Rangoon a Refuge for Some Thandwe Muslims
RANGOON — Muslims hiding out in Rangoon say they are among more than 100 followers of Islam who fled religious violence in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township last week to seek refuge in Burma’s biggest city.
An argument between an Arakanese Buddhist and a Muslim in Thandwe spiraled out of control on Sept. 29 and eventually led to the spread of violence in surrounding villages over the next three days. Five Muslims were killed and more than 100 houses were burned to the ground.Myanmar Urged to Ratify Chemical Weapons Treaty
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The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday has prompted a call for Myanmar to ratify a key international treaty banning the arms.
New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Myanmar must ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention two decades after signing if it wants to prove to the international community it is serious about reforms.For Myanmar’s Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, Peace
by Anthony Kuhn, NPR
Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country.
Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that have been fighting the government — have signed a preliminary agreement that could end the conflict.
The agreement falls short of an actual cease-fire, but calls for both sides to work “to end all armed fighting.”
Two years ago, Myanmar’s army broke a cease-fire and launched an offensive against the Kachin Independence Army, or KIA. The fighting displaced more than 100,000 Kachin people, a hill tribe who live on both sides of the Myanmar-China border.
Lamai Luseng is one of those who was forced to leave. She lives in a refugee camp in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state. Many of the refugees have lived in the camp’s wooden shacks since two years ago, when the fighting resumed.Myanmar Muslims from Rakhine say they found refuge in Yangon
Hundreds of Muslims from Rakhine fled to Yangon, the country’s former capital, and some told the Thai newspaper The Irrawaddy that parts of the city were safe. The report said that although Muslims are often subjected to arrest in Yangon the refugees had found “no discrimination” in the city.
The U.S. Embassy in Yangon last week said it was monitoring the security situation after at least one person was killed and scores of homes were burned to the ground during violence against the Muslim minority in Rakhine.Pact between Myanmar’s government and Kachin rebels questioned
McClatchy Tribune in Yangon
Fighting in disputed region continues despite agreement to ease tensions, with both sides accused of continuing to enlist child soldiers
Analysts and members of the Kachin community have expressed scepticism about a seven-point agreement signed between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmar’s government and hailed by both sides as a breakthrough.
The two sides failed to agree on a ceasefire over three days of talks that ended on Thursday in the Kachin state capital, Myitkyina, instead signing a pact that includes new rules for monitoring fighting and the resettlement of citizens as a result of clashes.
Myanmar must respect minorities
NATION-BUILDING: It must ensure the rights of all communities, including the Rohingya, are protected
ONCE again, violence is flaring in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar. Once again, the headlines are full of stories about the violence meted out to the Rohingya minority.
That the issue exceeds the compartmentalised borders of Myanmar is evident for all to see, as it has contributed to a mass exodus across the frontier and now impacts on other countries like Bangla-desh, and even the rest of Southeast Asia, as a result of the movement of boat people.
Yet, the root of the problem can be traced back to a singular issue that is not unique to Myanmar, or to the Rohingya themselves.Press Releases
Press Release:ARNO welcomes the European Parliament Resolution on Burma
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
12 February 2010
Arakan Rohingya National Organisations (ARNO) welcomes the resolution of the European Parliament dated 11 February 2010 which, inter alia,
• Welcomes the fact that the Government of Bangladesh is allowing a fact-finding mission by its south Asia delegation to examine the situation of the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar and Banderban Districts next week, and calls on Bangladesh Government to recognize that the unregistered Rohingyas are stateless asylum seekers who have fled persecution, and to provide them with adequate protection, access to livelihood and other basic services;
STATEMENT OF THE ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ON THE 63RD UNION DAY OF BURMA
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
Arakan, Burma
12th February 2010
12th February marks the 63rd Union Day, a very important day for the people of Burma. On 12th February 1947 the Union Treaty was signed at Panlong, Shan State, between father of the nation Gen. Aung San and leaders of the nationalities to take the independence together from the British and to form Burma a Federal Union on the agreed upon principle of ‘unity in diversity’.
Press Release: ARNO Condemns Monstrous Conviction of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
Press Release
12th August 2009
ARNO Condemns Monstrous Conviction of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) strongly condemns the SPDC military regime for monstrous conviction of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been sentenced to a further 18 months of house arrest.
Statement of ARNO on 8888
(Press Release)
8th August 2009
Twenty-one years ago, on this day of 8th August 1988, millions of Burmese people took to the streets across the country demanding an end to long military rule, restoration of democracy and human rights in Burma. But the military started brutal crackdowns and killed an estimated 3000 peaceful demonstrators nationwide. Till today there have been no independent inquiries conducted against the military about this massacre.
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
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