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 […]