Rohingya Activists Share Stories of Community's Plight.

Fars News Agency

Sun Feb 10, 2019

TEHRAN (FNA)- Fear, intimidation, repression and genocide; The words used by members of the Rohingya community to describe what is happening to them at the hands of Myanmar's military forces.

"Some may think that by leaving a repressive, genocidal regime, Rohingya will be free," Yasmin Ullah, a Rohingya activist, said, Anadolu news agency reported.

Hundreds of Arakanese, Chin Flee to Bangladesh as Army, AA Clash in Paletwa

The Irrawaddy

By Moe Myint ,6 February 2019

 

 A separate group of displaced Arakanese and ethnic Chin trek to safety in Bangladesh’s Bandarban District in recent days. / Ko Ko Marma / Facebook

 

YANGON—About 250 newly displaced Arakanese and ethnic Chin from Chin State’s Paletwa Township were driven from their homes into neighboring Bangladesh last week by fierce fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA). Some of the children in the group are reportedly gravely ill as the refugees lack food, clothing and shelter in the area’s cold conditions, a rights worker said.

Myanmar / Why Tatmadaw attempts to ‘crush’ the Arakan Army will ‘backfire’

By: Thomas Brent - Posted on: January 15, 2019 | Current Affairs 

The Arakan Army was formed just under ten years ago but has quickly grown into a fierce military force in Myanmar. Its latest attacks, which fell on the country’s Independence Day, prompted an unprecedented response from Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, whose office ordered the state army to “crush” the insurgency group. But what will a crackdown achieve and why has the government called for it?

As 2019 took its first tentative steps, Myanmar set about celebrating its 71st anniversary of its independence from British rule. On 4 January, in Maha Bandula Park in Yangon, the sound of sporting events and fun fairs filled the air. In the Buthidaung township in northern Rakhine state, it was the sound of bullets that stamped a bloody mark on the calendar.

Court indicts four Arakan youths in slaying of Tatmadaw corporal

NAW BETTY HAN 16 JAN 2019

 

The Sittwe Court has charged four youths with the murder of a soldier in Rakhine State, a lawyer for the accused said.

The court indicted the suspects on Monday in the killing of Corporal Phoe Lone, lawyer U Tun Aung Kyaw said.

( 16.12.2018 ) Forcible repatriation of Rohingya dangerous

December 16, 2018

TEHRAN - Just a little more than a year ago, at least ten thousand Rohingya were killed in northern Rakhine state, at least 350 villages were burnt to the ground. As a result, about 750,000 had to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.

Rohingya crisis: Seeing through the official story in Myanmar

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By Jonathan Head
Southeast Asia correspondent
11 September 2017

Who is burning down Rohingya villages?

The 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung, the last areas of Myanmar with sizeable Rohingya populations not confined to displacement camps.

These districts are hard to reach. Roads are poor, and the government requires permits to go there, which journalists rarely get.

( 12.12.2016 ) Burma Could Be Guilty of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ as Rohingya Crackdown Intensifies

TIMES
Nikhil Kumar @nkreports
Dec. 11, 2016

 

Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Burma take shelter at the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Dec. 5 2016

"Things are not as they are being portrayed by the government"

Reports from Burma’s northern Arakan state, where violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority has forced tens of thousands to flee for their lives, suggest the situation there is “getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity,” the U.N.’s top human-rights investigator for the country has said. “I am getting reports from inside the country and from neighboring places too that things are not as they are being portrayed by the government. We are seeing a lot of very graphic and very disturbing photos and video clips,” Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the country, tells TIME.

( 20.11.2016 ) Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

Published : 19 Nov 2016,

Letter

Recently Myanmar army has reportedly carried out a planned ethnic cleansing in its Arakan province against the ethnic minority, Rohingyas following a riot. The media reported that 160 people were killed and 16 thousand Rohingyas were displaced and many are stranded in Bangladesh-Myanmar border. The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) intercepted the fleeing Rohingyas and stopped them from crossing into our border. Many Rohingyas were pushed back to Myanmar.

281- Muslim Identity and Demography in the Arakan State of Myanmar By Habib Siddiqui

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274- Arakan ဟူေသာအမည္

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272- History of Arakan by World Muslim Congress

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241- ARAKAN JOURNAL January 2011

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211- My Suggestion to RCF, 2006 by U Maung Tin

My Suggestion to RCF, 2006 by U Maung Tin

155- Vaishali and the Indianization of Arakan โดย Noel F. Singer

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49-Arakan History (New Historical Journal)

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48-Arakan History Short Note

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45-Arakan History Book 1(Part2)[1]

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