Apr 26, 2014 | ARNO Press Release
(22 January 2014) Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) strongly condemns the organized killings with impunity of the Rohingya villagers of Du Chee Yar Tan (Kelaidong) in Maungdaw township of Rakhine/Arakan State in Burma since 13th January 2014. In...
Apr 26, 2014 | ARNO Press Release
(21 November 2013) Arakan Rohingya National Organisations welcomes the resolution of the UN General Assembly’s Human Rights Committee adopted on Tuesday, 19 November 2013, urging the Burmese government to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to...
Nov 10, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
The Associated Press Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum is highlighting the plight of Myanmar’s beleaguered Rohingya Muslims this week. An exhibition of stark, black-and-white images of the stateless Rohingya is being projected at night onto the...
Nov 10, 2013 | News / Article
By IRIN Photo: Contributor/IRIN “What talks?” ask people displaced from conflict in Kachin State’s largest IDP camp LAIZA, 7 November 2013 (IRIN) – Eighteen of Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups recently gathered in the rebel-controlled Kachin...
Nov 9, 2013 | News / Article
In an open letter addressed to EU High Reresentative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, the General Secretary of UNPO urges EU representatives to devote special attention to the Chin and Rohingya ethnic minorities in Myanmar in light of the upcoming EU-Myanmar...
Nov 9, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
By ALIRAN Human rights defender Kyaw Hla Aung remains arbitrarily detained in Myanmar over three months after he was arrested in connection with his peaceful activities. reports Amnesty International. Kyaw Hla Aung – Photograph: Nils Horner/Sveriges Radio He has been...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
By KYAW HSU MON / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — British investment in Burma is on the rise, but problems on the ground in the Southeast Asian frontier market have some investors reluctant to commit, UK Ambassador to Burma Andrew Patrick said at a press conference on...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
By ALIRAN It is time for Burma’s pro-democracy movement to speak out against the targeted attacks on the Muslims in that country, says Bonojit Hussain. “We have to ask ourselves whether we may have over-romanticised its battles against the junta as a broader quest to...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
Burma Times ( By Ibrahim Shah) Evidently, through the independent media worldwide, the crime against humanity or Rohingya genocide in western part of Burma is exposed. while the Rohingya-Genocide-Bell is ringing loudly that the Rakhine extremists collaborating...