April 08, 2025

News @ RB

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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Aung San Suu Kyi to receive U-M's Wallenberg Medal, deliver lecture

Aung San San Kyi at a Rally in Chin state. Image courtesy of Burma Campaign UK ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate, is the recipient of the 21st University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal. In a rare public address overseas, Suu [...] Read more

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the President U Thein Sein

October 25, 2011  U Thein Sein President of Myanmar President Office Office No.18 Naypyitaw Myanmar Dear Mr Thein Sein BURMA: Urgent humanitarian intervention needed for jailed monk I am writing to you with an urgent humanitarian request concerning the current conditions of detention for Shin Gambira, a monk [...] Read more

ရခိုင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ၏ ၂၀၁၁-ခု ေအာက္တိုဘာ(၉)ရက္ ေန႕စြဲပါ သေဘာထား ေၾကျငာခ်က္အား ကန္႕ကြက္လႊာ

Written By:မ်ဳိးခ်စ္ေမာင္ ရခိုင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ၏ ၂၀၁၁-ခု ေအာက္တိုဘာ(၉)ရက္ ေန႕စြဲပါ သေဘာထား ေၾကျငာခ်က္အား ကန္႕ကြက္လႊာ ျပသာနာ၏ မူလရင္းျမစ္မွာ အယူ၀ါဒက်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေသာ ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသားေရး၀ါဒီမ်ား၏ သမုိင္းေၾကာင္း အမွန္ကို မသိခ်င္ေယာင္ေဆာင္ အမွန္တရားကို လက္မခံလိုစိတ္ေၾကာင့္ ဟိုးေရွးပေ၀သဏီကတည္းက အတူတကြ လက္တြဲေနထိုင္လာခဲ့ေသာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားအား ေၾကာက္စိတ္၊သံသယစိတ္ျဖင္ ့ၾကည္႕ရွဳ ျမင္ေယာင္မိေသာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သည္။  ဤေနရာတြင္ Arakan ၏ မူလအစႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ မျငင္းခုံလုိပါ…မည္သို႕ပင္ ဆိုေစ ကမၻာေျမၾကီး၏ အစိတ္အပိုင္း တစ္ခုသာျဖစ္သည္။အမွန္တရားကို လက္ခံရန္ ပါေမာကၡ ပညာတက္ၾကီးျဖစ္ရန္မလိုပါ။ ဗုဒၶ၏ အဆုံးအမကို တစ္ေသြမတိန္း လိုက္နာသူ၊လူသားေကာင္း တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္လွ်င္ ဤအမွန္တရားကို လက္ခံရန္ ခက္ခဲမည္မဟုတ္ပါ။ုအခ်ဳပ္အားျဖင့္ Arakan [...] Read more

U.S Senate address religious freedom challenges in Burma

Pre-Hearing Questions for the Record Submitted to Ambassador - Designate Suzan Johnson Cook by Senator Richard Lugar (#21) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Question:The state of religious freedom in Burma, designated a CPC since 1999, continues to decline following the killing, arrest, and torture of monks participating in a non-violent protest in [...] Read more

ၿပည္တြင္းစစ္ဆုိတာလူသတ္ၿပီးတုိင္းၿပည္ဘ႑ာၿဖဳန္းတဲ႔လုပ္ရပ္သာလွ်င္ ၿဖစ္

က်ေနာ္ ရဲေဘာ္သုံးက်ိတ္၀င္ ဗုိလ္မႈးေအာင္ နဲ႔ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ႔တုန္းက သတိရမိတာေလးတခုပါ….သူက ဦးေန၀င္းနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အမုန္းဆုံးအရာတခုကုိေကာက္ခ်က္ ေပးပါတယ္။ “ ငါ….. ကုိရႈေမာင္ ( ဦးေန၀င္း ၏အမည္ရင္း) ကုိအမုန္းဆုံးအရာေတြထဲမွာ…ၿပည္တြင္းစစ္မီးလႈံတာကုိ အမုန္းဆုံးပဲကြာ……………” “ ဘဘ….ၿပည္တြင္းစစ္မီးလႈံတယ္ဆုိတာ…ဘာလည္း ” “ေဆာင္းတြင္းေအးရင္..မီးလႈံႀကတယ္မဟုတ္လား…..အေအးဓါတ္ကုိအကာကြယ္ရေအာင္ေပါ႔ကြာ….ဒီလုိပဲ…ကုိရႈေမာင္က…သူ႔ကုိအကာကြယ္ၿဖစ္ေနေအာင္…စစ္တပ္ကုိႀကီးထြားသထက္ႀကီးထြားေနေအာင္….ၿငိမ္းလုိ႔ရတဲ႔မီးေတြကုိ မၿငိမ္းပဲ…အေငြ႔လႈံေနတာ….ဒါကုိဆုိလုိတာ…” “ ၿငိမ္းလုိ႔ ရတဲ႔မီးဆုိတာ ကေရာ..ဘာကုိဆုိလုိတာလည္း ဘဘ ” “ ၿပည္တြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးပဲၿဖစ္ၿဖစ္….ဘာပဲလုပ္လုပ္…သူက မရုိးသားဘူး…ၿပည္သူနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာကုိ လွည္႔ဖ်ားခ်င္လုိ႔သာ….ေခါင္းစဥ္လွလွ အမည္တတ္ထားတာ…အႏွစ္သာရမွာက ဒီလုိမဟုတ္ဘူးကြ…..သူက အတုိက္အခံ လက္ႏွက္ကုိင္အဖြဲ႔ေတြနဲ႔ ေၿပလည္မွာကုိ လုိလားတာမဟုတ္ဘူး….တကယ္ေတာ႔ အာဏာစက္က်ယ္ခ်င္လုိ႔ရူးသြပ္ၿခင္းတမ်ိဳးပါကြာ……ဒီလူ႔မွာအလြန္ရူးတာတခုရွိတယ္…အဲဒါဘာလည္းဆုိေတာ႔…..အာဏာစက္က်ဥ္းမွာကုိ သူက အလြန္ေႀကာက္တာကြ ” က်ေနာ္႔နားထဲမွာ…ဗုိလ္မႈးေအာင္..ေၿပာခဲ႔တဲ႔အာဏာစက္က်ဥ္းမွာကုိေႀကာက္တယ္ဆုိတဲ႔စကားကစြဲထင္ေန မိတယ္…..တကယ္ေတာ႔ ေတာ္ေတာ္တရားက်စရာေကာင္းတဲ႔ အၿဖစ္ေတြပါ…ဒါေတြဟာ ပေဒသရာစ္ [...] Read more

အရင္ရႇင္းရမႇာက အရင္းရႇင္မဟုတ္ ကပ္ပါးေကာင္ေတြပါ by လူထုစိန္၀င္း

 Written by လူထုစိန္၀င္း >> ျမန္မာလူမ်ဳိးေတြ သည္းခံႏုိင္လြန္းတာနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ တိုးတက္သင့္သေလာက္ တုိးတက္မလာဘဲ ေနာက္က်န္ေနရစ္တာဟာ ကိုးကြယ္တဲ့ဘာသာတရားနဲ႔မ်ား သက္ဆုိင္ေနမလား ဆိုတဲ့ေမးခြန္းကို ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား သတင္းသမားေတြ၊ စာေရးဆရာ ေတြနဲ႔ေတြ႕တဲ့အခါတိုင္း အေမးခံရေလ့ရႇိတယ္။  ပါ၀င္စြက္ဖက္မႈမရႇိတဲ့ဘာသာ ျမန္မာလူမ်ဳိး ပညာတတ္လူငယ္တခ်ဳိ႕လည္း တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ဒီလို ေမးတတ္တယ္။ဗုဒၶဘာသာက ဘယ္အရာမဆို မိမိျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ကုသိုလ္၊ အကုသိုလ္ကံအေလ်ာက္ျဖစ္ရတယ္လို႔ဆိုတဲ့အတြက္ ႀကိဳးစားသင့္သေလာက္ မႀကိဳးစားၾကဘဲ ေရာင့္ရဲ တင္းတိမ္ေနၾကတယ္လို႔ ထင္ေနၾကတယ္။ တကယ္ေတာ့ ဘာမႇမဆိုင္ပါဘူး။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဟာ 'ဃရာ၀ါသ ကိစၥမ်ားေျမာင္ လူတို႔ေဘာင္ႏိႈက္' ဆိုတဲ့အတိုင္း ႐ႈပ္ေထြးေပြလီလႇတဲ့ လူ႔ေလာကရဲ႕ ေလာကီကိစၥေတြထဲ ပါ၀င္ စြက္ဖက္ျခင္း လံုး၀မရႇိတဲ့ ဘာသာျဖစ္တယ္။ ကေလးေမြးဖြားတဲ့ကိစၥမႇာ [...] Read more

U.S. Envoy To Myanmar, Derek Mitchell, Visits Yangon

YANGON, Myanmar — The United States' special envoy to Myanmar has arrived for his second visit in two months amid hope that Myanmar's government is serious about political reform. A Myanmar official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information, says Derek Mitchell [...] Read more

Answering Burma

FOR MANY YEARS advocates of engagement with Burma’s dictators have argued that economic sanctions, which are intended to promote democratic change in that Southeast Asian nation, could boomerang by forcing the regime into China’s welcoming arms. Even advocates of sanctions, like this page, have acknowledged the risk, since [...] Read more

ျမန္မာ့ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး နဲ႔ ေဒါက္တာဇာနည္

ဒီတပတ္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးရာ ေဆြးေႏြးခန္းမွာ လူထုအံု႔ၾကြမႈနဲ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီေျပာင္းလဲမႈ ဘယ္လိုဆက္ႏႊယ္မႈရွိ၊ ျပည္သူလူထုအေနနဲ႔ ဘယ္လို ပါဝင္လုပ္ေဆာင္သင့္သလဲဆိုတာကို ဦးသန္းလြင္ထြန္း က ၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေလ့လာေရးဌာန က ျမန္မာ့အေရး သံုးသပ္သူ ေဒါက္တာဇာနည္ ကို ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း ေဆြးေႏြးထားပါတယ္။ ဦးသန္းလြင္ထြန္း ။ ။ လစ္ဗ်ား (Libya) ႏိုင္ငံ အာဏာရွင္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ Moammar Gadhafi ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔ကပဲ လက္နက္ကိုင္အံု႔ၾကြေတာ္လွန္သူမ်ားရဲ ႔ လက္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ဇာတ္သိမ္းသြားခဲ့ပါသည္။ အာရပ္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး လိႈင္းတံပိုးနဲ႔အတူ တူးနီးရွား (Tunisia)၊ အီဂ်စ္ (Egypt) ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ျပဳတ္က်ခဲ့ၿပီး အခု ဂဒါဖီရဲ ႔ အျဖစ္ကေတာ့ [...] Read more

၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုေ႒းၾကြယ္ ေထာင္တြင္းမွ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေရးဆြဲ ေပးပို႕ခဲ့ေသာပံု

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Rohingya Exodus