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Landmark visit by Ethnic and Religious Minority Groups from Burma
[NEW YORK – 23 OCTOBER] Representatives of a diverse cross-section of Burmese ethnic and religious minority groups, including representatives of the Rohingya, Burmese Muslim, Kachin, Chin, and Karen communities, concluded an important diplomatic visit to New York as...
2 years after the Coup, the people of Burma are worse off
ARNO is saddened to continue to report that after two years of the coup which took place on February 1, 2021, by the Myanmar military (junta) that the conditions in Burma continue to deteriorate and have not improved. As the international community is aware, the...
ARNO calls upon South Asian Media to stop scapegoating Rohingya People
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) immediately calls upon media outlets throughout South Asia to be responsible and ethical in their coverage of the violence which is taking place in Manipur and other parts of North India. Recently, media outlets are...
ARNO condemns Junta award to Wirathu, terrorist and genocidaire
Today the Myanmar military (junta) awarded Buddhist Monk, Wirathu, the honorific title “Thiri Pyanchi” for “his outstanding work for the good of the Union of Myanmar” as reported by the junta’s information teams and subsequently reported by international media...
In This Issue:
- Forgotten Generation: How Global Inaction is Pushing Rohingya Youth into Darkness
- In Conversation with Dr. Ronan Lee
- Understanding the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
- Rohingya Organisations Joint Statement on Naf River Massacre
- Landslide Tragedy Strikes Rohingya Refugee Camp: Three Family Members Killed in Camp 14
- Yunus’s Global Influence Could Help Secure Western Support for Rohingya Refugees, Says Expert
- Press Release: United Youth Movement Bangladesh Sovereignty, Humanity, and Justice.
In This Issue:
- The Rohingya Genocide : A prolonged Crisis Unaddressed by Regional and International Communities
- Rohingya Genocide Victim Women and Children: Severely Traumatized and Facing Catastrophic Consequences
- In Conversation with Dr. Melanie O’ Brien
- Maung Ni Massacre: Arakan Army Drone and Mortar Strikes Kill 36 Rohingya Civilians
- 150 Rohingya Dead in Myanmar: Arakan Army Held Responsible for Devastating Drone Strike
- Rohingya Relocation Sparks Concerns: Arakan Army’s Role in Changing Rakhine’s Demographic Landscape
- Press Release: ARNA Condemn Aerial Attacks on Rohingya Communities in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State
- Press Release: ARNO condemns Aerial Assault on Rohingya by Arakan Army
Latest News
Actions against junta increasing, but enough to create change?
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the recent actions taken against the military junta in Myanmar (Burma). At the beginning of December, the Government of Canada imposed a new round of sanctions on Burma as a result of continued human rights...
Gambia v. Myanmar Moves to the Next Phase
Date: July 22, 2022 ARNO welcomes the decision by the International Court of Justice evaluating and rejecting Myanmar’s arguments, specifically whether The Gambia can file a claim as a state party that has not been injured under the Genocide Convention. The Court...
YES, IT IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN GENOCIDE
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation welcomes the US decision to recognise the Rohingya genocide. ARNO has been advocating in its discussions with the US Government for the genocide declaration since 2014 given the significant actions that have been taken since...
ARNO welcomes UK and Germany Intervention in ICJ Matter
The Governments of the United Kingdom and Germany have expressed their intention to intervene in the matter of The Gambia v. Myanmar proceedings at the International Court of Justice. Since August 2017, many governments around the world have expressed their support of...
Sarajevo Declaration
Sarajevo Declaration at the Preparatory Workshop on The Rohingya Crisis: What Next? 7 May 2022 Preamble: This Conference unequivocally reiterates: That the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights of every human being and such rights...
Burma continues to suffer as a result of February 1, 2021 coup
February 1, 2022 The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation condemns the Tatmadaw’s illegal takeover of Burma/Myanmar since February 1, 2021. The international community is aware that one year ago, Tatmadaw, the military junta of Burma, perpetrated a coup against Daw...
THE ROHINGYA GENOCIDE DAY WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN
(25 August 2022) The “Rohingya Genocide Day” of August 25 is a memorable day for our people and generations. For decades, the Myanmar brute forces and state-sponsored non-state actors have carefully pre-planned genocidal onslaughts against our innocent people....
Condolences
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) extends its deepest sympathies and condolences to the immediate and extended family members of the late Dr. Waker Uddin. Prof. Wakar Uddin, Director-General of the Arakan Rohingya Union, passed away on Friday, April 29,...
Biden and Macron need to sanction Myanmar gas revenue to increase pressure on Myanmar military
Joint Statement Date: 20th January 2022 Biden and Macron need to sanction Myanmar gas...
Reports
HRW Report Myanmar 2021
Rohingya Detention Camps Approximately 130,000 Rohingya have been confined to open-air detention camps in Myanmar’s central Rakhine State since being displaced by ethnic cleansing in 2012. For eight years, the Myanmar government has maintained the Rohingya’s...
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Press Release
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ROHINGYA PLEDGING CONFERENCE
By the Rohingya community [22 October 2020] Today governments met to alleviate the suffering of millions of Rohingya refugees and internally displaced persons. On behalf of our fellow Rohingya, we thank the international community for its generosity and...
Thanks to the Indonesians for help to distress Rohingyas at sea
Press Release: 26 June 2020Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) expresses its sincere gratitude to the people and government of Indonesia for their generous efforts to rescue about 100 Rohingya refugees, who were stranded and in distress at sea in Aceh, and...
UN MIMU mapping continues to fail the Rohingya
Press Release: 28 May 2020 Approximately one year ago ARNO wrote an open letter to Mr. Knut Osby, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar, to stop using the derogatory term “Ku Lar” to refer to Rohingya on maps produced by the Myanmar Information...
“Leaving no one behind” amidst genocide: the Myanmar government’s response to Covid-19 in Rakhine State
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) Press Release: 1 May 2020 On April 10, 2020, the Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release, “Myanmar leaves no one behind in its fight against COVID-19 in Rakhine State,” describing its intensified efforts...
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. ...
Justice for All – ICJ Verdict a Win for Rohingya
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) Press Release: 23 January 2020 Justice for All – ICJ Verdict a Win for Rohingya ARNO welcomes the International Court of Justice “Order on Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures” announced today, January 23,...
Press Release: Myanmar launches report riddled with untruths
Press Release: 16 January 2020 On January 8, 2020 the Government of Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a report titled “Rakhine State: A Snapshot of Myanmar’s current efforts for peace and reconciliation.” The 15-page report makes blatantly false claims that...
Message from Nurul Islam, Chairman of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation on the occasion of the Rohingya National Day 2020
“Bismillah, ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim” “In The Name of Allah, The most Beneficent, the Most Merciful” Dear Rohingya brothers and sisters, Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatuh! It is indeed a great privilege and honour for me to send this message of congratulations...
UN to Myanmar: Stop the Violence
Press Release: 30 December 2019 ARNO welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution condemning violence against the Rohingya. On December 27, 2019 the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of a Resolution which condemns Myanmar’s human rights...
IKO Statement on ICJ’s Prosecution of Myanmar Government
9-12-2019 On December 10, 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will start a hearing with regard to legal proceedings against the state of Myanmar/Burma for the case of genocide against Rohingya people. The International Karen Organisation (IKO) hopes that...
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Testimony by Chris Lewa Coordinator, on International Religious Freedom
December 3, 2007
THOUGHTS ON MUSLIMS OF BURMA AND CURRENT EVENTS THERE
BY DR. HABIB SIDDIQUI
Burma is a country that has people of many races, ethnicities and religions. Because of lack of reliable census data the exact number of these various communities is not known. There is no question though that the Buddhist population makes up the vast majority in the country, followed by Muslims, Christians, Hindus and animists. According to non-official estimates by various agencies (including those of the US State Department), the Muslim population in Burma is somewhere between 10 to 20%, including the much-discriminated and suffering Rohingya population of Arakan (Rakhaing) state, whose nearly half the population is now living in Diaspora as refugees in many parts of our world as a result of Burma's inhuman, discriminatory Citizenship Law of 1982.
Rohingya: The forgotten people
Dr. Habib Siddiqui
An often-practised devious way to grab someone's land is to deny his right to that property. Nothing could be more horrific when a government itself gets into such a criminal practice. The most glaring example of such a crime can be seen in the practices of the regimes that have ruled Burma (now Myanmar) since its independence from Britain in 1948 (especially, since 1962 when Gen. Ne Win came to power). In our times, one can hardly find a regime that has been so atrocious, so inhuman and so barbarous in its denial of basic human rights to a people that trace their origin to the land for nearly a millennium. The victims are the Rohingya Muslims living in the Arakan (now Rakhine) state. They have become the forgotten people of our time.
Just Imagine This!
Dr. Habib Siddiqui
[Author’s note: This paper is based on author’s speech at the PENN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM on “The Rohingyas of Burma and Bangladesh” on Friday, March 31, 2006 in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. The material in this paper came from author’s personal contacts with the Rohingya Diaspora community and information that is available in the reports of various human rights groups, notably the Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch and the Karen Human Rights Group.]
Part 1: Nightmare, fiction or a living reality?
Imagine this. You are living in a country that does not recognize you as a citizen in spite of the fact that your forefathers lived there for centuries. If that were not enough of a traumatic experience, consider that other ethnic groups who are fighting the regime for self-determination and human rights consider you as outsiders. It must be your worst kind of nightmare when you realize that half of your people have been forced to take asylum or refuge outside, and you may be the next in line to seek a way out of this living hell.
Religious & Racial Riots due to Rumours
I am somewhat disappointed reading some accusatory notes in which they seemed to accept the alleged rape story of Buddhist girls/women by Muslims for a fact.
Divide & Rule
Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Let me say that the SPDC military regime did not come in the vacuum of history. It has learned the art of “divide and rule,” a policy that was patented in the history rather well. The SPDC has succeeded in gaining and holding power over Burma through a combination of skills, not the least of which include that “divide and rule” policy.
A movement for democracy, freedom and human rights
Arakan bottled up in Pride and Prejudices
Abid Bahar
In Burma, majority of its people follow Buddhism as their faith. Buddhism is known as a religion of peace. The Buddhist samsara discourse in its subtle meaning is normally understood to work as an aid to pacify anger and promote peace. This is however is not the case in the north western corner of Burma’s Arakan province. Contrary to Buddhist precepts, in Arakan, Buddhism is used to promote antagonism and violence against its Rohingya citizens. In this type of use, the xenophobic Moghs have elevated their religion to the status of a political ideology. It has lately promoted the political conceptualization of Buddhism to fight its perceived enemy, the Rohingyas. In this endeavor they are using Buddhism to justify their political agenda of exclusivity and ethnic cleansing, similar to the former Yugoslavian Serb’s use of religious discourse to commit genocide against Muslims.
Rohingya Peoples Legitimate Human Rights
For some people puzzled with the merchant history of Rohingers in the coastal Arakan “Wonder how many of these merchants landed in Arakan State of Burma to become a significant and distinct race of 1.2 millions speaking a Chittagonian language.”
Burmese Invasion of Arakan and the Rise of Non-Bengali Settlements in Chittagong of Bangladesh- Arak
Dr.Abid Bahar, Canada
February 15 2006
In Burma, majority of its people follow Buddhism as their faith. Buddhism is known as a religion of peace. The Buddhist samsara discourse in its subtle meaning is normally understood to work as an aid to pacify anger and promote peace. This is however not the case is in the north western corner of Burma's Arakan province. Contrary to Buddhist precepts, in Arakan, Buddhism is used to promote antagonism and violence against its Rohingya citizens. In this type of use, the extremist Moghs have elevated their religion to the status of a political ideology.
Letter to Bo Aung Din of PDP on Arakan ultra-nationalist academics
Dear Bo Aung Din,
There is no denying that many of us are at odds with Aye Chan's version of history of Arakan. As an ultra-nationalist Rakhaing, his views on the minorities mimic those of the current hated SPDC regime, which is victimization of the minority so that such criminal actions would curry favor from amongst the majority, thus further fragmenting the already divided nation into opposing camps, while they hold onto power approvingly – the typical 19th century colonization policy, History 101.
Whats in a name Discovering Leo in Arakan?
Rohingya History
The Muslim Rohingya of Burma
Martin Smith
A preliminary point I want to highlight is that, while Burma has many complex ethnic problems, the plight of the Muslims of Arakan is by far the most tense and difficult of all the ethnic problems I have encountered in over a decade of writing on the political and ethnic situation in Burma. Firstly, there is a strong element of ethnic communalism, which has resulted in periodic but unpredictable outbreaks of social violence and upheaval; secondly, there are strong religious undercurrents which relate to the situation of all Muslims in Burma at large; and, thirdly, there is an intransigence on the part of many of the main protagonists, which has made the finding of lasting solutions so very difficult.
IMAGES ASIA: REPORT ON THE SITUATION FOR MUSLIMS IN BURMA
May 1997
From: sitthipong <sitthi@cm.ksc.co.th> Content
unfortunately the Muslims used(their) methods (to expand their religion) so
successfully that they have become Muslim countries; Buddhism has
disappeared from these countries…. Bear in mind that the four social
causes of the SLORC must be accomplished…."
The Muslim massacre of 1942
When British withdrew, the administration of Arakan division was entrusted to a Magh Buddhist extremist, U Kyaw Khine, with the power of commissioner of Arakan division. Many British soldiers left leaving behind a large number of arms, which easily reached the hand of Maghs.
Rohingya Culture
Rohingya Language has received ISO recognition
Rohingyas have already received ISO (International Standard Organization) recognition for their language that is Rohingya/Rohingya language. SIL.ORG has already released, as the final approval as of 18 July 2007, the code (RHG) as the Language code for...
Scholarship from Awqaf Kuwait for higher Education
By HasanThere is an announcement for higher education scholarship from Al Awqaf of Kuwait in relevant field to endowment. If you are interested, please visit the following link (Written in Arabic)http://www.awqaf.org/portal.aspx?tabid=329
Study in Sudan
Education is the backbone of any nation. Without educated patriotic people our struggle toward regaining our rights and self determination shall remain at distance. At such we have from the very beginning of the leadership, tried to facilitate our people with whatever means to assist them in their plight for education. Today we have initiated a new project of facilitating information and resources to our people to provide them with a guide to further their education. With the hope, one day they will lead the nation further and serve the community to their best.
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