April 08, 2025

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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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Clinton Challenges Burma as Observers Display Skepticism Over Reforms

December 1, 2011: Burma's President Thein Sein, left, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a meeting at the President's Office in Naypyidaw, Burma.  NAYPYIDAW, Burma – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's handshake Thursday with the president of Burma may be the start [...] Read more

သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္နိုင္ငံၿခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္တို႕ ေနၿပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ေတြ႕ဆံု

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္တို႕သည္္ ယေန႕ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၁) ရက္ေန႕ နံနက္ပိုင္းက ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ သမၼတအိမ္ေတာ္တြင္ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္သည္ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံၿခားေရး ၀န္ၾကီး တစ္ဦးဧ။္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း (၅၀) ေက်ာ္အတြင္း ပထမဆံုး ခရီးစဥ္အၿဖစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ (၃၀)ရက္ေန႔ ညေနပိုင္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေနျပည္ေတာ္သုိ႕ ေရာက္ရွိလာၿခင္းၿဖစ္သည္။ ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္သည္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၂)ရက္ေန႕အထိ (၃)ရက္ၾကာၿမင့္မည့္ ခရီးစဥ္ၿဖစ္ၿပီး ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း နိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ၊ ၿပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္ႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠဌမ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ၾကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ၾကီးတို႕ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုမည္ ၿဖစ္ၿပီး ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ [...] Read more

Can Clinton, Suu Kyi change Burma?

(Commentary) – As the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Burma in 50 years, Hillary Clinton’s trip marks a turning point, and there is high expectation that Burma may finally be coming out of the cold. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Special Session [...] Read more

BROUK President U Tun Khin interview with Free Speech Radio News ( New York ) about Hilary Clinton's visit to Burma.

Click on play to listen Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country also known as Burma. It’s the first visit by a State Department head in fifty years and it comes after signs of change in the country. In recent months, Myanmar’s leaders [...] Read more

အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ ၿမန္မာၿပည္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိ

ယေန႔ညေန ၄နာရီခြဲခန္႔တြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ေလဆိပ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရိွလာေသာ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ကို ေတြ႔ရစဥ္  အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္သည္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ ၃၀ရက္ေန႔ ညေန ေလးနာရီ မိနစ္၃၀အခ်ိန္က အေမရိကန္ေလယာဥ္ ၈၀၀၀၂ ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၊ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ေလဆိပ္သုိ႔ ေရာက္ရႇိလာခဲ့ပါသည္။  ႏႇစ္ေပါင္း ၅၆ႏႇစ္တာကာလအတြင္း သမိုင္း၀င္ခရီးစဥ္အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္ခဲ့ေသာ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ကို ေနျပည္ေတာ္ေလဆိပ္၌ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ၾကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဒုတိယ၀န္ၾကီး ေဒါက္တာမ်ိဳးျမင့္က ၾကိဳဆိုခဲ့ပါသည္။ထို ေနာက္ ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ႏႇင့္ အေမရိကန္ကိုယ္စားလႇယ္အဖြဲ႕သည္ ေခတၲတည္းခိုမည့္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရႇိ သဂၤဟဟိုတယ္သို႔ ဆက္လက္ ထြက္ခြာသြားခဲ့ၾက ပါသည္။  ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခရီးစဥ္မႇာ သံုးရက္ၾကာျမင့္မည္ ျဖစ္ျပီး [...] Read more

Sec.Clinton Arrives in Myanmar to Assess Reforms (video)

Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Deputy Foreign Minister Myo Myint of Myanmar, left, after her arrival in Naypyidaw on Wednesday. By STEVEN LEE MYERS NAY PYI DAW, Myanmar — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here on Wednesday to measure [...] Read more

Where Are the Rohingya Boatpeople? Human Rights Watch Calls on Thailand to Answer

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian PHUKET: Human Rights Watch is calling on the Government of Thailand to reveal the whereabouts of a boatload of would-be refugees and explain the Army's role in the unconventional apprehension and detention of the group. The 92 Rohingya waded ashore on the [...] Read more

က်ားကြဲရင္ ေခြးအ ဆြဲမယ္ By ထြန္းေအာင္ေက်ာ္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ပါတီမွတ္ပုံတင္ၿခင္းႏွင့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ရန္ဆံုးၿဖတ္ၿခင္းအေပၚဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ားအတြင္းသေဘာတူူေထာက္ခံသူမ်ားႏွင့္သေဘာမတူသူမ်ားအၾကားအၿငင္းပြါးလာခ့ဲၿပီးစစ္အာဏာရွင္ကိုမတိုက္ႏိုင္ေတာ့ဘဲအခ်င္းခ်င္း ၿငင္းခုံၾကရင္းဘံုရန္သူ ေပ်ာက္၍စစ္အာဏာရွင္အၾကိဳက္တဦးႏွင့္တဦးလက္ညွိဳးထိုး၊ ရန္ေတြ႔ ရင္းတဝဲလည္လည္ေသြး ကြဲၾက ၿပန္သည္။ က်ားကြဲေတာ့ ေခြးအ မ်ားကဝိုင္းဆြဲၿခင္းကိုခံရ ေတာ့ မည့္ကိန္း ယေန႔ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အား စုမ်ားအတြင္း ဆိုက္ ေရာက္ေနသၿဖင့္သတိေပးႏွိဳး ေဆာ္ လိုက္ရေပေတာ့သည္။ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနရာမွစဥ္းစားၾကည့္ၿခင္း။၁။ ေဒၚစုေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ၿဖင့္စုစုေပါင္း၁၃ႏွစ္ေနခဲ့စဥ္NLDပါတီသည္ပါတီဝင္သန္းေက်ာ္မွွ ေသာင္းဂဏန္းပင္မရွိသေလာက္အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ဦးေရက်ဆင္းခဲ့ရသလိုနယ္ပါတီရုံးမ်ားသည္လည္း ဆိုင္းဘုတ္ပါမက်န္ ၿဖဳတ္သိမ္းပိတ္ပင္ၿခင္းခံခဲ့ရသည္မွာအမ်ားအသိပင္ၿဖစ္သည္။ ၂။ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ပိုင္းတြင္လည္းသက္ၾကီးရြယ္အိုမ်ားကအမ်ားစုၿဖစ္ေနၿပီးပါတီကိုဦးမ ေဆာင္ႏိိုင္ ဘဲေရႊဝါေရာင္သံဃာ့အေရးအခင္းတြင္ လူထုႏွင့္မေပါင္းစပ္ႏိုင္ဘဲေဘးေရွာင္ ေနခဲ့သည့္အထိအရုပ္ ဆိုးအက်ဥ္းတန္ခဲ့သည္။ထိုအေၿခအေနတြင္ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္မွလြတ္လာေသာေဒၚစုအေနႏွင့္ဘယ္လိုရပ္တည္ရမလဲ? အင္အားခ်ိနဲ႔ေနေသာသူမပါတီကိုဘယ္လို ၿပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ယူမလဲ? နအဖနဲ႔ဆက္လက္၍္ထိပ္တိုက္ေတြ႔ၿပီးေနအိမ္အ က်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ၿပန္ေနမလား?၊ ေဒၚစုအေနနဲ႔စဥ္းစားမွာအမွန္ပါ။ ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာဦးသိန္းစိန္တို႔ကလဲဗိုက္နာေနၿပီ၊ သူ႔ရဲ႕စစ္ရုပ္ေသး အစိုးရကို အာဆီယံကေထာက္ခံ ၿပီးလာမဲ့ အာဆီယံအစည္းအေဝး မွာဥကၠဌ ရာထူးရဘို႔ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွမွာလူရာဝင္ဘို႔ရယ္၊ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံ ေတြ ကပိတ္ထားတဲ့စီးပြါးေရးပိတ္ဆို႔မွဳ ေတြကို ရုတ္သိမ္းဘို႔ေဒၚစုကိုခ်ဥ္းကပ္လာခဲ့တယ္၊ [...] Read more

USDP PLANNING ON ROHINGYA TO PROVIDE WRONG INFORMATION DURING U.S SECRETARY OF STATE VISIT

The authorities take moulawies (religious leader) from northern rakhine to meet with U.S Secretary of state , Hillary Clinton who will visit to YGN on 1st December.  The reliable source told that the authorities will ask them by force that their is no racial discrimination, human rights violations and religion persecution.  [...] Read more

A petition urging Clinton to keep up the pressure on Burma

In three days, Hilary Clinton will visit Burma. If she heeds the words of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, her message could finally force this brutal regime to make major democratic reforms. But if she simply applauds initial changes and speaks of lifting sanctions, the [...] Read more

Poem: Anti- Rohingya Racism and Holliganism in Arakan by Dr.Abid Bahar

Oh holligan man, youuuu the enemy of the nation You commit holliganism in the state of Arakan Holliganism in the Bay, ancient Mogh pirates ran Now you promote racism in the Burmese province of Arakan Oh, holligan man, the enemy of the nation! Oh holliganman, youuuu, the enemy [...] Read more

ျမန္ – ကန္ ဆက္ဆံေရးမွာ ဘယ္သူပို အက်ိဳးရွိမလဲ

အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ဒီတပတ္မွာ သြားေရာက္လည္ပတ္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏွစ္ ၅၀ အတြင္း ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ သြားတဲ့ ဒီခရီးစဥ္မွာ သူဟာ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ အပါအဝင္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေတြ နဲ႔ေရာ၊ အတိုက္အခံေတြနဲ႔ပါ ေတြ႕ဆံုမွ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္းက လူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြ၊ NGO အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြ၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းေတြကိုလည္း ေတြ႕ဆံုမွာပါ။ ဒီခရီးစဥ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပ သတင္းစာဆရာေတြက ေထာင့္မ်ိဳးစံုက ေဝဖန္ေရးသားၾကပါတယ္။ ကလင္တန္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို သြားရမယ္၊ ႀကိဳဆိုရမယ္ ဆိုတဲ့သေဘာထားကိုေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းမွာေရာ ျပည္ပမွာပါ ဒီလိုင္းကို သေဘာတူတယ္လို႔ ဆိုရမွာပါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီခရီးစဥ္ဟာ ဘယ္လို [...] Read more

Living in the Racial Faultline: Rohingyas Look like Bengalis but are the People of Burma by Abid Bahar Ph.D.

Who are the Rohingyas? An Arakani xenophob named Aye Chan says they are "Bengalis" from Bangladesh, and many of his hoodlum followers even call Rohingyas the "Talibans"; some even call them as "terrorists" perhaps because most Rohingyas are Muslims and some racist people it is easy to find [...] Read more

USCIRF Letter to Secretary Clinton regarding Burma

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. Department of State Washington, DC Dear Madam Secretary: As you prepare to travel to Burma, I am writing on behalf of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to urge you to raise concerns about freedom of religion [...] Read more

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION (ARNO) welcomes the visit of US Secretary of State to Burma

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA PRESS RELEASE (28 November 2011) ARNO welcomes the visit of US Secretary of State to Burma Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) warmly welcomes the forthcoming visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Burma, while inviting her attention to the [...] Read more

Bangladeshi PM in push for Burma gas

By JOSEPH ALLCHIN The border fence still under construction will run the length of the Burma-Bangladesh border and is aimed at stengthening security (Joseph Allchin) Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is due to travel toBurmaearly next month amid speculation that her country’s desire for gas imports from its [...] Read more

Crimes in Northern Burma ,Kachin State POTENTIAL WAR CRIMES EXPOSED (Report)

The geographical scope of this report focuses on frontlinecommunities in southern Kachin State in Burma. While thesituation of conflict-affected communities living in other areasof Burma is not addressed in this report, the areas that arecovered provide a sample of some of the trends and impactsassociated with conflict in [...] Read more

17 Rohingya Refugee Boat-people rescued, around 138 Still missing in Bay of Bengal

Teknaf, Bangladesh: About 17 people were rescued and around 138 were missing while a Malaysia voyage’s boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal on November 23, at night, according to an elder from Alaythankyaw, Maungdaw south. The Rohingya boat-people dead body floating in the Naf River “The boat [...] Read more

More Rohingya Refugee boat people to flee Burma

By  Lindsay Murdoch, Bangkok Rohingya on a Thai army truck last week. Photo: Phuketwan REFUGEE advocates expect a new wave of "stateless" Rohingya asylum seekers to attempt perilous sea voyages in rickety boats from ports in Bangladesh, raising concerns about how they will be treated if they land [...] Read more

Rohingya Exodus