Rohingya leader: Grateful to Bangladesh, want to return to Arakan

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 21 Feb 2025

The Rohingya community in Ukhiya, Coxs Bazar, observed International Mother Language Day, honoring linguistic heritage and unity, on Friday, February 21, 2025. Photo: Bangla Tribune

International Mother Language Day 2025 was observed at the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar.

To mark the occasion, a gathering was held on Friday morning at Block C of Camp 9 in Palongkhali union.

The event began with a tribute to the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement. Religious leaders, teachers, youth activists, and Rohingya leaders delivered speeches during the program.

Are the Rohingya stateless?

Daily Mirror Online
By Safrah Fazal
Thu, 13 Feb 2025

The testimonies of the Rohingya paint a picture of innocent people trying to flee grave danger in Myanmar

The recent discourse surrounding the arrival of over 100 Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka in December 2024 has been fraught with statements that they are victims of human trafficking, or they are illegal immigrants and hence are at risk of deportation. However, the testimonies of the Rohingya themselves paint a different picture—one of innocent people whose lives were in grave danger in Myanmar’s Arakan Province. With no other choice, they entrusted their fate to rickety boats and treacherous waters, clinging to a fragile hope for survival.

Rohingya’s call for justice, equality, peaceful coexistence and inclusive governance in Arakan

J O I N T   S T A T E M E N T

December 23, 2024

 

Rohingya’s call for justice, equality, peaceful coexistence and inclusive governance in Arakan

 

The Arakan Army (AA) has taken control of Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships in Northern Arakan/Rakhine State. The majority of the remaining 500,000 Rohingya are still living in the territory controlled by the AA. The AA controls the entire border with Bangladesh.

 

During decades of military rule, the people of Arakan State, including the Rohingya, have yearned for freedom. With the Arakan Army now in control of the territory, it bears the responsibility to fulfill that aspiration. We urge the Arakan Army and its political wing, the United League of Arakan, to uphold and respect the rights of the Rohingya and all ethnic and religious minorities in Arakan State.

 

Rohingya refugee finds safety after limbs hacked off

EXAMINER
By Farid FaridUpdated
November 5 2024

Rohingya refugee Mohammed Ismail lost an arm and a leg after he was attacked by militia. Photo: Farid Farid/AAP PHOTOS

In a brazen and bloody assault hours before dawn that he barely survived, axe and knife wielding militias chopped off Mohammed Ismail's left arm and left leg.

 

Out of the Spotlight, Myanmar’s Rohingya Face Worst Violence in 7 Years

UNITED STATES INSTITUE OF PEACE
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
By: Laetitia van den Assum

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The situation of the Rohingya is deteriorating in the absence of credible dialogue.
• In Rakhine, forcible recruitment of Rohingya fighters has deepened societal rifts.
• An initiative is needed to address the Rohingya community as a whole, focusing on their immediate needs and future.

Since early 2024, fighting in northern Rakhine state has led to the worst attacks on the Rohingya population since 2017, when Myanmar’s military drove more than 750,000 across the border into Bangladesh. The new attacks are a stark reminder of the Rohingyas’ vulnerability. The world has known about their plight for decades, and in 2024, only 636,000 Rohingya — or 23 percent of the 2.8 million Rohingya around the world — still live in their homeland, Myanmar.

OIC Expresses Deep Concern over Violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Organization of Islamic Cooperation
20-05-2024

The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expresses deep concern and alarm over recent reports of violence, forced displacement, and property destruction against the Rohingya Muslim community in Buthidaung Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan condemns Rohingya conscription

mizzima
April 18, 2024 

Rohingya refugees walk after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang/Photo: AFP

The Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan ( BRAJ) has released a statement condemning the Myanmar junta’s conscription of Rohingya civilians into the army.

Below is the 16 April BRAJ statement:

The Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan ( BRAJ) is outraged, deeply concerned and condemns the forced conscription of Rohingya men into the brutal Burmese military regime services and forcing vulnerable Rohingya civilians to take part in the regime-orchestrated protests against Arakan Army (AA) in some parts of Arakan, which were aiming to destroy unity and to divide people along ethnic and religious lines.

What is the future for the Rohingya in Arakan State?

DVB
By CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
Guest contributor
Pacifist Farooq
March 11, 2024

Since the resumption of fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) on Nov. 13 after a year-long unofficial ceasefire, the Rohingya community has become more vulnerable than ever, compounding the already alarming humanitarian catastrophe in the region.

Rohingya of the Arakan

NEWAGE
Habib Siddiqui |
Published: Sep 11,2023 

Dr Habib Siddiqui has a long history as a peaceful activist in an effort towards improving human rights and creating a just and equitable world. He has authored 18 books and more than a thousand articles.

 

THE Rohingyas of Myanmar are a stateless people who are denied citizenship rights in Buddhist-majority Myanmar simply because of their distinct ‘otherness’ in race, culture, and religion. As a result, nearly 2.5 million Rohingyas, representing roughly 75 per cent of the community, now live as refugees in various parts of the world. Those living inside Myanmar are treated as unwanted people who are victims of genocide. Not a single Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is honoured by the government, which has rendered the Rohingyas the most persecuted people of our time.

Traditional Homeland of Rohingya in Myanmar

Nurul Islam (U.K.), Report,
Apr 7, 2019

The area between west bank of Kaladan River and east bank of Naf River, which demarcates Myanmar-Bangladesh border, in North Arakan is known as “Traditional Homeland of Rohingya”. It has been deeply implanted the minds of the Rohingya people despite changes in demography, due to pogrom in 1942 and continued systematic persecution against them particularly from 1962 military rule in Burma. Renowned historians such as, Burma Historical Commission’s compiler Prof. Dr. G.H. Luce and History Prof. Dr. Than Tun haveaffirmed this traditional homeland of Rohingya stating that in North Arakan there was“possibility of Rohingya and their kings in the Mayu valley since 800 years back”.[1]

10th Gloucesters in the Arakan, 1944

10th Gloucesters in the Arakan, 1944

by Major P.J.H. Pope, "D" Coy.

(Back Badge, 1948)

The Battalion spent Christmas 1943 in a tented camp on the edge of Kharakvasta Lake, near Poona, where we had been located since July. A good deal of training had been carried out during this period and consisted of exercises in which the Battalion marched considerable distances across country and up the highest and steepest hills in the district to plunge down the opposite side and into the nearest river or lake. But as yet no training in jungle warfare had been done. About this time an advance party went to the jungles of Mysore to prepare a camp and exercises for the Battalion, but the move was never made and we did no jungle training before proceeding to Burma.

Towards the end of January 1944, the Battalion (commanded by Lt-Col. H.C.R. Rose, DSO), was warned for operation "Porpoise." This was to be the units first operation against the Japanese. On 15th February the Battalion entrained at Kirkee Station and arrived at Calcutta on 20th February. We spent 2 days here and renewed many old acquaintances with the 28th who were, as usual, most hospitable to all ranks. We took ship to Chittagong and thence to Cox's Bazaar by river steamer where we arrived on 26th February.

The Rohingya Crisis: Suu Kyi’s False Flag and Eth-nic Cleansing in Arakan By Md. Mahmudul Hasan

Fighting in Maungdaw: A Strategic Turning Point in Western Myanmar?

THE I DIPLOMAT

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

September 21, 2022

The return of conflict in northern Rakhine State has brought the Arakan Army’s goal of autonomy one step closer to fulfillment

On the morning of September 16, around two months after intensive clashes resumed between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military in northern Rakhine State, Bri. Gen. Dr. Nyo Twan Awng, the AA’s deputy commander in chief, shared a message to the Rakhine people through his social media accounts. The message described the return to war against the junta as “a final war and decisive war” for building “the state of the Arakan.”

The AA, the armed wing of the United League of Arakan (ULA), was formed by 26 Rakhine youths in April 2009 in Laiza, in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State, under the guidance of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). In early 2015, the AA moved to Rakhine and began engaging in clashes with the Myanmar military in Kyauktaw township and Paletwa township in neighboring Chin State. Fighting escalated late in 2018 and raged until just before the national election in November 2020.

Thiri Pyan Chi U Oo Kyaw Zan

Thiri Pyan Chi u Oo Kyaw Zan by arakan library

မျိုးချစ်အာဇာနည်

မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အာဇာနည္.pdf by arakan library

The Golden Mrauk U by U Shwe Zan

The Golden Mrauk u by arakan library

Chittagong port turns 134

Financial Express

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL
April 25, 2021

CHATTOGRAM: The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) turns 134 on Sunday. Like last year, the port will observe its founding in a simple manner tomorrow as the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic is lashing the country since early this year.

The history of Chittagong Port, one of the oldest natural ports in the subcontinent, dates back to the 4th century BC, the area was called 'Shetgang' where Arab, Chinese, European and Turkish traders settled.

The Chittagong area, which is now Chattogram, has been a recorded seaport since the 4th century BC.

Arakan Violence Report by Ahrdo

Arakan Violence Report by A... by Saw James

OPINION - Arakan resistance assist Rohingya in their common quest for int'l accountability

AA

Maung Zarni 

09.09.2020 

 

Arakan Army/ULA emerging as an unseemly ally and collaborator of Rohingya victims seeking justice and a peaceful homeland 

It is really welcome news for the Rohingya campaigning for justice and accountability that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly brought to The Hague two Myanmar army deserters who could provide first-person accounts as perpetrators in the genocidal killings of Rohingya families, including women and babies.

ARU report: No sign of peace, stability returning to Arakan

Dhaka Tribune

August 23rd, 2020

File Photo: Myanmar police officer stands guard in Maungdaw, Rakhine July 9, 2019. Photo taken on July 9, 2019 Reuters

Coronavirus has recently surged in Sittwe with new cases

There is no sign of peace and stability returning to Arakan any time soon, according to a report.

The Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU) Report to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the situation on the ground in Arakan state, Myanmar, was submitted by ARU Director General Dr Wakar Uddin on Saturday.