rohingyas have been turned back from the border along Cox’s Bazar in BGB’s (Border Guard Bangladesh) latest drive. As many 37 boats, each carrying 10 to 15 Rohingyas, tried to enter Bangladesh’s territorial water on the Naf River, between Bangladesh and Myanmar border. Their attempts were foiled at Hila, […]
Aid Fleet for Rohingya in Myanmar to set sail in January
Arakan News Agency A “Food Fleet” will depart from Malaysia for the Arakan state in Myanmar in January. The fleet is expected deliver almost 200 tonnes of rice, medical aid and other essential supplies to the state that fronts the Bay of Bengal and expected to leave Port Klang on Jan 10 and is expected […]
OIC Groups in Geneva and Brussels Hold Emergency Meetings on Crisis Situation Facing the Rohingya in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency In line with the OIC General Secretariat’s continued serious concerns regarding the situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority; the OIC Groups in Geneva and Brussels held Emergency Meetings during the past several days to discussthe on-going crisis facing the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. The meetings sought to identify possible actions that […]
UN spokesman denies brother of Ban Ki moon is in mining activities in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The United Nations denied on Friday, on a media report that brother of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, practice mining activities in Myanmar at the moment. As the international organization confirmed that it is closely following the humanitarian situation in the state, “Arakan” western of Myanmar. The official spokesman […]
Border Guard Bangladesh sends back 400 Rohingyas
Arakan News Agency Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have sent back 400 Rohingyas who were trying to enter Bangladesh to flee persecution in Myanmar’s Arakan state. BGB personnel intercepted the trespassers at three different points of the Naf river on Sunday. Teknaf 2 BGB Commander Lt Col Abujar Al Zahid said: “We raided different points […]
OIC: Malaysians must continue to protest oppression of Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Malaysians must continue to play a proactive role in protesting against the oppression of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, said a senior official of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). OIC special envoy to Myanmar Syed Hamid Albar said this was necessary in order to urge the Myanmar government to give citizenship […]
Resentment Grows Against Rohingya Refugees in Jammu
Arakan News Agency Fearing marginalizaton, locals are resenting the shelter offered to 10,000 Rohingya families in Jammu. The locals fear the Rohigyas will encroach on their space like in north-eastern India where Bangladeshi migrants have reduced the local population to a minority. Hundreds of persecuted Rohingya Muslims migrants from Myanmar have found a new home […]