Burma’s Million-Strong Rohingya Population Faces ‘Final Stages of Genocide,’ Says Report
Arakan News Agency The long-persecuted ethnicity is on the verge of “mass annihilation,” say experts, with new evidence indicating government complicity Despite the U.S.-led rolling back of economic sanctions and internationally backed national elections taking place early next month, more than a million people in Burma are facing state-sponsored genocide, according to a new report. […]
Myanmar urged to probe new rights violations in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Rohingya claim to have been beaten, raped and left homeless after houses and mosques allegedly torched in army crackdown United Nations human rights experts have called on Myanmar to address growing reports of violations in western Arakan State after areas housing the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority were torched following fatal attacks on police […]
Myanmar: Rohingya trafficking victims nabbed in Yangon
Arakan News Agency Police say 17 men arrested while waiting to receive money from families to pay extra to be smuggled to Malaysia Myanmar authorities have arrested 17 Rohingya Muslims who were smuggled from troubled western Arakan State to the country’s commercial capital Yangon, an official said Sunday. A police officer in Yangon told Anadolu […]
Fanning fears and demonizing Muslims: President’s Office propaganda reveals who is running the Arakan State show
Arakan News Agency Among all the murky reports to emerge from Arakan State this week, one thing that is clear: When it comes to the biggest crisis to hit Myanmar since Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian led administration was elected, the military is undoubtedly running the show. Almost two weeks on from three deadly […]
Arakan Advisory Commission Discusses Maungdaw Violence With Myanmar Government
Arakan News Agency Members of Myanmar’s Arakan advisory commission met with national government ministers on Wednesday in Naypyidaw to discuss the security situation in Maungdaw township, where recent violence has forced thousands to flee their homes. The Myanmar government formed the Arakan advisory commission in late August to examine conflict resolution, humanitarian assistance, and development […]
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi insists she needs time to deal with worsening ethnic violence
Arakan News Agency Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said this week that it will “take time” to address her country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis and deflected charges that she has not done enough to speak out on behalf of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim community. Suu Kyi spoke to The Washington Post as her administration marks […]
UN: Food aid for 80,000 Rohingya blocked by Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Military clampdown following unrest has prevented any supplies from reaching Muslim minority group in Rakhine state. Food aid deliveries planned for more than 80,000 people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have been blocked because of a military clampdown in the area, according to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). A predominantly Rohingya area in the […]
Arakan State unrest creates political concerns
Arakan News Agency Politicians in Myanmar said that the recent attacks in police posts in Arakan State on the border with Bangladesh increased the concern of the people to the democratic process and civil-military relations in the country. The lawmaker U Lwin Ko Latt told The Irrawaddy that he is concerned about the situation after […]
Myanmar looking at ways to accommodate the displaced Buddhists but Muslims are left out
Arakan News Agency Chief Minister of Arakan State to hold a meeting with civil society organizations on Monday on how to shelter hundreds of displaced Buddhists people in the state capital Akyab. According to one of the city’s residents attended the meeting said about 800 Buddhist displaced people who have fled their homes in Maungdaw […]
Kuwait urges the international community to shoulder its responsibility towards the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Al-Sabah urged the international community to shoulder its responsibility and seek to protect the Muslim minority Rohingya in Myanmar. This was at the opening of 43rd session meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He called on […]
More than 80,000 not receiving aid in north Rakhine: WFP
Arakan News Agency Food aid for more than 80,000 people in parts of northwest Myanmar has been suspended because of a military clampdown in the area, the World Food Programme said Wednesday. Troops have poured into the north of Rakhine state near the Bangladesh border since attacks on police posts over a week ago, closing […]
UN calls for protecting civilians as fighting, though reduced, continues in north-west Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Even though fighting between security forces and a group, identified by the Government as the Aqa mul moujahideen, in some villages on the outskirts of Maungdaw township in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine province appear to have reduced in severity, an atmosphere of fear and tension continues to grip the local population, a spokesperson […]
Rohingya Advocacy Groups: Rakhine deaths are new excuse for crackdown on civilians
Arakan News Agency Rohingya advocacy groups worldwide has expressed serious concerns over what they claim is a continued military and police crackdown in western Myanmar, as authorities seek those responsible for the murder of nine police officers, Anadolu Agency reported. The nine died along with eight armed men in three separate attacks on police outposts […]