Myanmar Rohingyas last stop is Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency As they desperately try to escape the mayhem, touts prey on their insecurities and force them to fish out much of their savings to provide boats. Bangladesh border guards have been stopping these Rohingya boats, their officials claiming to have pushed back 86 such boats in recent weeks. Azza Begum, who lived […]
Even Rohingya children are not spared
Arakan News Agency Dozen Rohingya people including babies/children were killed as the Burmese Border Guard Police (BGP) opened fire on Rohingyas on boats trying to flee to Bangladesh as they can’t withstand the atrocities upon them by Myanmar military any longer on Sunday (Dec 4) at night. More than 15 Rohingya people were killed and […]
Concern Towards Rohingya Not About Interfering But About Humanity – Ahmad Zahid
Arakan News Agency The concern towards the oppressed Rohingyas in Myanmar is not about Malaysia interfering in the country’s affairs, but it is based on humanitarian grounds, said Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. The deputy prime minister stressed that the concern was on the basis of universalism shown by the leaders and people of […]
Rohingya Advocacy Network in Japan
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Advocacy Network in Japan (RANJ) issued an immediate press release regarding newly established commission for Arakan. In which RANJ vehemently rejected Myanmar government’s decision.
Atlanta protesters: Stop violence targeting Muslim minority in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Scores of demonstrators marched around the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta Saturday, calling for an end to the deadly violence targeting the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority that is being driven out of its predominantly Buddhist homeland of Myanmar. Calling themselves the Burmese Rohingya Residents of Clarkston, the protesters urged the United […]
Rohingya in Arakan state suffer government retaliation
Arakan News Agency Military uses indiscriminate violence in pursuit of Al Yaqeen fighters who demand equal rights for Rohingya Muslims. When Faizul* fled the smouldering remains of his village in Myanmar’s Northern Arakan state, he barely noticed the shards of wood that punctured every extremity of his body. He just wanted to escape the bullets raining […]
US cautions crackdown in Myanmar could radicalize Muslims
Arakan News Agency The U.S. government, a key sponsor of Myanmar’s democratic transition, says a security crackdown that has displaced tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims and left an unknown number dead risks radicalizing a downtrodden people and stoking religious tensions in Southeast Asia. The military moved in after armed attacks by unknown assailants on […]
Obama Lifts Some Sanctions Against Myanmar
Arakan News Agency President Obama on Friday lifted sanctions against Myanmar, declaring that the government there had made “substantial progress in improving human rights,” even though the country’s army is in the midst of a brutal campaign to drive out the Rohingya, a Muslim minority. The announcement, which came on a Friday afternoon in a […]
Rohingya issue has become an international matter
Malaysia is obligated to ensure that Myanmar takes proactive steps to prevent the Rohingya issue from further deteriorating. Ministry Of Foreign Affairs said it was in this context that Malaysia allowed the Solidarity March to take place this Sunday. It said in a statement the practice of ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas must stop immediately in […]
Activists reject Myanmar’s new Rohingya rights abuse body
Arakan News Agency A new body set up by Myanmar’s government to investigate allegations of rights abuses against Rohingya in Arakan lacks credibility, activists said Friday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan began a visit to the troubled state. Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has faced a growing international backlash for failing […]
“I’m not willing to see you if you want to discuss the Rohingya issue’.” says Suu Kyi
Arakan News Agency Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi refused to meet Foreign Minister Anifah Aman over the Rohingya crisis, claimed Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. “Suu Kyi said, ‘If you (Anifah) want to see me on bilateral issues yes, but I’m not willing to see you if you want to discuss the Rohingya issue’.” […]
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says international attention fuelling divisions in north
Arakan News Agency Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi accused the international community on Friday of stoking resentment between Buddhists and Muslims in the country’s northwest, where an army crackdown has killed at least 86 people and sent 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh. Suu Kyi appealed for understanding of her nation’s ethnic complexities, and said the […]
Indonesia takes comprehensive approach to address Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Indonesian government is adopting a comprehensive approach towards the Myanmar government in order to address the humanitarian crisis being endured by the minority Rohingya ethnic community. “We have adopted a comprehensive approach, and the Rohingya case should be viewed holistically, and not just from one perspective,” Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister A.M. Fachir […]