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Press release: UN intervention is the only viable solution in Rohingya situation

Nov 28, 2016 |

28 November 2016

For more than 6 weeks the innocent and peaceful-living Rohingyas have been made systematic targets of wholesale destruction, killing, raping and looting and arson attacks. The Myanmar military and security forces have killed more than 500 people, raped hundreds of women, burned down over 2500 houses, destroyed mosques and religious schools, and perpetrated other inhuman acts.

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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.

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 Visual Storytelling Workshop

Oct 30, 2014 | 0 Comments

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A book of haunting, humbling and awe-inspiring “visual stories” painted about – and by – refugee youth from Burma.

The huddled boy (enlarged 800%) in Forced to Flee’s book cover, above, was painted by a 16-year-old refugee who fled eastern Burma when the Burma Army attacked his village. I discovered it on the reverse of Saw Yar Zar’s actual visual story. When I asked why he had “signed” his painting this way, Saw Yar Zar’s eyes glazed over. While his village was riddled with gunfire he darted into the jungle, screams piercing the distance. Muffling his breath, he huddled in a patch of tall grass. Words whispered by his deceased father during a prior escape played in his mind like a mantra: “Only travel at night.” Hours later, engulfed by darkness and an eerie silence, Saw Yar Zar parted the grass and headed for the Thai-Burma border, in search of refuge…

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President Obama, say “Rohingya”

Oct 12, 2014 | 0 Comments

  The Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority in Burma have been called “the most oppressed people on Earth”. They continue to suffer vicious attacks and systematic abuse by Burma’s government. Fleeing violence, over 140,000 Rohingya live in what many describe as...

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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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Reports

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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Press Release: Statement of Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) on Recent Anti-Muslim Riot
Dated: 7th June 2001
In Burma frequent outburst of anti-Muslim riots in different parts of Arakan and Burma resulting in the death of Muslims and plundering their properties. The present ruling military junta State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) by and watched the looting of Muslim properties.
Several anti-Muslim riots took place in Sittwe (Akyab), from 4th to 8th February 2001, the provincial capital of Arakan,  and other towns of Kyaukpru, Pauktaw and Maybon.  In this riots at least 40 Muslims were dead and over 30 injured including one Buddhist monk. About 80 houses were burnt down including 30 shanty-houses of Buddhist community and 10 shops, one boarding owned by Muslims were razed to the ground.
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.

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