Burma between East and West
Summary: Book Title: Burma Between East and West Book Author: Sin Win Singal Investigation: Mohi El-Din Fawzy – Ahmed Asaad El-Taher Number of Pages: 80 pages Book Size: 3.01 MB Book File: PDF — About the Book: This book explains three important stages in the life of Burma, the first of which is the stage […]
Statement of the Rohingya Observatory for Human Rights on the leaked agreement of UN
Arakan News Agency Rohingya observatory for Human rights have released a statement regarding the leaked agreement of United Nations and Myanmar. Which condemns the agreement for not mentioning the Rohingya citizenship and freedom of movement. Statement of the Rohingya Observatory for Human Rights On the secret agreement between the Government of Myanmar and the United […]
China believes that Myanmar is ready to return the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Beijing believes that Myanmar is now ready to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh to escape the violence, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang made the remarks after meeting with Bangladesh’s foreign minister. Since August 2017, some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a […]
Myanmar’s hard-line Buddhist monks pledge to continue their campaign against the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s hard-line monk vowed to continue the Rohingya campaign against Muslims through the social networking site on Facebook, although the Burmese government claims to have issued an order banning activity. UN officials investigating the possibility of genocide in Myanmar say Facebook has become a source of propaganda against minorities in Myanmar. Nationalist […]
U.S. lifts Japan into higher tier in annual report on tackling human trafficking; Myanmar demoted
Arakan News Agency The United States has upgraded Japan to include it among countries it considers fully meet minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, according to a State Department report released Thursday. It is the first time that the U.S. has ranked Japan on Tier 1, the highest classification on the four-tier list, […]
Myanmar military leaders ‘guilty of crimes against humanity’
Arakan News Agency Top Myanmar military officials should be tried for crimes against humanity for a systematic attack on Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International says. Soldiers targeted villagers in a co-ordinated campaign of rape, torture and murder, the rights group alleges. It also says the military prepared its offensive before attacks last year led 700,000 people […]
Two elite divisions led a crackdown that forced 700,000 Muslims to flee Myanmar. Here’s how they did it.
Arakan News Agency A Reuters investigation provides the first comprehensive account of the precise role played by Myanmar’s 33rd and 99th light infantry divisions in the savage offensive, and the close ties between the army’s commander in chief and its elite troops. In early August last year, a young lieutenant named Kyi Nyan Lynn flew to […]
Exclusive: Myanmar rejects citizenship reform at private Rohingya talks
Arakan News Agencyy A senior Myanmar official has told Western diplomats that a proposal to review a citizenship law that effectively renders most Rohingya Muslims stateless could not be implemented, five people present at the meeting in Denmark in early June told Reuters. At a meeting in Copenhagen on June 8, Myanmar’s Social Welfare Minister […]
A 4.6-magnitude earthquake hits the Myanmar-India border
Arakan News Agency A 4.6-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday hit the border area between Myanmar and India, the Meteorological and Hydrological Agency said. The earthquake, which hit a depth of 61 km north of the Tamo Earthquake Observatory in the Sagaing area on the border between the two countries, occurred at 14:14:25 local time (07:44:25 GMT). […]
Burma is source of world’s fourth-largest displaced population: report
Arakan News Agency With 1.2 million refugees originating from Burma and tens of thousands more uprooted inside the country, the Southeast Asian nation was the source of the fourth-largest population of displaced people worldwide at the end of 2017, a new report by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) finds. Over half of refugees from Burma […]
Without Accountability Rohingya Repatriation is a Potential Trap
Arakan News Agency The Burmese Government and United Nations agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the voluntary repatriation of 700,000 Rohingya refugees who were displaced following a military offensive against the civilian population last summer. While on its face this agreement could be is a positive step, the Burma Human Rights Network urges further […]
‘Benefits of destroying the Rohingya population exceed the costs’ for Myanmar, former UN ambassador warns
Arakan News Agency The “benefits of destroying the Rohingya population exceed the costs” for Myanmar, a former US ambassador to the United Nations has said. Samantha Power, who served in the role from 2013 to 2017, said there was a lack of diplomacy surrounding the crisis. There have been accusations of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar after continued attacks on Rohingya […]
German parliament calls for end to Rohingya oppression
Arakan News Agency The German parliament has called for an end to oppression and violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in a resolution adopted on Thursday night. The resolution, which earned overwhelming support by lawmakers, asked Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government to use its influence on Myanmar authorities to stop human right violations in the […]