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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ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လိုခ်င္ရင္ေတာ့ အစိုးရဘက္က စိတ္ရင္း ေစတနာရင္းရွိတယ္ဆိုတာ ျပရမယ္ by ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေရႊ

တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ့အစည္းေတြနဲ့ တိုက္ပြဲေတြ ျဖစ္ေနေသးေပမယ့္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးေတြလည္း ရွိေနပါတယ္။ ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ နိုဝင္ဘာလကုန္ပိုင္းက မီးရထားဝန္ၾကီး ဦးေအာင္မင္းကိုယ္တိုင္ ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္ကိုလာျပီးေတာ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ့ေတြ ေကအန္ယူ၊ အက္စ္အက္စ္ေအ၊ ေကအန္ပီပီ စတဲ့ အဖြဲ့ ၄၊ ၅ ဖြဲ့နဲ့ ေတြ႕ပါတယ္။ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးအတြက္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေနြးရာမွာ လိုက္ပါ ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့သူ ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေရႊကို ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။ ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေရႊ နိုဝင္ဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္ေန့က ထိုင္းျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္မွာ ေတြ႕ၾကတဲ့အဖြဲ့ေတြေပါ့၊ အက္စ္အက္စ္ေအ၊ ေကအိုင္ေအ လည္းပါမယ္။ ဒီလိုမ်ိဳး ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲကို ဝင္ေရာက္ျပီး ၾကားဝင္ေျပာေပးဖို့က အစိုးရဘက္က ေခၚတာလား၊ ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေရႊအေနနဲ့ သြားတာလား။ [...] Read more

Statement on People’s Right to Public Assemblies and Processions

1. In Burma, people’s right to public assemblies and processions has already been enacted in the Police Act, 1945. Under Chapter 5 of that law, with the title ‘Maintenance of Law and Order,’ section 31 provides as follows:  (1) The District Superintendent or any Assistant or Deputy Superintendent [...] Read more

War seems unlikely to cease in Burma’s Kachin State

By Zin Linn  Ongoing civil war in Kachin State has been on the rise in various fronts. Burmese government armed forces expanded their offensive without listening the people’s voices for peace talks in Kachin State.  There was a skirmish between Burmese government soldiers and Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) [...] Read more

The “forgotten” Rohingya people living as refugees in Bangladesh

By Laurinda Luffman for SOS children The media is full of news about the recent visit to Myanmar (formerly Burma) made by the US secretary of state, Hilary Clinton. Mrs Clinton’s time with Aung San Suu Kyi and her meeting with the Burmese government are seen as hopeful [...] Read more

Intensified Human Rights abuses in Arakan- Burma, even after general election 2010

Taung Pyu (Taungbro), Maungdaw Dec 01-06, 2011  From the beginning of 1st December, there are many onslaught conspiracies to extort money from the Rohingya with the help of Na Sa Ka Collaborators named Sajedullah (Ex-Chairman of Ra Ya Ka), Hafez Mohammed Tayub and Din Mohammed ( Ex-WFP Interpreter from [...] Read more

Rohingya in Malaysia have submitted a memorandum to the U.K Government

Rohingya have successfully submitted a memorandum to the British Government, appealing British intervention to the cause of Rohingya in Burma. About 200 Rohingyas from Kuala Lumpur city took part in the event in time of the memorandum submission. Memorandum was handed over to the British High Commission in [...] Read more

An open Letter to Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh by Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU)

December 2, 2011 H.E. Sheikh Hasina Wajed The Prime Minister People’s Republic of Bangladesh Old Sangsad BhabanTejgaon, Dhaka 1215  Your Excellency Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, On Behalf of Arakan Rohingya Union and the Burmese Rohingya Association of NorthAmerica, I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Government of Bangladesh [...] Read more

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မ၀င္ေၾကာင္း ၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ထုတ္ျပန္

၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၅ ရက္ေန ့ရက္စြဲၿဖင္ ့၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား မွ လက္ရွိၿမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရး အခင္းအက်င္း အေပၚကုိ သေဘာထားအၿမင္ ထုတ္ၿပန္ေၾကၿငာလုိက္ပါတယ္။ [...] Read more

Burma in the US-China Great Game – Part I By Prof.David I. Steinberg

The ice-breaking visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Naypyidaw ended 50 years of US-Burma estrangement. The Obama administration has signaled desire for US engagement with the pariah regime since 2009, and since March, Burma’s Thein Sein has strived to widen the military regime’s legitimacy both [...] Read more

An Urgent Letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by Dr.Habib Siddiqui

An Urgent Letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina regarding her upcoming visit to Myanmar To:Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina Wazed,Prime Minister Government of the People's Republic of BangladeshDhaka, Bangladesh Dear Prime Minister,Assalamu Alaykum. It gives me great pleasure to learn that you are going to visit Myanmar (Burma) soon. I [...] Read more

Bangladesh PM goes to Myanmar today Rohingya issue to top agenda

Diplomatic Correspondent, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves for Myanmar today on a three-day official visit with officials saying that repatriation of Rohingya refugees, energy cooperation, maritime dispute, trade and connectivity is high on the agenda. During the visit the two countries are expected to sign several deals aimed [...] Read more

More Boatpeople Handed to Army North of Phuket: Rohingya Riddle Deepens

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison , PHUKET: A boatload of Rohingya were spotted by coastal residents north of Phuket today, quickly apprehended by Marine Police and immediately turned over to the Thai Army. Local authorities confirmed that 54 would-be refugees were in the vessel that was intercepted [...] Read more

အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး ျမန္မာျပည္ ခရီးစဥ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဦး သူရေရႊမန္း သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ

  U Shwe Man Press Conference  သူရဲ ့အင္တာဗ်ဳးကို ေသခ်ာစြာနားေထာင္ရင္ ၁- ေျမာက္ကိုးရီးယား နဲ ့ျမန္မာ နယူးကလီးယား လ်ိဳလ္၀ွက္ ဆက္ဆံေရးမွာသူမွာတာ၀န္မရိွဘူး။ နယူးကလီးယား အဆင့္မရိွဘူးလို ့ဆိုတယ္။ ၂- ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြကို သူလုပ္ျခင္တယ္။ဒါေပမဲ့ အစိုးရထဲမွာ မေျပာင္းလဲျခင္တဲ့သူေတြရိွတယ္။ အဲဒီလူေတြက တင္ေအာင္ျမင့္ဦး တို ့အဖြဲ ့ျဖစ္တယ္ ဆိုတာကို သြယ္၀ိုက္ေျပာသြားတယ္။ သူရဲ ့ အေျခအေနက ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ခင္ညြန္ ့ အာဏာရိွစဥ္က လို သန္းေရြ၊ေမာင္ေအး ေခါင္းမာဂိုဏ္းၾကားမွာ အားျပိဳင္ေနရတဲ့အေျခအေန မ်ိဳးျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီကာလက ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ခင္ညြန္ ့က သူရဲ ့အခက္ခဲေတြကို လူထုကို [...] Read more

Shan State Army, Myanmar Government sign ceasefire

By AFP Troops from the SSA parade in the headquarters of Loi Taileng on the Thailand-Burma border (Francis Wade) Burma has reached a ceasefire deal with one of the war-torn country’s major ethnic guerilla groups, a mediator said Saturday, in the latest sign the new army-backed regime is [...] Read more

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း အတၱဳပတၱိရိုက္ကူးေရးအတြက္ ရုပ္ရွင္အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ.. (ရုပ္သံ)

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း အတၱဳပတၱိရိုက္ကူးေရးအတြက္ ရုပ္ရွင္အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားႏွင့္ လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ.. (Burma VJ Media)(ရုပ္သံ) ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃ ရက္ေန႔က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနနဲ႔ ထင္ရွားသည့္ ရုပ္ရွင္အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားႏွင့္ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့သည္။ လြတ္လပ္ေရးဖခင္ႀကီး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း၏ အတၳဳပၸတၱိအား ရုပ္ရွင္ရိုက္ရန္ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းဟု ဆိုေသာ္လည္း NLD ပါတီမဲဆြယ္ပြဲေတြအတြက္ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြ အားကိုပါ သံုးခ်င္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုၾကသည္။ NLD လည္း ထိုသို႔လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့သည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ မစိမ္းၾက။ အနားကပ္ခြင့္မရေအာင္ ပိတ္ဆို႔ထားလြန္း၍သာ အနားမကပ္ရဲၾကျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ျပည္သူတခ်ိဳ႕သာမဟုတ္ အႏုပညာရွင္တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕သည္ပင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနဲ႔မကင္း ။ စစ္အစိုးရေခတ္က စစ္အစိုးရအတြက္ ဝါဒျဖန္႔သီခ်င္းေတြ ဆိုဖူးၾကသူေတြရွိသည္။ ဝါဒျဖန္႔ရုပ္ရွင္ကားေတြ ရိုက္ဖူးခဲ့သူေတြရွိသည္။ ဝါဒျဖန္႔စာေတြ ေရးခဲ့ၾကသူေတြရွိခဲ့သည္။ [...] Read more

The Essential Flame By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Platon/Trunk Archive By AUNG SAN SUU KYI Why does change seem so desirable and so exhilarating in our times? Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was fueled by the promise of change. In Burma today there is continuous debate on whether the new government means real change or whether it [...] Read more

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေကာ့မွဴးမဲဆႏၵနယ္၌ ဝင္ၿပိဳင္ရန္စီစဥ္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ လာမည့္ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေကာ့မွဴးမဲဆႏၵနယ္၌ ဝင္ေရာက္အေရြးခ်ယ္ ခံမည္ဟု အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) မွ ဗဟိုအလုပ္မႈေဆာင္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကားသည္။ “ေဒၚစုက တရားဝင္ မေၾကျငာေသးေပမဲ့ ေကာ့မွဴးမွာ ဝင္ၿပိဳင္မယ္ဆိုတာကေတာ့ ေသခ်ာသြားၿပီ” ဟု ၎ကဆိုသည္။ ေကာ့မွဴးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ ဝင္ေရာက္အေရြးခ်ယ္ခံၿပီး အႏိုင္ရသြားေသာ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီအမတ္ ဦးစိုးတင့္သည္ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွ ဒုဝန္ႀကီးရာထူး တာဝန္ထမ္းေဆာင္ရသည့္အတြက္ ေကာ့မွဴးမဲဆႏၵနယ္သည္ လစ္လပ္ေနရာျဖစ္သြားေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုမ်ားထဲတြင္ တခ်ိဳ႕က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို လာမည့္ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ မဝင္သင့္ေသးေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုၾက ေသာ္လည္း တခ်ိဳ႕ကမူ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ထဲသို႔ သြားေရာက္ရန္ ေနာက္က်ေနၿပီဟု သံုးသပ္ေျပာဆိုလ်က္ရွိသည္။ လစ္လပ္ေနရာတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည့္ မရမ္းကုန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုမ်ားက [...] Read more

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