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Is Bangladesh Backing the Muslim Militants in Northern Arakan?
GAN/ Arakan (Rakhine State) May 18, 2024 Country and Flag of Bangladesh (Photocredit) In a...
May 18, 20242 min read
A Dangerous Attempt at Justification: The Question of Armed Bengali Groups in Northern Arakan
GAN/ Arakan (Rakhine State) May 7, 2024 Junta-backed Bengali Muslim militants surrendered to the AA...
May 7, 20243 min read
The Arakan Army and Bengali Muslim Community in Arakan
By Moe Satt, GAN Longread: Opinions May 2, 2024 A Muslim youth viewing AA’s...
May 3, 20248 min read
THE HILL TRACTS OF ARAKAN
Maior W. GAVYNNE HUGHES, The condition of wild tribes and the country inhabited by them has of necessity from time to time attracted the...
May 1, 20241 min read
Notes on a series of cultural and historical articles about Arakan written between 1959 and 1966 by Mohammed A Tahir Ba Tha of Buthidaung
Derek Tonkin U Ba Tha was a Muslim scholar and banker from Buthidaung in Rakhine State who between 1959 and 1966 wrote several articles...
May 1, 20241 min read
In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Ālāol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Thibaut d'Hubert In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Ālāol (fl. 1651-71), who translated...
May 1, 20241 min read
Violence and Belonging: Conflict, War, and Insecurity in Arakan, 1942–1952
JACQUES P. LEIDER The decade from 1942 to 1952 was a period of abrupt political and social change in Burma’s province of Arakan (Rakhine...
Apr 25, 20241 min read
UN Human Rights Chief Mr Volker Türk's Controversial Statements: Implications of Bias and Misinterpretation on Rakhine State, Myanmar
GAN/ Arakan (Rakhine State) April 22, 2024 UN Commissioner Volker Türk (Photo/OHCHR) While...
Apr 22, 20245 min read
How the Myanmar Junta-backed Muslim Militants are Betraying the Peoples’ Revolutions in Arakan
By Moe Satt, GAN Shortread: Opinions April 19, 2024 Anti-AA...
Apr 19, 20244 min read
Islamic Terrorist Groups Serving the Myanmar Junta's Purposes in Arakan
GAN/ Arakan (Rakhine State) April 18, 2024 Armed ARSA militants...
Apr 18, 20242 min read
How An Insurgency Grows: Difficult Path Toward A New Dream
By Tun Oo and K Wantha, GAN Longread: Opinions April 11, 2024 AA soldiers at the 5th...
Apr 11, 20247 min read
The Politics of Identity in the so-called "Rohingya Crisis"
GAN/ Arakan (Rakhine State) April 6, 2024 ARSA leader Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi (Photocredit)...
Apr 6, 20243 min read
Deeper Roots of So-called Rohingya Problem
GAN/ Arakan (Rakhine State) April 1, 2024 Refugees in Bangladesh (Photocredit) On March 29, 2024, the Dhaka...
Apr 1, 20242 min read
King Maṅḥ Co Mvan’s Exile in Bengal: Legend, History, and Context
By JACQUES P. LEIDER and Kyaw Minn Htin (January 2002) An outline of the rule of King Maṅḥ Co Mvan can be sketched as follows. He became...
Mar 31, 20241 min read
Rohingya: The Foundational Years
By Jacques P. Leider Policy Brief Series No. 123 (2020) Myanmar’s Rakhine State (‘Arakan’ until 1982) borders on Bangladesh and the Bay...
Mar 31, 20241 min read
Reflection on the Arakan Political Dynamics: Challenges and Pathways
By Tun Oo and K Wantha, GAN Longread: Opinions March...
Mar 27, 20247 min read
Arakan Army vows to protect the foreign investments in Arakan
GAN/Arakan (Rakhine State) March 26, 2024 AA soldiers in Liza (Photocredit) The mighty Arakan...
Mar 26, 20242 min read
Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier
18 December 2019 By Martin Smith, Transnational Institute (TNI) Rakhine State, historically known as Arakan, represents the post-colonial...
Mar 16, 20241 min read
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