Dhaka University students protested against mass killing of Rohingyas
Arakan News Agency Hundreds of students from Dhaka University (DU) demonstrated on the campus on Monday to protest the persistent oppression and mass killings of Rohingya minorities in Myanmar. Around 300-400 DU students of gathered at Raju Memorial Monument around 11am with placards and festoons and urged the United Nation and other global human rights […]
Melbourne bank fire suspect identified as asylum seeker from Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The 21-year-old man who set himself alight inside a bank, injuring 26 bystanders, was a member of a persecuted minority waiting for his asylum claim to be processed, community members said. Authorities say the suspect in Friday’s bizarre fire attack remained under police guard Saturday as he recovers from serious burns after pouring gasoline […]
Myanmar: UN urges aid access, warns of rights violations after ‘lockdown’ in northern Arakan state
Arakan News Agency Deeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of civilians in the northern part of Arakan state in Myanmar, United Nations entities today urged the country’s authorities to take immediate actions to address humanitarian and human rights situations. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urged the Myanmar Government to […]
Myanmar rejects reports army killed Rohingya fleeing Arakan conflict
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s government on Friday rejected accusations by minority Rohingya Muslims that the military has killed residents fleeing the conflict in the northwest of the country, in which at least 130 people have been killed so far and up to 30,000 displaced. Hundreds of Rohingya are trying to escape the military crackdown after […]
30,000 displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Arakan State as military crackdown continues: UN
Arakan News Agency Up to 30,000 people have been displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Arakan state, half of them over the course of last weekend when dozens of people died in clashes with the military, the UN said on Friday (Nov 18). Troops have poured into a strip of land along the Bangladesh border, an […]
Myanmar’s training for non-Muslim police stokes fear in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Ethnic Rakhine men attend a police training course as a civilian force will be deployed in the north of the Rakhine state in Sittwe, Myanmar, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunHuman rights monitors say arming and training non-Muslims will lead to further bloodshed in the divided state, but local Buddhists sees it […]
ATTACKS ON ROHINGYAS: ‘It is horrifying’
Arakan News Agency From the Bangladesh side of Bangladesh-Myanmar border, the blazing flames, sky-high fumes, booming gunshots and cries of pain and grief seem to be straight out of a war film This is how residents of Teknaf, an upazila of Cox’s Bazar district that borders Myanmar’s Arakan state, home to Rohingya Muslims, described witnessing […]
Grand Imam of Al Azhar condemns atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar were strongly condemned by the top official of the Muslim Council of Elders. The council is headed by Grand Imam of Al Azhar Al Sharif, Dr Ahmed Al Tayeb. The killing of people and burning their homes are crimes against humanity, the council was quoted saying […]
Rohingya Muslims flee army crackdown
Arakan News Agency Myanmar: Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a military crackdown in western Myanmar to Bangladesh, trying to escape an upsurge of violence that has brought the total number of dead confirmed by the army to more than 130. Some of the Rohingya were gunned down as they tried to cross the Naaf […]
UN urges Bangladesh to keep Myanmar border open
Arakan News Agency United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR has urged Bangladesh to keep its Myanmar border open to allow safe passage to civilians fleeing the violence in the northern Arakan state. UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards made the appeal at a briefing in Geneva yesterday. Joseph Tripura, an official at the UNHCR Dhaka office confirmed about […]
Myanmar authorities to justify its attack on Rohingya with sophisticated weaponry
Arakan News Agency The Ministry of Defence in Myanmar justified on the operations of the attack that took place against Rohingya Muslims and said that the army deal with the situation carefully and used the mechanisms in line with the Geneva Conventions. This came during an urgent press conference held by the president ‘s office in […]
Bangladesh strengthens border patrol to stop incursion of Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Border Guard Bangladesh has strengthened security along the frontier with Myanmar to stop intrusion of Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution by authorities in Myanmar. Three platoon troops were sent to Teknaf border on Wednesday afternoon, BGB Teknaf-2 Battalion Commander Lt Col Abu Zar Al Jahid told media Besides deploying additional troops, a programme […]
Myanmar bars US photographer ahead of Rohingya show
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has blacklisted a prominent US photographer and prevented him from attending his own exhibition about stateless people, which would have featured pictures of the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority. Award-winning documentary photographer Greg Constantine, who asked to keep where he lives private, said he was stopped at Yangon airport on Friday and […]