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Press Release: Statement of ARNO on the 65th Anniversary of the Burma Union Day
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN
(12 February 2012)
Statement of ARNO on the 65th Anniversary of the Burma Union Day
On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Union Day Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) states as follows:
- 65 years ago, on February 12, 1947, the Panglong Agreement was signed between Gen. Aung San and leaders of the several ethnic groups in Panglong, Shan State. It was an epoch-making event in the history of Burma. The national leaders of both the Burman majority and ethnic nationalities of Burma committed themselves, for the first time, to achieve the country’s national sovereignty through the pure spirit of national unity, equality and fraternity. The history of Burma would have developed differently if there was no Panglong Agreement.
Press Release: 13 Rohingyas are not Taliban, it was all framed
The below-named Rohingya organisations strongly disapprove the statement, dated 14 January 2012, of the Burmese Home Minister Lt. General Ko Ko where he said, “the 13 persons arrested form Arakan border last year, for having connection with Taliban and taking explosive training, will be further detained.”
Press Release: ARNO Welcomes the Written Ministerial Statement of the FCO
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN
(17th January 2012)
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) heartily welcomes the written Ministerial statement, dated 16 January 2012, of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, on the visit of Foreign Secretary William Hague to Burma on 5-6 January. “It was a historic visit; the first by a British Foreign Secretary since 1955”, the statement said.
Press Release: ARNO Welcomes the Release of Political Prisoners in Burma
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN
(13th January 2012)
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) today welcomes the release of a considerable number of key political prisoners in Burma, including members of the 88 Generation Student group. ARNO further welcomes and appreciates the release of U Kyaw Min (alias) Shamsul Anwarul Haque with his wife and two daughters.
In This Issue:
- Editorial: Myanmar’s Federal Vision Hinges on Rohingya Inclusion
- Myanmar’s Draft Law and Women Under Arms
- Independence Promises and the Systematic Stripping of Minority Rights in Myanmar
- The Arakan Army’s Divide-and-Rule Tactics Against the Rohingya
- Rohingya Security and Peace in Rakhine
- IIMM Shares Evidence of Crimes Against Rohingya with International Courts
- Dhaka Declaration: Rohingya Speak with One Voice
- A Mosque Reopens in Maungdaw but What Does It Really Mean?
- Rohingya Women are Forced into Arakan Army Ranks
- On the 8th Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide the Crisis Continues, the World Must Act
- ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
- Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
Latest News
Elderly woman killed in Myanmar sectarian violence
By KHIN MAUNG WIN
Associated Press
THANDWE, Myanmar (AP) – Terrified Muslim families hid in forests in western Myanmar on Wednesday, one day after rampaging Buddhist mobs killed a 94-year-old woman and burned dozens of homes despite the first trip to the volatile region by President Thein Sein since unrest erupted last year.
The violence near Thandwe, a coastal town the president was due to visit later Wednesday on the second day of his tour of Rakhine state, raised new questions about government’s failure to curb anti-Muslim attacks and or protect the embattled minority.Five dead in violence against Myanmar’s Muslim minorities
Morocco World News
LONDON – Rohingya Muslims have been the main target of Buddhist groups, resulting in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of 120,000 people last year
Buddhist rioters have killed four men and a 94-year-old woman and burnt down over 70 Muslim homes in Myanmar’s northern state of Arakhan after a reported dispute between a Buddhist and Muslim, according to local police.
Police said clashes broke out in Thabyachaing village, about 12 miles north of the coastal town of Thandwe, on Tuesday afternoon. They said the 94-year-old woman, Aye Kyi, died of stab wounds and that between 70 and 80 houses were set on fire.Myanmar security forces battle to quell deadly sectarian unrest
YANGON (Reuters) – Security forces raced to contain deadly violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Tuesday, police said, after mobs torched Muslim homes and Buddhist villagers were attacked in a third day of unrest in a region plagued by intractable sectarian tensions.
A Muslim woman was slashed to death as Buddhist gangs attacked three villages around Thandwe township, testing police and soldiers deployed on Sunday to disperse crowds that had set homes on fire and surrounded a mosque.
The woman was killed in her village and four ethnic Rakhine Buddhists were being treated in hospital after being attacked on a rural road, said a police inspector, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“Violence has taken place today in three villages. One is still on fire and being put out,” he said by telephone.U Thein Sein touches down in Thandwe
(Burma Times) President U Thein Sein has arrived in Thandwe, as the town reels from days of violence and looting that has left at least four dead and seen as many as 70 homes razed.
Touching down in Sittwe on October 1, U Thein Sein paid a visit to the state capital of Sittwe, before traveling by helicopter to Mrauk U, Kyauktaw, and north to the annexed Rohingya-majority village of Maungdaw.
United States Condemns Violence in Thandwe, Rakhine State
Rakhine extremists assaulted Kaman Muslims in Thandwe
BurmaTimes – Ibrahim Shah- Around twelve o’clock at midday on 29th September, a motorcycle owned by one Buddhist youth Maung Naing Oo was placed in front of a shop owned by the Chairman of Kaman Muslim party in Thandwe. The Buddhist youths started to argue harshly when the shopkeeper requested them to remove and place the vehicle some ahead from the shop since the vehicle closed the entrance of the shop.
On the double, the Buddhist youth diffused the entire town that the Kaman Muslim Party Chairman insulted Buddhism. The main reason of diffusion of such aggressive news is because the extremists of RNDP and the 969 Campaign have been seeking chances to attack the Kaman Muslims since long time.UAE urges international community to find lasting solutions for Rohingya Muslim minority
(Burmatimes) by WAM NEW YORK, 28th September 2013 (WAM)– The UAE has expressed concern over the acts of violence which target the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, and demanded the international community encourage the government of Myanmar to carry out its duty to put an end to these acts which contradict the basic principles of human rights, as well as to help the Rohingya restore their rights as a Muslim Minority in Myanmar.
The UAE also re-affirmed that it will continue to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of violence in Myanmar and to defend the legitimate rights of the Muslim minority in the country.
This came in the UAE’s statement at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Rohingya, held in New York, USA, under the chairmanship of Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of OIC, on the margins of the 68th United Nations General Assembly.‘Elders’ urge Myanmar to address religious strife
By AP
Former President Jimmy Carter talks to journalists during a news conference Thursday at Strand Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. Carter and other former world leaders wrapped up a visit to Myanmar with calls to address spiraling Buddhist-led violence against minority Muslims.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Jimmy Carter and two other former world leaders who are part of a group known as “The Elders” wrapped up a visit to Myanmar on Thursday with calls to address Buddhist-led violence against minority Muslims and end impunity for the perpetrators.
“No one can afford to ignore these senseless, destructive, repeated acts of brutality,” they said.
“This is a very serious problem for the world community,” the former U.S. president said, adding how it is tackled by the quasi-civilian government will be a “key test as to whether Myanmar is going to honor international standards of human rights.”Chinese professor funds Myanmar students to pursue university education
Editor: Hou Qiang
YANGON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — China’s Myanmar-language professor Su Xiuyu provided stipends on Sunday for 27 poor and outstanding Myanmar students to pursue university education under the name of “Professor Su-Xiuyu Fund”.
Su, who won one of the highest religious medals of commendation in honor of her excellent performances conferred by Myanmar President U Thein Sein, is a retired professor from China’s Beijing Foreign Languages University.
The 27 students are from nine regions and states who just passed the matriculation examination and are to join universities, while 15 more from other five regions and states are expected to receive the sponsorship once they are enlisted.Reports
Burma: Rights Abuses Endanger Reform
(Bangkok) – Burma’s human rights situation remained poor in 2012, despite some noteworthy actions by the government to adopt rights-respecting reforms, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013 released today.
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