Malaysia to Push Back Rohingya Unless Boats Are Sinking
Arakan News Agency Abandoned at sea, thousands of Bangladeshis and members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Musilm minority appeared Tuesday to have no place to go after two Southeast Asian nations refused to offer refuge to boatloads of hungry men, women and children. Smugglers have fled wooden trawlers in recent days amid fear of a massive […]
Myanmar stability at risk if Rohingya issue not solved, warns UN
Arakan News Agency UNITED NATIONS: Stability in Myanmar’s most sensitive region can’t be achieved unless it addresses the issue of citizenship for minority Rohingya Muslims, the United Nations secretary-general warned its authorities Friday. Ban Ki-moon told a delegation from the Southeast Asian country that the UN has seen “already troubling signs of ethnic and religious […]
Hundreds of Indonesians held a demonstration in front of the US Consulate General
Arakan News Agency The demonstration was held for Rohingya minority Muslims native of Myanmar. In their speech, they asked the Government of Indonesia and the US to immediately halt crimes against humanity and violations of Human Rights to the ethnic. Riki A Panyalai action coordinator said, the Rohingya have been massacred and forced out of […]
Urgent: a massive fire devoured more than 10 shops of Muslims in Arakan
Arakan News Agency An Arakan News Agency correspondent reports that a while ago a massive fire broke in North West of Maungdaw in Central of Arakan Burma in mysterious circumstances and fire has already devoured more than 10 shops owned by Rohingya Muslims. Reports claims that the cause fire has involvement of some Buddhist extremist […]
Rohingya family’s dream of a better life dashed
Arakan News Agency All he wanted was a better future for his family, but now he is not even sure whether they will have a roof over their heads tomorrow. Mohamed Khalim Mubarak Shah, 23, was willing to bring his 20-year-old wife and three-year-old son to face the storm and danger, being starved and cramped […]
1,600 Rohingya, Bangladeshi migrants reach land; Indonesia sends 1 other boat to Malaysia
Arakan News Agency Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days. But an estimated 6,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar remain trapped in crowded, wooden boats, migrant officials and activists said. With food and clean water running low, some could […]
Thai police identify alleged ‘money man’ behind Rohingya labour trafficking
Arakan News Agency POLICE yesterday obtained an arrest warrant for a man they said was a key financier behind the entire Rohingya trafficking racket in the South. The suspect, the 50th and latest wanted in connection with human labour trafficking in the region, has been identified as fugitive Pajjuban Angchotiphan, or Ko Tong. He is […]
Around 100 million Burmese kyat Rohingya losses in one month
Arakan News Agency Periodic report of Global Rohingya Center (GRC) Human Rights Sector confirmed that the local Burmese police continues to commit serious human rights violations against the Rohingya minority in western Burma’s Arakan province. The monitoring report – which covers the month of April shows – one case of murder of a Muslim in […]
Boats with over 500 Rohingya from Myanmar land in Indonesia
Arakan News Agency Boats carrying more than 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on Sunday, with some people in need of medical attention, officials and a nonprofit organization said. They warned that thousands more are believed to be stranded at sea. Steve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at […]
Thailand questions 117 migrants from Bangladesh, Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Thai authorities today questioned more than 100 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar discovered in Thailand’s south to determine whether they were victims of human trafficking, as Thailand races to meet a deadline to uncover people smuggling camps within its borders. The 117 migrants were found in Rattaphum district in Songkhla province, near […]
Myanmar hails Thai PM’s move to fight slave trade
Arakan News Agency Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha expects three-nation talks with Myanmar and Malaysia to take place this month in a bid to stamp out the region’s thriving human-trafficking trade. Myanmar has welcomed Prayut’s call for talks but there has been no response from Malaysian authorities so far. Thai foreign ministry is arranging a […]
PM seeks 3-nation talk on Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Over 50 police officers transferred pending probe THAILAND is seeking a talk with the countries involved in the transnational crime of human trafficking – including Malaysia and Myanmar – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday. The task of tackling human trafficking has to be jointly tackled and it should be understood that […]
How the Rohingya crisis came to Thailand
Arakan News Agency The discovery of detention camps and mass graves of the Rohingya in Padang Besar has shocked the public. The testimonies of the survivors have revealed the suffering that human trafficking victims have long endured. The arrivals of Rohingya to Thailand is not a new phenomenon. There are more than 100,000 Rohingya living […]