Kyaw Zan, Opinion January 19, 2026 The world watches the hearings at The Hague. News from Myanmar fills screens with the “Rohingya case.” Gambia speaks for one community. Myanmar’s government defends its military. Both sides argue strongly. Yet something important is missing. The true voice of Arakan and its native people stays silent in the courtroom. Most arguments center on the terrib

Aung Naing Lin, Opinion January 17, 2026 History in Arakan carries deep meaning for its people. It shapes identity, land rights, and trust between communities. Yet the Rohingya/Muslim crisis shows how history becomes a tool for conflict when twisted for political gain. Rakhine Buddhists and other non-Muslim groups in northern Arakan have suffered from these distortions, which push an expansionist ag

Opinion January 12, 2026 The long fight for justice after the 2017 military violence against the Rohingya community drags on slowly. It raises big questions about how international law works when great powers clash — the US-led West pushes hard, China-led East blocks, and middle powers stay neutral. Why has the ICC not yet issued a final arrest warrant for Min Aun

Aung Naing Lin, Opinion January 8, 2026 Nation-states guard their borders fiercely in a world of shifting powers and new tech threats. History shows regional powers/neighbors often back new states when it suits them—Bangladesh itself rose with strong Indian help in 1971. Today, Dhaka watches Myanmar's ethnic struggles closely, especially the push for self-rule in the west. Fears run high about spillover, refugees,

Opinion January 4, 2025 People always hope for real change when times get hard. New leaders, new rules, new paths forward—these promises pull crowds and spark dreams. Yet in Myanmar today, the junta's push for elections feels like a tired trick. Old wine poured into an old bottle: same bitter taste, same weak container. No fresh start, just a repaint of the same broken syste

Opinion December 31, 2025 2025 stands out as a year of bold steps forward in the long fight for national liberation that began in 2009. While major township captures—from Paletwa to Gwa and Maungdaw—wrapped up in 2024, leaving the Arakan Army in firm control of 15 out of 18 towns, the real gains this year lie in deeper strength and wider reach. These moves build a solid ba

Oo Kyaw Thar, Contributing Author December 30, 2025 On December 10 — International Human Rights Day — Myanmar’s military carried out a deliberate airstrike on a hospital in Mrauk-U, Arakan State, where civilians had sought treatment. More than 30 people were killed and nearly 80 injured. Women, children, and the elderly were among the dead. That the attack occurred on a day dedicated to human dignity is not merely s

Opinion December 27, 2025 RNP's election campaign in Manaung Township. Photo: Nyo Morn Khaing True elections let people pick leaders who rule with their clear consent. This idea builds legitimacy—the quiet agreement that power comes from the ruled, not forced upon them. History shows societies everywhere have chosen rulers through some form of vote. In modern times, the reaso

Opinion December 24, 2025 Diaspora Bangagya Activists The world has moved on from the 2017 exodus. Cameras stopped rolling, headlines faded, and the camps along the Naf River turned into a permanent scar everyone agreed to ignore. While Myanmar burns in a hundred places, something quieter but far more hopeful is happening in the west: the Arakan Army now holds every inch

Kyaw Zan, Opinion Global Arakan Network December 20, 2025 A recent program on DVB, aired on December 19, 2025, carried a promising title: “Rakhine vs Rohingya — Conflict or Coexistence?” It was part of the Youth Voice Gen-Z Talkshow series. Many expected a fair exchange of views between the two communities. Instead, the show became a platform for one-sided attacks on the United League of Arakan (UL

Kyaw Zan, Opinion Global Arakan Network December 15, 2025 Women Fighter and Voter in Myanmar (photocrd) The junta in Naypyidaw wants to stage an election. They call it a roadmap, a return to civilian rule, a way out of the mess they created when they tore up the 2020 results. From where we sit in the hills and along the coast, it looks more like a desperate trick to paint lipstick on a corpse

Opinion Global Arakan Network December 13, 2025 Junta Spokeman and Press Statement on Mrauk-U Hospital Killing Yesterday, on December 12, the generals in Naypyidaw rushed out a press statement. They tried hard to defend the bombing of Mrauk-U General Hospital just two days earlier. Their excuses boiled down to two weak claims. First, they said the hospital had closed after they lost control of the t

Aung Naing Lin, Opinion Global Arakan Network December 10, 2025 Photo Credit to Arakan Bay News Arakan has never been a land for one people only. It is the shared home of Arakanese Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Chin, Mro, Thet, Khumi, Khumei, Daingnet, and Mramagyi. Temples, mosques, and shrines sit side by side. Children of different faiths play in the same streets. This diversity is not a problem; it i

Article Translation Global Arakan Network December 8, 2025 Deputy Township Administrator, La La Mya (photocrd) A 59-year-old man with deep black eyes, brown skin, a somewhat short stature, and an ordinary appearance has now taken up the position of Deputy Township Administrator in Buthidaung Township, Maungdaw District, which is under the control of the Arakan Army (AA). His name is U La La Mya.

Kyaw Zann, Opinion Global Arakan Network December 5, 2025 Shafiur Rahman has built a solid name as a sharp-eyed reporter on the chaos inside Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps. Based in London, he runs a newsletter called Rohingya Refugee News and pens pieces for outlets like the Dhaka Tribune and Democratic Voice of Burma. His work digs into the dark side of camp life: forced recruitment by

Opinion Global Arakan Network November 30, 2025 UN HR Cheif, IIMM Chief, Special Rapporteur The United Nations is often praised inside Myanmar as the one international body that dares to speak plainly about the junta’s brutality. When soldiers burn villages, shoot protesters, or bomb schools, UN statements arrive quickly and carry strong words. Many citizens share those reports with relief, seeing them

Opinion Global Arakan Network November 27, 2025 Rakhine, Marma and Mog Ladies (photocrd) Not quite long ago, the respected Arakan historian Kyaw Minn Htin made a simple but powerful discovery: the Rakhine, the Marma of Bandarban, and the Mogh of Tripura are not separate nations —they are one ethnic family. Same blood, same language, same literature, same songs, same customs. Only the names chang

Twan Naing, Contributing Author Global Arakan Network November 25, 2025 The Kaladan River cuts through Rakhine like a vein, carrying dreams of trade from distant ports to quiet villages. For years, it promised a lifeline: India's grand plan to link Kolkata's bustle to Mizoram's hills, bypassing the choked roads of the northeast. Sittwe's port gleams with fresh concrete, ready for ships heavy w

Aung Naing Lin, Opinion Global Arakan Network November 19, 2025 ARSA Terrorists and Laughing Refugee Children The sun sets red over the Naf River. Another day ends without boats carrying families home. Dhaka talks of elections and fresh starts. Across the water, guns speak louder than promises. Textbooks call Bangladesh a rational state. Reality shows a house divided—calm voices drowned by th

Kyaw Zann, Opinion Global Arakan Network November 15, 2025 The countdown to Dhaka’s February 2026 polls echoes across the Naf like distant thunder, stirring the salt-soaked air of our coastal villages. We do not speak of “democracy” in the abstract; instead, we speak of rice that no longer crosses the river, of clinics that have been shuttered by sealed borders, and of sons who vanished into the

Opinion Global Arakan Network November 13, 2025 The first shots cracked at dawn on November 13, 2023, ripping through the mist over Rathedaung Township. Arakan Army fighters stormed the junta’s Done-Paik and Chain-Kharli camps, shattering the uneasy truce that had held since November 2020. What began as a pinpoint raid metastasized into a sweeping offensive. Tactical outposts fell in rapid suc

Aung Naing Lin, Opinion Global Arakan Network November 11, 2025 The Andaman Sea has once again claimed its toll. Between November 6 and 7, a vessel carrying two to three hundred souls— estimates vary , but the desperation does not—left the shores of Bangladesh or Myanmar waters bound for Malaysia. Overcrowding forced a transfer to two smaller boats; one capsized in heaving swells, the other

Oo Kyaw Thar, Contributing Author Global Arakan Network November 14, 2025 Understanding the root causes of a conflict is the first step toward resolving it. Yet when a crisis is interpreted through a single, selective narrative, truth becomes the first casualty — and peace the next. The ongoing discourse surrounding the so-called “Rohingya issue” exemplifies this problem: an international dialogue do

Oo Kyaw Thar, Contributing Author Global Arakan Network November 9, 2025 Min Aung Hlaing and A Destruction of Civilian House in Ponnagyun Township Following the ceasefire between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar’s junta in northern Shan State, the military has turned its aggression westward. In recent weeks, Arakan State has become the epicenter of a brutal campaign — not

Opinion Global Arakan Network| November 6, 2025 ARSA Leader, Myanmar Junta Leader and RSO Leader (photocrd) In the fetid haze along the Naf River's serpentine curve—where Myanmar's ragged frontier bleeds into Bangladesh's beleaguered camps—a farce of Faustian proportions plays out. The Myanmar junta, that self-anointed bastion of Theravada piety under Min Aung Hlaing's iron gaze, has slithered into bed with the very Islamist specters it once exorcised with napalm and edicts.

In recent months, northern Maungdaw in Arakan State has once again become a stage for mounting violence and instability. According to reports from local and regional media, at least 40 civilians have been killed and 17 others injured over the past six months in targeted attacks by Islamist militant groups,

The silence surrounding the slaughter of non-Muslims in northern Arakan’s scarred townships is not merely an oversight; it is a calculated erasure. In Buthidaung and Maungdaw, where the air still carries the acrid memory of torched villages, Islamist jihadist factions—ARSA, RSO, RIM, and ARA—have carved a path of calculated terror through Rakhine, Hindu, Mro, Thet, and Khami communities.

History rarely announces its turning points with fanfare. It prefers the quiet click of a magazine sliding into place, the low hum of encrypted radios at dawn, the sudden silence when a regime’s convoy vanishes from a mountain pass.

In the crucible of relentless struggle, where ancient legacies collide with modern tyranny, the Arakan Dream 2030 emerges as a clarion call—a meticulously crafted blueprint to reclaim sovereignty, forge unity, and erect a bastion of prosperity.

In the sweltering borderlands where the Naf River coils like a serpent between Arakan’s fractured north and Bangladesh’s strained frontier, terror stalks the innocent with chilling precision. Since November 13, 2023,

For years, the idea of repatriating Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh back to Arakan (Rakhine State) has been a recurring topic in international discussions. Despite multiple workshops and high-level talks, the repatriation process remains stalled. The reasons are complex and multifaceted — involving mistrust, political manipulation, and competing narratives that prevent practical progress.

In the volatile cauldron of Rakhine's borderlands, where the Naf River whispers secrets of insurgency, a pernicious escalation unfolds: ARSA and RSO militants, entrenched in Bangladeshi sanctuaries, unleash a torrent of cross-border aggression that erodes regional stability like acid on steel. This surge, amplified in recent weeks, morphs from dormant menace to active sabotage, targeting Arakan Army (AA) outposts and ensnaring innocent civilians in a web of terror.

In the fog-laden frontier of northern Maungdaw, where the Naf River murmurs secrets across borders, a sinister ambush on September 16, 2025, laid bare a chilling betrayal. At 4:12 p.m., Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) militants stormed the Arakan Army’s (AA) Point 601 Camp, a bastion straddling border pillars 56 and 57.

In the labyrinthine corridors of Arakan State's fractured history, where ancient pagodas whisper of resilience against invaders, a name emerges like a serpent in the undergrowth: Shwe Maung, cloaked in the alias Abdul Razak. This erstwhile parliamentarian, once paraded as a voice for the marginalized, now stands exposed as the clandestine conduit between the iron-fisted Myanmar junta and the shadowy Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)—a terrorist syndicate masquerading as l

Oo Kyaw Thar, Contributing Author Global Arakan Network October 8, 2025 Suja Uddin, An ARSA Advisor and Speaker in Recent Conference in Cox Bazzar In recent months, the Bangladesh government has hosted a series of high-profile conferences and workshops in Cox’s Bazar and Dhaka aimed at finding sustainable solutions to the protracted so-called “Rohingya crisis.” These gatherings brought toget

In the shadowed corridors of international diplomacy, where rhetoric often eclipses resolve, Professor Muhammad Yunus's Seven Points Plan, unveiled at the United Nations Conference on Rohingya and Minorities in Myanmar on September 30, 2025,

In the sun-dappled embrace of Rakhine’s coastline, Ngapali Beach stretches like a crescent of shimmering promise, its sands whispering tales of Arakanese heritage and resilience. Nestled in Thandwe township,

In the labyrinthine corridors of international discourse, the narrative surrounding the turmoil in northern Rakhine State—once known as Arakan—often reduces to a poignant tale of human rights violations and statelessness.

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In the mist-shrouded ridges of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), where the earth's ancient contours cradle echoes of unyielding heritage, a precarious calm fractures once more into shards of chaos.

In the fetid haze of the Naf River's delta, where the Bay of Bengal's salt-laced breath mingles with the acrid smoke of smoldering thatch, the frontier between Myanmar's Arakan State and Bangladesh has long been a cauldron of concealed machinations.

The Bangagya (Rohingya) refugee crisis, with over a million people languishing in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps, is a human tragedy that feels like it’s been stuck in quicksand for years.

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