Press Release: ARNO welcomes the UN General Assembly Resolution

(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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The Rohingya Revisited

Nearly a year ago, I wrote an article outlining reasons why the ICC should take action in Myanmar (also known as Burma) in order to stop continued religious and ethnic violence towards the Rohingya. During 2013, not surprisingly, the anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar has continued.[1] In fact, violence has spread beyond targeting the Rohingya and against the larger Muslim population.[2] Although, the majority displaced from the violence are still the Rohingya.

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Holocaust museum highlights Myanmar’s Rohingya

The Associated Press Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum is highlighting the plight of Myanmar's beleaguered Rohingya Muslims this week. An exhibition of stark, black-and-white images of the stateless Rohingya is being projected at night onto the museum's external...

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Lost kingdom: Myanmar’s forgotten royals

Agence France-Presse

THE SIMPLE LIFE. The granddaughter of Myanmar's last king, princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi shows her photo during an interview at her residence in Yangon. AFP Photo

THE SIMPLE LIFE. The granddaughter of Myanmar’s last king, princes Hteik

Phaya Gyi her photo during an interview at her residence in Yangon.

AFP Photo

YANGON, Myanmar – In a modest Yangon apartment, the granddaughter of Myanmar’s last king lives poor and unrecognized by her neighbors – a far cry from the power and riches of her ancestor.

Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi said the childhood days when her family had a bevy of servants and retained some of its royal status were now a distant memory.

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Myanmar’s ethnic armies present ceasefire draft

By IRIN

LAIZA, 7 November 2013 (IRIN) – Eighteen of Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups recently gathered in the rebel-controlled Kachin capital of Laiza to draft guidelines for government negotiations, and to strengthen their collective position on what would become the country’s first national ceasefire agreement.

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Press Releases

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.

Press Release: RESTORE CITIZENSHIP AND ETHNIC RIGHTS OF ROHINGYA

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGASIZATION, ARAKAN, BURMAA

(12 January 2012)

It is encouraging that the new civilianized government of U Thein Sein is showing signs of change in Burma, until now, making some mild reforms while promising more.  British Foreign Secretary William Hague paid a two-day official visit to Burma on 5 January 2012. From 30 November 2011, the US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had also completed a two-day historic trip to Burma.

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

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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