Myanmar Army kills a Rohingya child after arrest
Arakan News Agency Arakan news agency reported that a Rohingya child was killed by security forces in Arakan state after his arrest several days ago and then handed his dead body over to his parents without explaining the reasons for the arrest and death. The reporter said that his arrest was under suspicion in a […]
Rohingya language to go digital
Arakan News Agency For decades, the Rohingya have been denied recognition in Myanmar, but the persecuted minority is close to securing a crucial symbol of their identity – their own unique digital alphabet. The language of the stateless Muslim people has been included in the planned upgrade to the Unicode Standard, the global coding system […]
Turkey commends Bangladesh for support of Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Monday praised Bangladesh’s government for its efforts in “lending a hand” to Rohingya Muslims. Yildirim as speaking ahead of his official visit to Bangladesh, which aims to address regional issues such as the Rohingya crisis and to enhance relations between the two nations. The prime minister is […]
Myanmar team to visit Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya issue
Arakan News Agency A six-member Myanmar delegation is arriving here on Monday for a meeting to set up the joint working group (JWG) to facilitate the repatriation of Rohingyas who fled violence in northern Arakan State between August 25 and now. According to the Daily Star, Permanent Secretary of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry Myint Thu […]
‘Shockingly brutal’: Suu Kyi could be culpable for Rohingya genocide says UN human rights chief
Arakan News Agency Aung San Suu Kyi and the head of Myanmar’s military junta, General Aung Min Hlaing, could face future genocide charges for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar according to the UN human rights chief. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – while not in […]
Persecuted Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents on the Myanmar security forces in Arakan State triggered a response by the army and Buddhist vigilantes so brutal a senior U.N. official denounced it as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Days, weeks and months after the Aug. 25 violence, more than 600,000 Rohingya fled to Muslim […]
MSF survey provides clear evidence of the Burmese military’s mass murder
Arakan News Agency A report based on surveys by the medical relief organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has provided the first detailed study of the horrific scale of killings by military, police and Buddhist nationalist thugs of the Rohingya population in Burma’s Arakan state. In what the MSF says is a conservative estimate, at least […]
Myanmar Government Found Rohingya Mass Grave in Western Myanmar, the Military Says
Arakan News Agency Myanmar‘s army said on Monday that security forces have discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Arakan State, and have launched an investigation. A violent crackdown by the security forces in response to attacks by militants in the state has caused around 650,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to […]
Myanmar ‘planned’ Rohingya attacks, possibly ‘genocide’: UN rights chief
Arakan News Agency The UN rights chief told AFP Monday that Myanmar clearly “planned” violent attacks on its Rohingya minority, causing a mass-exodus, and warned the crackdown could possibly amount to “genocide”. “For us, it was clear… that these operations were organised and planned,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said […]
Burma: 40 Rohingya Villages Burned Since October
Arakan News Agency Analysis of satellite imagery reveals new destruction of Rohingya villages during October and November 2017 in northern Arakan State in Burma, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch identified 40 villages with building destruction occurring in October and November, increasing the total to 354 villages that have been partially or completely […]
U.N.’s Zeid toughens warning of ‘genocide’ in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The top U.N. human rights official has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruled that acts of genocide had been committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, according to a television interview to be shown on Monday. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein […]
Myanmar government says case against Reuters journalists can proceed
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s civilian President Htin Kyaw, a close ally of government leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has authorized the police to proceed with a case against two detained Reuters reporters accused of violating the country’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act, a senior government spokesman said. Journalists Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, […]
Diplomats visit Rohingya camp
Arakan News Agency Ambassadors, high commissioners and diplomats of concurrently accredited countries to Bangladesh with residences in New Delhi on Sunday visited Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhia upazila to see the situation of Rohingyas on the ground, reports UNB.The diplomats include ambassadors of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Ukraine, high […]