Asian States Say They’ll Focus on Causes of Migrant Crisis
Arakan News Agency BANGKOK — A meeting held here on Friday to address the continuing exodus of migrants and refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh ended with a commitment by the participants to target the root causes of the crisis and an ambitious plan of assistance for the impoverished and strife-torn native areas of would-be migrants. […]
Rohingya exodus: Tales of suffering and misery
Arakan News Agency Scores of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing violence and discrimination in Myanmar. Unscrupulous traffickers are cashing in on their misery. Two Rohingya refugees living in Thailand tell their heart-wrenching stories to DW. Salim carefully kneads dough in a big white plastic tub in front of him. The 20-year-old squats on the floor wearing […]
Filipino Muslims slam Rohingya maltreatment
Arakan News Agency Filipino Muslims on Saturday strongly condemned the maltreatment of 1.3 million Rohingya who were forced to escape Myanmar. In a forum in Quiapo, 1Bangsa president Alan Balangi called on the Myanmar government and Nobel Peace Prize awardee Aung Suu Kyi to help the Rohingya who are experiencing one of the most “brutal […]
Who’s Driving the Rohingya into the Sea?
Arakan News Agency Who Are the Rohingya? The Rohingya are a predominately Muslim people living in Myanmar’s southwest state of Rakhine – and have lived there for generations. Many may be indigenous to Myanmar, having settled their centuries ago. Others may have come to Myanmar as a result of British rule during the 1800’s. Despite […]
Myanmar rejects ‘unbalanced’ Rohingya remarks in Oslo
Arakan News Agency Myanmar rejected as unbalanced comments made by several Nobel Peace Prize winners calling for an end to the persecution of Rohingya Muslims. The Nobel laureates including South Africa’s Desmond Tutu, Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi and former East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta made the appeal following two conferences in the Norwegian […]
Myanmar lands seized migrant boat on island
Arakan News Agency HAINGGYI ISLAND, Myanmar, May 30 (Reuters) – A boat packed with more than 700 “boat people” seized off Myanmar’s coast was stopped on a small island on Saturday, as officials gave mixed signals about its final destination. Myanmar’s navy discovered the boat with 727 migrants off the country’s southern coast on Friday, […]
US says need to save lives as Asia migrant crisis talks begin
Arakan News Agency BANGKOK – The United States said on Friday that thousands of vulnerable migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas needed urgent rescue, as Myanmar told a regional meeting on the crisis that it was not to blame. More than 3,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar have landed in Indonesia and Malaysia since Thailand […]
Myanmar picks up refugees as Asean agrees to tackle crisis
Arakan News Agency Asian countries have agreed to work together to try to stem the region’s migrant crisis, as Myanmar brought to shore another boat full of migrants. Countries agreed to intensify search-and-rescue operations as well as address root causes of migration at a regional conference in Bangkok. Myanmar rejected allegations that it is largely […]
No ‘miracle’ solution at Asian migrant crisis meeting
Arakan News Agency BANGKOK — Thailand hosted a meeting of 17 countries Friday to address an alarming rise in the number of boat people in Southeast Asian waters. The talks were delicate because Myanmar — the country thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims have fled amid state-sanctioned discrimination and violence — bristles at any suggestion that […]
Rohingyas ‘unlikely’ to make it to PH, but…
Arakan News Agency MANILA, Philippines–The possibility of the Rohingyas heading to Philippine shores is remote but the government could offer the same help that it did when it allowed the transit of some Rohingya refugees here last year, a United Nations official said. According to Bernard Kerblat, the country representative of UN High Commissioner for […]
Dalai Lama urges Suu Kyi to act on Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to help Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority amid a worsening migration crisis. Related Stories Despite thousands of Rohingya fleeing on harrowing boat journeys to Southeast Asia to escape poverty and discriminatory treatment by the country’s Buddhist […]
Buddhists in Myanmar Deny Boat People Are Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Several hundred protesters in Myanmar’s main city denied Wednesday that boat people arriving on Southeast Asian shores are Rohingya Muslims, a religious minority the government and many others in the predominantly Buddhist nation say does not exist. About 30 radical Buddhist monks led the rally in Yangon. “The boat people are not […]
Protest in Indonesia for Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Indonesia’s hardline Islamic defenders front protested against the Buddhist Monk Ashin Wirathu, the leader of infamous extremist Buddhist movement in Myanmar known as 969, which led to anti-Muslims violence and discrimination against Rohingya Muslims. Also displacement of 140,000 Rohingyas from their home to Internally displaced person (IDP) camps. The protest was held […]