Bin Sinan stresses the importance of Muslim governments in resolving the issue of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Chief Executive of Muslim minorities observatory Essam El-Din ibn Sinan on the importance of the role of the Muslim governments in resolving the issue of Rohingya Muslims across the adoption of this issue in international forums, and the imposition of economic sanctions on parties that were involved in it. Bin Sinan emphasized […]
Rohingya neighborhoods besieged in Arakan to cut ties with the outside world
Arakan News Agency Several Rohingya neighborhoods in eastern Racidong city has been siege by Buddhist since more than a week in order to cut their ties with the outside world and to prevent the arrival of food to them, according to a correspondent, the source added that the Buddhists trapped these Rohingya residents in neighborhood […]
Malaysian politician gives cold shoulder to refugee seekers
Arakan News Agency Amid calls for the ASEAN Summit to jointly address the growing diaspora of refugee seekers from Rakhine State, a Malaysian senator and former NGO director offered his solution: Send them back. … Speaking at the ASEAN Peoples’ Forum in Kuala Lumpur on April 23, Datuk Paul Low from the Prime Minister’s Department […]
Rohingya solution lies within Myanmar, Swedish ambassador to Bangladesh says
Arakan News Agency Sweden also recognises that the best solution to Rohingya refugees lies in Myanmar government creating a condition for the community to live “peacefully” in their own country. “This is one of the tragic and unresolved problems,” Swedish Ambassador in Dhaka Johan Frisell said while speaking on his country’s foreign policy in Europe […]
Fortify Rights: Calls For US to Give Tier-3 Ranking to Burma in its 2015 Trafficking Report
Arakan News Agency Human Rights advocates, Fortify Rights urged the US State Department to “assign Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Bangladesh a tier-three ranking in its forthcoming Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Fortify Rights in a statement to the media said the tier-three ranking would “encourage more robust and effective action to combat human trafficking,” by the […]
Army Arrest School Teacher in Minbya
Arakan News Agency The Burma Army arrested and questioned a schoolteacher, U Shwe Lone, in Myit-Nar Village, Awa-Yoar Village-Tract in Minbya Township, Arakan State in the last few days.… The administrator of Aw-Yoar Village said: “He was arrested and bought in for questioning.” He added: “We know that he was arrested by the [Burma] Army […]
Welcoming Myanmar’s visible strides, Ban says ‘much more hard work lies ahead’
Arakan News Agency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, convening a meeting on Myanmar today, welcomed the positive direction of its reform process as it continues on its “path of historic transition”, but emphasized that more work remains to be done to address the country’s myriad challenges. “The country has taken visible strides in many areas of socio-economic […]
Bangladesh to launch Rohingya head-count
Arakan News Agency The government has decided to start counting the Rohingya refugees of Myanmar living across the country from mid-September for proper documentation, official sources said. The documentation would also help expediting repatriation of the Rohingya Muslims to their homeland. The decision was made fearing fresh influx of the Rohingyas due to possible deterioration […]
India urges dropping annual human rights resolution on Myanmar
Arakan News Agency United Nations, April 25 (IANS) India has asked UN members to drop the annual ritual of passing a resolution on Myanmar’s human rights situation saying that the gesture would encourage the reforms underway there. Speaking Friday at a meeting of the Partnership Group for Peace, Development and Democracy in Myanmar, Permanent Representative […]
EU pledges 1 bln euros’ new grant aid to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The European Union (EU) has pledged over 1 billion euros(1.33 billion U.S. dollars) in new grant aid to Myanmar in support of its political and economic development, the military-run media Myawaddy reported Wednesday.… Besides the political and trade support, the EU will assist Myanmar with more than 1 billion euros of development […]
A crippling blockade on Rohingyas have isolated them within the Buddhist neighborhoods
Arakan News Agency Rohingyas who represent a minority and live in isolated houses in Buddhist neighborhoods in east Arakan genocidal blockade on them by the Buddhist population as a reporter of ANA said, adding that they terminated their connection from the world totally not letting them out of their neighborhoods, neither letting anyone enter from […]
Nassar and Al-Ajmi launched a relief campaign for the Rohingyas in Arakan
Arakan News Agency The campaign was launched by Mr. Abdul Maane al Ajmi and Abdur Rahman al Nassar for the Muslim Rohingyas in Arakan under the supervision of the Global Rohingya Center (GRC) with direct implementation of the boards of the GRC in Arakan.… Al-Ajmi has told news ANA that the campaign was launched in […]
UN Chief to Myanmar: Settle Rohingya Status Question
Arakan News Agency U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the government of Myanmar to address the citizenship status of Rohingya Muslims ahead of elections planned for later this year.… In a meeting at the United Nations, Ban told regional officials that the ongoing communal tensions in the country’s western Rakhine state could be “seriously […]