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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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(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...

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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...

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(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...

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In Myanmar, hatred for Rohingya Muslims runs so deep that a diplomat called them 'ugly as ogres' — and got promoted

Rohingya children wait for their parents to receive aid earlier this month at the Balukhali food distribution center near the town of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 646,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh. (Tracey Nearmy / EPA-EFE / REX / Shutterstock) By Shashank [...] Read more

U.S. blacklists Myanmar army general who it says oversaw atrocities against Rohingya Muslims

By Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times December 22, 2017 The Trump administration on Thursday blacklisted a Myanmar army general who it said oversaw human rights abuses committed by security forces against Rohingya Muslims. Imposing economic sanctions against the general, Maung Maung Soe, was the toughest action the United [...] Read more

How a humanitarian crisis tarnished Nobel winner Aung San Suu Kyi's legacy, perhaps forever

A Muslim woman shouts slogans while holding a defaced portrait of Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally outside Myanmar's Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Tatan Syuflana / Associated Press) By Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times  September 9, 2017 She was once synonymous with the struggle against oppression. [...] Read more

Myanmar's long-suffering Rohingya Muslims hoped that Aung San Suu Kyi would make them full citizens. They were wrong

Mohammad Siddique, 25, doesn't believe the Myanmar ID card being issued to Rohingya Muslims will restore the group's rights. (Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times) By Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times April 9, 2017 Sittwe, Myanmar -- It is just an ID card, sky blue and gently creased, but [...] Read more

A brazen political killing shakes Myanmar, already teetering on the path to democracy

A man carrying a portrait of Ko Ni clears a way for the arrival of the slain lawyer's grandson in Yangon, Myanmar, in January. (Thein Zaw / Associated Press) By Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times March 25, 2017 U Ko Ni had just stepped off a plane and [...] Read more

It's way past time to stop mistreating Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

A Rohingya Muslim man who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence cries as he pleads from a boat after he and others were intercepted by Bangladeshi border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh, in June 2012. Bangladesh had been returning thousands of Rohingya Muslims, according to human rights [...] Read more

Despite a hopeful election, full democracy is still uncertain in Myanmar

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, arrives to participate in the inaugural session of Myanmar's lower house parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Feb. 1. (Aung Shine Oo / Associated Press) By Editorial Board Los Angeles Times February 21, 2016 The sight of hundreds of freely elected [...] Read more

In Myanmar, a young Rohingya dreams of leaving despite foiled boat journey

Mohammed Ayuf, 16, who lives in a displacement camp in Myanmar, says of his attempt to go to Malaysia: "My mind was just focused on how I could make some money and help the family." (Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times) By Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times December [...] Read more

U.S. patience with Myanmar should only go so far

Member's of Burma's Rohingya ethnic minority are escorted by Burmese police in a truck heading back to their remote community of Aung Mingalar. (Getty Images) By Los Angeles Times Editorial September 3, 2015 When the United States reestablished full diplomatic relations with Myanmar in 2012, the Obama administration [...] Read more

Myanmar's backsliding leads to doubt about U.S. diplomacy strategy

Rohingya children collect sticks to sell as firewood in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The Muslim minority group has become a target of violent attacks by Buddhists and an ethnic cleansing campaign. (Gemunu Amarasinghe / Associated Press) By Paul Richter Los Angeles Times August 30, 2015 The State Department's second-ranking [...] Read more

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