Foreign terrorist groups ‘most likely backing’ ARSA, says Min Aung Hlaing
“It is most likely that terrorist organisations based in other countries are backing the ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists,” he said.
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Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
Burmese govt denied me access, says UN envoy Lee
A UN envoy accuses Burmese authorities of conducting surveillance on some of the people she met on previous visits.
Lead Story News Photos Protest Rangoon Rohingya
Anti-Rohingya demonstrators take to the streets
Buddhist nationalists take to the streets to vent their ire at the international community for pressuring Burma to accommodate Rohingya boat people.
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Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Ban Ki-Moon flip-flops on Rohingya identity
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon toned down earlier statements supporting the UN’s recognition of the term “Rohingya,” a move that appears to have been calculated to avoid a backlash from the Burmese government and media.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Arakan leader criticises Ban’s ‘Rohingya’ comments
the Chief Minister of Arakan State, Maung Maung Ohn, criticises UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for his use of the term Rohingya.
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The R-word, and its ramifications
A former UK ambassador says the name “Rohingya” was unknown to British colonial administrators, and that Western insistence on using the term is not helping the Bengali community’s cause.
Census Lead Story News Rohingya
Census-takers fail to count Rohingyas
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
Burmese react to Fortify ‘persecution’ report
Following release of a report accusing the Burmese government of Crimes against Humanity in its Rohingya policy, a presidential spokesman labels the report ‘one-sided’ and pro-Bengali, while an Arakanese politician says “Rakhines are scared”.
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Allow Rohingyas citizenship, UN tells Burma
The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee passes a resolution urging Burma to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to citizenship and to crack down on Buddhist violence against them and other Muslims in the country.
