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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...

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...

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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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Rohingya dying from lack of health care in Myanmar

In this Jan. 17, 2014 photo, Raduan, left, helps her ailing mother Noor Jahan to steady her weak body at their living room in The' Chaung village in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. As part of one of the community's richest families, Jahan, who later died, should [...] Read more

Protect the Rohingya's Report: Hear Our Screams, Making A Case For The Rohingya Genocide

By Protect the Rohingya Protect the Rohingya, a South African based awareness organisation that advocates for the rights of the Rohingya, and the Muslim Lawyers Association of South Africa have co-authored a report on behalf of the Rohingya which they call, ‘Hear Our Screams, Making a case for [...] Read more

Local Rohingya Residents Say Chemicals Were Used By Extremist Group To Torch Their Houses

Duchiradan Middle hamlet after fire on March 9, 2014 RB News  March 11, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan – 113 Rohingya houses were torched by a group of extremists in Maungdaw Township of Arakan State yesterday. The Rohingya residents claimed that the chemical could have been used by the group [...] Read more

UN urged to maintain human rights pressure on Burma

The Burma Army remains heavily implicated in alleged human rights violations. (Photo: DVB) By Angus Watson Democratic Voice of Burma March 11, 2014 The European Burma Network (EBN) has called on the UN to remain vigilant as human rights violations continue in Burma. As the elements of the upcoming [...] Read more

The bin Laden of Buddhism and the axis of hate

Galagoda Atte Gnanasara, left, and Ashin Wirathu are spearheading a new vision for a religion once based on principles of non-violence. By Jake Scobey-Thal Foreign Policy March 11, 2014 The photo of two monks looks innocent enough. One of the men presents the other with a birthday present. [...] Read more

The Fire from Dar Paing, passing by Duchiradan, to Sin Thay Pyin

Duchiradan Middle hamlet after the fire on March 9, 2014 Qutub Shah  RB Opinion  March 10, 2014 A fire burning on March 8, 2014 in Dar Paing Village of Sittwe caused approximately 40 households burnt to ashes and and 362 Rohingya homeless. The next day, March 9, 2014, [...] Read more

Activists: Burma’s Foreign Aid Group Ban Puts Thousands at Risk

People from a Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp wait for a vehicle to return to their camp after waiting out cyclone Mahasen in a mosque outside Sittwe. (Photo: Reuters) Gabrielle Paluch Voice of America March 10, 2014 SITTWE, BURMA — In western Burma’s Rakhine state, authorities asked [...] Read more

Medical gap threatens lives in Rakhine

By Fiona MacGregor The Myanmar Times March 10, 2014  Nazir Ahmed is dying. It is the rasping, frightened-eyed passing of a man denied even the most basic medical care – an undignified and distressing end he is condemned to suffer because his ethnicity means that he is refused fundamental [...] Read more

Hopes Were High for Burma But Is the Honeymoon Over?

President Thein Sein walks with ministers and other high-ranking civil servants in Naypyidaw. (Photo: The Irrawaddy) By Thin Lei Win Thomson Reuters Foundation March 10, 2014 BANGKOK — Three years ago, a quasi-civilian government took office in Burma, shedding the country’s pariah image and introducing democratic reforms that [...] Read more

Panel: Myanmar anti-Muslim rhetoric similar to Sri Lankan

By Anadolu Agency March 10, 2014 BUDAPEST – The anti-Muslim rhetoric of Sri Lanka is similar to that of Myanmar, an international panel of experts at a conference on violence in the two countries concluded this week.  Although no one has died in anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka, [...] Read more

The Rohingyas: Who is on their side?

By Pawan Bali The American Bazaar March 10, 2014 WASHINGTON, DC: It was the summer of 2004 when I first ran into the Rohingyas in Jammu, a town in northern India. Over 300 families had settled in a squalid camp next to a noisy rail track, seeking a fresh [...] Read more

OIC chief for Rohingya send-off

By bdnews24 March 10, 2014 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani has urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take initiative to repatriate Myanmar's Muslim refugees. Madani appealed to Hasina during a meeting with her at her office on Sunday evening, her Special Assistant [...] Read more

11 Homes, A Shop And A Mosque Burnt Into Ashes In Duchiradan Middle Hamlet

RB News  March 9, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan – A fire broke out in Duchiradan middle hamlet on the morning of March 9, 2014 at 10:30am in the middle hamlet in Duchiradan village in the Maungdaw Township of Arakan State. 11 Rohingya houses, a shop and a mosque burnt [...] Read more

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