Who really speaks for the Rohingya?

Dhaka Tribune
Shafiur Rahman
Publish : 20 Jul 2025, 

Understanding Rohingya power struggles before the UN conference

When the Arakan Rohingya National Council (ARNC) unveiled itself on July 13, Bangladeshi and other news sites obligingly reproduced its press release almost word for word. The self‑described “most inclusive and unified platform ever” promised to speak for Rohingya refugees, the diaspora, and those still trapped in Myanmar. Supporters hailed a breakthrough. Skeptics saw déjà vu.

Rohingya campaigners condemn Myanmar’s ‘opaque’ repatriation plan

Aljazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 23 Mar 202323 Mar 2023

Rights campaigners call the ruling military’s pilot project to repatriate the persecuted ethnic Muslim minority a ‘PR campaign’. 

Nearly 800,000 Rohingya fled their homeland in Myanmar in 2017 after a brutal military crackdown [File: Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]

 

The Myanmar military’s “pilot project” to repatriate about 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been met with scepticism, with rights campaigners calling it a “PR campaign”.

Last week, a delegation from Myanmar visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – home to more than 1 million Rohingya – to interview potential candidates for their return as early as next month.

Arakan Rohingya National Alliance: Initiative By Rohingya Diaspora In The International Arena – Analysis

eurasiareview

By Brig Gen (Retd) Hasan Md Shamsuddin
January 22, 2023 Eurasia

Displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine State, Burma. Photo Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Wikipedia Commons.

A lasting solution to the Rohingya crisis lies in the safe, sustainable and dignified repatriation of the 1.2 million Rohingyas staying in Bangladesh to Myanmar. Dignified repatriation of Rohingyas is possible through appropriate measures and the creation of an enabling environment in Myanmar’s political and social environment, but progress in this regard is not promising.

ARSA ခေါင်းဆောင်နှင့် အခြားသူများကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် အမှုဖွင့်

ဧရာဝတီ
By Muktadir Rashid
29 November 2022 

အောက်တိုဘာလက ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတခုအတွင်း ရာဇဝတ်မှုနှင့် စစ်သွေးကြွ သံသယရှိသူများကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များက ရှာဖွေစစ်ဆေးစဉ် / AFP 

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် လုံခြုံရေးအရာရှိတဦး သေဆုံးရသည့် ယခုလအစောပိုင်းက မြန်မာနယ်စပ်တွင် အပြန်အလှန်ပစ် ခတ်မှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်ပြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာ စစ်သွေးကြွအုပ်စုတခုမှ လူ ၆၆ ဦးကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးနေ သည်။

နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့က ဘန်ဒါဘန် တောင်တန်းခရိုင်မှ မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါးတိုက်ဖျက်မှု စစ်ဆင်ရေးအတွင်း ထောက်လှမ်းရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များ ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ်ရုံး (DGFI) မှ အရာရှိ ရစ်ဇ်ဝန် ရပ်ရှ်ဒီ သေဆုံးခြင်းနှင့် လျှပ်တ ပြတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးတပ်မှတဦး ဒဏ်ရာရခြင်းအတွက် အာရကန် ရိုဟင်ဂျာကယ်တင်ရေးတပ် (ARSA) စစ်ဘက် အကြီးအကဲ အတော်လာ အဘူ အမ်မာ ဂျန်နန်နီနှင့် အခြားသူ ၆၅ ဦးအား စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှုကို နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၃ ရက်နေ့တွင် စတင်လိုက်သည်။

Declaration on Rohingya Unity

"In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent"

Declaration on Rohingya Unity

                                                                        November 20, 2022 

 

1. Mindful of the tragedy the Rohingya people are facing since at least 2012 genocidal extermination reaching to its climax in 2017 and still continuing resulting in the fresh exodus of more than 1 million Rohingya from Arakan into Bangladesh and other countries;   
2. Whereas the international community has failed the Rohingya people again and again even 5 years after the most recent mass exodus in 2017;
    
3. Realising the absence of unified representation of the Rohingya people at relevant international forums as well as in all internal and external negotiations with concerned parties, including Myanmar authorities, Myanmar oppositions or stakeholders, results in finding a solution more elusive;
   

Rohingya rights groups form alliance for self-determination, dignified survival in Myanmar

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
24.11.2022

Several leading groups, prominent activists came together to form Arakan Rohingya National Alliance, which its co-founder views as an urgent need

For the first time since the genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Aug. 2017, several leading organizations and prominent activists have formed a greater alliance titled “Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA)” with the aim at ensuring the persecuted community's safe and dignified survival in their homeland.

Nay San Lwin, a founding member of ARNA and co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that a unified representation of the Rohingya was necessary at relevant international forums, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

Among the diaspora and refugee communities, Rohingya has dozens of organizations, but none of them is the only representative, Lwin said, adding that a stronger collaboration among Rohingya organizations was required to represent the entire community.

မြန်မာ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးမဟာမိတ်ဖွဲ့ရန် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ စုစည်း

ဧရာဝတီ
By Muktadir Rashid

24 November 2022

၂၀၁၈ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ ၂၅ ရက်နေ့က အူကီယာရှိ ကူတူပါလောင် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင် ကျင်းပသော ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် မြန်မာစစ်တပ် အကြမ်းဖက် နှိမ်နင်းမှု နှစ်ပတ်လည် ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် အခမ်းအနားကို တက်ရောက်လာသည့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်များ / AFP

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူ အများအပြားသည် မြန်မာတွင် လူအခွင့်အရေး တောင်းဆိုရန် အဖွဲ့တခုဖွဲ့စည်းရေး စုစည်းခဲ့ကြသည်။

အာရကန် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ အမျိုးသား မဟာမိတ် Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) က ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ညီ ညွတ်ရေး တောင်းဆိုပြီး ၎င်းတို့ မွတ်ဆလင် လူမှုအသိုက်အဝန်းသည် ခွဲထွက်ရေးသမားများ မဟုတ်ကြောင်း ကြေညာသည်။

Rohingyas form new platform

NEWAGE

Staff Correspondent
Published: Nov 21,2022 

Several Rohingya organisations and prominent activists have come together and floated a new platform called the Arakan Rohingya National Alliance.

The alliance brings together Rohingya leaders residing in different countries to achieve the rights of self-determination of the Rohingya people within the federal union of Myanmar, according to a press release on Monday.

The leadership called for greater unity among Rohingyas and said that Rohingya were not secessionists but would want to be a part of the future Federal Democratic Union of Myanmar.

They expressed their desire to cooperate with all stakeholders inside Myanmar, the press release said, adding that they were committed to upholding ‘peaceful coexistence’ on the agreed upon union principle of ‘unity in diversity’.

Rohingya Unite to Launch Myanmar Rights Alliance

The Irrawaddy 

By Muktadir Rashid
22 November 2022 

Rohingya refugees attend mark the first anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2018. / AFP

 

DHAKA — Several Rohingya organizations and activists have united to form a group to demand human rights in Myanmar.

The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) called for Rohingya unity and said the Muslim community was not secessionist.

It said the Rohingya wanted to be part of a future federal democratic Myanmar to uphold peaceful coexistence through unity in diversity.

The groups said it would work with the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and United League of Arakan in Rakhine State to achieve full and effective equality and the right to self-determination, like other ethnic groups in Myanmar.

An online press conference on Sunday aimed to unite the global Rohingya diaspora and announce the alliance’s intent to achieve self-determination for the Rohingya in Myanmar.