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Press Release – Rohingya need international protection from ongoing genocide
16 August 2021 On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) issued an order in the case of The Gambia v. Myanmar requiring Myanmar to take measures to prevent the risk or possible recurrence of genocide against the Rohingya people and to preserve...
Webinar – People of the Soil: Land Rights, Identity, and Human Rights
Time: Aug 5, 2021 03:00 PM in London The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation will be hosting its third webinar: People of the Soil: Land Rights, Identity, and Human Rights. In discussions about human rights abuses, land rights are often a neglected aspect of the...
Webinar: Human Trafficking in Burma: Challenges and Solutions
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation will be hosting its second webinar: Human Trafficking Burma: Challenges and Solutions. This second webinar will focus on human trafficking, or modern slavery, in Burma. How does trafficking and smuggling in Burma take place...
Statement of ARNO on the NUG policy Position on Rohingya in Rakhine State
On 3 June 2021 the National Unity Government (NUG) of Myanmar issued its “Policy Position on the Rohingya in the Rakhine State.” In response, the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) with the Rohingya people cautiously welcomed this development. The...
Ousted Myanmar politicians call for Rohingya to join fight against junta
NUG says it will scrap law denying citizenship, in ‘notable step forward’ for rights of Rohingya people Myanmar’s parallel government has urged Rohingya to join with them in fighting the military junta, promising to offer justice and citizenship to the persecuted...
Rohingya in Bangladesh deserve access to education, jobs: UN
Without education, Rohingya children will have no future, says UNHCR assistant high commissioner for protection Bangladesh should ensure that Rohingya children and young people have access to education and livelihood opportunities, two high-ranking UN officials said...
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Press Release – Rohingya need international protection from ongoing genocide
16 August 2021 On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) issued an order in the case of The Gambia v. Myanmar requiring Myanmar to take measures to prevent the risk or possible recurrence of genocide against the Rohingya people and to preserve...
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Rohingya cautions UN Security Council over Chin Crisis – Do Not Repeat Mistake in Failing to Act
Joint Statement Date: November 1, 2021 We undersigned Rohingya community organisations today joined forces in calling on members of the United Nations Security Council not to repeat the mistakes it made in failing to act on warnings of an impending military offensive...
HRW Report Myanmar 2021
Rohingya Detention Camps Approximately 130,000 Rohingya have been confined to open-air detention camps in Myanmar’s central Rakhine State since being displaced by ethnic cleansing in 2012. For eight years, the Myanmar government has maintained the Rohingya’s...
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Press Release: REMEMBRING ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
25 August 2021 Today is a most memorable day for us, for our children and for our generations to come. On this day of August 25, 2017, the Burma/Myanmar brute forces, army, police and state-sponsored non-state actors and Buddhist Rakhine vigilantes started pre-planned...
Press Release – Rohingya need international protection from ongoing genocide
16 August 2021 On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) issued an order in the case of The Gambia v. Myanmar requiring Myanmar to take measures to prevent the risk or possible recurrence of genocide against the Rohingya people and to preserve...
Statement of ARNO on the NUG policy Position on Rohingya in Rakhine State
On 3 June 2021 the National Unity Government (NUG) of Myanmar issued its “Policy Position on the Rohingya in the Rakhine State.” In response, the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) with the Rohingya people cautiously welcomed this development. The...
Military Coup in Myanmar: Two steps forward 10 leaps back
Press Release: 4 February 2021 Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) condemns the military coup which has taken place in Myanmar on 1st February. The Rohingya were entirely disenfranchised throughout the entire election process and have lost all vestiges of...
International Donor Conference on Rohingya to take place October 22, 2020
The governments of the US, UK, EU and the UN Refugee Agency will be hosting a virtual international donor conference on October 22, 2020. The United Nations has made a request for $1 billion dollars in order to meet the needs of the Rohingya refugees who are currently...
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ROHINGYA PLEDGING CONFERENCE
By the Rohingya community [22 October 2020] Today governments met to alleviate the suffering of millions of Rohingya refugees and internally displaced persons. On behalf of our fellow Rohingya, we thank the international community for its generosity and...
Thanks to the Indonesians for help to distress Rohingyas at sea
Press Release: 26 June 2020Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses its sincere gratitude to the people and government of Indonesia for their generous efforts to rescue about 100 Rohingya refugees, who were stranded and in distress at sea in Aceh, and...
UN MIMU mapping continues to fail the Rohingya
Press Release: 28 May 2020 Approximately one year ago ARNO wrote an open letter to Mr. Knut Osby, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar, to stop using the derogatory term “Ku Lar” to refer to Rohingya on maps produced by the Myanmar Information...
“Leaving no one behind” amidst genocide: the Myanmar government’s response to Covid-19 in Rakhine State
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) Press Release: 1 May 2020 On April 10, 2020, the Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release, “Myanmar leaves no one behind in its fight against COVID-19 in Rakhine State,” describing its intensified efforts...
ARNO welcomes the Bangladesh Government’s decision to offer formal education to Rohingya refugee children
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) greatly welcomes the decision of the Government of Bangladesh to offer schooling and skills training opportunities to Rohingya refugee children, two and half years after they were forced to flee genocide in 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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ARNO welcomes the Bangladesh Government’s decision to offer formal education to Rohingya refugee children
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) greatly welcomes the decision of the Government of Bangladesh to offer schooling and skills training opportunities to Rohingya refugee children, two and half years after they were forced to flee genocide in Myanmar. ...
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...
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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
Al-Jazeerah, January 13, 2006