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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...

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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Plight of Rohingya: Western pressure a must

A Muslim Rohingya man sits in front of his shack in one of the displacement camp in Sittwe located in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State as they enter the final week of the holy month of Ramadan. — AFP By Saudi Gazette Editorial September 5, 2016 Malaysia is considering [...] Read more

Suu Kyi oversees panel on plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims

Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters during the joint press conference with Ban Ki-moon (not pictured), Secretary General of the United Nations, at Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyitaw, Myanmar August 30, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer By Simon Lewis Reuters Septemberr 5, 2016 Yangon -- [...] Read more

Rohingya's suffering continues under Myanmar's new government

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks as Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi watches him during their joint press conference following a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyitaw on May 22. © AP By Motokazu Matsui Nikkei Asian Review September 5, 2016 [...] Read more

Peace summit in Myanmar draws to a close without resolution

By AFP & DPA September 3, 2016 A summit designed to help end Myanmar's long-running civil war has ended. Aung San Suu Kyi expressed optimism about achieving a long-lasting peace, though she emphasized there's still work needed to be done. The last day of the peace conference drew [...] Read more

How Ultra-Nationalism Undermines Democratization and Reconciliation

Ethnic delegates attend the 21st Century Panglong Conference, which began on Wednesday in Naypyidaw. (Photo: Pyay Kyaw / The Irrawaddy) By Sai Latt The Irrawaddy September 3, 2016 A few days before the start of this week’s 21st Century Panglong peace conference, the State Counselor’s Office announced the [...] Read more

US should retain key sanctions on Myanmar, says HRW

Construction workers pour cement on the roof of a new commercial high rise building in Yangon. Photo: Mizzima By Mizzima September 3, 2016 The United States government should keep in place sanctions on Myanmar to deter the Myanmar military from derailing democratic reforms, Human Rights Watch said. Human [...] Read more

Ahead of Suu Kyi visit, Obama weighs Myanmar sanctions relief - sources

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks to the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders at the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst By Patricia Zengerle, Matt Spetalnick, David Brunnstrom and Antoni Slodkowski Reuters September 2, 2016 WASHINGTON/YANGON -- The United States is considering [...] Read more

Ma Ba Tha Denies Responsibility for ‘Coffee Annan’ Gaffe

The photo that went viral after being posted by a Facebook page falsely identifying itself as belonging to nationalist organization Ma Ba Tha’s Mandalay group. (Photo: Ma Ba Tha-Mandalay-Tine / Facebook) By Tin Thet Paing The Irrawaddy September 2, 2016 RANGOON — Burma’s hardline nationalist group has claimed [...] Read more

UN Secretary General Receives Mixed Messages in Stakeholder Meetings

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon meets with interfaith leaders on Wednesday in Naypyidaw. (Photo: United Nations Information Center) By Nyein Nyein The Irrawaddy September 1, 2016 NAYPYIDAW — United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon met with an interfaith panel and civil society representatives at two different events [...] Read more

Kofi Annan to Visit Arakan State Next Week

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. (Photo: Reuters) By Moe Myint The Irrawaddy September 1, 2016 RANGOON — Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will arrive in Burma on Sunday and visit Arakan State on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, to introduce his role as chair of the new [...] Read more

Will New Burma Commission on Rohingya Stop Genocide?

By Tauseef Akbar Chicago Monitor  September 1, 2016 Kofi Annan leads the new commission, but anti-Rohingya appointees are members. In an important move that is being cautiously welcomed by human rights organizations who work on Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi has announced the creation of an Advisory Commission [...] Read more

Myanmar Government, Ethnic Rebels Begin Peace Talks

First row, left to right; Myanmar's Army Commander Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar Upper House speaker of Mann Win Khaing Than, Vice President Henry Van Hti Yu, Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, President Htin Kyaw, and Vice President Mint Swe, sit for a photo session following [...] Read more

Rights group calls on Myanmar to investigate Rohingya woman's death

By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone Reuters August 31, 2016 Yangon -- Human rights advocates have called on Myanmar to investigate the death of a young woman from the country's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who died this month after being found naked and unconscious near a military base. [...] Read more

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