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Arakan Magazine – Issue Q3/2025
Arakan Magazine – Issue Q3/2025

In This Issue: 

  1. Editorial: Myanmar’s Federal Vision Hinges on Rohingya Inclusion
  2. Myanmar’s Draft Law and Women Under Arms
  3. Independence Promises and the Systematic Stripping of Minority Rights in Myanmar
  4. The Arakan Army’s Divide-and-Rule Tactics Against the Rohingya
  5. Rohingya Security and Peace in Rakhine
  6. IIMM Shares Evidence of Crimes Against Rohingya with International Courts
  7. Dhaka Declaration: Rohingya Speak with One Voice
  8. A Mosque Reopens in Maungdaw but What Does It Really Mean?
  9. Rohingya Women are Forced into Arakan Army Ranks
  10. On the 8th Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide the Crisis Continues, the World Must Act
  11. ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
  12. Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists

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Cyclone Mahasen misses Burma, bringing relief to displaced Rohingyas

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen missed western Burma’s Arakan State on Thursday afternoon, bringing relief to tens of thousands of internally displaced Rohingyas living in camps near the coast.
 
An official at the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology said the cyclone had made landfall at the Chittagong coast in central Bangladesh at 3:30 pm.

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Press Release: STOP ROHINGYA ETHNOCIDE

(28 April 2013)

 We condemn the police shooting, on 26 April 2013, of a group of Rohingya children for their peaceful protest chanting “Rohingya, Rohingya” when hostile operational team consisting of immigration, military, NaSaKa, police and village administrators came to Thet Kay Byin village near Ba Du Pha Rohingya displacement camp in Arakan’s capital Sittwe (Akyab), to perform the current operation forcing the Rohingya to register as “Bengali” for the census. A 15 year old boy namely Mohammad Ali S/o Kabir Ahmed of Thet Kay Bin was injured in the shooting and is now taking treatment in a private clinic.

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Press Release: UN Intervention and Commission of Inquiry Most Urgent

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the 153-page report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) dated 22 April 2013 which titled “ ‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State” .

In its report, HRW has said that crimes against humanity have been committed by the Burmese authorities and Rakhine Buddhist groups in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State.

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Six Burmese, including four kids, rotting in Amritsar jail

RAGHAV OHRI : Chandigarh
They ‘strayed’ into Indian territory and were arrested by Punjab Police in 2008. For not possessing valid documents, a trial court awarded them six months in jail in March 2009. They served their sentence. But four years on, a Burmese couple and their four children continue to languish in a transit camp in Amritsar Jail.

The reason: the six are awaiting verification of their citizenship.

However, their ordeal now seems to be coming to an end, after Lawyers for Human Rights International (LFHRI), an NGO, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in Punjab and Haryana High Court, which came up for resumed hearing last week.

During the hearing, the counsel for Centre, informed the court that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has requested the Bureau of Immigration to examine the feasibility of granting long-term VISAs to enable the family to stay in India.

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Pan-Muslim body urges Myanmar to allow OIC delegation

AFP
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Sunday urged authorities in Myanmar to allow a ministerial delegation to visit the country to discuss deadly violence against Muslims.

The world’s top Islamic body, in a statement following a meeting in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, also urged the UN Human Rights Commission to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Myanmar.

The statement called on “Burmese authorities to strongly respond to the organisation’s appeal and allow a ministerial OIC delegation to visit” Myanmar.

Last year at least 180 people were killed in the western state of Rakhine in clashes between local Buddhists and Rohingya — a Muslim minority treated with hostility by most Burmese who see them as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

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Asylum seekers mark new year with hunger strike

Benjamin Millar
A GROUP of hunger strikers protesting against their indefinite detention in Melbourne’s north have marked Tamil New Year by drinking a mouthful of water.

The 27 hunger strikers at the MITA detention centre in Broadmeadows have entered their seventh day of refusing to eat until the federal government addresses the situation that has left them in limbo for more than three years.

The 25 Tamils and two Burmese Rohingyas have been granted refugee status but had their release into the community refused due to adverse ASIO assessments.

The men are refusing to go inside and have remained in the grounds day and night.
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Speaking through the Tamil Refugee Council, one of the hunger strikers said they have become very tired and weak but were buoyed by national and international support for their cause.

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Is the Burmese Military Keeping Rohingya Women As Sex Slaves?

By Assed Baig

Regiment 207’s military camp a few miles from Sittwe.

Burma’s Muslims are still having a pretty awful time of it. Last year, the country’s Buddhist majority launched a series of attacks on the minority Rohingya Muslim population, supposedly because they’re not “ethnically pure“. The attacks have continued this year and now include the general Muslim population, as well as the ethnic Rohingyas, getting their homes burned down and heads smashed in by marauding gangs of vicious Buddhists. 

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Muslims protest in Delhi against Rohingyas killings

NEW DELHI: ARAB NEWS

Thursday 11 April 2013

Indian Muslim organizations and human rights bodies protested against the atrocities and cruel activities being meted out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
The protest organized by All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat condemned the Myanmar government for its inaction to stop violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine (Arakan) state.

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ARNO deny support to Long March

Kolkata Correspondent,  bdnews24.com
Published: 2013-04-08 05:51:39.0 Updated: 2013-04-08 05:52:13.0

The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) has strongly denied reports that it paid off 1000 Rohingyas from the refugee camps of Teknaf and Ukhia to join the recent long march of Hifazat-e-Islam.
“ This is a baseless allegation devoid of truth and evidence,” ARNO spokesman Nurul Islam said.

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