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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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(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...

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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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Malaysia to summon Myanmar envoy on Rohingya crackdown as protests mount

A banner is tied to barbed-wire outside the Myanmar embassy during a protest against what organisers say is the crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, in Jakarta, Indonesia November 25, 2016. The text on the poster reads, 'Rohingya are our brothers'. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside By Reuters November 25, [...] Read more

Bangladesh pushes back Rohingya refugees amid collective punishment in Myanmar

By Amnesty International November 24, 2016 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers being detained and forcibly returned Lack of water, food and medical care  Both governments preventing thousands from accessing aid  Harrowing details of Myanmar military attacks on villages As the Myanmar authorities are subjecting the Rohingya Muslim minority to [...] Read more

107 Rohingyas, 7 boats pushed back

Bangladesh Border Guard troopers on guard at the banks of Naf river in Cox's Bazar. The photo was taken yesterday, November 23, 2016. Photo: Anisur Rahman By The Daily Star November 24, 2016 Bangladesh’s border troopers have pushed back 107 more Rohingyas in land and seven boats on [...] Read more

West voices growing concern at Myanmar's handling of crisis - sources

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi attends an event marking the 69th anniversary of Martyrs' Day at the Martyrs' Mausoleum dedicated to the fallen independence heroes in Yangon July 19, 2016. Picture taken July 19, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun By Antoni Slodkowski and Michelle Nichols  Reuters November [...] Read more

Press Release: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Requires Action Now – Lives Are Being Lost

Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) For Immediate Release Thursday 24th November 2016 Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Requires Action Now – Lives Are Being Lost Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK is calling for urgent action from the international community to press the Myanmar government to lift all restrictions [...] Read more

Rohingya are fleeing a scorched-earth campaign in Burma. Bangladesh is sending them back.

Bangladeshi border guards patrol the bank of the river Naf near the border with Burma to prevent Rohingya refugees from crossing. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters) By Max Bearak The Washington Post November 23, 2016 The broad estuary of the Naf River separates Bangladesh and Burma. On both sides of [...] Read more

Stop Pretending Myanmar Is a Democracy

Image Credit: U.S. State Department photo By Kim Tatam The Diplomat November 23, 2016 The world should stop pretending that Myanmar’s military is no longer committing rights abuses. The brutal crackdown on Myanmar’s Rohingya population in Rakhine state that began last month shows that the world can no [...] Read more

Rohingyas desperate as atrocities continue

By Morshed Ali Khan Dhaka Tribune November 23, 2016 While atrocities on Rohingyas continue across the Naf River, the Border Guard Bangladesh has reinforced its troops from elsewhere in the country and pushed back thousands of Rohingyas fleeing the persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. The Rohingya [...] Read more

Malaysia debates pulling out of soccer cup over Myanmar's Rohingya crackdown

Malaysia's Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin speaks at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ebrahim Harris By Joseph Sipalan  Reuters November 23, 2016 KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia is considering pulling out of a soccer tournament co-hosted by Myanmar in protest at its crackdown [...] Read more

More Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh as violence spreads in Myanmar

A Rohingya Muslim man and his son cry after being caught by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) while illegally crossing at a border check point in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain By Mohammad Nurul Islam Reuters November 23, 2016 COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- More Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar [...] Read more

Rohingya issue: Dhaka summons Myanmar envoy

A recent photo of Rohingyas who are entering Bangladesh to flee from the persecution in Myanmar. Photo: Star By The Daily Star November 23, 2016 The government today summoned Myanmar’s envoy to Dhaka and expressed deep concerns over the persecution of Rohingyas in the Rakhine state. Additional Foreign [...] Read more

Press Release: Rohingya: Malaysia's Duty To Help End The Genocide

Media Statement for Immediate Release ROHINGYA: MALAYSIA'S DUTY TO HELP END THE GENOCIDE 22 November 2016 | 22 Safar 1438 The Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA) is extremely concerned of the massacre of the Rohingyas that continues unabated on a daily basis and even now, [...] Read more

Press Release: Aung San Suu Kyi legitimising genocide in Myanmar, say academics

(Photo: Reuters) Aung San Suu Kyi is legitimising genocide in Myanmar and has entrenched the persecution of Rohingya Muslisms, warn state crime academics State crime experts from Queen Mary University of London warn that current crisis echoes brutal period of 1977-8 and 1991-2 Rohingya minority are facing the [...] Read more

UK group delivers Rohingya petition to Myanmar embassy

By Anadolu Agency November 22, 2016 Signatories call for measures to tackle hate speech and lift humanitarian aid restrictions LONDON -- A U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis plaguing the Rohingya minority.  Burma [...] Read more

Many Rohingya Women From Kyar Gaung Taung And Myaw Taung Raped And 25 Men Detained By Myanmar Army

RB News  November 22, 2016 Maungdaw, Arakan – Several Rohingya women from Kyar Gaung Taung village tract and Myaw Taung village tract reported being raped by the Myanmar Military. At the same time 25 men from the village were arrested on Sunday night, according to local villagers.  On [...] Read more

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