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Press Release: ARNO Expresses Solidarity with Bangladesh After Devastating Earthquake
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation extends its deepest solidarity to the Government of Bangladesh and the people affected by the recent earthquake. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, those who have been injured, and the communities now...
ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee resolution A/C.3/80/L.32/Rev.1 on the “Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.” This resolution,...
Rohingya Lives Perish and Sea – Robust Response Needed to End Violence in Arakan
On November 9, 2025, it was reported that a boat sank near the Thai-Malaysian border carrying approximately 230 Rohingya people. As of today, hundreds are missing, and the media has reported that government agencies in Malaysia and Thailand have found close to 24...
Letter of Condolence
It is with deep sorrow that we have learned about the passing of Prof. Zakaria, son of Maulana Turab Uddin, former Executive Member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO). He passed away on 12th November 2025 at 12:30 PM in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Professor...
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
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Press Release: ARNO Expresses Solidarity with Bangladesh After Devastating Earthquake
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation extends its deepest solidarity to the Government of Bangladesh and the people affected by the recent earthquake. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, those who have been injured, and the communities now...
ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee resolution A/C.3/80/L.32/Rev.1 on the “Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.” This resolution,...
Rohingya Lives Perish and Sea – Robust Response Needed to End Violence in Arakan
On November 9, 2025, it was reported that a boat sank near the Thai-Malaysian border carrying approximately 230 Rohingya people. As of today, hundreds are missing, and the media has reported that government agencies in Malaysia and Thailand have found close to 24...
Letter of Condolence
It is with deep sorrow that we have learned about the passing of Prof. Zakaria, son of Maulana Turab Uddin, former Executive Member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO). He passed away on 12th November 2025 at 12:30 PM in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Professor...
ARNO Expresses Gratitude for UK and US Renewed Support and Highlights Crisis in Rakhine State and Education Needs
Press Release October 2, 2025 The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses deep appreciation to the United Kingdom for their generous renewed pledges of $36 million and to the United States for their generous pledge of $60 million, for Rohingya refugee...
Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
August 25, 2025 The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) today commemorates the 8th anniversary of the Rohingya genocide with a grave warning that the genocide is not over. Eight years after the Myanmar military’s brutal campaign in 2017, the remaining...
ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses its strongest condemnation of the International Crisis Group’s Asia Report No. 348, titled “The Dangers of a Rohingya Insurgency,” published on 18 June 2025. The report is troubled with dangerous distortions,...
ARNO Mourns the Loss of 427 Rohingya at Sea and Demands Urgent Global Intervention
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) is devastated by reports confirming the tragic deaths of an estimated 427 Rohingya men, women, and children in two separate boat disasters off the coast of Myanmar earlier this month. These devastating incidents, which...
RIP Pope Francis: Advocate for the Rohingya People
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation is saddened to hear of the passing of Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21, 2025 from complications to his health. Pope Francis was widely regarded as a progressive world leader who stood up for marginalized people,...
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Assessment of the Annan Commission Recommendations
I. Introduction Recently, significant activity concerning the Rohingya repatriation to the Arakan have taken place between the Government of Bangladesh and the military junta in Myanmar. Parallel to these bilateral initiatives, many governments are beginning to...
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Press Release: ARNO Expresses Solidarity with Bangladesh After Devastating Earthquake
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation extends its deepest solidarity to the Government of Bangladesh and the people affected by the recent earthquake. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, those who have been injured, and the communities now...
ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee resolution A/C.3/80/L.32/Rev.1 on the “Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.” This resolution,...
Rohingya Lives Perish and Sea – Robust Response Needed to End Violence in Arakan
On November 9, 2025, it was reported that a boat sank near the Thai-Malaysian border carrying approximately 230 Rohingya people. As of today, hundreds are missing, and the media has reported that government agencies in Malaysia and Thailand have found close to 24...
Letter of Condolence
It is with deep sorrow that we have learned about the passing of Prof. Zakaria, son of Maulana Turab Uddin, former Executive Member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO). He passed away on 12th November 2025 at 12:30 PM in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Professor...
ARNO Expresses Gratitude for UK and US Renewed Support and Highlights Crisis in Rakhine State and Education Needs
Press Release October 2, 2025 The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses deep appreciation to the United Kingdom for their generous renewed pledges of $36 million and to the United States for their generous pledge of $60 million, for Rohingya refugee...
Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
August 25, 2025 The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) today commemorates the 8th anniversary of the Rohingya genocide with a grave warning that the genocide is not over. Eight years after the Myanmar military’s brutal campaign in 2017, the remaining...
ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses its strongest condemnation of the International Crisis Group’s Asia Report No. 348, titled “The Dangers of a Rohingya Insurgency,” published on 18 June 2025. The report is troubled with dangerous distortions,...
ARNO Mourns the Loss of 427 Rohingya at Sea and Demands Urgent Global Intervention
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) is devastated by reports confirming the tragic deaths of an estimated 427 Rohingya men, women, and children in two separate boat disasters off the coast of Myanmar earlier this month. These devastating incidents, which...
RIP Pope Francis: Advocate for the Rohingya People
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation is saddened to hear of the passing of Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21, 2025 from complications to his health. Pope Francis was widely regarded as a progressive world leader who stood up for marginalized people,...
ARNO Expresses Solidarity with Earthquake Victims in Myanmar
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) extends its deepest condolences and heartfelt solidarity to all those affected by the devastating earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 29, 2025. We mourn the tragic loss of life and express our sympathies to...
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Coming To Defense Of Persecuted Is Noble And Not Bullying – OpEd
On Friday, December 27, 2019, a resolution titled “Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar”was passed with an overwhelming majority of votes during the 74th session of UN General Assembly at its 52nd resumed meeting, held at...
The arc of history can bend towards justice for the Rohingya
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. What happened to the Rohingya is a stain on the history of humanity. But the arc of history has a way of bending towards justice. Nurul Islam is the Chairman of...
Traditional Homeland of Rohingya in Myanmar
The area between west bank of Kaladan River and east bank of Naf River, which demarcates Myanmar-Bangladesh border, in North Arakan is known as “Traditional Homeland of Rohingya”. It has been deeply implanted the minds of the Rohingya people despite changes in...
Safe Zone For Rohingya In Myanmar
Since Gen. Ne Win’s military coup in Burma/Myanmar in 1962, the Rohingya have faced continuous process of de-legitimisation, institutionalised persecution, crimes against humanity and worsening abuses culminating into one of the gravest genocides of the modern era....
The Rohingya are not going home to Myanmar. Can Bangladesh cope?
Azeem Ibrahim is a director at the Center for Global Policy and author of “Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide.” Bangladesh is once again calling for the establishment of "safe zones" for the Rohingya in Myanmar so that it can begin resettling some of the 1...
The Myth of ‘Bengali Migration’ to Arakan Debunked
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Abstract Genocidal crimes don’t happen in vacuum and require groundwork from the racist and bigoted elements to state and non-state actors to prepare the support base and mobilize the dominant group to perpetrate such heinous crimes. For decades,...
Deafening silence over Rohingya issue
Harun Yahya
Despite the atrocities being committed against the Muslims of Arakan, better known as Rohingyas, the international community has so far done nothing to protect these people. The world appears to be sitting on the fence, as these people are being systematically persecuted.
This minority Muslim community in Myanmar — termed the most persecuted people living on the face of earth — has been turned into refugees in their own country. The Rohingyas are a people with no civil rights and from time to time subjected to indiscriminate violence. The world became slightly acquainted with these people following the violent attacks and acts of arson of 2012.
It’s Neo-Nazi Racism, Stupid!
Dr. Habib Siddiqui
In his book – Worse Than War – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen says that during mass murders, the murderers themselves, their supporters and those who wish to stand idly by practice linguistic camouflage. And this has been the case with the apartheid regime in Myanmar when it comes to its national project towards exterminating or purging out the Rohingyas.
Muslim influence in the kingdom of Arakan
14 November 2011
Muslim Arakanese or Rohingya are indigenous to Arakan. Having genealogical linkup with the people of Wesali or Vesali kingdom of Arakan, the Rohingya of today are a perfect example of its ancient inhabitants.
The early people in Arakan were descended from Aryans. They were Indians resembling the people of Bengal. “The area now known as North Arakan had been for many years before the 8th century the seat of Hindu dynasties. In 788 A.D. a new dynasty, known as the Chandras, founded the city of Wesali; this city became a noted trade port to which as many as a thousand ships came annually;… their territory extended as far north as Chittagong; …Wesali was an easterly Hindu kingdom of Bengal following the Mahayanist form of Buddhism and that both government and people were Indian..”[1]
ANTI-ROHINGYA CAMPAIGNS, VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
20 November 2011
In recent months, series of anti-Rohingya campaigns afloat inside and outside of Burma. To the surprise of everyone, inflammatory writings are often posted on a few websites, face books and blogs that reveal deep-seated ill-will against the peace loving Rohingyas.
Muslim influence in the kingdom of Arakan
14 November 2011
Muslim Arakanese or Rohingya are indigenous to Arakan. Having genealogical linkup with the people of Wesali or Vesali kingdom of Arakan, the Rohingya of today are a perfect example of its ancient inhabitants.
Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s misinformation on Rohingya
02 November 2011
During recent years we have read series of depraved propagandas by a group of fanatics, who are restless to tarnish the image of the Rohingya people, under the pretext of so-called scholars/academics/Burmese experts preaching annihilation of the Rohingyas, a predominantly Muslim community in Arakan, Burma. One of them is U Khin Maung Saw, a Rakhine Buddhist living in Berlin, who recently wrote a foul-mouthed and blasphemous paper titled Islamization of Burma Through Chittagonian Bengalis as “Rohingya Refugees”.
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The Significance of the term “Kula” for the Rohingyas and the Burmese Muslims
In ancient times dark skinned people dotted around the coastal regions from Africa, south India, up to the Papua New Genia. Under attack from the light skinned organized band of people from the north against these dark skinned Negroids (seen not being quite human, or at best demons,) these people continued to retreat to the coastal areas and in some places under pressure slowly disappeared. In Malaysia, the majority muslim population is a crossbreeds between these dark skinned people with Indian, Arab, Negroid, and Mongoloid population.
The advent of Islam in Arakan and the Rohingyas
The advent of Islam in Arakan and the Rohingya presented at the Seminar organised by Arakan Historical Society at Chittagong Zila Parishad Hall, Chittagong, on December 31, 1995, with Co-operation Chittagong University.
Rohingya Culture
ARNO welcomes the Bangladesh Government’s decision to offer formal education to Rohingya refugee children
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) greatly welcomes the decision of the Government of Bangladesh to offer schooling and skills training opportunities to Rohingya refugee children, two and half years after they were forced to flee genocide in Myanmar. ...
Myanmar Cuts Off Aid to Devastated Rohingya Populations
As of last week, a humanitarian crisis began unfolding in Myanmar’s north eastern Rakhine state, as aid agencies, such as the International Rescue Committee and the International Organisation for Migration, have been blocked from entering the townships of Rathidaung...
OIC General Secretariat Welcomes UNGA Resolution Condemning Abuses against Rohingya
Date: 29/12/2019 The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly resolution strongly condemning rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups in Myanmar. This resolution follows...
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MYANMAR: A People Facing Buddhist Violence
Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has a population of 48 million, 15 percent of whom are Muslims. Most of the rest are Buddhists. The Muslims live in the Arakan region of the country.
Burma’s Lost Kingdoms: Splendors Of Arakan by Pamela Gutman, A Book Reviews
Al-Jazeerah, January 13, 2006