source by : http://www.rohingyablogger.com/search/label/Rohingya%20News
12345
Showing posts with label Rohingya News. Show all posts
UN asks Myanmar to give citizenship to Rohingya Muslims
Sunday, November 11, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has asked that Myanmar give citizenship to the Muslim Rohingya people after months of deadly sectarian violence in the western state of Rakhine. The Rohingya’s statelessness is at the heart of two major outbreaks of fighting between the Buddhist and Muslim communities that has left 180 people dead and forced 110,000 Rohingya into makeshift camps.Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, told reporters,…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
US, UK urge access to Rohingya camps
Saturday, November 10, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
The United States, Britain and other countries called yesterday for Myanmar to ensure unhindered humanitarian access to tens of thousands of people displaced by sectarian unrest in western Rakhine state. In a joint statement, nine embassies in Yangon urged “all parties to work together to bring an immediate end to the violence”. They appealed for “a full, transparent and independent investigation” to determine the roots of the Buddhist-Muslim…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Rohingya activists call for U.N. peacekeepers in Myanmar
Friday, November 09, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
LONDON (Alertnet) – Activists from one of the world’s most persecuted minorities have called for U.N. peacekeepers and international observers to be sent to western Myanmar where an explosion of violence has left scores of people dead and displaced more than 100,000. Simmering tensions between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas in volatile Rakhine State first boiled over in June. The clashes were followed by further bloodshed in late October. Rohingya…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
BRCNL demonstrated in Netherlands
Friday, November 09, 2012 BRCNL, Rohingya News No comments
November 8, 2012 – Amsterdam, Netherlands: Burmese Rohingya Community in Netherlands demonstrated in front of Netherlands parliament in Den Haag.The Rohingya activists and sympathizers of Rohingya in Netherlands demonstrated showing their Solidarity with other Rohingya organizations all over the world on the Day of Global Action against the state-sponsored genocides of Rohingyas and Kamans being carried in Arakan since June 2012. They demanded Myanmar…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
OIC To Hold Special Meeting On Myanmar Developments
Monday, November 05, 2012 OIC, Rohingya News No comments
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov 5 (Bernama) — Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)announced that a special meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Djibouti from Nov 15-17 to review the recent developments in Myanmar, Iran’s IRNA reported. In a statement issued on Sunday, OIC said it will not politicise humanitarian work, even though it continues its endeavours to have the Muslim Rohingya minority regain its legal and constitutional…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Britain urges Myanmar to resolve Rohingya issue
Monday, November 05, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
Britain on Monday called on Myanmar to resolve the citizenship status of Rohingyas caught up in deadly sectarian violence. “We would like the problems, the unresolved problems of the status of the Rohingya people to be addressed by the leaders in Burma across politics,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters in Laos. “That’s an issue of major concern for us. I’ll certainly raise that with the Burma leaders here when…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Myanmar govt. directly involved in killing Rohingya muslims: Iran MP
Monday, November 05, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
U Zaw Htay, director of the President’s office, announced on his Facebook page that Rohingya needs wiped out from Arakan, Burma An Iranian lawmaker says the government of Myanmar is directly involved in the ongoing massacre of Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country. “Most activities in Myanmar are controlled by the government and it is unlikely that such incident [the massacre of Rohingya Muslims] with [so…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Muslims fleeing violence in Burma drown as crisis deepens
Sunday, November 04, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
People displaced by the recent violence in Pauktaw pass the time at their shelters at Owntaw refugee camp for Muslims outside Sittwe. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters First one body appeared, floating in the waters of the Bay of Bengal, then another, and another, until those on board the little fishing boat that had gone to their rescue began to lose count. Those bobbing lifeless among the waves had set out the night before, so desperate…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Myanmar declined talks offer on violence: ASEAN
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 ASIAN News, Rohingya News No comments
KUALA LUMPUR: Myanmar has rejected an offer by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to open talks aimed at quelling deadly communal violence there, the regional bloc’s chief said on Tuesday.ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said he proposed setting up tripartite talks between the association, the United Nations, and Myanmar’s reformist government to prevent the violence having a broader regional impact.But he said Myanmar turned…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Myanmar: UN official concerned over rights violations in Rakhine state
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
A United Nations senior official today expressed serious concern about reports of human rights violations committed by security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, after clashes between its Buddhist and Muslim communities reportedly killed at least 78 people and displaced thousands last month.“We have been receiving a stream of reports from independent sources alleging discriminatory and arbitrary responses by security forces, and even their instigation…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
‘Myanmar authorities not doing enough to protect Rohingyas’
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
New York: New York-based Human Rights Watch has said that the authorities in Burma need to do more to protect displaced Rohingyas, even as the Bangladesh Government has shown no interest in doing so. In a statement, the Director of Human Rights Watch, South Asia, Meenakshi Ganguly, said: “The Rohingyas seem to have become the nowhere people. The authorities in Burma have failed to protect them, and Bangladesh refuses to provide asylum to…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for end to ‘terrible violence in Burma’
Monday, October 29, 2012 Rohingya News, William Hague No comments
Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for peace in Burma’s Rakhine state, after the destruction of settlements occupied by Muslim Rohingyas following fierce fighting with Buddhists. In a statement, Mr Hague said: “Our ambassador is in constant contact with the Burmese government. “He spoke to the president’s office earlier today to express our grave concerns about recent developments and our readiness to assist at both a humanitarian and…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
UN says over 26,000 displaced by Myanmar unrest
Monday, October 29, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
SITTWE, Myanmar, Oct 28, 2012 (AFP) – Homeless people fled to packed camps or clustered near their charred houses in western Myanmar on Sunday, amid ongoing unrest that the UN said displaced 26,500 from mainly Muslim communities. Dozens have died and whole neighbourhoods have been razed in clashes that began last week between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state, putting further strain on relief efforts in the region. The United Nations,…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Update News of Maungdaw Tsp, Arakan (28th October, 2012)
Sunday, October 28, 2012 MDW, Rohingya News No comments
On 28th October, 2012 (i.e. today), in all the ten villages covered by Nasaka Camp (12), under Nasaka Sector (5), Nasaka carried out an activity which is totally unusual and not understandable. The activity is: – A group of Nasaka went to the village and proceeded to the school where it is located. They also called two to three Rohingyas from the village. Then twelve Nasakas and the forcibly called Rohingyas stood in front of the ‘School…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Implementing steps by steps what President told the UNHCR Head
Sunday, October 28, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
On 28th October, 2012 (i.e. today), at 3:35pm, a group of Nasakas and military set fire on a Rohingya village, Ki Ni Pyin, in Pauk Taw township. The village has been totally villager-less after Bengali Rakhine terrorists threatened the villagers that all the villagers will be killed if they continuously residing in the village. Upon this threat, all the villagers left homes…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Burma’s leader admits deadly attacks on Muslims
Sunday, October 28, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
Satellite images show huge swath of coastal town destroyed in a wave of violence which has left dozens dead. A satellite image of Kyaukpyu on 9 March. Click to see image showing scale of destruction. Photograph: Human Rights Watch Burma’s president has admitted an unprecedented wave of ethnic violence has targeted his country’s Rohingya Muslim population, destroying whole villages and large parts of towns. Thein Sein’s acknowledgement follows…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
New outbreak of inter-communal violence in Myanmar (NPR Interview)
Saturday, October 27, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
At least 67 people are dead and hundreds of homes have been burned, in a new outbreak of inter-communal violence in Myanmar, the country also known as Burma. It’s the second bout of violence between Buddhists and Muslims in northwest Myanmar, near the border with Bangladesh. More than 80 people died in June, and tens of thousands of Muslims have been living in squalid conditions in refugee camps since then. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Myanmar,…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Hundreds killed, Thousands of Rohingya floating on the sea and facing starvation.
Friday, October 26, 2012 BROUK, Rohingya News 2 comments
During the last 24 hours, BROUK has received the following information from the ground; More than 200 Rohingya dead bodies were buried in a mass grave in a long burrow in Yin Thae Village, Mrauk Oo Township. 26th October at 3:00AM (Local time), Rakhine mob set fire to Sidling village, Kyauktaw and the whole village was burnt down. Still do not know how many people killed. On 25th October, 2012, at 3:30am (Local time), thousands…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Update News from Kyauk-Pyu Township, Arakan
Friday, October 26, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
26/10/2012,Though the coastal dwellers, particularly fishermen, could have fled from the carnage by their own arrangement directing to Sittwe by waterway, the Muslims dwellers at the core of downtown could not escape from possible mob attack because, first of all, in all round are Buddhist Rakhine and there had not any way-out. In this regards Muslims pleaded for the help of saving from the carnage, which would have fallen within moments, from…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Thousands of Myanmar Muslims Demonstrated in KL | M.S. Anwar
Thursday, October 25, 2012 Rohingya News No comments
Thursday, 25th October 2012 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia- Thousands of Rohingya Muslims, Kaman Muslims, Burmese Muslims and Malay Muslims demonstrated in Kuala Lumpur today. The demonstration was held in the wake of the state-sponsored apartheid and mass killings of Rohingyas and Kamans in cooperation with Rakhine terrorists in Arakan state, Burma. They strongly condemn the genocides and demanded Myanmar government to immediately stop it. Besides,…
1
Google +0 0
Read More
Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)
Popular
Tags
Old Posts
Police Rape A Rohingya Girl Inside Her Jail Cell After She’s Arbitrarily Detained In Buthidaung
RB News September 10, 2013 Buthidaung, Arakan – A 17-year-old innocent Rohingya girl from Buthidaung Township of Arakan State was …
Rohingya and Myanmar Muslim Event at 2013 ISNA Convention in Washington, DC
Interactive presentations by the panel members, Prof. Dr. Amaney Jamal of Princeton University, Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin of ARU & BRANA, …
Rakhine Hooligans Attacked 6 Rohingyas In Sittwe, 5 Believed To Have Died
RB News September 11, 2013 Sittwe, Arakan – Six Rohingya fishermen from Ka Din Pike village tract in Sittwe Township of Arakan Sta…
Arrest, Torture and Extortion In Buthidaung While Checking Guest Lists
RB News September 12, 2013 Buthidaung, Arakan – A group of Hlun Htaine, police, soldiers and village administrators raided Rohingya…
5 Rohingya Brothers Arrested On False Accusations, 1 Killed While In Custody
RB News September 12, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan – According to locals, about 10 police officers robbed a Rohingya house Ngan Chaung vil…
Myanmar Buddhist committee bans anti-Muslim organizations
(Photo: Reuters) By Jared Ferrie and Min Zayar Oo Reuters September 11, 2013 A government-appointed body that oversees Myanma…
Suu Kyi says unable to stop anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) speaks during a press conference, September 12, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland (AFP, Janek Sk…
The Burmese Muslims Who Are Refugees In Their Own Country
By Danny Gold – Photos: Andrew Stanbridge VICE September 13, 2013 Internally displaced persons in the gymnasium that has become t…
Authorities Pressure Rohingyas Not To Say Police Robbed Them
RB News September 10, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan – After the police robbed three Rohingya houses in Northern Maungdaw Township on Septe…
Thousands of Meikhtila displaced remain homeless
Soldiers are deployed around a burnt Islamic school in Meikhtila (Reuters) By Shwe Aung Democratic Voice of Burma September 14, …
Follow by Email»
There was an error in this gadget
Sign Petition>>
Raise your voice for Rohingya
Rohingya Genocides( Leaked Video)
The Irrawaddy News
Thein Sein Holds First Meeting With 88 Generation Students
German Press Corps Offers Lessons for Fledgling Burmese Counterparts
170 Burmese Workers Return Home Following Malaysia Crackdown
Burma to Grant UN Nuclear Watchdog Wider Access
Project to Take Stock of Rangoon’s Mon Population Ahead of 2015 Election
Mizzima News
Selling Online
Kick-starting entrepreneurship
Pipedream
Myanmar Migrant Trap
Prisoners of Mae Sot
DVB News
BUSINESS WEEKLY
Burma agrees to let in UN nuclear weapons inspectors
Suu Kyi wishes Burmese to be ‘rich in hope’
President Thein Sein meets 88 Generation leaders
China pledges, Burma dredges
Copyright © 2011 Rohingya Blogger | Designed by RB Team
Free Rohingya Campaign | Rohingya Times | Burma Digest
ShareThis Copy and Paste
- See more at: http://www.rohingyablogger.com/search/label/Rohingya%20News#sthash.yLVv4jXH.dpuf