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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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The sad demise of Prof. Abdul Karim

By Dr. Habib SiddiquiInna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioun. I am really  shocked to hear the sad demise of Prof. Abdul Karim. I met him more than 3 decades ago in Chittagong in our home. He was one of the best known historians of our time who had produced some of...

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Statement of the Arakan-Burma Research Institute

The prolonged military rule in Burma has worsened human rights situation leading to the exodus of hundreds of thousands of minorities, especially the Rohingya Muslims, who have been declared ‘stateless’ with the 1982 Citizenship Act. Many of these refugees now live in various parts of the world, including Japan.

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Protracted refugee situations: Millions caught in limbo, with no solutions in sight

Refugees from Myanmar living in Bangladesh on the tidal mudflats of the Teknaf River which borders the two countries. UNHCR/J. PagonisWhile news of major refugee emergencies often dominate headlines, the plight of millions of people who have languished in exile for years — and sometimes decades — remains a low-profile high-risk situation with serious humanitarian and security implications.

The Story
While worldwide refugee numbers have fallen to their lowest level in 25 years, a larger percentage of asylum-seekers are spending a longer time in exile in an often-overlooked plight of subsistence living in a virtual state of limbo. “The majority of today’s refugees have lived in exile for far too long, restricted to camps or eking out a meagre existence in urban centres throughout the developing world,” says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in its 2006 report on the state of the world’s refugees.

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The hell that is Sittwe prison

Written by Aung Khaing 
The Sittwe prison in Arakan state in Burma is a hell hole. Conditions in the prison are appalling and have been deteriorating by the day with prison wardens continuing to torture, maim and kill inmates. Prisoners are used as beasts of burden and made to plough paddy fields, cultivate and perform other forms of hard labour, according to prisoners who have escaped from the jail.
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Meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi

By Razali Ismail
Former UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail sought to negotiate between the opposition party and the military regime from 2000 until 2005. He recalls his meetings with Burma’s most famous prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi.
In early 2006, I resigned as the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Myanmar [Burma]. By that time, I had been to Myanmar 14 times, stretched out over a period of four years. The first visit was in 2000 when the United Nations sent me there with a delegation on my first mission. It was then that I met Aung San Suu Kyi and the Myanmar Secretary One, Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt. It was he who arranged for me to see her. It was the middle of June, the monsoon period, and very hot and humid.
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