Bangladesh Under Threat from Arakan Army’s Expanding Drug Empire The ongoing conflict, power struggles, and proliferation of armed groups in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have long created serious security risks for Bangladesh. Among these groups, the Arakan Army (AA) has in recent years emerged as the most influential, militarily capable, and territory-controlling organization. Beyond the Rohingya […]
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– Many Injured and All Taken into Custody in Sittwe The Myanmar Navy opened fire on a motorized boat carrying around 400 Rohingya who had departed Bangladesh by sea en route to Malaysia. The incident occurred on November 21, after which the boat was stopped and all passengers were detained and taken to Sittwe, according […]
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Myanmar authorities seize 4,000kg of Ice worth 120 billion kyats, exposing a terror-funding nexus involving th Arakan Army. 24 arrested in nationwide raids Security forces in Myanmar have dismantled a massive transnational drug trafficking ring, seizing 4,000 kilograms of Ice (methamphetamine) with an estimated street value of 120 billion kyats. The multi-regional operation resulted in […]
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YANGON, Myanmar Rights groups discount Myanmar military courts as lacking credibility, transparency A Myanmar government-sponsored commission has said that security forces committed war crimes against Rohingya Muslims in 2017. The independent Commission of Enquiry set up to probe alleged rights violations in the country’s western Rakhine state, submitted its final report to Myanmar President Win […]
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Mandalay/Yangon — Many Muslims across Myanmar are facing significant difficulties and expenses while trying to correct errors in their national registration records, where their religion—originally recorded as Islam—has been wrongly changed to “Buddhist” in the digital system during the process of converting to the new Smart Card. A Muslim resident who recently visited the Department […]
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Against the backdrop of a war in Ukraine and atrocities in Ethiopia, the United States formally accused Myanmar of committing genocide against its minority Rohingya population. “The day will come when those responsible for these appalling acts will have to answer for them,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial […]
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The ground beneath the Rohingya crisis has shifted once again-and this time, perhaps more dramatically than at any point since the genocide of 2017. Over the past week, the Arakan Army (AA), one of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed groups, has launched a sweeping new offensive across critical areas of northern Rakhine State. In doing […]
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The Arakan Rohingya National Council (ARNC) expresses its deepest sorrow and strongest condemnation following the tragic sinking of a boat carrying Rohingya refugees and other migrants off the coast of Malaysia, near the Thailand–Malaysia maritime boundary. According to Malaysian maritime authorities, one body has been recovered and “dozens” remain missing after an overloaded vessel believed […]
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The-Rohingya-Genocide_Starvation-and-forced-labour-as-tools-of-erasure This report – the twelfth in our ongoing series – documents continued breaches of the International Court of Justice’s binding orders to protect the Rohingya, issued as part of The Gambia’s genocide case against Myanmar. It is being published ahead of Myanmar’s next six-month reporting deadline to the Court. Drawing on first-hand documentation from […]
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Years after large numbers of Rohingya refugees began seeking protection in Bangladesh in 2017, the Rohingya crisis has transitioned from an acute emergency into a deeply entrenched Protracted Refugee Situation (PRS). With more than one million stateless refugees now living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, long term displacement has generated consequences that extend far beyond immediate humanitarian […]
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