Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Burma on Sunday rebuffed a ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents to enable the delivery of aid to thousands of displaced people in the violence-wracked state of Arakan, declaring simply that it did not negotiate with terrorists.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Muslim militants in Burma staged a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base in Arakan State on Friday, and at least 59 of the insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were killed, the army and government said.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Arakanese villagers, some armed with swords and sticks, reportedly set up makeshift checkpoints at six points around the Rohingya quarter.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Officials say Rohingya insurgents are behind a slew of killings in northern Arakan State, which has been racked by violence in recent months.
Most of the families are Rohingyas returning from Bangladesh, having fled their homes several months ago during an intense military crackdown in and around Maungdaw.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya Women's Issues
Rights advocates have criticised the State Counsellor’s Office after it put out a press release and Facebook post last week that appeared aimed at discrediting the accounts of two women in northern Arakan State who alleged that they had been raped.
Arakan ASEAN Boatpeople Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
The regional implications of the Burma Army crackdown on suspected Rohingya militants in Arakan State continue to play out.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Diplomats on a mission to northern Arakan State say the government has agreed to allow a resumption of aid to the region.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi is coming under growing criticism as she departs today on her second overseas trip since the crisis in Arakan State began last month.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
A military operation in northwestern Burma has killed more people than official reports have acknowledged, according to rights groups monitoring the situation.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Burmese soldiers have killed at least four men during a sweep of Muslim villages following Sunday’s deadly attacks on border police posts in Arakan State.
Interview Lead Story News Rohingya Women's Issues
DVB speaks to Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project about the situation of Rohingya women, as Burma’s compliance with a convention on the treatment of women comes under review.
Lead Story News Rohingya Women's Issues
Discrimination against Rohingya women is raised as a key concern as Burma’s compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women comes under review in Geneva.
The count could bring much-needed security to undocumented refugees, but key questions regarding the methodology and goals of the process remain unanswered.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics
After Husaina’s 20-year-old son fled poverty and discrimination in Burma’s Arakan State by boat, she heard nothing from him for seven months.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
The number of migrants leaving Burma by boat in the past four months has plummeted because of Thai and Bangladeshi crackdowns on trafficking, the UN said.
Human Trafficking Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this year’s disaster in which hundreds of refugees were either lost at sea or died in jungle camps.
Arakan Ethnic issues Human Trafficking Lead Story News Rohingya
People smugglers are exploring new routes to Malaysia after a Thai crackdown on trafficking, with few migrant boat departures from Burma in some six months.
Human Trafficking Lead Story News Rohingya
Survivors reveal that at least 800 people, including Rohingya refugees, were being held in the camp in southern Thailand prior to its discovery.
ASEAN Lead Story News Rohingya
Leaders are called on to act to avoid further tragedy in Burma’s Rohingya crisis on the eve of the 26th ASEAN Summit.
Lead Story News Rohingya Video
Many of those on board are thought to be Rohingya Muslims.
UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee has expressed concern about “possible signs of backtracking” that could undermine Burma’s reform process, according to a UN press statement released yesterday.
Director of the Arakan Project, Chris Lewa, said on Saturday that since 15 October an average of 900 people a day have fled Burma on rickety, overcrowded boats in a[…]
Rangoon Region Border Affairs and Security Ministry said it has beefed up security in the wake of a declaration by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri that the terror network expand its jihad to India, Bangladesh and Burma.
Census Lead Story News Rohingya
Census-takers are locked in a standoff with Rohingya householders in Arakan State as the Muslim minority decline to answer questions while the enumerators refuse to record their ethnicity on the census questionnaires.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
Shwe Maung is reprimanded in Naypyidaw for his comments about alleged police involvement in the 28 January fire in Duchira Dan. However, the Rohingya MP for Buthidaung says he was only repeating what his constituents had told him.
Communal Violence Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
A fire razed a number of Muslim Rohingya houses in the west side of Duchira Dan village in Muangdaw Township on Tuesday night, though no casualties have been reported.
Lead Story Media News Rohingya
A curious conference took place on Monday between several Associated Press (AP) reporters and the state-run News and Periodicals Enterprise (NPE) in Rangoon.
The Burmese government denied on Friday that a Buddhist mob ripped through a town in an isolated strife-torn corner of the country this week, attacking Muslim women and children. Villagers and a rights group said more than a dozen people may have been killed, and that hundreds have fled.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
US and EU call on Burma to allow immediate humanitarian access to an impoverished Rohingya refugee camp in Arakan state, while Human Rights Watch criticises Thai immigration authorities for alleged complicity in a Rohingya smuggling operation.
