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 […]
Rohingya Advocacy Network in Japan ( RANJ) called Emergency Meeting With Japanese Foreign Ministry
Arakan News Agency The Rohingya Advocacy Network in Japan (RANJ) called an emergency meeting with Japanese Foreign Ministry on 16th November 2016 from 10am to 11:30 am at Diet Building (3) to discuss about the ongoing killing of Rohingya by Myanmar government arm forces.The emergency meeting was attended by Mr. YOKO TAKUSHIMA, Deputy Director , […]
Myanmar: US urges Govt to prevent violence in Arakan; More than 100 Rohingya Muslims killed
Arakan News Agency The U.S. on Tuesday urged the government of Myanmar to do more to stem violence in western Arakan state where nearly 70 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by security forces in the past week. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said a U.S. delegation currently holding talks in Myanmar asked the government to […]
Hundreds of Rohingya flee Myanmar army crackdown to Bangladesh: sources
Arakan News Agency 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 river […]
Myanmar troops have killed 150 Rohingya Muslims, advocacy group says
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s military has killed scores of Rohingya Muslims in its recent crackdown across the western state of Arakan, a London-based advocacy group says. The Arakan Rohingya National Organization said on Wednesday that based on reports from the troubled region, at least 150 Muslims had been killed since Saturday. Ko Ko Linn, a […]
Myanmar army arrested 31 people following the events in Arakan State
Arakan News Agency Media reported on Tuesday (November 15, 2016) that the Myanmar army arrested 31 people, following a bloody clashes over the weekend in the state of Arakan, the stronghold of the minority Rohingya Muslim. They were at least 25 people have died in the latest wave of clashes broke out in the state […]
More arrests made amid clashes in Myanmar’s west
Arakan News Agency More than 30 people have been arrested after the latest round of clashes in Myanmar’s troubled Arakan State, state media claimed Tuesday. The incidents are reported to have occurred in areas of the impoverished state’s north where rights groups say mass arson attacks have taken place against Rohingya villages. There was no […]
Former U.N. chief ‘deeply concerned’ as Myanmar violence toll jumps
Arakan News Agency Up to 69 members of what Myanmar’s government has described as a Rohingya Muslim militant group and 17 members of the security forces have been killed in an escalation of fighting in ethnically divided Arakan State, the army said on Tuesday. The death toll, announced in the state-owned Global New Light of […]
More than 200 Rohingya stranded at Bangladesh border
Arakan News Agency More than 200 Rohingya Muslims fleeing the surge in violence in Arakan, Myanmar after security forces took control of Myanmar’s Arakan state last month are stranded at the Bangladesh border, community leaders said on Tuesday (Nov 15). Bangladeshi border guards pushed back the Rohingya – mostly women and children – to the […]
Buddhist aid workers face backlash for helping Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Soe Aung works for an international aid agency in his hometown of Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s Arakan State. It’s a good job, but he isn’t eager to discuss it in a public setting or outside his close circle of friends and family. That’s because his agency helps Rohingya Muslims. “I stay […]