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 […]
Thousands of non-Muslims were evacuated as violence raged in northwestern Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The Myanmar government has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim farmers amid continuing clashes in the northwestern state of Arakan, while thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled across the border into Bangladesh. The death toll from violence on Friday after coordinated attacks by militants rose to 98, including 80 militants and 12 security […]
ERC Rejects Myanmar’s Sham Commission Report on Human Rights Abuses against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency The European Rohingya Council (ERC) unequivocally rejects the findings of “Maungdaw Investigation Commission” on the well-documented human rights abuses committed during Myanmar’s armed forces “clearance operations” against Rohingya civilians in northern Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State. “There is no possibility of crimes against humanity, no evidence of ethnic cleansing [of Rohingya],” claimed Myint […]
Myanmar’s Rohingya: cornered by poverty, stalked by violence
Arakan News Agency Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Arakan State say fear is one of the few constants in their lives. Last week foreign media were given partial access to the isolated wedge of the northwestern state for the first time […]
UN silence on Rohingya genocide shameful, says Imran
Arakan News Agency ISLAMABAD: The United Nations has failed to stop the ‘genocide’ of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar, Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The shameful UN silence is a testament to its failure to fulfill the basic principles of upholding […]