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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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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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US officials scrutinising Burma détente

By FRANCIS WADE US Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner joined Derek Mitchell for talks with Burmese ministers (Reuters) US officials currently in Burma have held talks with the country’s foreign minister amid the strongest push yet by Washington to reengage with a government it considers more intent [...] Read more

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ မဟာသီယာ ရန္ကုန္မွာေတြ႔

ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ မေလးရွား ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း မဟာသီယာ မုိဟာမက္တုိ႔ ယေန႔ညေန ၄ နာရီမွစတင္၍တနာရီ နီးပါးခန္႔ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ကုန္သည္ႀကီးမ်ား ဟုိတယ္တြင္ ေတြ႔ဆုံေၾကာင္း အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) အသုိင္းအ၀န္းက ေျပာသည္။မည္သည့္ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ား ေဆြးေႏြးသည္ကုိမူ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ေျပာဆုိျခင္း မရွိေပ။ ယေန႔ညေနပိုင္းက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ကုန္သည္ႀကီးမ်ား ဟိုတယ္တြင္ မဟာသီယာ မိုဟာမက္ႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္စုၾကည္တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံစဥ္ (ဓာတ္ပုံ- Burma VJ network ၏ facebook မွ) ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း မဟာသီယာသည္ လက္ရွိတြင္ မေလးရွားႏုိင္ငံ ပက္ထရြန္ ကားကုမၸဏီ ၏ အႀကံေပးအရာရွိအျဖစ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ [...] Read more

Debate: First Round: Is Aye Chan an academician or an anti-Rohingya? by Dr.Bahar

Dear Arakan Readers: At first when I began reading Aye Chan, I thought he was a scholar but as I went into details I found out that he has problems dealing "with multiple sides of issues" as is normally the case with xenophobes. You would notice here Aye [...] Read more

Suu Kyi’s dilemma and Naypyidaw’s confrontation-reconciliation approach on ethnic resistance groups By Sai Wansai

By Sai Wansai With Thein Sein government seen as almost bending over backwards to pave way for Aung San Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy (NLD) party re-registration by changing the party registration law, which would enable it to be engaged in parliament by-elections later this year [...] Read more

For those who are worried about the Rohingya taking over the part of western Burma by Dr.Zarni

By Maung Zarni For those who are worried about the Rohingya taking over the part of western Burma, a simple math may put things in perspective: Arakan/Rakhine Area is 18,500 Square Miles (according to 1901 Burma Census. Feel free to update and check the old Rakhine-land has shrunk or [...] Read more

ယခင္ နဲ႔ ယခု ကြာျခားသြားေသာ သိျခင္း ၂ ခု။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကုိ ေစတီဘုရားမ်ားေပါမ်ားတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံ လုိ႔တင္စားေခၚေဝၚေလ့ရွိၾကသလုိ၊ တခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း (ေရႊတိဂုံ ေစတီေတာ္ရဲ႕ ေတာက္ပထည္ဝါမွဳကုိအေၾကာင္းျပဳ၍ဟုထင္ပါသည္)ေရႊႏိုင္ငံဟုတင္စားၾကတတ္ပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံ ျခားေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ားကလည္း ျမန္မာအခ်င္းခ်င္းကုိ ေရႊေတြလုိ႔တင္စားေျပာဆုိတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ကုိယ့္ ႏိုင္ငံကို ျမင့္ျမတ္သူေတြ၊ ယဥ္ေက်းသူေတြေနတဲ့ႏို္င္ငံ၊ တန္ဖုိးရွိသူေတြေနတဲ့ တန္ဖုိးရွိတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံလုိ႔ ကမၻာကုိ သိ ေစခ်င္တာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားတုိင္းရဲ႕ဆႏၵပါ။ ျမန္မာကုိကမၻာ အထင္မႀကီးျခင္ေနပါ။ အထင္ေသးအျမင္ေသးခံရ မွာကုိေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားဘယ္သူကမွ မလုိလားၾကပါဘူး။ ၂၇ ႏွစ္ၾကာ တံခါးပိတ္ကာလႀကီး ၿပိဳပ်က္ခဲ့ၿပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္ ကမၻာ့ျပည္သူအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ျမန္မာဆုိတာက ုိျပန္လည္ သိလာၾကပါတယ္။ ၾကာေလ ပုိ၍သိလာေလပါ။ သုိ႔ေသာ္…အရင္ကသိျခင္း နဲ႔ အခုသိျခင္းက ေတာ့ကြာျခားသြား ပါတယ္။ တခ်ိန္တုန္းကေတာ့ (လြတ္လပ္ေရးမတုိင္ခင္နဲ႔ လြတ္လပ္ေရးရၿပီးစက)အထူးသျဖင့္ အိမ္နားနီးခ်င္း [...] Read more

Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s misinformation on Rohingya By Nurul Islam (U.K)

During recent years we have read series of depraved propagandas by a group of fanatics, who are restless to tarnish the image of the Rohingya people, under the pretext of so-called scholars/academics/Burmese experts preaching annihilation of the Rohingyas, a predominantly Muslim community in Arakan, Burma. One of them [...] Read more

Stop and/condemn the neo-fascist, racist anti-Rohingya petition campaign: Un-Buddhist, un-Christian and disgusting by Dr. Zarni

Even if the Rohingyas were not native to what we call Burma today, our birthplace, the inhuman and inhumane treatment of nearly 1 million Rohingya in a semi-concentration camp should be UNACCEPTABLE to any nationals from Burma, who think they have human decency and believe in the responsibility [...] Read more

Forced Labour, Extortion Persist in Chin State

 Villagers in Chin State are still facing forced labour and arbitrary extortion committed by Burma Army soldiers on patrol and local government authorities, sources from the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) said.  Captain Zarni Htun and four soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion No. 274 ordered four villagers from [...] Read more

BURMA LIVES IN THE PAST

Abid Bahar, PhD ( Part of the essay is adapted from Abid Bahar's book "Burma's Missing Dots," 2010)  Burma is a medium-sized country; rich in mineral resources and agriculture, and the majority of its people are followers of the Buddhist faith. With such material and spiritual assets, it [...] Read more

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