34 trafficked Rohingya women, children found on Malaysia beach

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More than 30 Muslim Rohingya women and children were found stranded along a beach in Malaysia's northern most state early Friday, and are believed to have been dropped off by human traffickers, authorities said. A police official in Kangar, the capital of northern...

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Press Releases

Press Release: ARNO Rejects Government’s Investigation Commission

Dec 4, 2016 |

3 December 2016

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) is strongly opposed to the government’s pretension and lack of honesty, and rejects the 13-member investigation commission formed on 1 December, inter alia, for the following reasons:

1. The military and police crackdown on innocent Rohingya civilian population in Northern Arakan since 9 October is state sponsored. It has been carried out with manifest intention of destroying the Rohingya minority community. Not only Myanmar military top brass but also the State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is morally, officially and wickedly responsible for it.

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.

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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Reports

Analysis: The UN in 2023

Aug 1, 2013 |

By Anna Jefferys

A series of reports exploring the likely changes in the aid world over the next decade.

HIGHLIGHTS

    * Calls for UN to be more anticipatory, strategic, innovative
    * Test public-private partnerships
    * Less bureaucracy, more leadership
    ( Risk-taking should extend to UN security policies

DAKAR, 31 July 2013 (IRIN) – The UN and other aid agencies face ever-increasing levels of humanitarian need: the number of recorded disasters has doubled in the past two decades, according to the UN, while the needs-response gap remains stubbornly steady in the context of a shifting humanitarian landscape – with the dominance of UN agencies and the largest 10 international NGOs gradually being eroded as power shifts to the east and south.

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Press Release: ARAKAN INDEPENDENCE ALLIANCE

Dated: November 2, 2001

In the recent weeks following the terrorist attacks of September11, 2001 in the United States, there have been several news reports which have suggested possible links between terrorist organizations and Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) and National United Party of Arakan (NUPA), leading groups for Arakan Independent movement.

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.

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