The Rohingya crisis on the agenda of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Arakan News Agency Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Sydney listened to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday over the Rohingya crisis, but the regional organization indicated it could not intervene. Some 700,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority have fled violence in Arakan, Myanmar, since the Myanmar […]
The hellish situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh is like nothing on earth. Aung San Suu Kyi should be ashamed
Arakan News Agency They have escaped genocide but now they face being swept away by floods – for the tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, life is heartbreakingly cheap. And even if they survive the monsoons and cyclones, women, whose husbands have already been slaughtered, will be preparing to give birth to children conceived by […]
World awards lost by Myanmar leader for crimes against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has lost at least three international awards over the past six months for her crimes against the Rohingya Muslims, whose authorities are carrying out ethnic attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the western province of Arakan. As hundreds of thousands […]
U.N. rights boss wants allegations of crimes against Rohingya referred to ICC
Arakan News Agency The top United Nations human rights official called on Friday for allegations of atrocities committed against the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also urged Myanmar’s government to allow monitors into northern Rakhine […]
Myanmar authorities demolished mosque in Arakan
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities on Thursday demolished a mosque for the Rohingya Muslims in the northern city of Mimbya for the second time after burning it in the 2012 crisis. Arakan news agency reported that government security forces arrived in the village of Sambili in the city of Mambia, east of the capital of […]
Al-Saidi in Mecca talks about the Kingdom’s efforts in serving the cause of the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Dr. Mohammed Al-Saidi, the renowned Saudi poet, dedicated this week to Saudi Arabia’s efforts to support the cause of the Rohingya Muslims. A number of activists and dignitaries from the Rohingya community spoke about the latest developments on the international and local scene and the situation of the refugees in Bangladesh before […]
European Rohingya Council confirms the continuing injustice against the Muslims of Arakan
Arakan News Agency Ibrahim Mohamed, one of the founders of the European Rohingya Council, stressed the continued injustice of the Myanmar authorities to Muslims in Arakan province. “The Rohingya Muslims who have not had the opportunity to go to Bangladesh and are still in Arakan province are sending us news of the continued oppression of […]
Myanmar arrests former member of parliament as part of escalation against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities have arrested Aung Zaw Win, a former member of parliament and a member of Myanmar’s minority Muslim Rohingya minority, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. The newspaper said in a report on its website on Monday that this step is part of the continued escalation by the authorities in […]
The toll of 6 months of the tragedy of the Rohingya: 700 thousand refugees and about 7 thousand dead
Arakan News Agency Sunday marks the 6-month anniversary of the start of the Rohingya refugee crisis, the worst since the Vietnam War. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a violent campaign led by Myanmar’s Buddhist majority army since August 25. Refugees now live in camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The United Nations and international organizations have […]
Myanmar executes 4 Rohingyas publicly and sentences others to tens of years
Arakan News Agency Myanmar authorities sentenced four Rohingyas to death in Myanmar and 26 others were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for involvement in an attack on security forces in October 2016. Authorities did not address charges against its security forces, which launched a military campaign in which Human Rights Watch said […]
A Rohingya refugee miraculously escapes from the Myanmar
Arakan News Agency A Rohingya refugee survived an interrogated death after fired by the Myanmar forces hit her as she fled the border area she had taken refuge in. The gun fired by Myanmar troops, hit the briefcase she was carrying and burned her clothes. The Myanmar authorities have stepped up their security forces near […]
EU renews ‘full support’ to Bangladesh for Rohingya crisis resolution
Arakan News Agency The European Union has reaffirmed its full support to Bangladesh for the resolution of the decades-old Rohingya crisis with Myanmar that took an appalling turn in August last year when the Burmese military began ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Rakhine State. Over 700,000 Rohingyas have taken shelter in Bangladesh since then shooting the number […]
Facebook says page of firebrand anti-Rohingya Myanmar monk removed
Arakan News Agency Facebook has removed the page of a Myanmar monk once dubbed the “Buddhist Bin Laden” for his incendiary posts about Muslims, the company confirmed, as it faces pressure to clamp down on hate speech. Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar’s Buddhist ultra-nationalist movement, had amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on the […]