UK group delivers Rohingya petition to Myanmar embassy
Arakan News Agency Signatories call for measures to tackle hate speech and lift humanitarian aid restrictions A U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis plaguing the Rohingya minority. Burma Campaign U.K. said Tuesday it delivered 3,164 signatures on a petition calling […]
Turkey’s top cleric urges focus on Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Religious Affairs Directorate head Mehmet Gormez meets Arakan Rohingya Union Wakar Uddin in Ankara Turkey’s top religious figure has called for a focus on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying their plight must not be overshadowed by the suffering of Muslims in other parts of the world such as Syria. Prof. Dr. Mehmet […]
Hundreds more Myanmar Rohingya flee to Bangladesh: aid workers
Arakan News Agency Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar crossed the border to Bangladesh over the weekend and on Monday, aid workers said, seeking shelter from escalating violence in the northwest that has killed at least 86 people and displaced some 30,000. An official from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations’ migration […]
Myanmar poses Arakan State issue by media committee
Arakan News Agency The president’s office in Myanmar recently announced the formation of a media committee for the Office of the State Consultant, according to official media. The aim of the formation of this committee at this time to deployment on Arakan State related issues Information, according to the declaration. The chairman of the Committee […]
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 […]