Arakan Rohingya National Organisation

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation
အာရကန်ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုး သားအစည်းအရုံး

Logo of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation
Abbreviation	ARNO
Formation	1986 (1986)
Type	Political organisation
Purpose	Rohingya rights Civil and political rights Economic, social and cultural rights Voting rights
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Location	Rakhine State, Myanmar
Official languages	English Rohingya
President / Chairman	Nurul Islam
Website	rohingya.org
Formerly called	Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation အာရကန်ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုး သားအစည်းအရုံး
Participant in the Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
Active	1986 (1986)–2001 (2001)
Ideology	Rohingya nationalism
Strength	200
Opponents	Government of Myanmar Tatmadaw Western Command of the Myanmar Army Union of Myanmar (until 2011)
Battles and wars	Internal conflict in Myanmar Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar

The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (Burmese: အာရကန်ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုး သားအစည်းအရုံး; ARNO) is a political organisation in Rakhine State (Arakan), Myanmar (Burma), based in London, the United Kingdom. It had operated an insurgent army in the past, and is one of the few representative organisations of the Rohingya people.

Proclaimed aims and objectives

The proclaimed aims and objectives of ARNO is as follows:

"The right of ‘self-determination’ of the Rohingya people within the Burmese federation; preservation of their (Rohingya’s) history and cultural heritage without prejudice to the growth and preservation of other religious and indigenous culture in Arakan; condemnation of religious persecution by the military; repatriation of Rohingya refugees from their places of refuge; human resource development particularly in socio-cultural, economic, educational and technical fields; establishment of a welfare society based on equality, liberty, democracy, human rights and freedom for all peoples; “peaceful co-existence” with Rakhine community (Buddhist of Arakan) and among all other peoples in Arakan as well as in the whole of the country; joint struggle with the Burmese opposition and democratic forces; support to landmine ban treaty; support of the rights of Rohingya women and girls to education, health and economic empowerment; educating the youths of the dangers of drugs (including AIDS infection); protection of environment, including forests, rivers, wetland, Coastline Ocean and to save their land from unsustainable logging, killing of endangered species, all forms of pollution, and over fishing and to preserve a green haven for their children and the world; support for future sustainable, appropriate, clean, and beneficial development to the common people.”

ARNO is working together with all parties and important civil society organisations of the Rohingya people at home and aboard and also with Burmese Organisations. It is working with British Foreign and Common Wealth Office and Parliamentary Committee on Burma and European Parliament. It maintains a close relation with Amnesty International, Asia Watch, Burma Campaign U.K and many other human rights and humanitarian organisations in Europe, USA and Asia. It is closely working together with Burma Democracy movement, ethnic nationalities forums and support groups. In addition ARNO is actively working together with Euro-Burma Office in Brussels (Belgium) and National Reconciliation Programme (NRP) of the Union of Burma. ARNO carries out various socio-cultural, economic and education uplift programmes and human resource development among the Rohingya people.

ARNO strongly condemns any terrorist acts by anyone and denounces terrorism of all kinds anywhere in the world. ARNO does not support any fantic groups. As a proof of this neither ARNO nor any of its members feature in the US government list of orginsations and individuals involved in or financing terrorism."

See also

• Rohingya National Council

External links

• ARNO Official Website