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Arakan Rohingya Union Receives

Registration in the United Statesas an NGO

The Organization Constitutes Twenty-five Rohingya Organizations Worldwide

UniversityPark,PA,USA.TheSecretariatofArakanRohingyaUnion(ARU)inPennsylvania,USA,recently

announced the achievement of registration from the

Of?iceoftheSecretaryofStateinPennsylvania. ARU,

now asa legitimate NGO intheUnitedStates,is fully

functional, and advancing towards its goals in

cooperation with government agencies and NGOsworldwide for restoration of the basic human rights

andpoliticalrightsoftheRohingyaethnicminorityin

Burma (Myanmar). ARUwas formedat theRohingya

ConventioninJeddah,SaudiArabia,organizedbythe

Organization of Islamic Cooperation based in Jeddah

Saudi Arabia and the Euro-Burma Of?ice in Brussels,

Belgium.The convention issued a jointstatement on

theformationoftheARUtoseekapoliticalsolutionto

theproblemsfacedbytheRohingyapeople.Theunion

is currently composed of twenty-?ive organizations,

wasformedontheagreedprinciplesofanindivisible

Arakan State in Burma, peaceful co-existence,

democracy,humanrights,andfederalism.

TheMissionsofARU:! Restoration ofcitizenship andethnic rights of theindigenous Rohingya minority in the Union of

Myanmar.! ImprovinglivingconditionsforRohingyapeopleinArakan and in Rohingya refugee communities in

othercountries.! SeekingbetterprotectionforRohingyaandMuslimcommunitiesatlargeinMyanmar.TheStrategiestoAccomplishtheMissions:! To engage in dialogue with the Government of

Myanmarthroughpeacefulmeans.! To acquire material and moral support frominternationalagenciestoimprovelivingconditions

ofRohingyapeopleinMyanmarandoversea.! TomaintaindialoguewithRohingyaandMyanmarMuslimpopulationinsideandoutsideMyanmar.! To build the capacity of Rohingya society ine du ca ti on , e co no my , c ul tu re , a nd s oc i alinfrastructuresinMyanmarandoverseas.

FormationofARUattheRohingyaConventionatOIC

HeadquartersinJeddah,SaudiArabia

Mr.HarnYawnghwe,DirectorofEuro-BurmaOfice,Belgium,

Dr. Wakar Uddin, Director General of ARU, and prominent

senior Rohingya leader, Dr. Mohammed Yunus, discuss the

peaceful means of ARUs engagement with Government of

Myanmar.

The Secretary General of the Organization of theIslamicCoperation(OIC),Prof.EkmeleddinIhsanoglu,

calledforunityamongRohingyaandallMuslims.The

call highlighted the importance of the Meeting of

SeniorLeadersofArakanRohingyaUnion(ARU)and

the Euro-Burma Of?ice (EBO), according to Talal

Daous, the Director of the Department of Muslim

Minorities in OIC. The call stems from a resolution

adoptedbytheThirtySeventhSessionoftheCouncil

of Foreign Ministers held in Dushanbe, Republic of

Tajikistan,inMay2011.[TheCouncil]commendsthe

effortsoftheSecretaryGeneralaimedatcoordinating

the work of the Rohingya Muslim organizations and

unitingtheirranksunderaunitedcoordination

SpecialEdi+on:ArakanRohingyaUnion

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Reporting Political and Human Rights Issues Facing Rohingya in Burma (Myanmar)


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council,andcallsonhimtocontinuetheseeffortsto

reclaimtheirrights.Mr.TalalDaous,Directorofthe

Muslim Minorities and Communities Department,

represented the OIC Secretary General Prof.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, and Mr. Harn Yawnghwe

represented the Euro-Burma Of?ice, Brussels,

Belgium, during the convention. Additionally, Ms.Dina Madani and Dr. Hassan Abedin, Political

Of?icers at the OIC, presided the sessions at the

HeadquartersoftheOICGeneralSecretariat.

Source:MediaDepartment,ARU

Burmese Junta Minister Makes

Manufactured Anti-Rohingya

Statements at Parliament

SessionsArakan Rohingya Union Refutes theMinisters Manufactured Statements

with Facts

UniversityPark,PA,USA.TheArakanRohingyaUnion

denouncedthefalseandfabricatedstatementsmade

bytheBurmeseMilitarysMinisterofImmigraDonand

PopulaDonAffair,UKhinYi(theformerPoliceChief)in

theparliamentsessionsheldinNaypyitaw,Burma,on

August31andSeptember1,2011.Thefollowingsare

highlightsofthefalsestatementsbytheministerthatarechallengedbyARUwithfacts:

Statement 1: The popula


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coordinaDonwiththeinternaDonalcommunitytogether

with internaDonal and regional organizaDons, and to

conDnue those efforts in the context of dialogue,

reconci liaDon and coord inaDon among I slamic

organizaDonsinMyanmar.

4.CommendstheeffortsoftheSecretaryGeneralwhichresulted in the formaDon of a United Rohingya

RepresentaDves abroad at the General Secretariat on

31st May, 2011 in implementaDon of paragraph 4 of

ResoluDon No. 4/37-MM, with a view to coordinaDng

amongstthemselvestofindapoliDcalsoluDonstotheir

problems,achievepeacefulco-existence,democracyand

human rights and calls on the Secretary General to

conDnuehiseffortstoregaintheirrightsinfull.

5. Requests the Secretary-General to contact the

GovernmentofMyanmartourgethelaertoreceivean

OICMission tovisitMyanmar inordertoexamine thecondiDons of Muslims there and persuade the

GovernmentofMyanmartocreateconducivecondiDons

for Arakan Muslims to return to their home and to

reportthereontothenextCFM.

6.CallsontheMemberStatestoconDnuetoextendall

possible forms of support and assistance toMyanmar

MuslimsandparDcularlytothoseamongthemlivingas

refugeesoutsidetheirhomeland.

7. Requests the Secretary-General to follow up the

implementaDonofthisresoluDonandreportthereonto

the Thirty-ninth session of the Council of ForeignMinisters.

ARU extended its deepest appreciaDon to the

OrganizaDon of Islamic CooperaDon Members of the

Council ofForeignMinisters for this historic resoluDon

concerning the Muslims in Myanmar, parDcularly the

human rights and poliDcal issues facing the Rohingya

ethnicminority.ARUstronglyurgedthe OICSecretary-

General,His Excellency Prof. r.Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

to immediately iniDate theprocess for implementaDon

oftheresoluDonandreporttothe39thsessionofthe

CouncilofForeignMinisters.Source:Educa+onandCultureDepartment,ARU

AmonthlypublicaDonof:

TheRohingyaHumanRightsAlert/TheBurmeseRohingyaAssocia9onofNorthAmerica

ARUhadcalledontheRohingyapeopleworldwide,

its fellow ciDzens in Burma and overseas, and the

internaDonal community to denounce these false

allegaDons and fabricaDons made by the Burmese

MilitaryJuntasministerintheparliamentarysessions

againstRohingyaethnicminority.ARUhaddemandedthat the parliament and the BurmeseMilitary Junta

must take immediate steps to retract the false

statements made by its minister at the parliament

sessions,anduncondiDonallyreinstateallthepoliDcal

andhumanrightstotheRohingyaethnicminority.

Source:TheSecretariat,ARU

OIC Adopts Resolution on

Muslim Community in Myanmar

in its Session of Council ofForeign Ministers

Arakan Rohingya Union Welcomes theResolution with Enthusiasm and Hope

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Arakan Rohingya Union

(ARU) expressed its graDtude to the OrganizaDon of

IslamicCooperaDon(OIC)ResoluDonNo.4/38-MMon

the situaDon of Muslim community in Myanmar

duringthe38thSessionofCouncilofForeignMinisters

(Session of Peace, CooperaDon, and development)

held in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, June 28-30,

2011. ARU uncondiDonally supports the enDre

resoluDon,whichisasfollows:

1.CallsupontheGovernmentofMyanmartoputan

end the operaDons of displacement, expulsion, and

exileofArakanMuslimsandtotheconDnuedaempts

to eradicate their Islamic culture and idenDty, and

urges government authoriDes to respect the textsof

internaDonallegiDmacyonhumanrights.

2.CallsonMemberStatestoconDnuetheireffortsin

conjuncDonwiththoseoftheinternaDonalcommunityandtheUnitedNaDonsinordertoensurethereturnof

all Myanmar refugees displaced from their homes,

parDcularly the Muslims of the Arakan region of

Myanmar.

3.Expresses deep concern over the conDnued

monumental violaDon of the rights of Rohingya

Muslims in the Arakan region of the Republic of

Myanmar, and requests the Secretary General to

conDnuehiseffortstoendthesepracDcesin

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