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Press release: Justice and protection for Rohingya women and girls – in support of call for Unilever to disinvest from Myanmar

International Women’s Day, 8 March 2018, London

Justice and protection for Rohingya women and girls
– in support of call for Unilever to disinvest from Myanmar

Statement by Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape

We strongly condemn the ethnic cleansing, widespread torture, killings and systematic rape and sexual torture of women and girls by the Myanmar Army, as part of its genocide against the Rohingya people. Continue reading “Press release: Justice and protection for Rohingya women and girls – in support of call for Unilever to disinvest from Myanmar”

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ARNO Press release: Investigation Commission of Myanmar Indulges in Falsehood again

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO
Joint Statement
18 December 2016
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Investigation Commission of Myanmar Indulges in Falsehood again

We, the undersigned Rohingya organizations worldwide, strongly condemn the false and fabricated statement of the Government Investigation Commission, led by military appointed Vice-President U Myint Swe, which was released on 14 December 2016 particularly for the following reasons:
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ARNO : Rohingya are being destroyed, ‘full security and protection’ most urgent

Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO)
Press release
15 November 2016

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Rohingya are being destroyed, ‘full security and protection’ most urgent

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation strongly condemns the mass killing and torture murder, rape, plundering and wholesome destruction of Rohingya people and their properties, homes and villages in Northern Arakan since 9 October.

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BROUK press release: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon must press for practical steps on Rohingya

Burmese Rohingya Organization UK
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30th August 2016
BROUK press release: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon must press for practical steps on Rohingya

We, BROUK are grateful for the UN Secretary General stressing the need for action on problems facing Rohingya, during his press conference with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi today.
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Press Release: NLD government Must Protect Rohingya People

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN
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(16 May 2016)
 Press Release: NLD government Must Protect Rohingya People

We, the undersigned Rohingya organizations express our serious concern that the security, honour and dignity of the Rohingya population continue to be at stake due to growing anti-Rohingya sentiment at the behest of the powerful and influential groups in the Myanmar.
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ARNO Press release: The NLD Government embarks on Islamophobia, no change of attitude towards Muslims

Arakan Rohingya National Organization
Arakan, Burma

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Press release

April 6, 2016

The NLD Government embarks on Islamophobia

no change of attitude towards Muslims

We at Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) have strongly condemned the NLD Religious Affairs Minister Thura U Aung Ko for making an unprincipled statement that Buddhists were full citizens and the majority of Myanmar’s Muslims were “associate citizens,” implying that those who practice Islam are classified as partial citizens or foreigners.
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Joint statement on the official of the Rakhine(Arakan) investigation commission

Joint statement on the official of the Rakhine(Arakan) investigation commission

We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows:  Continue reading “Joint statement on the official of the Rakhine(Arakan) investigation commission”

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ARNO Press release: Stop Rohingya Ethnocide

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA

Press Release
(28 April 2013)

STOP ROHINGYA ETHNOCIDE

We condemn the police shooting, on 26 April 2013, of a group of Rohingya children for their peaceful protest chanting “Rohingya, Rohingya” when hostile operational team consisting of immigration, military, NaSaKa, police and village administrators came to Thet Kay Byin village near Ba Du Pha Rohingya displacement camp in Arakan’s capital Sittwe (Akyab), to perform the current operation forcing the Rohingya to register as “Bengali” for the census. A 15 year old boy namely Mohammad Ali S/o Kabir Ahmed of Thet Kay Bin was injured in the shooting and is now taking treatment in a private clinic.
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