Conflict Lead Story News Rakhine
“We have in the past returned prisoners of war via the ICRC, and we would like to do the same for these three soldiers if the ICRC is willing.”
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
A police officer at the local Taung Bazar police station said the blast occurred inside a building that served both as a mosque and madrassa.
Foreign aid groups had previously been denied access to shelters amid ongoing clashes between government security forces and armed mobs.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
As the army continues its lockdown of Rohingya villages in northern Arakan State, local Buddhists are returning to their homes despite fears of further violence.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Rights and aid groups are urging Burma’s government to allow access to displaced populations in northern Arakan State amid tightened security following a series of attacks on border police nearly two weeks ago.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
UN Special Adviser calls on the civilian population of the area “to exercise maximum restraint and not be provoked into any kind of response by targeting other communities or religious groups.”
Celebrated Burmese meteorologist Tun Lwin has predicted that floods will soon blanket all of western Arakan State, as well as the Chin, Sagaing and Kachin regions.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
A total of 88 candidates from across Burma, including almost an entire Muslim political party, have been disqualified from the 8 November general election.
2015 Elections Lead Story News
The move to deny USDP’s Shwe Maung a chance to run despite being a serving MP raises concerns about the disenfranchisement of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Burma’s government has now put the death toll relating to torrential flooding at 55 in Arakan State, but local parliamentarian Pe Than said the final figure was likely to be higher.
Arakan Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
The 20 were each sentenced to five years in connection with a ship carrying 208 migrants that was intercepted by the Burmese navy last month.
Arakan Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
A formal proposal by an RNP MP was passed to build new “ethnic villages” in the two townships on the basis that “there is not much native population living in these areas”.
Census Lead Story News Rohingya
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.
Burma’s ethnic Rohingya continue to face heavy persecution in northern Arakan state, despite the dissolution of a controversial border guard force.
