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ARNO condemns the burning of photos in protest rally in Bangkok
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA
PRESS RELEASE
(09 April 2013)
We at Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) have strongly denounced the burning of the pictures of the Burma’s independent hero and father of the nation General Aung San and opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at a protest rally organized by Burmese Rohingya Association in Thailand (BRAT) today, the 9th April 2013, in front of the Burmese/Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok.
PRESS RELEASE: Statement of ARNO on the news item appeared in Daily Independent, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 6 Aril 2013
Our attention has been drawn to the news item dated 6th April 2013 of the Daily Independent, Dhaka, Bangladesh under the caption, “180 Rohingyas arrested in Cox’s Bazar”.
Press Release: STOP SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF MUSLIM IN BURMA
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
PRESS RELEASE
(23 March 2013)
STOP SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF MUSLIM IN BURMA
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) strongly condemns the increasing anti-Muslim propaganda and organized killings of the Muslims in Burma/Myanmar.
Since Wednesday March 20, many Muslims were killed, at least 14 mosques with hundreds of Muslim homes were destroyed, shops damaged and looted, and more than 20,000 displaced in the central Burma town of Meiktila and around the airport area of capital Naypyidaw. The violence spread to Yameithein tonight where a mosque was destroyed. A lot of Muslim residents have fled their homes. Extremist Buddhist mobs with Buddhist monks armed with sticks and lethal weapons are prowling the streets and hunting the Muslims. 4 Islamic religiousteachers and 28 madrassa students, who included children as young as 12 years old, were among those killed.
PRESS RELEASE: UN intervention is most urgent to protect the Rohingya
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
(14 January 2013)
After June 2012 deadly violence in Arakan, the human rights situation of the Rohingya has become more deteriorating with story of “dead and dying”. Campaigns of genocide and extermination against them are carried out day in, day out. Rape, murder, arbitrary arrest, looting, extortion, criminal atrocities, hunger and diseases are persistent and widespread. Their burned down and depopulated villages are being populated with Buddhist settlers warmly invited from within and from Bangladesh. These are the main ‘push factors’ that cause the migration of Rohingya to neighbouring countries for which the Burmese government and Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) with Dr. Aye Maung are fully responsible.
In This Issue:
- Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
- Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
- Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
- Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
- Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
- Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
- Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
- Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
- ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
Latest News
Myanmar’s ruling party warns of danger in event of constitution redrawing
Global Times
Myanmar’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Saturday warned of grave danger and bad consequences if the 2008 constitution is abolished and redrawn.
The country and the people will suffer the consequences arising from the move, said an announcement of the party’s Constitution Amendment Committee.
Myanmar’s parliament set up a 109-member Constitution Review Joint Committee in July with the deputy speaker of the Union Parliament as chairman, and it is represented proportionally by parliament members of both Houses, political parties, military MPs and individuals.Hotel Myanmar or the Unfolding Genocide in President Thein Sein’s Myanmar
By Dr. Maung Zarni
“We (Buddhist sons of the Land) are here to burn down the houses of all Muslim (Kalar or “niggers”), and remove these ‘guests’ from our soil.
You brothers, in our security forces, are invited to join us in this national defense, the defense of our Buddhist faith!”
A scene of “Buddhist” mob carrying an official tri-color government flag (adopted in 2010), marching to a targeted Muslim villages, being stopped by the local troops, who are NOT really empowered by Naypyidaw Thein Sein’s government to use force, if necessary, to prevent any organized mass atrocities against the Muslims of all ethnic backgrounds.
This is definitely Hotel Rwanda.New Zealand reaffirms support to Myanmar’s democratization
South Asia Revealed
New Zealand has reaffirmed to continue providing aid to Myanmar’s democratization process, official media reported Saturday.
It was pledged by visiting Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand David Carter when he called on Myanmar President U Thein Sein at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw Friday.
U Thein Sein thanked New Zealand’s constant support for Myanmar ‘s reform and stance in the international arena.Letter from America: U.S. Congressional Hearing on Burma -2
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The House Foreign Affairs/Asia Sub-committee of the U.S. Congress recently held a hearing to examine the current political environment inside Burma (Myanmar), the growing human right abuses among its ethnic groups, and assess U.S. policy towards the country. The sub-committee was also interested to assess the Obama Administration’s decision to start military-to-military relations with Burma.
I find the decision of the Obama administration quite problematic for a plethora of reasons:Kachin activists’ expectations fall flat at Jimmy Carter meeting
By PANGMU SHAYI
When the delegation of Elders, a group formed of former world leaders and Nobel Peace laureates, led by former US President Jimmy Carter visited Myanmar [Burma] for three days in September, Kachins had high expectations of making their voices heard, as the stated purpose of the visit was “to listen and give support to all those committed to a peaceful political transition in Myanmar”.
Kachin hopes fell flat however, after Khon Ja and May Sabe Phyu of the Kachin Peace Network met with President Carter and the other two Elders, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.Muslim victims: Myanmar police may have unwittingly aided Buddhist attackers
Associated Press
THANDWE, Myanmar – Even as the president came to western Myanmar to urge an end to sectarian violence, security forces could not prevent Buddhist mobs from torching the homes of minority Muslims or hacking them to death, at times, unwittingly, even encouraging them.
That has raised questions about the government’s ability to quench a virulent strain of religious hatred blamed for the deaths of more than 240 people in the last 18 months.
The latest attack occurred Tuesday in Thandwe township, killing five just hours before President Thein Sein touched down for a scheduled visit.Myanmar cops arrest 44 for anti-Muslim violence
AFP
The police have arrested 44 people in connection with the deadly anti-Muslim violence in western Myanmar, the state media said on Sunday, after the latest violence erupted during a presidential tour of the strife-torn region.
Days of tensions in the town of Thandwe in restive Rakhine state turned into bloodshed on Tuesday, with a mob of hundreds descending on one outlying village torching homes and attacking local Muslims.
Unrest continued on Wednesday despite a visit by President Thein Sein, who stayed overnight in Thandwe as part of his first trip to Rakhine since a wave of religious violence erupted there last year, leaving dozens dead and tens of thousands homeless.Latest Myanmar violence blamed on religious and ethnic extremists
Saudi Gazette
THANDWE, Myanmar — The Buddhist mob mutilated and burned Khin Naing so severely his son couldn’t recognize the body, one of series of attacks that suggest a resurgence of a monk-led movement in Myanmar accused of stoking violence against Muslims.Flies were buzzing around the bloodied patch of earth outside a ransacked mosque in Tha Phyu Chai village where police removed Khin Naing’s body after he was hacked to death by ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.
“He couldn’t run fast enough from the Rakhine people,” said his son, Tun Tun Naing, 17, who emerged from hiding to identify his father’s corpse from what remained of his charred clothing.
No return yet of Myanmar refugees
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