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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...

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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 ...

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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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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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December 2, 2013

A few days ago, a delegation from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) visited Myanmar’s riot-hit western Rakhine state to investigate allegations of rampant human rights abuses against the minority Muslim Rohingyas. The OIC officials met Rohingya leaders, civil society leaders, legislators and others. They also met Buddhist leaders in a bid to seek ways to end the animosity between the two communities that had resulted from Buddhist violence, about two years ago, against the Rohingyas that left some 200 dead and 140,000 displaced. Rather significant were the protests against their visit, led by Buddhist monks. These protests underscored the Buddhists’ fear of any kind of international investigation into their dirty deeds. At the same time, the permission granted to the OIC team to visit Rakhine state was significant. This reflects the new tolerance of the government of President Thein Sein. But allowing the OIC team to visit the Rohingyas alone is not enough. Concrete action that will ensure the fair treatment of the Rohingyas is an urgent necessity. For example, Thein Sein could seriously consider making the stateless Rohingyas full citizens of Myanmar, which the United Nations had recently demanded, and at the same time abrogate all laws that deny them citizenship. It’s not only the Thein Sein regime but even Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy consider the Rohingyas as non-citizens whose rightful place is in Bangladesh. 

The persecution of the Rohingyas, which started long ago, has occurred at periodic intervals. During the mid-1990s, thousands fled to Bangladesh as they could not endure Buddhist attacks. An international outcry followed. Efforts to comfort them were then made and there was a temporary halt to their persecution. The latest attacks of the Rohingyas, which caused more than 200 deaths and destructions of homes and mosques in Rakhine state, resulted in thousands fleeing to Bangladesh. Scores drowned while trying to escape in rickety boats to neighbouring Thailand. The attacks against Muslims later spread to other parts of the country. In Meikhitila, more than 50 Muslims were killed. The tension is not over and could erupt once again. So, before that happens, international intervention is an urgent necessity. Until now that has not happened. Only the OIC has shown an interest in the suffering Rohingyas. Other nations are busy kowtowing to the quasi-military government and trying hard to get a piece of that country’s rich natural resources pie. Among them is the United States. The European Union is not far behind. India, another democracy, is also wooing Thein Sein. And this gives the government an upper hand and makes it look the other way while the Rohingyas are being brutalised.

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