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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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...

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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...

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...

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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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Burma to take its refugees back from Bangladesh by Bangkok Post

Burma will take back some of its refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh, an official said Tuesday, adding that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingyas will not be covered by the deal. A Rohingya refugee child stands in the doorway of a shelter in an unregistered camp at Kutupalong some 400kms [...] Read more

President Thein Sein: Real Reformer or Pretender? by Sai Wansai

President Thein Sein seems to be on the right track, when he ordered or instructed the military on December 10 to cease its offensive against the Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/KIA). But reports coming in indicate that either the military is disobeying the presidential order or the instruction has [...] Read more

Aung San Su Kyi and Thai Prime Minister meeting

အမ်ဳိးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ယင္လတ္ရွင္နာဝါထရာတုိ႔ ဒီကေန႔ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔က ရန္ကုန္ၿမဳိ႕ ျပည္လမ္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ သံအမတ္ႀကီးရဲ႕ေနအိမ္မွာ ညေန ၅း၄၅ ကေန ၆း၁၅ နာရီ အထိ နာရီဝက္ၾကာ ေတြ႕ဆုံ စကားေျပာခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra during the meeting at Thai Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, 20 December 2011. Yingluck Shinawatra [...] Read more

ငါတို႔လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကိုဘယ္ေလာက္တန္ဖိုးထား ၾကသလဲေစာင့္သိရိုေသၾကသလဲ?

ငါတို႔လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကိုဘယ္ေလာက္တန္ဖိုးထား  ၾကသလဲေစာင့္သိရိုေသၾကသလဲ? ကိုထိန္္လင္းရဲ႕ “ကြ်န္ေတာ္သန္းၾကြယ္သူေဌးၿဖစ္ခဲ့စဥ္က”ကို ဖတ္ရေတာ့ယူၾကံဳးမရၿဖစ္ရတဲ့အၿပင္ေတာ္ေတာ္ လဲသံ ေဝဂရခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္္ေတာ္တို႔ႏိုင္ငံမွာစစ္အာဏာရွင္စံနစ္ကိုတြန္းလွန္ဖို႔ၾကိဳးစားရင္း၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႔ အစည္း ေတြ ၿပည္သူ႔အေရး၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးေတြေပ်ာက္ကြယ္၊ ပန္းတိုင္ကိုေမ့ၿပီး ၊ ရန္သူကပင္မလုပ္တဲ့ ရက္ စက္မွဳအေပါင္းသရဖူေဆာင္း တဲ့အထိလူကိုလူလို႔မၿမင္ ေတာ့ဘဲ၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေနပါ တယ္ဆိုသူေတြကလူ႔အခြင္အေရးေတြကိုမ်က္ကြယ္ၿပဳ၊ လူေတြကို အဟိတ္တိရစၦာန္ေတြလိုအရိုင္း အစိုင္းေခတ္ ကအတိုင္းလူမဆန္တဲ့ႏွိပ္စက္နည္းေတြနဲ႔မေတြးဝံ့ေလာက္ေအာင္ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ႏွိပ္စက္ၿပီး၊ အပစ္ရွိ ပါတယ္လို႔ ဝန္ ခံခိုင္း၊ ကမၻာ့အလယ္မွာလူရိုင္းတိုင္းၿပည္လိုၿပဳက်င့္ခဲ့တာေတြေၾကာင့္၊ ဗမာႏိုင္ငံကို တကယ္ ကယ္တင္ခ်င္ တယ္၊ တကယ္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကိုေလးစားတယ္၊ ၿပည္သူေတြအတြက္ရယူေပးခ်င္ပါ တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ သူေတြအား လံုးၾကပ္ၾကပ္အသဲထဲမွာစြဲေနေအာင္မွတ္သားထားၿပီး၊ ငါတို႔ဒီလိုအလုပ္မ်ိဳးေတြကိုဘယ္ေတာ့မွ မလုပ္ဘူးလို႔၊ မိမိကိုယ္ကိုမိမိ ေလးေလးနက္နက္ [...] Read more

စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႕မႈ ရုတ္သိမ္းသင့္ေၾကာင္း ကိုဇာဂနာ အႀကံျပဳ

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔ အေရးယူထားတာေတြ ျပန္လည္ ရုတ္သိမ္းလိုက္မယ္ ဆိုရင္ သာမန္ ျပည္သူလူထု အတြက္ အက်ိဳးေက်းဇူးေတြ ရရွိလာမယ္လို႔ ဟာသ သရုပ္ေဆာင္ ကိုဇာဂနာက ေျပာဆို လိုက္ေၾကာင္း Bloomberg သတင္းဌာနက ေဖၚျပပါတယ္။ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ဒါ႐ိုက္တာႏွင့္ ဟာသသ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ ဇာဂနာ ေခၚ ကိုသူရ။ (Photo: AFP) အထူးသျဖင့္ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္ လုပ္ငန္း က႑မွာ ရင္းႏွီး ျမွဳပ္ႏွံခြင့္ေတြ ရရွိလာမယ္ ဆိုရင္ သာမန္ျပည္သူေတြ အက်ိဳးခံစားရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔ အေရးယူထားတာေတြကို ရုတ္သိမ္းလိုက္မယ္ ဆိုရင္ ႏိုင္ငံျခား တိုင္းျပည္ေတြဆီက အကူအညီေတြ ပိုရလာမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လို႕ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ [...] Read more

Western hunger for Myanmar's 'cleansed' lands

By Francis WadeRecent reforms in Myanmar don't address the country's brutal wars against ethnic minorities. Clinton warned Myanmar to be wary of donors whose main interest is resource extraction [GALLO/GETTY] When a team of health professionals reached the makeshift camps along the China-Myanmar border in September to meet [...] Read more

THE PLIGHT ON THE ROHINGYA By Nurul Islam (U.K)

Introduction The Rohingya are one of the most forgotten, persecuted, voiceless, and underrepresented peoples on earth. Their population is estimated to be more than 3 millions. Of them about 1.5 millions are in diasporas particularly in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Malaysia, Thailand etc. They are still willing [...] Read more

ဒီမိုကေရစီ ခ်ာခ်ာလည္ျခင္း

WRITTEN BY ေဇ၀င္းေနာင္  ဒီမိုကေရစီသည္ ပန္ကာႏႇင့္ တူသည္ဟုထင္သည္။  သေဘာကြဲလြဲစရာ အျမင္ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ပါသည္။ ဒီထက္ပိုၿပီးရႇင္းေအာင္ ေျပာရလွ်င္ ဒီမိုကေရစီဆုိသည္မႇာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ဖတ္ဖူးေသာ ဥာဏ္စမ္း ပေဟဠိထဲက ပန္ကာႏႇင့္ တူသည္ဟု ဆိုရမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။အခ်စ္သည္ ေလေျပ၊ ဘ၀ဆုိတာတုိက္ပြဲ ဘာညာစသည္ျဖင့္ တင္စားဖြင့္ဆိုမႈကို သံုးတတ္ၾကသလုိ ဒီမိုကေရစီကိုလည္း ေပါက္ကရ ဥပမာ ျဖင့္ တင္စားၾကည့္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အရႇင္းဆံုးျဖစ္ေအာင္ ေျပာဖို႔လုိပါလိမ့္မည္။ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းက ဖတ္ဖူးေသာ ၪာဏ္စမ္းတစ္ပုဒ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ''ေရႇ႕ကၾကည့္လည္း ပန္ကာ၊ ေနာက္ ကၾကည့္လည္း ပန္ကာ၊ ေဘးကၾကည့္လည္း ပန္ကာ၊ ဘယ္လိုၾကည့္ၾကည့္ ပန္ကာ၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ မလည္တာဘာလဲ'' ဆိုေသာ ဥာဏ္စမ္းျဖစ္သည္။ ဥာဏ္ကလည္း ခပ္ထုိင္းထုိင္းမို႔ [...] Read more

Burma's military junta accused of torturing and killing ethnic rebels

War on Kachin rebels has intensified but gone entirely unnoticed, with abuses overshadowed by drive for political reform Tania Branigan in Ruili on China-Burma border A Kachin Independence Army soldier with rocket launcher shops for a mobile phone. Kachin civilians have reported human rights abuses by government troops. [...] Read more

Recalibrating Bangladesh-Myanmar relation

THE relation between Bangladesh and Myanmar officially began on January 13, 1972, the date on which Myanmar recognised Bangladesh as a sovereign state. However, the relation between these two close neighbours has never been smooth and has undergone frequent ups and downs over the last 40 years on [...] Read more

Ceasefires are not enough

The head of the Euro-Burma Office, Mr Harn Yawnghwe, on his role in last month’s negotiations on the Thai-Myanmar border, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s role in peacebuilding and the need to achieve a ‘political solution’ with ethnic groups. By Shwe Yinn Mar Oo  Harn Yawnghwe (centre) and [...] Read more

ျပည္သူေတြ စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာေစခ်င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ ...

WRITTEN BY လူထုစိန္၀င္း    ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏႇစ္ဟာ ႏႇစ္ေပါင္းႏႇစ္ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ကာလအတြင္းမႇာ သက္၀င္လႈပ္ရႇားမႈအရႇိဆံုးႏႇစ္အျဖစ္ သတ္မႇတ္ရလိမ့္မယ္။ ၁၉၈၈ အေရးအခင္းကတည္းက တစ္ႏႇစ္လာေျပာင္းႏိုးႏိုး၊ ေနာက္တစ္ႏႇစ္လာေကာင္းႏိုးႏိုးနဲ႔ ေသာင္မတင္ ေရမက် အီလယ္လယ္ႀကီးျဖစ္ေနခဲ့ရတာကို အားလံုးက စိတ္ ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္ ျဖစ္ေနၾကရတယ္။ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ဖ်က္သိမ္း ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏႇစ္ေရာက္ေတာ့ ႐ုတ္တရက္ခ်က္ခ်င္း ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ဆက္တုိက္ဆိုသလို ျဖစ္လာတယ္။ ၁၉၆၂ ခုႏႇစ္ကတည္းက အာဏာသိမ္းၿပီး အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္လာခဲ့တဲ့ တစ္ေသြးတစ္သံတစ္မိန္႔ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးကို ဖ်က္သိမ္း ေၾကာင္း တရား၀င္ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာၿပီး ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးသိန္းစိန္ က လႊတ္ေတာ္ကေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမႇာက္လိုက္တဲ့ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ကို အာဏာလႊဲေပးလုိက္တယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ေအးခ်မ္းသာယာေရးႏႇင့္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးေကာင္စီ အစိုးရကို ဦးေဆာင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႇဴးႀကီးသန္းေရႊလည္း [...] Read more

Burma Army turns deaf ear to halt war in Kachin State

By Zin Linn  Burma’s President Thein Sein civilian government has been maneuvering war against the Kachin rebels incessantly, although there are heavy casualties on its side. Starting from 9 June, the six-month long civil war claimed more than a thousand lives of government soldiers. Recently, President Thein Sein [...] Read more

Is Myanmar out of the woods? Video Interview with Dr. Maung Zarni

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Myanmar on 1st December. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is participating in elections. Leaders of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) have formally approved Myanmar's chairmanship of the regional grouping in 2014. Prisoners have been released in the [...] Read more

Rohingya Exodus