A Rohingya dead body found in farm under mysterious circumstances
Arakan News Agency Shiddar Fara residents of Arakan state in Myanmar found dead body of a Rohingya farmer in mysterious circumstances. A reporter of Arakan News Agency ANA said The martyr was found on the evening of last Wednesday and was found dead, his neck has mark of stabbed and slaughtered with a weapon believed […]
Appeals for urgent humanitarian aid to the villages of Hawarbil and Waback
Arakan News Agency Observers warned that the worsening situation of 754 Rohingya family were expelled from the villages of Waback and Hawarbil about two weeks ago in the province of Arakan (Myanmar), and they did not find any shelter, they only had one of the fields away from the residential range. Eyewitnesses reported that they […]
OIC Welcomes Saudi Arabia’s Support to Needy People of Myanmar’s Arakan State
Arakan News Agency The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomes the signing of an operational programme between King Salman Relief and Humanitarian Aid Centre (KS-RELIEF) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), for delivering humanitarian aid and relief in Myanmar. The KS-RELIEF Centre will carry out projects in 35 villages in […]
Mass Rohingya arrests following the departure of the UN delegation
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar police held widespread arrests included dozens of young from the villages Waback and Hawarbil, following the departure of the UN delegation, on a visit to Arakan. Rohingyas have been arrested because of witness testimony in front of the visiting delegation. As the agency correspondent reported that at least 100 people […]
Arakan Rohingya Union ARU and Global Rohingya center GRC congratulated the new secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation OIC
Arakan News Agency Global Rohingya Center – GRC welcomed the decision to appoint Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen as secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to succeed Mr. Iyad Madani, and on this occasion sent Arakan Rohingya Union congratulated Othaimeen and stated: We received with great joy and pleasure the decision of your appointment […]
Myanmar to resume humanitarian aid to northern Arakan
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has agreed to allow aid to resume to the troubled north of Arakan state and permit international observers to monitor whether help is reaching people displaced by violence, diplomats on a mission to the area told reporters on Thursday. The diplomats, including the ambassadors of the United States and Britain and […]
Myanmar nationalists say UN Arakan probe unwelcome
Arakan News Agency Accusing international community of interfering in internal affairs by calling for probe into alleged killings, rapes of Rohingya. Buddhist nationalists have gathered in Myanmar to condemn the United Nations and the international community at large for calling for a probe into allegations that soldiers killed and raped Rohingya women in western Arakan […]
Aung San Suu Kyi Declines to Lay Blame for Violence in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said her government won’t place blame for violence involving the country’s Rohingya minority before investigators have gathered all the evidence. Tensions have run high in Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s Arakan state since the recent violence a month ago, leaving nine police and eight attackers dead. Reprisals against Muslim […]
Myanmar’s plan to arm, train non-Muslims ‘recipe for disaster’: jurist group
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s plans to arm and train non-Muslim residents in the troubled north of Arakan State is likely to “aggravate an already dire human rights situation”, the International Commission of Jurists, a human rights watchdog, has said. Soldiers have flooded the Maungdaw area along Myanmar’s frontier with Bangladesh in Arakan in response to […]
Foreign diplomats urges Myanmar to probe rights violation
Arakan News Agency Foreign diplomats have called on Myanmar’s government to launch a transparent inquiry into human rights violations in the western Arakan state, home to many Rohingya Muslim minorities. The diplomats, including those from the European Union and the United Nations and the US, made the request on Friday following a two-day visit to the […]
Stop killing innocent people in Arakan, urge Rohingya groups
Arakan News Agency We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned about a violent crackdown killing innocent Rohingyas which began yesterday in Maungdaw, Arakan State, Myanmar. On the night of 8 October/early 9 October, nine police officers were killed in attacks by unknown assailants on three police posts in Maungdaw, Arakan state. After the incident, more […]
Myanmar: Authorities must investigate security forces as reports of Arakan abuses mount
Arakan News Agency Amnesty International is calling for a prompt, thorough and impartial investigation into the conduct of Myanmar’s security forces in the restive Arakan state for human rights violations committed during ongoing security operations in the region. The organization has received numerous reports that Myanmar’s security forces operating in the state – home to […]
Myanmar obstructs reporters from covering crisis in Arakan State
Arakan News Agency Security officials in Myanmar should stop obstructing and harassing journalists attempting to report on the conflict in the country’s northern Arakan State, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The censorship comes amid widespread allegations of military abuses, including allegations of sexual violence, perpetrated as part of an intensified counterinsurgency campaign along […]