April 08, 2025

News @ RB

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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The good, bad and ugly in Burma By Benjamin Zawacki

On November 7, 2010, on the occasion of Myanmar's first elections in 20 years, Amnesty International commented that the polls which had "presented an opportunity for Myanmar to make meaningful human rights changes on its own terms" were instead "being held against a backdrop of political repression and [...] Read more

ေခတ္မီေအာင္ တိတ္တိတ္ကေလး ေရးတဲ့စာ

က်မ မွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အသိ တေယာက္မွ မရွိပါဘူး။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေတြ ေန တဲ့ ေဒသ လည္း တခါ မွ မေရာက္ဖူးပါဘူး။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္..ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေတြ အေၾကာင္း လည္း ေကာင္းေကာင္း မသိ နိုင္ပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမဲ့.. ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေတြ ကို အသဲအသန္ ခုခံ မုန္းတီး ေန တဲ့.. ရခိုင္ မိတ္ေဆြ.. ျမန္မာ မိတ္ေဆြ ေတြ ေတာ့ ၊ အမ်ား ၾကီး ရွိ ပါတယ္။ သူတို႕ ေျပာျပ တဲ့.. မုန္းစရာ ေကာင္း လွ [...] Read more

Response to Dr. Aye Chan’s “ Enclave ’’ with Influx Viruses ( In Burmese)

The Burmese military has clearly embarked on a policy of ridding the country of ethnic Rohingyasby any possible means. Official claims that the refugees are "illegal immigrants"-Asia WatchAn enclave is part of a country geographically separated from the main part by thesurrounding foreign territory. A great deal of [...] Read more

ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ ၏ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈမ်ား စုံစမ္းရန္ WLB ေတာင္းဆို

ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊႏွင့္ အေပါင္းအပါမ်ား က်ဴးလြန္ထားသည့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈ မ်ားအတြက္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈခံု႐ုံးတြင္ တရားစြဲဆိုႏုိင္ေရးကုိ ဦးတည္၍ ကုလသမဂၢ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ (COI) ဖြဲ႔စည္းရန္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္(ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ) (WLB)က ယေန႔ ေတာင္းဆိုလုိက္သည္။ “အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ တရားမွ်တမႈကို ေဆာင္ၾကဥ္းပါ” အမည္ရသည့္ မွတ္တမ္း ဗီဒီယိုWLB က ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ခ်င္းမိုင္ တကၠသိုလ္ International Center – IC ခန္းမ၌ “အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ တရားမွ်တမႈကို ေဆာင္ၾကဥ္းပါ” အမည္ရသည့္ မွတ္တမ္း ဗီဒီယို အေခြ ထုတ္ေ၀ ျဖန္႔ခ်ိေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ [...] Read more

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာ ႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ဒီဇင္ဘာလအတြင္း ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရးခရီး လာေရာက္မည္

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္ ျပည္သူ႔သမၼတႏိုင္ငံ၏ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ရွိတ္ဟာဆီနာသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္အရ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ဒီဇင္ဘာလအတြင္း လားေရာက္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္ ႏိုင္ငံသံ႐ံုးမွ သိရသည္။ "၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို လာေရာက္ပါမယ္။ ခရီးစဥ္က ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၅) ရက္ကေန (၇) ရက္လို႔ စီစဥ္ထားပါတယ္" ဟု ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္ ႏိုင္ငံသံ႐ံုးမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူတစ္ဦးက ေအာက္တိုဘာလ (၂၈) ရက္တြင္ ေျပာသည္။ ခရီးစဥ္၏ အေသးစိတ္ အစီအစဥ္ကို ေရးဆြဲဆဲျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၎က ေျပာသည္။ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခရီးစဥ္သတင္းသည္ International Tribunal for the Law [...] Read more

Boatpeople Off Phuket Face Cat and Mouse with Navy in Pursuit

We don't know whether this young Rohingya, photographed in custody in Ranong in January 2009, is alive or dead By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison PHUKET: At least two boatloads of Rohingya are believed to be off the coast near Phuket today, with Thai Navy patrol vessels looking [...] Read more

Arakanese Rohingya in Encyclopaedia of the South East Asian Ethnography

Arakanese: Buddhist and Muslim communities of Burma Physical Features: Relations between Buddhists and Muslims in this area had grown hostile under British rule, for the same economic and social reasons to which we referred above with regard to the whole of Burma, and the tension led to an [...] Read more

Rohingya - Rakhine -- Debate or Dialogue between thinking men? by Dr.Habib

Dr. Habib Siddiqui From the responses we have seen thus far, it is quite obvious that the extreme racists and bigots within the Rakhine Buddhist community are running out of wits after my recent posting of the Rohingya Identity and Demography in the British Era. There I showed [...] Read more

ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား မွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္း ဥပေဒကို ျပင္ဆင္သည့္ ဥပေဒ

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတက ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္း ဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ခ်က္ဟာ ထူးထူးျခားျခား မရွိဘူးလို႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစု (NDF) ပါတီက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မတိုင္ခင္တုန္းက ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ပုန္ကန္မႈနဲ႔ ျပစ္ဒဏ္က်ခံထားရသူေတြဟာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ဖို႔ အသနားခံစာ တင္ရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့အခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားတာမို႔ အခုျပင္ဆင္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ အက်ံဳး၀င္မႈရွိမရွိ ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္း မရွိေသးဘူးလို႔လည္း NDF ပါတီက ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီအေျခအေန အျပည့္အစံုကို မသင္းသီရိက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၄ ရက္ေန႔စြဲနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္က ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္း ဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ခ်က္ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံပါတီေတြအဖို႔ လႈပ္သာလူးသာအေျခအေနတစ္ခု ရွိလာတာကလြဲရင္ ထူးျခားတဲ့အခ်က္ေတြ မပါဘူးလို႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစု (NDF) ပါတီက ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ [...] Read more

Government paves the way for Suu Kyi into its parliament – Why?

By Zin Linn>> Burma’s President Thein Sein has signed an amendment law on political parties in a noticeable effort to persuade National League for Democracy party led by democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to reregister as a party recognizing the new political structure. President Thein Sein signed [...] Read more

မေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္ေသးတဲ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားအေရး

ဒီတပတ္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး မ်က္ေမွာက္ေရးရာ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္အစီအစဥ္မွာ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ အစိုးရဟာ တိုင္းရင္းသားျပႆနာ ေျပလည္ေရးအတြက္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ အင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး၊ ကမ္းလွမ္းတာေတြ ၾကားေနရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ တုိင္းရင္းသားအင္အားစုေတြက တဖြဲ႔ခ်င္း မေဆြးေႏြးႏိုင္ဘဲ တိုင္းရင္းသားအင္အားစုအားလံုးကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳတဲ့အဖြဲ႔အေနနဲ႔သာ ေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုေနၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုမ်ဳိး အစိုးရရဲ ႔ ကမ္းလွမ္းခ်က္နဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြရဲ ႔ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ ကြာဟေနတာကို ေျပလည္ေအာင္ညိႇႏိႈင္းလို႔ရမယ့္ အလားအလာ ရွိပါသလား။ ေကအန္ယူ - ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုးအဖြဲ႔ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဗိုလ္မွဴးေစာလွေငြနဲ႔ စစ္အစိုးရကိုယ္စား တုိင္းရင္းသားအင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေစ့စပ္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ဘူးသူ ဗိုလ္မွဴးေဟာင္းေအာင္လင္းထြဋ္တို႔ကို ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ က ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း ေဆြးေႏြးသံုးသပ္ တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ [...] Read more

Each day's the same under foreign guard

Protesters make their pleas behind detention centre fences in Darwin in July this year. You've been detained for years and nobody can tell you when you'll get out. You are known by your number and you are a refugee, ALISON BEVEGE reports. EVERY day you wake around 2pm. [...] Read more

Millions Are Stateless, Living in Legal Limbo

By The Citizen Correspondent What do Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel, both Nobel laureates in literature, have in common? All had been stateless during part of their lives.Up to 12 million people in the world are stateless. While [...] Read more

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးႏြယ္စုသည္ နိုင္ငံသား၊တိုင္းရင္းသားႏွင္႔ျမန္မာမ်ိဳးႏြယ္စုဟုတ္မဟုတ္ ဓါတ္ခြဲစမ္းသပ္ျခင္း။

က်ြန္ေတာ္ရဲ ႔ ေလ႔လာေတြ႔ရွိခ်က္ေတြကို ခ်မေရးခင္ ဦးစြာပထမ စာဖတ္သူေတြသိေအာင္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္အေနနဲ႔ ေျပာစရားေလးအနည္းငယ္ရွိေနလို႔ ေျပာခြင္႔ျပဳပါလို႔ ခြင္႔ပန္ပါရေစ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဟာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးစုေတြကို ေထာက္ခံေနသူလံုးဝမဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ ကန္႔ကြက္ ဆန္႔က်င္ေနသူ တစ္ဦးလည္းမဟုတ္ေၾကာင္းဆိုတာ စာဖတ္သူမ်ားအေနနဲ႔ သိေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အမွန္တရားကို ျမတ္နိဳးသူ ပီပီ ရွာေတြ႔ သမွ်ကို အမွန္အတိုင္း ေဖါက္သည္ ခ်ေပးျခင္းသာျဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း ရိုးသားစြာ ဝန္ခံပါတယ္။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးအေၾကာင္း၊၎တို႔၏ သမိုင္းဆိုင္ရာအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားႏွင္႔ ယင္းလူမ်ိဳးတို႔၏ ဇစ္ျမစ္ကို မေလ႔လာဘဲ မေနနိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ တြန္းအားေပးနိုင္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ အဓိကအခ်က္ကေတာ႔ အင္တာနက္ စာမ်က္ႏွာကို ဖြင္႔ၾကည္႔တိုင္း ဖြင္႔ၾကည္႔တိုင္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ဆန္႔က်င္ေနသူ လူတစ္စုနဲ႔တျခားတဖက္မွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ေထာက္ခံေနသူလူတစ္စု ယင္းလူႏွစ္စုတို႔၏ အျငင္းအခံုေၾကာင္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးဆိုတာ [...] Read more

Refugees’ protest ends with suicide attempts

By Jay Fletcher Rooftop protest by Rohingya refuges at Darwin detention centre in March.  An eight-day protest on the rooftop at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin ended shortly before five refugees “locked themselves in a room … where one man took an overdose of sleeping pills [...] Read more

Rohingya Exodus