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 […]
Rights group: Act now to avoid Rohingya genocide
Arakan News Agency Fortify Rights says “systematic violations” have been “overlooked” by Western powers. A rights group monitoring the welfare of the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar have called on the international community to take action in order to prevent a “genocide” from taking place in the country. The Rohingya, which number about one million among […]
Arakan State Youths Tell Commission They Want Peace
Arakan News Agency The chair of Arakan State Advisory Commission, former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, conducted a closed-door meeting with Buddhist and Muslim youths from Arakan State at the Center for Diversity and National Harmony (CDNH) in Rangoon’s Sanchaung Township on Thursday morning. Six youths from Arakan capital Sittwe met with Kofi Annan and his […]
Petition Suspend the Myanmar Ambassador for Genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
Arakan News Agency A petition was held by activists in UK to Suspend the Myanmar Ambassador or Genocide of Rohingya Muslims. At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament. The petition already have more than 55000 signatory individuals requesting UK government to suspend the Ambassador. Due to strong reaction from people the […]
Malaysia cancels two football matches with Myanmar over Rohingya crackdown
Arakan News Agency Muslim-majority Malaysia has been increasingly critical of Myanmar’s handling of violence in northern Arakan state that has sent hundreds of people fleeing across the border to Bangladesh, amid allegations of abuses by security forces. The violence is the most serious bloodshed in Arakan since communal clashes in 2012 that killed hundreds. Referring […]
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi seeks economic help on Singapore trip
Arakan News Agency Puts problems at home on back burner to appeal to senior Singapore business leaders to help Myanmar become more prosperous Myanmar state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi put problems at home on the back burner Wednesday to appeal to senior business leaders in Singapore to help Myanmar become more prosperous than the […]
Myanmar state media alludes to Rohingya Muslims as ‘human fleas’
Arakan News Agency Myanmar is beset by “human fleas.” So says the nation’s most widely known state newspaper, now operating under the democratically elected government helmed by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. This “morally bad” group of people are “loathe for their stench and for sucking our blood,” says the Global New Light […]
At least 10,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh: UN
Arakan News Agency At least 10,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in recent weeks after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar, the United Nations said today. An estimated 30,000 Rohingya, a Muslim minority living mostly in Myanmar, have been forced to leave their homes since a bloody crackdown by the army in the western state of […]
Rohingya Refugees Seek to Return Home to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslims who have sought refuge in Bangladesh say they are desperate to stop living as refugees and return to their homeland in Myanmar. “The Rohingyas have been seeking temporary shelter in Bangladesh only to save their lives from a genocide-like situation in Myanmar. For most of us, life as refugees is […]
Review Myanmar’s ASEAN membership, urges Malaysia minister
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s membership of ASEAN must be reviewed because of its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority, a senior Malaysian minister warned Wednesday, November 30. Khairy Jamaluddin said the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ principle of non-interference in member states’ domestic affairs was void in the context of such violence. Myanmar’s […]
Rohingya girls sleeping in the forest to escape from the Myanmar army
Arakan News Agency With the increasing cases of repression and violation of human rights committed by the State of Myanmar against Muslim Rohingya in Arakan, young girls preferred escaping from villages due to the fear of rape by sinful Myanmar army individuals. A video documenting the flight of a group of young Rohingya Muslim girls, […]
Elderly Rohingya arrested without any reason and then tortured him then left him .. see the video for his story
Arakan News Agency The elderly Rohingya was arrested with 10 others at the hands of the Myanmar military without charge and tortured them, and then release of nine of them. According to the video clip in which elderly Rohingya appeared after being released directly by the government army arrested on 25 of November, and later […]
Myanmar ‘s army changes mosques to “barracks”
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s army laid siege since last Thursday morning in the village of Salifrang in Maungdaw of Arakan cordoned from all sides, and used mosques for military barracks. A reporter of Arakan News Agency said that the army has taken a number of mosques, as “military barracks” and implementation of the raid and […]