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Announcement of New Website: Rohingya Today (RohingyaToday.Com) Dear Readers, From 1st January 2019 onward, the Rohingya News Portal 'Rohingya Blogger' will be renamed and upgraded as 'Rohingya Today'. Due to this transition to a new name, our website will be available at www.rohing...

Rohingya News @ Int'l Media

Maung Zarni, leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday. | CHISATO TANAKA By Chisato Tanaka, Published by The Japan Times on October 25, 2018 A leader of a global network of activists for Rohingya Mu...

Myanmar News

By Sena Güler | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 1, 2018 Maung Zarni says he will boycott Beijing-sponsored events until the country reverses its 'troubling path' ANKARA -- A human rights activist and intellectual said he withdrew from a Beijing-sponsored forum in London to pro...

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Article @ RB

Oskar Butcher RB Article October 6, 2018 Every night in an unassuming shop space located in Mandalay’s 39thStreet, Lu Maw and Lu Zaw – the remaining members of the Burma’s most famous comedy trio, the Moustache Brothers – present their show: a curious combination of comedy, political sa...

Article @ Int'l Media

A demonstration over identity cards at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in April, 2018. Image: NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. By Natalie Brinham | Published by Open Democracy on October 21, 2018 Wary of the past, Rohingya have frustrated the UN’s attempts to provide them with documenta...

Analysis @ RB

By M.S. Anwar | Opinion & Analysis The Burmese (Myanmar) quasi-civilian government unleashed a large-scale violence against the minority Rohingya in the western Myanmar state of Arakan in 2012. The violence, which some wrongly frame as ‘Communal’, was carried out by the Burmese armed forces...

Analysis @ Int'l Media

By Maung Zarni, Natalie Brinham | Published by Middle East Institute on November 20, 2018 “It is an ongoing genocide (in Myanmar),” said Mr. Marzuki Darusman, the head of the UN Human Rights Council-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission at the official briefing at ...

Opinion @ RB

Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj MS Anwar RB Opinion November 12, 2018 Some may differ. But I believe the government of Bangladesh is ...

Opinion @ Int'l Media

By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 15, 2018 US will not intercede, and Myanmar's neighbors see it through economic lens, so international coalition for Rohingya needed LONDON -- The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution ca...

History @ RB

Aman Ullah  RB History August 25, 2016 The ethnic Rohingya is one of the many nationalities of the union of Burma. And they are one of the two major communities of Arakan; the other is Rakhine and Buddhist. The Muslims (Rohingyas) and Buddhists (Rakhines) peacefully co-existed in the A...

Rohingya History by Scholars

Dr. Maung Zarni's Remark: The best research on Rohingya history: British Orientalism which created the pseudo-scientific biological notion of "Taiyinthar" or "real natives" of #Myanmar caused that country's post-colonial cancer of official & popular genocidal Racism.  This co...

Report @ RB

(Photo: Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters) RB News  October 5, 2013  Thandwe, Arakan – Rakhinese mob in Thandwe started attacking Kaman Muslims on September 28, 2013. As a result, 5 Kaman Muslims were mercilessly killed and 1 was died in heart attack while escaping the attack. 781 Kaman Mus...

Report by Media/Org

Rohingya families arrive at a UNHCR transit centre near the village of Anjuman Para, Cox’s Bazar, south-east Bangladesh after spending four days stranded at the Myanmar border with some 6,800 refugees. (Photo: UNHCR/Roger Arnold) By UN News May 11, 2018 Late last year, as violent repressi...

Press Release

(Photo: Reuters) Joint Statement: Rohingya Groups Call on U.S. Government to Ensure International Accountability for Myanmar Military-Planned Genocide December 17, 2018  We, the undersigned Rohingya organizations worldwide, call for accountability for genocide and crimes against...

Rohingya Orgs Activities

RB News December 6, 2017 Tokyo, Japan -- Legislators from all parties, along with Human Rights Now, Human Rights Watch, and Save the Children, came together to host the emergency parliament in-house event “The Rohingya Human Rights Crisis and Japanese Diplomacy” on December 4th. The eve...

Petition

By Wyston Lawrence RB Petition October 15, 2017 There is one petition has been going on Change.org to remove Ven. Wira Thu from Facebook. He has been known as Buddhist Bin Laden. Time magazine published his image on their cover with the title of The Face of Buddhist Terror. The petitio...

Campaign

A human rights activist and genocide scholar from Burma Dr. Maung Zarni visits Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Extermination Camp and calls on European governments - Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Germany not to collaborate with the Evil - like they did with Hitler 75 ye...

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Eleven diplomatic missions in Burma issued a joint statement on the situation in Rakhine State

On November 9, 2012, eleven diplomatic missions in Burma issued a joint statement on the situation in Rakhine State. Source : U.S Embassy of Rangoon [...] Read more

Joint Rohingya Organizational Statement on Rohingya Genocide

Y.B Dato’ Sri Anifah Aman Minister of Foreign Affairs Wisma Putra, No. 1, Jalan Wisma Putra, Precint 2, Federal Government Administrative Centre, 62602, Putrajaya, Wilayah Perekutuan Putrajaya Phone: 03-8887-4000 08 November 2012 Dear Yours Excellency, GENOCIDE ON ROHINGYA OF ARAKAN, BURMA There are an estimated 8 millions Muslims [...] Read more

Urgent international Actions to Protect Rohingya People

Joint statement  Date: 8th November 2012   Urgent international Actions to Protect Rohingya People We the undersigned thank all organisations, NGOs, media and individuals for joining today’s “Global Day of Action” event in solidarity with the Rohingya people. Despite international outcries the Burmese government is trying to use [...] Read more

Joint statement on humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State

6 November 2012 As organisations that work to promote the rights of all people of Burma, including the Rohingya community, we express our deep concerns about the shortfall in funding for the humanitarian operation to assist people in Rakhine State who have been affected – directly or indirectly [...] Read more

Worldwide Rohingya Organisations Call for Global Day of Action on 8th November

We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations worldwide are calling for a global day of action in support of human rights for the Rohingya people of Burma.  We call upon all organisations and individuals, who support human rights for the Rohingya, to unite to take action on November 8th. On [...] Read more

ARU, BTF-USA, and IILO condemn new waves of organized violence against Rohingya by Rakhine in Arakan state, Burma

JOINT PRESS STATEMENT The Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), Burma Task Force USA, and the International Islamic Lawyers Organization condemn the new waves of organized violence by the Rakhine against Rohingya, in its strongest possible terms. We calls upon the international community to collectively and unequivocally demand the Government [...] Read more

Joint Open Letter to Myanmar President U Thein Sein

To,   His Excellency President U Thein Sein   President   Government of the Union of Burma (Myanmar) Date: 10/24/2012 Subject: Request to take legal action for inciting racial and religious hatred Excellency Mr. President, (1)Since June 2012, Sectarian violence between Buddhist majority and Muslim Minority in Myanmar [...] Read more

Urgent collective international action needed to protect the Rohingya (Joint Press Release)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Joint Press release (25-10-2012)Urgent collective international action needed to protect the Rohingya We express our serious concern that the most brutal violence is now reoccurring in Arakan; and we strongly condemn the ongoing mass killing, burning and destruction of [...] Read more

Joint Statement by Rohingya Organisations

Date: 24 October 2012 ROHINGYA CLEANSING CONTINUED IN ARAKAN UNDER STATE PROGRAMME, U.N. PEACEKEEING FORCE MOST URGENT  While strongly condemning the renewed violence and carnage by the extremist Rakhine Buddhists against the Muslims or Rohingyas in Arakan, we jointly state as follows:  Since 21 October organized gangs of [...] Read more

Rohingya Exodus