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OIC General Secretariat Welcomes UNGA Resolution Condemning Abuses against Rohingya
Date: 29/12/2019 The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly resolution strongly condemning rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups in Myanmar. This resolution follows...
UN to Myanmar: Stop the Violence
Press Release: 30 December 2019 ARNO welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution condemning violence against the Rohingya. On December 27, 2019 the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of a Resolution which condemns Myanmar’s human rights...
ICC green-lights probe into violent crimes against Rohingya
15 November 2019Human Rights Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000 and one...
U.N. Resolution Condemns Myanmar’s Abuse of Rohingya
The General Assembly passed a resolution denouncing human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups. UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution strongly condemning rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and...
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Message from Nurul Islam, Chairman of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation on the occasion of the Rohingya National Day 2020
“Bismillah, ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim” “In The Name of Allah, The most Beneficent, the Most Merciful” Dear Rohingya brothers and sisters, Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatuh! It is indeed a great privilege and honour for me to send this message of congratulations...
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OIC General Secretariat Welcomes UNGA Resolution Condemning Abuses against Rohingya
Date: 29/12/2019 The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly resolution strongly condemning rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups in Myanmar. This resolution follows...
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Press Release: Myanmar launches report riddled with untruths
Press Release: 16 January 2020 On January 8, 2020 the Government of Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a report titled “Rakhine State: A Snapshot of Myanmar’s current efforts for peace and reconciliation.” The 15-page report makes blatantly false claims that...
Message from Nurul Islam, Chairman of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation on the occasion of the Rohingya National Day 2020
“Bismillah, ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim” “In The Name of Allah, The most Beneficent, the Most Merciful” Dear Rohingya brothers and sisters, Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatuh! It is indeed a great privilege and honour for me to send this message of congratulations...
UN to Myanmar: Stop the Violence
Press Release: 30 December 2019 ARNO welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution condemning violence against the Rohingya. On December 27, 2019 the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of a Resolution which condemns Myanmar’s human rights...
IKO Statement on ICJ’s Prosecution of Myanmar Government
9-12-2019 On December 10, 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will start a hearing with regard to legal proceedings against the state of Myanmar/Burma for the case of genocide against Rohingya people. The International Karen Organisation (IKO) hopes that...
Statement of Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN) on the cases at the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court against the Burmese military for genocide and crimes against humanity
Date: December 9, 2019 The United Nations’ highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), will begin hearings on the genocide case against Burma tomorrow. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has also allowed an investigation into crimes against humanity...
Rohingya express solidarity with Gambia
Press Release: 10 December 2019 Since the late 1970’s until present, the Rohingya have been ruthlessly persecuted and left stateless within their homeland, Burma/Myanmar. In August 2017, the world witnessed the horrors of genocide the Rohingya people have faced for...
Rohingya and Burmese Muslims Organisations Call for Major Action from UN Human Rights Council
24th Sept 2019 As the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) proceeds with its 42nd Regular Session, the human rights concerns in Burma (Myanmar) remain urgent. The Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh, following a genocidal campaign by Burma’s army, have seen no...
Press Release – REMEMBERING ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
Press Release: August 25, 2019 August 25th is the Rohingya Genocide Day, a memorable day for us, for our children and generations to come. On this day in 2017, the world was appalled by the images of hundreds and thousands of innocent men, women and children fleeing...
Press Release – ARNO’s Concern Over ASEAN-ERAT Report
Press Release: 12 June 2019 ARNO’s Concern Over ASEAN-ERAT Report Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses its serious concern at the leaked report prepared by ASEAN’s Emergency Response and Assessment Team (ASEAN-ERAT). The leaked report reflects...
Statement by Rohingya and Burmese Muslim leaders on the 14th Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation 30 May 2019
The OIC’s vocal leadership and humanitarian assistance in support of the Rohingya and other Burmese Muslims has been crucial. But words alone will no longer cut it – the OIC must now turn its words into action. We welcome The Gambia’s intention to pursue Myanmar...
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Coming To Defense Of Persecuted Is Noble And Not Bullying – OpEd
On Friday, December 27, 2019, a resolution titled “Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar”was passed with an overwhelming majority of votes during the 74th session of UN General Assembly at its 52nd resumed meeting, held at...
The arc of history can bend towards justice for the Rohingya
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. What happened to the Rohingya is a stain on the history of humanity. But the arc of history has a way of bending towards justice. Nurul Islam is the Chairman of...
Traditional Homeland of Rohingya in Myanmar
The area between west bank of Kaladan River and east bank of Naf River, which demarcates Myanmar-Bangladesh border, in North Arakan is known as “Traditional Homeland of Rohingya”. It has been deeply implanted the minds of the Rohingya people despite changes in...
Safe Zone For Rohingya In Myanmar
Since Gen. Ne Win’s military coup in Burma/Myanmar in 1962, the Rohingya have faced continuous process of de-legitimisation, institutionalised persecution, crimes against humanity and worsening abuses culminating into one of the gravest genocides of the modern era....
The Rohingya are not going home to Myanmar. Can Bangladesh cope?
Azeem Ibrahim is a director at the Center for Global Policy and author of “Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide.” Bangladesh is once again calling for the establishment of "safe zones" for the Rohingya in Myanmar so that it can begin resettling some of the 1...
The Myth of ‘Bengali Migration’ to Arakan Debunked
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Abstract Genocidal crimes don’t happen in vacuum and require groundwork from the racist and bigoted elements to state and non-state actors to prepare the support base and mobilize the dominant group to perpetrate such heinous crimes. For decades,...
Deafening silence over Rohingya issue
Harun Yahya
Despite the atrocities being committed against the Muslims of Arakan, better known as Rohingyas, the international community has so far done nothing to protect these people. The world appears to be sitting on the fence, as these people are being systematically persecuted.
This minority Muslim community in Myanmar — termed the most persecuted people living on the face of earth — has been turned into refugees in their own country. The Rohingyas are a people with no civil rights and from time to time subjected to indiscriminate violence. The world became slightly acquainted with these people following the violent attacks and acts of arson of 2012.
It’s Neo-Nazi Racism, Stupid!
Dr. Habib Siddiqui
In his book – Worse Than War – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen says that during mass murders, the murderers themselves, their supporters and those who wish to stand idly by practice linguistic camouflage. And this has been the case with the apartheid regime in Myanmar when it comes to its national project towards exterminating or purging out the Rohingyas.
Muslim influence in the kingdom of Arakan
14 November 2011
Muslim Arakanese or Rohingya are indigenous to Arakan. Having genealogical linkup with the people of Wesali or Vesali kingdom of Arakan, the Rohingya of today are a perfect example of its ancient inhabitants.
The early people in Arakan were descended from Aryans. They were Indians resembling the people of Bengal. “The area now known as North Arakan had been for many years before the 8th century the seat of Hindu dynasties. In 788 A.D. a new dynasty, known as the Chandras, founded the city of Wesali; this city became a noted trade port to which as many as a thousand ships came annually;… their territory extended as far north as Chittagong; …Wesali was an easterly Hindu kingdom of Bengal following the Mahayanist form of Buddhism and that both government and people were Indian..”[1]
ANTI-ROHINGYA CAMPAIGNS, VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
20 November 2011
In recent months, series of anti-Rohingya campaigns afloat inside and outside of Burma. To the surprise of everyone, inflammatory writings are often posted on a few websites, face books and blogs that reveal deep-seated ill-will against the peace loving Rohingyas.
Muslim influence in the kingdom of Arakan
14 November 2011
Muslim Arakanese or Rohingya are indigenous to Arakan. Having genealogical linkup with the people of Wesali or Vesali kingdom of Arakan, the Rohingya of today are a perfect example of its ancient inhabitants.
Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s misinformation on Rohingya
02 November 2011
During recent years we have read series of depraved propagandas by a group of fanatics, who are restless to tarnish the image of the Rohingya people, under the pretext of so-called scholars/academics/Burmese experts preaching annihilation of the Rohingyas, a predominantly Muslim community in Arakan, Burma. One of them is U Khin Maung Saw, a Rakhine Buddhist living in Berlin, who recently wrote a foul-mouthed and blasphemous paper titled Islamization of Burma Through Chittagonian Bengalis as “Rohingya Refugees”.
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The Significance of the term “Kula” for the Rohingyas and the Burmese Muslims
In ancient times dark skinned people dotted around the coastal regions from Africa, south India, up to the Papua New Genia. Under attack from the light skinned organized band of people from the north against these dark skinned Negroids (seen not being quite human, or at best demons,) these people continued to retreat to the coastal areas and in some places under pressure slowly disappeared. In Malaysia, the majority muslim population is a crossbreeds between these dark skinned people with Indian, Arab, Negroid, and Mongoloid population.
The advent of Islam in Arakan and the Rohingyas
The advent of Islam in Arakan and the Rohingya presented at the Seminar organised by Arakan Historical Society at Chittagong Zila Parishad Hall, Chittagong, on December 31, 1995, with Co-operation Chittagong University.
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Myanmar Cuts Off Aid to Devastated Rohingya Populations
As of last week, a humanitarian crisis began unfolding in Myanmar’s north eastern Rakhine state, as aid agencies, such as the International Rescue Committee and the International Organisation for Migration, have been blocked from entering the townships of Rathidaung...
OIC General Secretariat Welcomes UNGA Resolution Condemning Abuses against Rohingya
Date: 29/12/2019 The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly resolution strongly condemning rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups in Myanmar. This resolution follows...
Myanmar leader says cleansing claims are ‘smear campaign’
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Myanmar President denies Human Rights Watch report accusing the country of fueling ‘a campaign of ethnic cleansing’ against Rohingya Muslims
Myanmar President Thein Sein denied on Friday accusations of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, saying the claims were part of a “smear campaign” against his government.
On a visit to Paris, Sein told France 24 television that his government was not guilty of the charges.
“Outside elements are just exaggerating, fabricating news, there is no ethnic cleansing whatsoever,” he said.
“This is a smear campaign against the government. What happened in Rakhine was not ethnic cleansing.”
In April, Human Rights Watch accused Myanmar of “a campaign of ethnic cleansing” against the Rohingya.Rohingya Books
MYANMAR: A People Facing Buddhist Violence
Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has a population of 48 million, 15 percent of whom are Muslims. Most of the rest are Buddhists. The Muslims live in the Arakan region of the country.
Burma’s Lost Kingdoms: Splendors Of Arakan by Pamela Gutman, A Book Reviews
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