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Oct 16, 2016 |

Joint Statement
16 October 2016

We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations express our serious concern on the continued military and police crackdown on the civilian population in Northern Arakan.

Since 9 October, under the pretext of looking for attackers, the Myanmar military and police forces have been indiscriminately killing the Rohingya, torching and plundering their homes and villages. Two mass graves were found and about 100 Rohingya civilians were extra-judicially killed that included old men, women and children. At least 5 Rohingya villages were set ablaze destroying many houses or whole villages.

Press Release: Rohingya civilians under attacks, demand urgent protection

Oct 12, 2016 |


Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO)
Press release
11/10/2016

Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) expresses its serious concern on the ongoing police and military crackdowns on innocent Rohingya civilians in Maungdaw Township following attacks by unidentified assailants on three separate police outposts in northern Arakan on Sunday 9 October. 

Press release: ARNO cautiously welcomes the Annan Commission on Arakan

Aug 29, 2016 |

 29/08/2016

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation cautiously welcomes the formation of a nine-member Advisory Commission chaired by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to find out lasting solutions to the issues in the Arakan/Rakhine State.

“The situation of Rohingya people in Myanmar represents a global challenge for the entire international community”. It is encouraging that the Government of Myanmar, for the first time, appreciates the importance of efforts by international dignitaries like Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan and two other diplomats in resolving the long standing Rohingya problem of ethnic, religious and political persecution.  

The problem in Arakan is not an immigration issue, but systematic, deliberate and often brute forced removal of ethnic Rohingya from their ancestral homeland by organized use of intimidation, terror, rape, murder, destruction and other inhuman acts, under intolerant state policies, with a view to transforming the region into a close-knit homogenous Buddhist Rakhine territory. Decades of Rohingyas’ victimization in Myanmar, including the organized deadly violence occurred and reoccurred against them in Arakan from 2012, have not yet been properly and truthfully investigated. We hope the Annan Commission will leave no stone unturned in looking for an objective assessment.

Arakan Magazine – Issue Q3/2025
Arakan Magazine – Issue Q3/2025

In This Issue: 

  1. Editorial: Myanmar’s Federal Vision Hinges on Rohingya Inclusion
  2. Myanmar’s Draft Law and Women Under Arms
  3. Independence Promises and the Systematic Stripping of Minority Rights in Myanmar
  4. The Arakan Army’s Divide-and-Rule Tactics Against the Rohingya
  5. Rohingya Security and Peace in Rakhine
  6. IIMM Shares Evidence of Crimes Against Rohingya with International Courts
  7. Dhaka Declaration: Rohingya Speak with One Voice
  8. A Mosque Reopens in Maungdaw but What Does It Really Mean?
  9. Rohingya Women are Forced into Arakan Army Ranks
  10. On the 8th Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide the Crisis Continues, the World Must Act
  11. ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
  12. Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
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JOINT STATEMENT ON TERRORIZING THE ROHINGYA ONCE AGAIN TO IDENTIFY AS BENGALI

Jun 16, 2014 | 0 Comments

The government of Burma/Myanmar had conducted the scheduled nationwide UN sponsored census on 30 March-10 April. But it has discriminately excluded the entire Rohingya population from the census for self-identifying their Rohingya ethnicity.

The government has now resumed enumeration in northern Arakan/Rakhine State threatening the Rohingya people once again to identify as Bengali, a term that implies they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

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Press Release: ARNO Confutes Rohingya accept Bengali classification

Apr 26, 2014 | 0 Comments

Date: 24 April 2014
Our attention has been drawn to the news item appeared in Bangkok post, dated 23/04/2014 under caption, “Rohingya accept Bengali classification” where the newspaper quoted U Myit Kyine, head of the Immigration and Population Department, stating “More than 6,000 families came and told officials to register them as Bengali,”

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Press Release: ARNO welcomes the UN General Assembly Resolution

Apr 26, 2014 | 0 Comments

(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...

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The Rohingya Revisited

Dec 29, 2013 | 0 Comments

Nearly a year ago, I wrote an article outlining reasons why the ICC should take action in Myanmar (also known as Burma) in order to stop continued religious and ethnic violence towards the Rohingya. During 2013, not surprisingly, the anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar has continued.[1] In fact, violence has spread beyond targeting the Rohingya and against the larger Muslim population.[2] Although, the majority displaced from the violence are still the Rohingya.

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Holocaust museum highlights Myanmar’s Rohingya

Nov 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

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 museum's external...

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Mataf bridge ready to ease Umrah for disabled, elderly

Jul 22, 2013 |

JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR

The new mataf bridge around the Holy Kaaba opens for pilgrims this week. Only disabled and elderly pilgrims will be allowed to use the circular bridge that can hold 7,000 wheelchair-borne pilgrims per hour.
“Since the bridge would be set apart for weak, infirm and disabled pilgrims, the movement of able-bodied pilgrims below on the ground floor will become easier as that area will be free from wheelchairs that used to clutter in an already crowded area,” said the Haj Ministry’s spokesman Hatim Qadi.
Authorities have stepped up preparations to receive millions of pilgrims in the second half of Ramadan as they come from across the world to perform Umrah and attend special prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah.

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ARAKANESE ARMED OPPOSITION ATTACKED BURMESE CAMP
At about 3.45 A.M.(BST) on Wednesday, the 5th of April 2001, a joint column of
Rohingya National Army (RNA) and Arakan Army (AA), attacked the Bandoola Camp, a joint camp of Burmese State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) army and Border Security Forces (Na-Sa-Ka) at Amtula, a place about 40 miles north of Maungdaw town, on Burma-Bangaldesh border, Arakan.
Racial harmony in Arakan – N.U.P.A.
The Natonal United Party of Arakan (N.U.P.A) has received with shock, the news of recent riot in Arakan capital Sittwe (Akyab), on 6th February 2001, resulting in plundering of several villages, leaving many killed and injured by a group of people secrectly sent by the military regime of SPDC to stage a communal violence between the Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingyas.
National United Party of Arakan: on the Racial Clashes in Sittwe, Arakan
We are deeply concerned over the racial clashes that took place as a sequel to an untoward incident in a teashop in Sittwe on the fourth February 2001. According to the report, the Buddhists and the Muslims in the area got locked up in racial riots and the ruling SPDC junta imposed curfew to diffuse the tension. As a result to the incident, there was losses of lives, destruction of property and a deep sense of animosity prevailed upon the two brotherly peoples, the Buddhists and the Muslims.
Press Release:ARNO welcomes UNSC’s decision
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
Arakan, Burma
ARNO welcomes UNSC’s decision
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) sincerely welcomes the decision of the United Nations Security Council to place Burma on its formal agenda. It is appreciative that the groundbreaking item, which was adopted on 15 September 2006 with the support of ten member countries including the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Greece, Slovakia, Japan, Peru, Argentina, and Ghana, was proposed by the United States.
Press Release:CONCERN FOR U KYAW MIN & HIS FAMILY
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation
(Arakan, Burma)
We at Arakan Rohinya National Organisation (ARNO) expressed our grave concern for U Kyaw Min and his family members, who were given lengthy prison terms by a Burmese court on 29 July 2005. U Kyaw Min is an elected Member of Parliament (MP) of National Democratic Party for Human Rights from Buthidaung, Arakan State and one of the members of the Committee for Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP)
ARNO Condemns London Bombings

Arakan Rohingya National Orgnisation strongly condemns the bomb explosions in London on 21 July 2005. This is the second terrorist attacks on the British Capital in two weeks while the people of the United Kingdom with the international community are still mourning for the victims of the 7/7 outrages.

ARNO condemns the Terrorist Bomb attacks in London

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation strongly condemns the terrorist massacre in London Bombing. We recognize with sadness that among the dead were citizens of many nationalities and faiths. Many innocent people have been killed and injured.

Press Release: Commemoration of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 60 th. Birthday
Arakan Rohingya National Organization
ARAKAN (Burma)
Date: June 18, 2005.
It has been 43 years that the people of Burma are experiencing untold miseries and sufferings under military dictatorship that has kept them in deepest darkness.
Persecution and oppression all over the country are daily phenomenon. Resultantly, there are 1,350 political prisoners, many of whom are routinely tortured, one million Internally Displaced People and over 600,000 refugees in records. Besides, like Shan and Mon refugees in Thailand, Kuki, Chin, Naga in India and Kachin in China etc. there are more than 600,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who were forced to leave their homeland of Arakan by the Burmese military.
ARNO Welcomes the Continuation of US Sanction on Burma
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) Arakan, Burma 
Press Release
Dated. May 22, 2005.
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the renewed US sanction on Burma for SPDC’s continuing grave violations of human rights against Burmese people and large-scale repression of democratic opposition.

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