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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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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...

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...

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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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Editorial by Int'l Media

By Dhaka Tribune Editorial November 5, 2017 How can we answer to our conscience knowing full-well what the Myanmar military is doing to the innocent Rohingya minority -- not even sparing children or pregnant women? Despite the on-going humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees ...

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Thai Military Opened Fire and Killed Rohingya North of Phuket, Say Boatpeople, Villagers

Photo - Phuket Wan Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison  Phuket Wan March 6, 2013 PHUKET: Thai security forces opened fire on defenceless Rohingya boatpeople north of Phuket, killing at least two and as many as 15, according to detailed accounts by three survivors and Thai villagers who are [...] Read more

Boatpeople Land North of Phuket With BBC, Aljazeera Filming

Rohingya boatpeople were quickly transferred to police trucks yesterday (Photo - Phuket Wan) Chutima Sidasathian & Alan Morison  Phuket Wan January 17, 2013  PHUKET: A group of 88 Rohingya boatpeople were apprehended and brought to shore north of Phuket yesterday under the gaze of the international media, the [...] Read more

'1000 Rohingya' Off Phuket as Scale of Trafficker Trade is Revealed

Children among boatpeople apprehended on Phuket on January 1 (Photo - Phuket Wan) Chutima Sidasathian & Alan Morison  Phuket Wan January 14, 2013  UPDATE NINE boats containing about 1000 Rohingya men, women and children are off the coast in the Phuket region now, maritime authorities said on Monday. [...] Read more

Second Rohingya Trafficking Camp Raided, Rights Group Calls for UN Intervention

Young Rohingya among those in the first camp raided yesterday (Photo - Metee Mooktaree) Alan Morison & Chutima Sidasathian Phuket Wan January 11, 2013 PHUKET: Hundreds more captive Rohingya were freed from traffickers in a fresh raid by authorities early today as an international rights organisation called on [...] Read more

Burma Must Recognise Rohingya or Face Asean Disgrace

Former Asean Secretary General Dr Surin Pitsuwan on Phuket last year (Photo - Phuket Wan) Alan Morison & Chutima Sidasathian Phuket Wan January 10, 2013 PHUKET: Indonesia is interceding in Burma as the Asean partners desperately try to stem international damage from years of Asean subterfuge and inaction [...] Read more

Thai Army Raids Traffickers' Border Camp, 366 Rohingya Held Captive

Children being treated today inside the people smugglers' camp (Photo - Metee Mooktaree) Chutima Sidasathian & Alan MorisonPhuket Wan January 10, 2013 PHUKET: Thai authorities raided a secret transit camp for Rohingya on the border with Malaysia today, apprehending 366 men, women and children and seven alleged people [...] Read more

Phuket Stop for Boatpeople: Rohingya Children Now Fleeing 'Certain Death' in Burma

Children enjoy snacks off Phuket after 13 days at sea in an open boat (Photo - Phuket Wan) Alan Morison & Chutima Sidasathian Phuket Wan January 1, 2013 PHUKET: A boatload of Rohingya - including women and children as young as three - was intercepted off the holiday [...] Read more

Rohingya Trucked North: Checkpoint Exposes 127 in Minivan Convoy

Rohingya arrested in southern Thailand await return to the Burma border (Photo - 77 Nation Channel) Chutima Sidasathian & Alan Morison  Phuket Wan December 27, 2012  PHUKET: A total of 127 Rohingya have been arrested in southern Thailand and trucked back to the Thailand-Burma border.  Those held were [...] Read more

Rejecting Shipwreck Survivors Shows Singapore Lacks a Heart

Top of the tree in so many ways, Singapore just lacks a heart (Photo - Phuket Wan) Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian Phuket Wan December 16, 2012  News Analysis PHUKET: Where did Singapore lose its heart? We visited the go-ahead city-state a while back and admired the stunning [...] Read more

Hundreds of Rohingya Held Captive as Three Boats Land on Thai Islands

The kind of vessel that the Rohingya use to make their voyages (Photo - Phuket Wan) Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison Phuket Wan December 10, 2012 PHUKET: Three boats laden with Rohingya men and boys have been apprehended off the Andaman coast of Thailand today, according to reports. [...] Read more

Trapped by Traffickers: Fleeing Rohingya Held Captive on the Thai Border

2009 Rohingya boat-people (Photo - Thai Military) Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian Phuket Wan December 9, 2012 PHUKET: Rohingya fleeing ethnic cleansing and starvation in Burma are driving a surge in business for people traffickers on the Thai border with Malaysia. The would-be refugees, who arrive by boat, [...] Read more

Children Face Malnutrition in Burma Camps, Unicef Report Confirms

A school for Rohingya kids without a building in Myanmar (Photo - IHH Turkey) Phuket Wan November 29, 2012 PHUKET: An alarming report from Dan Rivers of CNN this week said in summary: ''We have come to Rahkine state in Burma (Myanmar) to report on the latest threat [...] Read more

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