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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ျမန္မာဟာ ကံေကာင္းလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္ by ေဒါက္တာသန္႔ျမင့္ဦး

ျမန္မာဟာ ကံေကာင္းလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေျပာင္းလဲေနသည့္ အေျပာင္းအလဲျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သမုိင္းပညာရွင္ စာေရးဆရာ ေဒါက္တာသန္႔ျမင့္ဦးကို ျမန္မာတုိင္း(မ္) အႀကီးတန္းလက္ေထာက္စာတည္း စႏၵာလြင္က အီးေမး(လ္)မွတစ္ဆင့္ ေမးျမန္းထားပါသည္။ ေဒါက္တာသန္႔ျမင့္ဦး သည္ သမိုင္းပညာရွင္ စာေရး ဆရာ တစ္ဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး ကိန္း ဘရစ္ဂ်္တကၠသိုလ္ ထရီနီတီ ေကာလိပ္၏ ၤနူူသတ တစ္ဦး ျဖစ္ခဲ့ကာ ဟားဗတ္၊ ကိန္း ဘရစ္ဂ်္ စသည့္ ကမၻာေက်ာ္ တကၠသိုလ္မ်ားစြာတြင္ သင္ တန္းမ်ား ပို႔ခ်ခဲ့သည္။ ကမၻာ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း ဦးသန္႔၏ ေျမး ျဖစ္ကာ ကုလၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ထိန္းသိမ္းမႈ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ သံုးခုတြင္ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ၿပီး [...] Read more

An Opening in Burma? On Thant Myint-U

Burma has been, for many outsiders, a forgotten place, a land where little ever changes. Western guidebooks enthuse about the fact that, alone in East Asia, Burmese still wear traditional dress—longyi sarongs—and women wear thanaka, a chalky paste made from bark and applied to the face as a [...] Read more

မီးေဘးသင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ သြားေရာက္အားေပး

ထြန္းေနေအာင္(ျမစ္မခ) ဒီဇင္ဘာ(၃၀)ရက္ ေန႔လည္ပိုင္းက ျမန္မာ႔ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွ ေမတၱာညႊန္႔ဂိုေဒါင္မီးေလာင္မႈ႔ေၾကာင့္ အိုးမဲ႔အိမ္မဲ႔ျဖစ္သြားသည္႔ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအား တစ္နာရီ၀န္းက်င္ ခန္႔ အားေပးစကားေျပာခဲ႔ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။ ေမတၱာညႊန္႔ ဂိုေဒါင္မီးေလာင္ေပါက္ကြဲမႈ႔ေၾကာင့္ အိုးမဲ႔အိမ္မဲ႔ျဖစ္သြားေသာ ဒုကၡသည္ေပါင္း (၈၀၀) ေက်ာ္ကို ျမန္မာ႔ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွ ဒီဇင္ဘာ(၃၀)ရက္ေန႔ ေန႔လည္ (၁၁း၃၀) နာရီမွ (၁၂း၃၀)၀န္းက်င္အထိ အားေပးစကား ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔ၿပီး အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္မွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ား အား လိုအပ္သည္မ်ားကို အကူညီေပးရန္အတြက္ ထားခဲ႔ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။ “ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ ဘယ္လိုပစၥည္းမ်ိဳးေတြ အဓိကလိုအပ္ပါလဲ၊သူတို႔ေတြကို အျခား ဘယ္ေနရာ မွာ ထားပါေသးလဲ၊ လိုအပ္သည္မ်ားကို တပည့္ေတာ္လွဴခ်င္ပါတယ္”ဟု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးစခန္းရွိ ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ဆရာေတာ္ႏွင့္ေတြ႔ဆံုရာတြင္ ေမးျမန္းခဲ႔ေၾကာင္း ဆရာေတာ္ထံမွ [...] Read more

‘I want to see Burma, my country. But it’s not safe for us there’

By KATE KELLY Dickson wants to complete his education in a western country and help improve the lives of his students (Kate Kelly) Dickson Hoo is 24 years old, a grade nine mathematics teacher and deputy principal at a mission school. He’s a bright young man who knows [...] Read more

Authority bans again on prayer calling (Azan) in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The concerned authority – District and Township administration offices- had banned again on prayer calling (Azan) with loudspeakers in Maungdaw on December 28, according to a religious leader from Maungdaw. “The order was dispatched to village administration offices by U Aung Myint Soe, the district [...] Read more

Burma Army Kills Woman and Continues Attacks in Ba Maw District, Kachin State

The Burma Army continues to attack people in three townships of Ba Maw District, Kachin State: Mun Si Township, Shwegu Township and Ba Maw Township. On 16 December 2011, Burma Army soldiers killed a woman from Prang Kawng Village. The woman, 30-year-old Lamung Kaw Seng, suffered from a [...] Read more

Philanthropist George Soros arrives in Burma ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေရာက္ေန

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – George Soros, the founder of the Open Society Foundation, which works to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in the world, visited Inle Lake in Shan State on Wednesday.  George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2010. Photo: en.wikipedia.orgWin Myint, [...] Read more

လူအေသအေပ်ာက္မ်ားသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕ေပါက္ကြဲမႈ - ၾကားျဖတ္သတင္း (Breaking News)(ရုပ္/သံ-ဓာတ္ပံု)

လူအေသအေပ်ာက္မ်ားသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕ေပါက္ကြဲမႈ - ၾကားျဖတ္သတင္း (Breaking News)ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ေဒသၾကီး တာေမြျမိဳ႕နယ္ စက္ဆန္းရွိ ကူးတို႔ဆိပ္ ရပ္ကြက္အတြင္းရွိ စိန္ေမတၱာမြန္ ဆားဂိုေဒါင္အတြင္း ျပင္းထန္စြာ ေပါက္ကြဲမႈ တစ္ခု ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၂ နာရီ ၅ မိနစ္ အခ်ိန္က ျဖစ္ပြါးခဲ့သည္။ watch video ယခု သတင္းေရးသားေနခ်ိန္အထိ မီးေလာင္ေနဆဲ ျဖစ္ျပီး ေသဆံုးသည့္ အေလာင္းမ်ားကို ေကာက္ယူ၍ မျပီးေသးသျဖင့္ ေသဆံုးသူ အေရအတြက္ တိတိက်က် ခန္႔မွန္းနုိင္ျခင္း မရွိေသးေသာ္လည္း Mutdfan.com မွ သတင္းသြားေရာက္ယူခဲ့စဥ္ အခ်ိန္အထိ အေလာင္း ဆယ္ေလာင္းခန္႔ သယ္ထုတ္ခဲ့၇ျပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ အခင္းျဖစ္ပြါးရာႏွင့္ [...] Read more

Why does Burma Army disobey the president’s order?

 By Zin Linn, Although President Thein Sein has issued an order dated 10-December to Burma’s Commander-in-Chief to stop the fighting against the KIO, the Burmese soldiers in the Kachin-frontline do not obey the presidential guidance so far. On the contrary, the war keeps going on and Kachin natives [...] Read more

Burma discriminates against minority women by UN Watch

(Mizzima) – UN Watch, a nonprofit NGO, told a recent session on women’s rights of the Forum on Minority Issues of the UN Human Rights Council that three countries routinely discriminate against minority women, naming Burma, Iran and Pakistan. It said Burma persecutes the Muslim minority group of [...] Read more

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