Ministry to write Myanmar’s ‘true history’ without Rohingya
Arakan News Agency As a military crackdown continues in Myanmar’s Arakan state, the country’s cultural affairs ministry has said via a Facebook post it will publish a book refuting the Rohingya people’s claims to ethnic minority status. The Ministry of Cultural and Religious Affairs in Myanmar has announced that it plans to publish a book […]
President’s Office Spokesperson Criticizes UN Statement on Arakan State
Arakan News Agency The President’s Office has said that a statement made by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Burma does not reflect reality. In a statement released on Friday, Vijay Nambiar, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Burma, said State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should listen to her “inner voice” and ask the people […]
Tensions rise in Myanmar as curfew extended for 2 months
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities extended a nighttime curfew amid escalating tensions near its border with Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslims, the most persecuted ethnic minority in the world according to the UN Myanmar authorities have extended a nighttime curfew for another two months along the country’s conflict-stricken western border with Bangladesh, extending the dusk-to-dawn restrictions […]
OIC Calls for Emergency Meetings in New York, Brussels and Geneva to Address the Rohingya Crisis
Arakan News Agency The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, has instructed the OIC Permanent Missions in New York, Geneva and Brussels to convene emergency meetings of the Permanent Representatives of OIC Member States to address the crisis situation facing the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. The Secretary […]
Myanmar invites neighbor countries to discuss Arakan concerns
Arakan News Agency ASEAN members invited to Dec. 19 meet to discuss violence in which anything between 76 and 400 Rohingya have died Myanmar has invited foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations for talks in an effort to reduce regional concerns over a situation in western Arakan State in which anything from 76 to 400 Rohingya Muslims […]
Angel of Peace, No More!
Arakan News Agency One of most dignified honours bestowed on individuals who aspire to make a difference in the world is the coveted “Noble Prize.” Past Nobel Prize winners have contributed significantly to world peace and have stood up to pressures whenever they were challenged. However, under mounting pressure and criticism, Aung San Suu Kyi, […]
British MPs Intensify pressure on Myanmar
Arakan News Agency A cross-party group of 70 British parliamentarians urged the UK government to ‘intensify pressure’ on the Myanmar government and allow full humanitarian access to Rohingya Muslims in the North Arakan State of Myanmar. “Together with the international community, the UK government must intensify its pressure on the Myanmar government to allow full […]
Pakistanis rally against persecution of Rohingya Muslim
Arakan News Agency Hundreds of people in Pakistan have held a protest rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. On Friday, the demonstrators took to the streets in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest and most populous city, to condemn the dire situation of desperate Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country, where the army is accused of […]
Myanmar militants held in Assam, India
Arakan News Agency Assam Rifles personnel have apprehended eight rebels of the Arakan Liberation Army (ALA), a major insurgent group of Myanmar, in Mizoram and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition. Defence sources told that the rebels, who were in combat fatigues, were caught during an operation near Tuithumnar in Lwangtlai district on […]
Diplomats call on Myanmar to let aid into Arakan State
Arakan News Agency Scores have been killed and 22,000 have fled to Bangladesh since the beginning of an army operation in the area Several Western countries urged Myanmar on Friday to expand humanitarian aid access to its troubled Arakan State, where at least 400 people have been killed and 22,000 have fled to Bangladesh since […]
Muslim scholars urge solidarity with Myanmar’s Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on Muslims worldwide to show solidarity with Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. In a statement released late Thursday, the IUMS said it was “following the unfortunate circumstances faced by the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar”. The union went on to criticize the “silence […]
UN urges Myanmar to cease using excessive force against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The UN’s Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Myanmar released statement, Mr. Vijay Nambiar, underlined that the UN is “seriously concerned” by the developing situation in Northern parts of Arakan, in which anything between 74 and 400 Rohingya Muslims have recently died and around 30,000 have been displaced. Since Oct. 9, soldiers […]
Rohingyas accuse Myanmar military of ‘merciless killings’
Arakan News Agency Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar have given graphic descriptions of killings, rapes and burning of homes by soldiers, as concerns grow that ethnic cleansing is unfolding in the country’s western Arakan state. “They came and killed mercilessly. They burned our homes. No one was there to save us,” Osman Gani, an Arabic teacher, told […]