Myanmar struggling to establish democracy: Suu Kyi
Arakan News Agency NEW DELHI: Myanmar is struggling to establish full democracy after 50 years of military rule, de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday (Oct 19) following a deadly military lockdown in restive Rakhine state. State media say security forces have killed at least 29 people in a military crackdown after raids on […]
Madani: Despite Some Progress the Campaign of Violence and Terror against the Rohingya People Continues
Arakan News Agency The OIC Ministerial Contact Group on the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar convened its meeting on the sideline of the 43rd Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM), hosted by the Uzbek Capital, Tashkent, on 18-19 October 2016. In his statement addressed to the meeting, and delivered on his behalf by […]
Military lock down cuts off UN aid to strife-hit Myanmar region
Arakan News Agency Violence in a Muslim-majority region of Myanmar is stopping aid agencies from delivering food and medicines, a United Nations official said on Tuesday, as security forces respond to deadly raids that the government says were inspired by Islamists. Troops have been sweeping northern Rakhine state for more than a week, hunting an […]
Bangladesh strengthens vigilance in border areas
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh authorities have been keeping Rohingyas in the country under strict surveillance following the recent killing of nine police personnel in Rakhine state of Myanmar, officials said. “Our law enforcement agencies have strengthened their vigilance in border areas to avert any unwanted incident,” Cox’s Bazaar Police Chief Shyamol Kanti Nath told Media […]
Rohingya groups say Rakhine deaths now excuse for purge
Arakan News Agency Claim military, police indiscriminately killing Rohingya, torching homes, villages, under pretext of looking for attackers Rohingya advocacy groups worldwide are continuing to express 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. The […]
Suu Kyi Asks For Patience For Myanmar At BIMSTEC Event
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s state counsellor said decades-old tensions cannot be resolved in a day in a very “young democracy”. In her first public appearance in India since the National League for Democracy government came to power in Myanmar in March, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to “friends and neighbours” to understand the […]
CENTRHRA Wants Myanmar Government To Be Charged At ICC
Arakan News Agency The Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA) has urged international stakeholders to charge the Myanmar government at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for committing crimes of violence against the Rohingya minority. CENTRA chief executive officer Azril Mohd Amin said the discrimination and oppression against the ethnic group persisted until today […]
Unrest cripples weak school system in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Arakan News Agency Buddhist teachers have been airlifted and trucked out of northwestern Myanmar to escape a new surge of violence in the ethnically divided region, another blow to persecuted Muslim Rohingyas already marginalised by a lack of opportunity. Residents have fled their homes in the area near the Bangladesh border on military helicopters and […]
Letter To The UN Secretary General On Rohingya Persecution In Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Dear Mr Secretary General, I am writing to you to express my deep concern over the fate of the Rohingya people of Myanmar. I am certain you are familiar with their extremely precarious situation, as we have seen them teetering on the edge of genocide since at least 2012. Yet what prompts […]
Six Rohingyas were tortured on charges of attempted attack on the security forces
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities embarked in the “Boli Bazaar” neighborhood in Maungdaw in order to torture at least six of the Rohingya Muslims after being arrested during the last two days against them, they were charged with the attempted attack on the police officers. One of the residents from the neighborhood said in an […]
Food Price Climbs, Livelihood of Rohingya in Maungdaw threatens as Manhunt Continues
Arakan News Agency As police and the Myanmar Army continue their manhunt across rural areas of Maungdaw Township in northern Arakan State for perpetrators of Oct. 9 attacks on border guard posts, Maungdaw locals face rising food prices and livelihood restrictions on Rohingya locals. While most of the estimated 90 attackers remain on the run […]
Myanmar sniper kills a Rohingya man and leaves others in critical condition
Arakan News Agency A Rohingya man in Myanmar on Saturday, uttered his last breath from his wounds after he was shot by government forces after they launched an attack on civilians in a move they said “searching” for the gunmen who attacked their headquarters several days ago. A reporter of Arakan News Agency said that […]
Genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar may be entering new and deadly phase
Arakan News Agency The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary University of London has warned that reports of attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar may signal a new phase in what ISCI researchers say is genocide. The alleged reprisals against the Rohingya minority come after attacks on three Myanmar police posts in Northern […]