Rakhine sectarian violence – one year on

Jun 16, 2013 | Refugee

SITTWE, 13 June 2013 (IRIN) – One year after Myanmar’s worst sectarian violence in decades, tension between the Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in the country’s western Rakhine State remains high. An estimated 140,000...

Limited health options for Myanmar’s Rohingya IDPs

Jun 1, 2013 | Refugee

SITTWE, 31 May 2013 (IRIN) – Aid workers are calling for better health access for an estimated 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, most of them Rohingya Muslims. Although a number of NGOs and government mobile clinics...

Press Release: Rebuttal to Eleven Media false report

May 17, 2013 | ARNO Press Release

Date: May 6, 2013 Our attention has been drawn to the news item appeared in Eleven Media, Yangon, dated 05/05/2013 under caption, “ Three Rohingya organizations are reportedly masterminding a religious war against Myanmar” accusing that “Rohingya Solidarity...