Bangladesh calls for pressure on Myanmar over Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday it was necessary to exert greater international pressure on Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees to their homes. “The international community should increase pressure on Myanmar to regain its people and ensure their security,” she said in a speech in London. UN officials say some […]
Bangladesh rejects Myanmar’s claim of repatriation
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh has rejected a recent claim by Myanmar of taking back a Rohingya family in no man’s land. Last Sunday, the Myanmar government in an official statement on Facebook said: “The five members of a family… came back to Taungpyoletwei town repatriation camp in Arakan State this morning.” Photos posted alongside the […]
“Rohingya” .. Conflict in Myanmar and tensions in Bangladesh!
Arakan News Agency In addition to the rigidity of the migration route, the Bangladeshi authorities have delayed in the opening the border to allow them to enter, after fleeing Myanmar, as a result of violence against them by the government last year, Rohingya represented a Muslim majority in a predominantly Buddhist country, 700,000 people fled […]
Washington Post: Myanmar returns the Rohingya to their villages and denies them citizenship
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has accepted what appears to be the first five among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape military-led violence against the minority group, even though the United Nations says it’s not yet safe for them to return home. A government statement said Saturday that five members […]
Myanmar’s women face routine pregnancy tests and sexual harassment in sweatshops
Arakan News Agency Myanmar garment worker Ohn Mar Khaing doesn’t bat an eyelid as she shares her standard work routine — six days a week, 8.00am to 9.00pm. But she’s suddenly nervous talking about the journey to and from the factory. “If I am working overtime, there is no bus, so I have to walk […]
Foreign Minister of Bangladesh: Army of Myanmar changes the names of the Rohingya villages in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Saturday that the Myanmar army was changing the names of the Rohingya Muslim villages in the western province of Arakan, which would harm their return to their homes. In a press statement in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, Ali said Myanmar’s Foreign Minister and State […]
Myanmar: ICC has no jurisdiction to probe Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Myanmar has said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction over the country and hence cannot try it over allegations that hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas were deported to neighbouring Bangladesh. In a statement, the Ministry of the Office of the State Counsellor — headed by the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Despite UN warnings and not guarantee of safety, Myanmar vows early Rohingya return
Arakan News Agency The country’s social welfare minister made the comments after visiting one of the Bangladesh camps struggling to provide for some of the one million Muslims who fled Rohingya refugees will be allowed to return to Myanmar “as soon as possible”, a minister said, despite a stillborn repatriation process and UN warnings that […]
Tories urge Trudeau to hold Myanmar responsible for Rohingya genocide
Arakan News Agency The Conservative opposition is calling on the government to use all political and diplomatic measures to hold those, including Myanmar’s government, responsible for the genocide of Rohingya people. Conservative MP David Sweet issued a statement Thursday in response to Bob Rae’s final report on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Prime Minister Justin […]
Philippine President Duterte apologises to Myanmar’s Suu Kyi over Rohingya ‘genocide’ remark
Arakan News Agency Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday (April 13) for saying genocide was taking place in her country, saying his remark was a satirical barb at the West for not taking in Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations and rights groups say nearly 700,000 mostly Muslim […]
Facebook founder: What is happening to the Rohingya is a tragedy for which we hired dozens to review the content
Arakan News Agency The founder of Facebook Zuckerberg said that what is happening in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims because of the hate speech is a terrible tragedy need to do more. This came during a hearing in the US Congress in response to a question by a US senator to Facebook founder about his […]
How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Rehana Khatun dreamed her husband came home. He appeared without warning in their village in western Myanmar, outside their handsome wooden house shaded by mango trees. “He didn’t say anything,” she said. “He was only there for a few seconds, and then he was gone.” Then Rehana Khatun woke up. She woke […]
Myanmar army jails 7 people for involvement in killing Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency The military in the country on Tuesday sentenced seven people to 10 years in prison for being involved in the killing of 10 Muslims from Rohingya in Arakan province, the ABC News network quoted officials in Myanmar as saying. A statement issued by the Myanmar army said on Tuesday that a committee […]