The Burmese Rohingya Community in Chicago holds demonstrations
Arakan News Agency The Burmese Rohingya Community in Chicago will hold two peaceful demonstrations to stop the extrajudicial killing of Rohingyas in Northern Arakan, Myanmar. The first demonstration was held in October 30, 2016 in ROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER Devon Ave, Chicago, Illinois and the second demonstration will be held in Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL […]
Thousands of Rohingya refugees demonstrated in front of the UN building in Malaysia
Arakan News Agency Thousands of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia came out in collaboration with the local community; in order to protest and held demonstrations in front of the UN building after Friday prayers; so to denounce the acts of violence committed against the Rohingya people in Arakan State of Myanmar. The demonstrators demanded the United […]
Arbitrary rounds of Rohingya villages in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Police have several inspection tours to the neighboring villages of city Buthidaung, and houses were searches and forced to remove the barriers of houses made of bamboo straws and sticks, also they banned the Muslims to close door of homes day or night under the pretext of making sure they don’t harbor […]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: the Muslims of Myanmar are threatened with annihilation
Arakan News Agency Director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Madam Sara Bloomfield stressed that Myanmar has become the place where the risk of eruption of genocide or ethnic cleansing may happen in the world. Bloomfield said this in an interview with the newspaper «Egyptian today», the museum observers visited Myanmar for documenting atrocities against […]
5 Rohingya trafficking victims jailed in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency A Myanmar court has handed two-year jail terms to five Rohingya Muslims who were smuggled from troubled western Arakan State to the country’s commercial capital Yangon, according to an official Saturday. Soe Myint, a local police officer in Tarmwe Township, told Anadolu Agency that the five — who were detained Oct. 18 […]
Rohingya women say Myanmar soldiers raped them amid crackdown on militants
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslims say Myanmar soldiers raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women in a remote village in the northwest of the country during the biggest upsurge in violence against the persecuted minority in four years. Eight Rohingya women, all from U Shey Kya village in Arakan State, described in detail how soldiers […]
UN rights office condemns Myanmar for discrimination against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on Tuesday documenting the systemic discrimination of minorities in Myanmar and calling for concrete steps end these human rights violations. The report focused on particular concern of the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan region. The Rohingya […]
Aid agencies beg to help crisis induced by Myanmar’s military crackdown
Arakan News Agency Humanitarian agencies are pleading with the government of Myanmar to let them help the displaced people of strife-torn Arakan state, where a recent severe military crackdown has prevented the delivery of aid. “Humanitarian organizations in Myanmar are gravely concerned about the crisis in northern Arakan and call for access to all affected people in order […]
US silent on Myanmar Muslims’ plight for oil & gas: Analyst
Arakan News Agency The United Nations has urged Myanmar government to conduct a probe into new reports of human rights violations, including the massacre of unarmed people in the Muslim-majority Arakan state. Myanmar troops have killed tens of civilians on the pretext of alleged attacks on police posts along border with Bangladesh, which authorities blame […]
Arbitrary campaigns and unashamed attacks against mosques and Rohingya homes
Arakan News Agency Myanmar Security forces carried out raids and arbitrary incursions campaign against Rohingya homes in a number of neighborhoods of north Maungdaw city of Arakan state, and continued to campaign for seven hours since seven in the morning until noon the agency correspondent said, adding that more than thirty members of various Myanmar […]
Rohingya got strict orders to keep their doors open around the clock
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities recently issued orders to remove barriers and fences that protect Rohingya homes of repeated attacks by Buddhist in northern Maungdaw city of Arakan state, the ANA correspondent reported, adding that the orders issued to keep the doors of houses open around the clock and not close at all, and allow […]
Myanmar imposes strict controls on international calls
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities have stepped up the censorship imposed on mobile phones used by Rohingya in Arakan state the agency correspondent said, adding that authorities have formed special committees devote themselves to the task of doing eavesdropping on all international calls by Rohingyas every moment; with anticipation of leaking news of violence and […]
A look inside the miserable situations which has affected Rohingya villages in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Rohingya activists has uploaded various videos on social networking documenting the genocidal acts carried out by the Burmese military forces against villagers and property of Rohingya Muslims in Arakan. This portrays how in Myanmar army pursues a scorched earth policy towards the Rohingya Muslims and their villages; the aim of forcing them […]