Rohingya Visual Storytelling Workshop
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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…
President Obama, say “Rohingya”
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...
Stateless: The Plight of the Rohingyas in Burma
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JOINT STATEMENT ON TERRORIZING THE ROHINGYA ONCE AGAIN TO IDENTIFY AS BENGALI
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.
Press Release: ARNO Confutes Rohingya accept Bengali classification
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,”
Press Release: The statement of ARNO on the current situation in Arakan/Rakhine State, Burma
(29 March 2014)
- Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) has strongly condemned the attacks on international humanitarian aid workers by militant Rakhine mobs in Sittwe on March 26- 27, causing damages to their offices, residences, vehicles and properties under the pretext of disrespecting a Buddhist flag by a female staff of the Malteser International.
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Joint Statement: 2014 Census in Burma must be universal and inclusive of Rohingya
Joint Statement by Rohingya organisations:
Dated: 05/05/2012
2014 Census in Burma must be universal and inclusive of Rohingya
Recently the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA) has agreed to support Burma’s proposed 2014 population and housing census. But ‘Rights groups worry that if not conducted properly, the census could marginalize minorities such as the Rohingya or those living in one of Burma’s many conflict areas.’
No true census has ever been taken in Burma, and great injustice has been done to the ethnic Rohingyas. The government of U Thein Sein is beyond exception. His current wind of change has not touched the Rohingyas yet. Rather racist and xenophobic plans have been patronized and projected against them.
PRESS RELEASE: ARNO welcomes European Parliament Resolution on Burma
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
PRESS RELEASE
(24 April 2012)
ARNO welcomes European Parliament Resolution on Burma
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) has welcomed the European Parliament resolution of 20 April 2012 which calls for changes to the 1982 law on citizenship to ensure due recognition of the right to citizenship of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Burma; for the release of all political prisoners without delay and conditions, and access of ICRC and international human rights bodies to Burma’s prisons; to introduce amendments to the 2008 constitution; to guarantee free and independent media; to initiate legal reforms in order to ensure a truly independent and impartial judiciary and to establish process of justice and accountability for past human rights abuses. The whole Rohingya people feel encouraged by this resolution.
PRESS RELEASE: ARNO Congratulates Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
PRESS RELEASE
(03 April 2012)
ARNO Congratulates Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) has welcomed the results of the by-election that took place in Burma on 1st April 2012. We congratulate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and National League for Democracy for a resounding victory in this by-election, a key test of political reforms in Burma.
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.
IN THIS ISSUE
Contents
- Ethnic Armed Governance and the New Power Order
- Stabilisation Forces and the Future of Peace in Rakhine State
- War Within Wars in Myanmar and the People Trapped Between Them
- The Human Development Potential of Rohingya Youth
- Powerlessness as a Great Power in Moral Authority
- The Unseen Mental Health Emergency of Rohingya Survivors
- Narco War Fueling Genocide Against the Rohingya
- Rohingya News
- ARNO Policy Brief
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Burmawi panel completes work in Makkah
Saudi Gazette report
MAKKAH — The task force drawn from various governmental departments to address the problems of the Burmawi community in Makkah and gather information about their number and conditions, has completed its work, according to a local daily.
The task force, which consists of 20 field teams, will also gather information about the Burmawi community in Taif and Jeddah to speed up the process of legalizing their residential status in the Kingdom.Rohingya Library
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