US official calls for summoning of a UN emergency meeting to discuss the Rohingya issue
Arakan News Agency The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US Congress, “Ed Royce,” send a letter to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ms. Samantha Power urging her to request an emergency meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations to address the humanitarian situation and the human rights […]
Myanmar authorities arrested and tortured eight Rohingyas in arbitrary manner
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities arrested eight Rohingya men from the city of Buthidaung and tortured them without any charge the agency correspondent said, adding that the eight were detained three days ago, they were all young, those were between the ages of twenty to forty years old. And they are still languishing under torture. […]
Rohingyas attempts to revive Islamic culture in Arakan State
Arakan News Agency Rohingyas have witnessed in several regions and cities in the state of Arakan, the movement to hold a special lesson in Islamic Sharia laws. Agency correspondent reported that dozens of science students from the youth and the elderly are involved in these lessons, which they received through audio clips registered by Rohingya […]
India’s only school for Rohingya refugee holds out hope for a better life for stateless community
Arakan News Agency Denied citizenship and persecuted in their home country of Myanmar, the Muslim minority group has found some semblance of acceptance in cities like Hyderabad. A diminutive concrete structure on Hyderabad’s rocky fringes is home to the only school for Rohingya refugees in India. Here, from 9 am to 4 pm everyday, 110 […]
Ministry to probe NGO selling ID cards to Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The Home Ministry will investigate the sale of identity cards by a non-governmental organization to Refugees, including those who enter the country illegally. “This (sale of identity cards) is being done without authorized consent or permission,” Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said. “It is illegal for identity documents of any […]
Myanmar’s Ma Ba Tha fades with barely a whimper
Arakan News Agency All it took was Yangon Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein saying ‘We don’t need Ma Ba Tha’ at a meeting in Singapore, and three weeks later ‘the face of Buddhist terror‘ appeared meek and terrified itself. YANGON, BURMA – JUNE 22: A monk from the Alaikyanug Monatery Education Center speaks with one […]
Canada must pressure Burma to end abuse of Muslim minority
Arakan News Agency “They are trying to transform Myanmar into a Muslim state,” says Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk dubbed by Time as the “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Human rights activists claim Wirathu and his group, called 969, are the main forces behind riots that have killed scores and displaced thousands of Rohingya (a […]
Myanmar to deport Pakistanis for giving mosque sermon
Arakan News Agency Authorities in Myanmar have detained two Pakistan nationals for giving sermons at mosques in the commercial capital of Yangon The detentions come amid a spike in the number of cases of religious intolerance in the country, with several mosques and religious buildings attacked in the last month alone. Officials from the country’s official Muslim body said Sunday that the men […]
198 thousand benefited by the assistance of “Qatar Charity” in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency “Qatar Charity ‘Association submitted a new batch of food aid to the displaced people’s camps in Myanmar as part of continued aid relief to them since the end of 2013. The organization said in a press statement that the number of beneficiaries of this aid amounted to 5,568 people, bringing the total […]
The continued land confiscations from Rohingya in Arakan State
Arakan News Agency Mayor of Buthidaung imposed an arbitrary action against Rohingyas locals in Arakan State, by charging excessive fines on four Rohingyas with fabricated charges against their legal property of land. Agency correspondent reported that the mayor forced four Rohingya residents of the town to pay 900 thousand Myanmar Kyat under the pretext of […]
Hundreds of demonstrators from different religions calls on the Government of Myanmar to achieve peaceful coexistence
Arakan News Agency About 300 people from different religions, including – students, teachers and government officials – participated in a peaceful demonstration in Mandalay Myanmar. Agency correspondent reported that the demonstrators, which consists of Muslims, Christians and Buddhists demanded during the demonstration by providing real-democratic atmosphere and to achieve peaceful coexistence and stability for all […]
Myanmar official’s arbitrariness and fines against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Rohingya locals from Naribil village north of Maungdaw in Arakan State complains of the arbitrariness of government officials in dealing with them and the imposition of heavy fines against them. Agency correspondent reported that the Myanmar official directs trumped-up charges on them like renovating and repairing houses or travel to Bangladesh without […]
Myanmar police detains two young Rohingyas on trumped -up charges
Arakan News Agency Police arrested two young Rohingya men from the town of Gawduthara southern of Maungdaw in Arakan State, the ANA correspondent reported, that the police have released one of them after a few hours in exchange for exorbitant fine; other detainees are in Buthidaung City jail on fabricated charges of involvement in human […]