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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Rohingya become landless, face starvation in Arakan State

Hussain (not his real name), 50, lives in Bogri Chang village-tract, Buthidaung, in Arakan State, western Burma. He and other Rohingya have been facing difficulty growing paddy and other essential crops because of confiscation of their lands by Burmese authorities. Lands belonging to Rohingya villagers in Arakan State [...] Read more

Burma: Christian Civilians Attacked During Christmas

By Vishal Arora Attacks on Christians in Burma continued into the Christmas season in Kachin state as Burmese Army troops killed a civilian and destroyed church property despite President Thein Sein’s order to stop the war against insurgents. A Baptist church in Loije, Bhamo district, held a funeral [...] Read more

British Foreign Secretary William Hague writes about his historic visit to Burma

"If reforms continue we are ready to build a new relationship with Burma" Foreign Secretary William Hague writes about his historic visit to Burma on 5-6 January. British Foreign Secretary William Hague   The Foreign Secretary has concluded his visit to Burma, the first for a UK Foreign [...] Read more

Current Situation of Burmese Political Prisoners

There are at least 1,572 political prisoners believed to be behind bars in Burma. There is an ongoing secondary verification process to confirm the location of these individuals. So far, AAPP can confirm the prisons 918 political prisoners are being held in and is in the process of [...] Read more

US Congressman Crowley to Visit Burma

By LALIT K JHA  New York Congressman Joseph Crowley.  WASHINGTON—Top US lawmaker Joseph Crowley will travel to Burma later this week, making him the first US diplomat to visit this Southeast Asian nation since Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, made a historic trip last month. While in [...] Read more

Why should the West Fall into Burmese Trap? by Prof Kanbawza Win

I was contemplating, whether the Burmese regime would be able to deceive the West after tricking its own People? Lamentably I could not find the answer as it seems now. I simply could not comprehend of why the foreign dignitaries believed what their advisers and analysts say when [...] Read more

Australia Eases Sanctions Against Burma

  Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd  Australia said Monday it is easing some restrictions on members of Myanmar's ruling elite in response to political reforms by its military-backed government. The decision came as the party of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began gearing up to contest [...] Read more

ကခ်င္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြရဲ့ ေနာက္ဆံုး အေျခအေန

တိုက္ပဲြေတြ ျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ့ ကခ်င္ေဒသမွာ ေနရပ္ဌာေန စြန့္ခြာ ထြက္ေျပးလာရတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေပါင္း အခုအခါ ၆ေသာင္း ေလာက္အထိ ရိွလာေနျပီး ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး အကူအညီေတြ အေရးတျကီး လိုအပ္ေန တယ္လို့ ဂ်ာမနီနိုင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ People In Need ပရဟိတ အဖဲြ႕က ေျပာပါတယ္။ ျမစ္ျကီးနားနဲ့ ဝိုင္းေမာ္ေဒသေတြမွာ ဒုကၡသည္ ေတြကို ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘုရားေက်ာင္းဝင္းေတြထဲမွာ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထားရျပီး ဘုရားေက်ာင္းဝင္းေတြ ထဲမွာ ေနရာနဲ့မမွ် ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ျပည့္လံွ်ေနေျကာင္းနဲ့ အဲဒီမွာ လနဲ့ခီ် ေနေနျကရသူေတြ ရိွေနသလို သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ကိုယ္တိုင္က အပစ္ရပ္ဖို့ ညွြန္ျကားထားတဲ့ျကားက တိုက္ပဲြေတြ ဆက္ျဖစ္ေနတာေျကာင့္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ [...] Read more

Prisoners of Conscience in Burma By NLD

Compiled by National League for Democracy (NLD) on 7-11-2011 Read the full report Here __________________________________________________ ALLEGED AMNESTY IS HIGHLY LIMITED IN NATURE AND AMOUNTS TO A PALTRY REDUCTION OF HARSH PRISON TERMS On 2 January, President U Thein Sein of the Union Solidarity Development Party signed amnesty order 1/2012, [...] Read more

လူထုလွဳပ္ရွားမွဳႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းျဖစ္စဥ္ by ခင္မမမ်ိဳး

ဒီမိုကေရစီဆိုတာ စနစ္တခုျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စနစ္တခုျဖစ္တာေၾကာင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ယူရပါတယ္။ တခ်ိဳ႕က ဒီမိုကေရစီဆိုတာကို အာဏာရွင္ေတြဆီက ေတာင္းယူလို႕ ရမယ္လို႕ ထင္တတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အာဏာရွင္ဆိုတာက အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ကို တည္ေဆာက္ေနသူမ်ားျဖစ္တာေၾကာင့္ အာဏာရွင္ဆီမွာ မရွိတဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီကို ေတာင္းယူလို႕ မရပါ။ ဒီေတာ့ ေတာင္းယူလို႕ မရရင္ တိုက္ယူလို႕ ရမလားလို႕ ေမးစရာရွိလာပါတယ္။ တိုက္ယူတယ္လို႕ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ မရပါဘူး။ တိုက္တာကေတာ့ တိုက္ရပါမယ္။ လူထုတိုက္ပြဲအသြင္နဲ႕ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ လက္နက္ကိုင္တိုက္ပြဲအေနနဲ႕ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီ ေပါင္းစပ္ ပါ၀င္မွဳနဲ႕ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ တိုက္ရပါမယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီ ေပါင္းစပ္ပါ၀င္မွဳလို႕ပဲ ဆိုထားပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာတိုက္ပြဲနဲ႕လို႕ ဆိုလိုတာ မဟုတ္ပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက စစ္မ်က္ႏွာ တခုအေနနဲ႕ပဲ အသံုး၀င္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုတိုက္ရာမွာ အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ဆိုတဲ့ [...] Read more

ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ စတင္

By :Yangon Press International “ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ” အဖြဲ႕ေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမိသားစု၀င္မ်ား အိမ္သို႔ သြားေရာက္အားေပးသည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို ယေန႔စတင္လိုက္သည္။ ယခုလႈပ္ရွားမႈတြင္ အက်ဥ္းသားမိသားစု ကြန္ရက္၊ Generation Wave ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ား၊ ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အဖြဲ႕တို႔မွ ပါ၀င္သည္။ နံနက္ ၈ နာရီ ၃၀ တြင္ တာေမြပလာဇာေရွ႕မွ လူအင္အား ၁၀၀ ၀န္းက်င္ခန္႔ျဖင့္ စတင္ထြက္ခြာထြက္ခြာၾကသည္။ ပထမဦးဆံုး တာေမြဗလီအနီးရွိ ဦးေက်ာ္မင္း (CRPP အဖြဲ႕၀င္) အိမ္သို႔ သြားေရာက္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား [...] Read more

Rohingya Exodus