National United Party of Arakan

National United Party of Arakan
Headquarters	Sittwe, Myanmar
Ideology	Rakhine nationalism, Political freedom, Secularism
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw	0 / 224
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw	0 / 440
Seats in the Rakhine State Hluttaw	0 / 47
Party flag
220px
Politics of Myanmar Political parties Elections

The National United Party of Arakan (NUPA) is a Rakhine political party in Rakhine State (Arakan), Myanmar (Burma).

It has openly worked with the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), and has condemned ethnic and religiously motivated attacks by Rakhine Buddhists on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, such as during the 2012 Rakhine State riots.

History

On 7 February 2001, the NUPA released a statement concerning the recent increase of violence towards Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State:

We are deeply concerned over the racial clashes that took place as a sequel to an untoward incident in a teashop in Sittwe on the 4th of February 2001... As a result to the incident, there was losses of lives, destruction of property and a deep sense of animosity prevailed upon the two brotherly peoples, the Buddhists and the Muslims... We want to make it known that, the average Arakanese people are peace-loving but the SPDC junta which is overtly Burman-dominated has like its predecessors, the SLORC and BSPP, got down to stir up communal agitation so that the two brotherly communities could be divided... To the international community at large, our appeal is to give moral and material support to the national liberation movement of Arakan so that the long-cherished independence of Arakan could be realized and rule of law could be established.