Joomla! site syndication http://www.rohingya.org 2010-09-06T18:44:49+01:00 http://www.rohingya.org http://www.rohingya.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2010-08-19T20:35:09+01:00 http://www.rohingya.org http://www.rohingya.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=268&Itemid=39 ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA Press Release (19 August 2010) ARNO welcomes US support for UN Commission of Inquiry on Burma Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the decision of the United States to support for a United Nations Commission of Inquiry to investigate into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. The USA became the 5th nations to support the proposal of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Tomas Ojea Quintana to consider establishing a UN Commission of Inquiry on Burma. Australia, United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are the four other countries that already had expressed their support for the proposal. text/html 2010-08-19T20:12:25+01:00 http://www.rohingya.org http://www.rohingya.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=39 ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA Press Release (18 August 2010) Statement of ARNO on the junta’s election Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) denounces the holding of a general election on November 7, 2010 by ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) without creating conducive political environment in Burma. text/html 2010-06-20T02:46:00+01:00 http://www.rohingya.org http://www.rohingya.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=266&Itemid=63 Concludes Report from Irish Centre for Human Rights,NUI GalwayThursday, 16 June, 2010: The Rohingya minority group in Western Burma has been victimof human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity, according to a reportreleased today by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. The report, entitledCrimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas, was officiallylaunched by Micheál Martin, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Iveagh House, Dublin.“For decades now, the Rohingya minority group has endured grave human rights violations inNorth Arakan State. Every day, more Rohingya men, women and children are leaving Burma,fleeing the human rights abuses in the hope of finding peace and security elsewhere,” saidProfessor William Schabas, director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.The Report is based on extensive open-source research and on a fact-finding mission toBurma, Thailand and Bangladesh conducted by experts in international criminalinvestigation. As well as interviewing organisations working in the region, investigators metwith Rohingya victims in and around refugee camps in Bangladesh. The Rohingyas’ plighthas been overlooked for years and the root causes of their situation still remain underexamined.The Irish Centre for Human Rights’ Report identifies and discusses some of thesecauses. text/html 2010-06-18T17:01:37+01:00 http://www.rohingya.org http://www.rohingya.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=265&Itemid=39 ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA Press Release (19th June 2010) Today is the 65th birthday of Burma democracy icon, noble peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. She is spending her birthday in detention away from her relatives and friends. She has spent almost 15 years in detention since 1989. Time and again the United Nations, with the international community, and the world leaders expressed that her arrest is illegal and is a clear violation of international law. But no real action has yet been taken to secure her release as well as the release of all political prisoners. Like an ostrich the military regime is unheard of the Burmese people’s clamours and international outcries, and is busy with its own undemocratic roadmap trying to legitimize its military dictatorship, with worst record of human rights violations and crimes against humanity, in the country. text/html 2010-06-17T09:25:20+01:00 http://www.rohingya.org http://www.rohingya.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=264&Itemid=63 Upon the initiative of the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the department of Muslim Minorities and Communities invited leaders of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Burma, to setup a platform for unification in coordination with Euro-Burma office based on the OIC 37th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) resolution No. 4/37- MM. The Secretary General welcomed the outcome of the meeting, which set a structure for a new organization that will bring all stake holders and representatives of Rohingya refugee groups together from around the world. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 9 June 2010 which unified the Leaders’ stand for their causes and legal demands in Arakan Rohingya region.