Qatar pledges $50 mln to Indonesia for hosting migrants
Arakan News Agency Gas-rich Qatar pledged $50 million on Thursday to help Indonesia shelter Muslim Rohingya migrants from Myanmar, the official QNA news agency reported. Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have all prevented vessels overloaded with starving migrants from Bangladesh and from Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority from landing on their shores. Indonesia and Malaysia later responded […]
Monks, Activists Stage Protest Against Rohingya in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency More than 1,000 monks and activists staged a protest Wednesday in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon urging the government not to accept the stateless Rohingya Muslims who have been rescued or are still stuck at sea after fleeing the country. About 20 local nongovernmental organizations organized the protest urging the government not to […]
Link Myanmar aid to Rohingya rights: Tutu
Arakan News Agency OSLO – South Africa’s Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu called Tuesday for international aid to Myanmar to be linked to the plight of the country’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. “2015 is a big year for Myanmar with both a referendum on its constitution and a general election,” Tutu told […]
Rohingya persecution akin to Nazi treatment of Jews, conference hears
Arakan News Agency The plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar is similar to the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era, according to accounts shared at a conference that opened Tuesday in Norway. “The parallels to the Nazi genocide are alarming. Fortunately, we have not reached the stage of mass killing,” said US […]
“Rohingya Graves all over” abandoned traffickers camps in Malaysia.
Arakan News Agency BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia — Malaysian forensics teams exhumed a body from a shallow grave Tuesday at an abandoned jungle camp used by human traffickers, the first of what police predicted would be more grim findings as they search through a cluster of illicit hideouts near the border with Thailand. Authorities say […]
Pakistan expresses concern at plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday expressed grave concern at the plight of the Rohingya minority Muslim community in Myanmar, which has been facing extreme human rights violation at home resulting in flocks taking to the Andaman Sea to escape. “The current displacement of a large number of Muslims, who are adrift on boats […]
Rohingyas crave a permanent home in Malaysia
Arakan News Agency The Rohingya boatpeople incident has drawn the attention of Malaysians over their ill destiny. But as a matter of fact, tens of thousands of Rohingyas have already been living in this country for decades. They have built their own communities here, some boasting their own schools. According to Malaysian laws, even if […]
Rights group to Suu Kyi, ASEAN: Speak up for Rohingya
Arakan News Agency MANILA, Philippines – The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to break her silence on the humanitarian crisis affecting “boat people” stranded at sea. The group also criticized the ASEAN for neglecting Myanmar’s 800,000 Rohingya refugees seen by the government as illegal immigrants from […]
A million more Rohingya are still under threat in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Three years ago next month, in the north-west corner of what was once one of the world’s most closed and brutal regimes – Myanmar – the pogroms began. At the urging of a Buddhist political party, mobs began to attack people known as the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority of South Asian […]
OIC continues with its efforts for assistance for Rohingya Refugees
Arakan News Agency During the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Kuwait the issue will be top of the agenda through the OIC Contact Group on Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar. Jeddah – The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is mobilising its resources to address the political and humanitarian aspects of the ongoing crisis facing […]
Rohingya Muslims face humanitarian tragedy due to Myanmar’s policies
Arakan News Agency The Rohingyas are a Muslim ethnic group living mainly in Myanmar. Rohingyas are thought to be descended from Muslim traders who settled there more than 1,000 years ago. As of 2015, approximately 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar. About 300,000 live in Bangladesh. Myanmar denies them citizenship, freedom to travel, access to education […]
Kids on their own among migrants who arrived in Indonesia
Arakan News Agency KUALA CANGKOI, Indonesia (AP) — It was just the two of them, brother and sister, out on the open ocean with hundreds of other desperate migrants, mostly Rohingya Muslims fleeing their homes in Myanmar. For nearly three months, the siblings comforted each other when rolling waves thrashed their boat, when their empty […]
Malaysian states refuse to shelter Rohingya migrants
Arakan News Agency Two Malaysian states have rejected the federal government’s request to provide shelter for migrants, hindering plans to accommodate Muslim Rohingya arriving in the country after being stranded in the Andaman Sea. A source from the prime minister’s office who wished to remain unnamed as he was not authorized to speak with media […]