Press Release – REMEMBERING ROHINGYA GENOCIDE

Aug 24, 2019 | 0 Comments

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...

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The arc of history can bend towards justice for the Rohingya

Jul 19, 2019 | 0 Comments

* 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...

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Press Release – ARNO’s Concern Over ASEAN-ERAT Report

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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...

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Joint Press release: Crackdown on Yaba Trade

May 23, 2018 |

Joint Press release dated 23nd May 2018

Crackdown on Yaba Trade

We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations worldwide welcome the recent declaration of the Bangladesh Government’s intention to launch a strong crackdown against yaba trade starting from this Ramadan.

We appeal to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to launch a war against drugs by taking a strong and decisive stance against the flow of yaba pills from the Myanmar.

Joint Statement: Rohingyas’ concerns over the repatriation of refugees from Bangladesh

Jan 18, 2018 |

We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations worldwide express our serious concern over an agreement, signed on 23rd November 2017, between Myanmar and Bangladesh on the return of some 670,000 Rohingya refugees who have recently taken refuge in Bangladesh after fleeing Myanmar genocide.

But the question is how the terrified and traumatized refugees would be repatriated to Arakan/Rakhine State where they experienced, witnessed and fled the genocidal brutality of Myanmar troops, Rakhine extremists and other vigilantes. There is no change of attitude of the Myanmar government and its Military towards Rohingya; still they identify Rohingya as recent “Bengali interlopers” from Bangladesh; and Rohingyas continue entering into Bangladesh due to continuing violence and brutality against them in Arakan.

Press Release: Still to uncover more mass graves; U.N. investigation into “genocide’ in Northern Rakhine State most urgent

Jan 12, 2018 |

Press release 12 January 2018

Crimes against humanity and genocide have been committed against Rohingya population in Myanmar, with full impunity and knowledge of the government, with intent to destroy this ethnic community from their ancestral homeland of Arakan/Rakhine State.

Wholesale destruction of life, property and villages; widespread killing of women, men and children; rape, extermination, enslavement, enforced disappearance, expulsion and other inhuman acts are committed against the Rohingya civilians forcing some 670,000 survivors to take refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh since 26 August 2017. We appreciate that Bangladesh has shown to the world unparalleled humanitarian gesture by stepping up and taking on huge burden.

Press Release: The Problem in Rakhine State is not ‘Quarrel’ but Genocide

Jan 12, 2018 |

05 November 2017

At long last, for the first time on 2nd November the State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had visited crisis-hit Northern Arakan/Rakhine State amidst international pressure and criticism apparently to whitewash the gravest situation of the defenceless Rohingya that the UN has called a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” and “the world fasted growing refugee crisis and a major humanitarian emergency” while experts in international law have called it “genocide”.

Arakan Magazine – Issue 2026/Q1
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  • Ethnic Armed Governance and the New Power Order
  • Stabilisation Forces and the Future of Peace in Rakhine State
  • War Within Wars in Myanmar and the People Trapped Between Them
  • The Human Development Potential of Rohingya Youth
  • Powerlessness as a Great Power in Moral Authority
  • The Unseen Mental Health Emergency of Rohingya Survivors
  • Narco War Fueling Genocide Against the Rohingya
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U.S. law enforcement envoy to visit Myanmar

Sep 2, 2013 |

By UPI

Special Reports

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) — The U.S. State Department said it was sending a law enforcement envoy to Myanmar to review national security and human rights issues with national leaders.

Myanmar’s general elections in 2010 ended a long period of military rule. The international community recognized Myanmar for its political reforms, though its human rights record and state of security have sparked concern.

The U.S. State Department said Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs William Brownfield will visit Myanmar, formerly Burma, Wednesday.

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Press Release: PROTECT THE PERSECUTED ROHINGYA BOATPEOPLE
16th January 2009
The Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) supports the Press Release dated January 15, 2009 of the Refugees International urging the Thai officials to treat the Rohingya and other boatpeople humanely and “to ensure that refugees seeking asylum are properly screened and are not forced back to their country of origin if it will put them at risk.”
 
The Rohingya are the worst victims of human rights violations in Burma. They are rendered stateless and have no rights within Burma while living in abject poverty. Crimes against humanity have been perpetrated against them, including denial of citizenship rights, severe restriction on freedom of movement, marriage and religion, forced labour, rape, land confiscation, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings and extortion on daily basis. This impossible situation has constrained them to leave their hearths and homes in search of safe shelter and better life.
We express our serious concern over the harsh treatment of the boatpeople by the Thai security forces. Towing and forcing these helpless, hapless and highly vulnerable people back to the sea tying their hands without any foods in engineless boats to expose them to the risk of capsizing and sinking is a merciless action made in utter disregard of international law and other international standards and practices. Report says one of such boats has capsized resulting in the death and missing of more than 300 people. It is not a solution at all.
Therefore, we urge upon the Government of Thailand and all those concerned to treat these boatpeople humanly, and not send the Rohingya asylum seekers back to Burma, where their lives will be in danger. Instead they may be granted adequate protection and assistance on humanitarian ground. We also urge upon the Thai Government with the international community to try for a permanent solution of the longstanding Rohingya problem.
For further information contact: Phone: +44 07947854652,
email:info@rohingya.org or visit www.rohingya.org
  
 
Press Release:Statement of ARNO on the report of CSW: “Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border”

September 29  2008

We express our full support to the report of Christian Solidarity World Wide, Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border, released on 9 September 2008. This report is based on first hand information on the plight of the Rohingya people in Burma. It substantiates the fact that the Rohingya are living in a hostile environment in their ancestral homeland of Arakan. As the report says “it is first-hand account of the oppression of Muslim Rohingya people in Burma, including denial of full citizenship rights, severe restrictions on freedom of movement, marriage and religion, forced labour, rape, land confiscation, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings and extortion on a daily basis.”

Press Release: Statement of ARNO on 8888

8th August 2008

Twenty years ago, on this day of 8th August 1988, millions of Burmese people took to the streets across the country demanding an end to long military rule, restoration of democracy and human rights in Burma. But the military started brutal crackdowns and killed an estimated 3000 peaceful demonstrators nationwide.  Till today there has been no independent investigation conducted against the military for these brutal acts.

Press Release:SPDC should postpone it sham referendum

(8 May 2008)

We express our deep concern that cyclone Nargis is an unprecedented disaster that had left hundreds of thousands of Burmese people dead, homeless and missing. Due to lack of press freedom, the extent of sufferings in terms of human and material losses could not be ascertained yet. However, at least 100,000 people are confirmed to be dead while 45,000 missing. It affected nearly 50% of the Burma’s 55 million population. Irrawaddy region is the worst hit area.

Statement on the SPDC’s referendum

29th February 2008
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation strongly condemns the State Peace and Development Council for its announcement of 1/2008, 2/2008, and 3/2008 about holding of referendum on its draft constitution in May 2008. 

ARNO statement on the SPDC’s violence against revered monks and people

Date: 28th September 2007

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation strongly condemns the SPDC’s brutal crackdown against unarmed peaceful demonstrators and urges the international community to take concerted and tougher action to stop the regime from further committing crimes against humanity against the people of Burma.

Statement of ARNO on the ‘Policy Statement of ANC on the Peoples of Arakan’

Dated: 18th September 2007

With regard to the ‘Policy Statement of Arakan National Council (ANC) on the Peoples of Arakan’ dated 7/9/2007 Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) would like to state as follows:

 

(1)    Arakan is a multicultural society with a population of diverse ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious identities. All its peoples are broadly called ‘Arakanese’, irrespective of their language, race, culture and religion. But unknown is the word ‘Arakan’ for its people.

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