Chief priest: Genuine monks do not condone violence
Arakan News Agency Only bogus monks would support violence against Rohingya Muslims, said Malaysian Buddhist chief high priest Datuk K. Sri Dhammaratana. Genuine monks would never condone such violence, because it is against the fundamental principle of non-violence propagated in Buddhism, he said. “Sometimes people use bogus monks for political reasons. “They let them wear […]
Myanmar Official expressed anger to Malaysian Ambassador Over ‘Genocide’ Comments
Arakan News Agency Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak participated in a rally on Dec. 4 in the capital Kuala Lumpur during which he condemned violence against Rohingya Muslims as “genocide” and urged other Asian nations to increase pressure on Myanmar to stop the violence. The move prompted Myanmar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kyaw […]
10 organizations protest atrocities against Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Members from 10 organizations participated in a rally from Park Circus seven-point crossing to Myanmar Honorary Consulate General on Ballygunge Circular road in Kolkata India, against atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. However, police stopped their march at Beck Bagan Crossing. A five-member delegate was later allowed to submit a memorandum […]
Indonesian president: We will send aid to “Rohingya” soon
Arakan News Agency Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced, the Indonesian government will be established within the earliest possible assistance to connect Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Widodo’s remarks came after a meeting with the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Arakan, Mr. Kofi Annan, where they discussed the recent […]
Rohingya citizen said: My husband was slaughtered and burned my son before my eyes
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar military forced “Mrs. Saminara Rehmat Karim” to flee to Bangladesh, after soldiers raided her village in Arakan (west), with a Muslim majority, and they killed her husband by slitting his throat and burned her son to death. She recounted as refugee in Bangladesh after the Myanmar military stormed her village, […]
Myanmar army humiliates Rohingya women
Arakan News Agency Rohingya villagers from Arakan said that members of the government army in a village north of Rai Bail La in Maungdaw city of Arakan state detained women and young girls of the village then took them all like a herd of livestock from one place to another inside the village, so they […]
Rapes in Myanmar killed a Muslim girl and the other was left in poor condition
Arakan News Agency A Rohingya girl died and another suffered serious injuries due to gang-rape by state police in a village in Arakan State. A reporter of Arakan state news agency said more than 400 members of a police raided the village Salli Frang of Maungdaw northwestern of Arakan State, and took minor girl and […]
Myanmar monk: Muslims must face up to our religion does not disappear
Arakan News Agency The Buddhist religious leader of in Myanmar warned the spread of Islam in his country, stressing that the government and Buddhist leaders in the state should not tolerate it. He said that in response to a question about religious cleansing campaign against Muslims: “If the government has neglected our religion that would […]
Myanmar Army Chief Persists in Denying Rights Abuses
Arakan News Agency As international condemnation of alleged human rights abuses against the Rohingya minority in northern Arakan State mounts, the country’s military chief Mr. Min Aung Hlaing has doubled down on his denials, saying on Monday that “Burmese security forces have not committed any human rights violations including extrajudicial killings, rapes, or arson.” He […]
PM: Govt sympathetic to Rohingyas, but hard against culprits
Arakan News Agency Hasina says the government cannot open the border for Rohingyas on a large scale as it is the matter of two sovereign countries Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government is very much sympathetic towards the Rohingyas, but hard against the culprits, who want to use Bangladesh’s land against neighbours. […]
Myanmar bans workers going to Malaysia as Rohingya crisis grows
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has banned workers from going to Muslim-majority Malaysia as relations sour between the neighbours over a bloody military crackdown on the Buddhist country’s Rohingya minority. The move came after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak lashed out at Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi for allowing “genocide” on her watch […]
Pakistani political parties push for tough action on Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Pakistan’s hard-line Islamic parties are piling huge pressure on Islamabad to act tough on the Rohingya issue. One leading party, Jamaat-e-Islami has asked the Nawaz Sharif government to summon the Myanmar ambassador in Islamabad and lodge a strong protest against the ‘systematic ethnic cleansing’ of the Rohingya Muslims. Several other similar parties […]
Indonesia will Help Resolve Rohingya Muslims Issue: VP
Arakan News Agency Indonesia will help resolve the problems affecting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmars Arakan State, Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said. “Of course, Indonesia wants to find a good solution, even if it is the domestic affairs of Myanmar. Indonesia wants to give suggestions and inputs for the good (of the people) and help […]