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Arakan Magazine – Issue Q4/2025
Arakan Magazine – Issue Q4/2025

In This Issue: 

  1. Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
  2. Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
  3. Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
  4. Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
  5. Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
  6. Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
  7. Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
  8. Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
  9. Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
  10. ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses

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Rohingya Language has received ISO recognition

Rohingyas have already received ISO (International Standard Organization) recognition for their language that is Rohingya/Rohingya language. SIL.ORG has already released, as the final approval as of 18 July 2007, the code  (RHG) as the Language code for...

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19th 8888 Demonstration in London on 8/8/07

{gallery}19th8888{/gallery}The number of people took part in the demonstration was around 200. They included Burmans and different ethnic peoples of Burma, and English or local peoples. The demonstration was staged in front of the Burmese embassy in Charles Roadat 1...

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Statement of ARNO on the 19th anniversary of 8/8/1988

 

08 August 2007

 Today marks a historical landmark for the democracy movement in Burma. 19 years ago, on 8th August 1988 the countrywide uprising occurred to protest against human rights abuses and autocratic rule. It is a movement demanding democracy, respect for human rights and freedoms in Burma. On the other hand, it is a demonstration of popular disgust at the military rule or one party dictatorship. In response to this peaceful demonstration, the military started a massacre killing at least 10,000 people across the country.

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INDIA-CHINA-MYANMAR RELATIONS

Source: SAAG

[A presentation made by the author at an Interaction on “Emerging India-China-Myanmar Relations”, jointly organised by the Chennai Centre For China Studies (www.c3sindia.org) and the Department of International Relations of Stella Maris College, Chennai, at the college on July 19, 2007]

By Col R Hariharan (Retd.)

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Caning of refugees in Malaysia sparks protest

By Jalil Hamid

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has caned dozens of refugees as illegal immigrants, a refugee group said, sparking criticisms by rights organizations that the government is torturing people it should protect.

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Julius Streicher and his relevance in today’s Burma

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Xenophobia as – fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. As can be seen, for xenophobia there are two main objects of the phobia (fear). The first is a population group present within a society, which is not considered part of that society. Often they are recent immigrants, but xenophobia may be directed against a group which has been present for centuries. This form of xenophobia can draw out or facilitate hostile and violent reactions, such as mass expulsion of immigrants, or in the worst case, genocide. The second form of xenophobia is primarily cultural, and the objects of the phobia are cultural elements which are considered alien or foreign.
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THE SITUATION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA

By Kyaw Zwa

History
The dawn of Muslim settlements and propagation of Islam has been widely documented by Arab, Persian, European and Chinese travelers of the ninth century AD.

The current population of Burmese Muslims are the descendants of Arabs, Persians, Turks, Moors, Indians, Chinese and Malays, who settled and intermarried with local Burmese and many ethnic Burmese groups such as Kachin, Kaya, Kayin, Chin etc

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ASEAN Head Says New Charter Will Put Pressure on Burma

By VOA News
24 July 2007
ASEAN Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong, Mar 2007
Ong Keng Yong
The head of ASEAN says a draft version of the group's first charter of standards – set to be released next week – will "pressure" military-ruled Burma to improve its human rights record.
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New Asean Charter Could Put Pressure on Burma

by The Irrawaddy
June 21, 2007

The new Asean charter could contribute to the democracy movement in Burma, the incoming general secretary of the 10-country bloc said o­n Wednesday.
Surin Pitsuwan, a former foreign minister and a senior member of the Democrat Party, has been endorsed by the Thai cabinet to succeed the current general secretary of Asean at the end of the year.

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