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Rohingya

The Rohingyas are not an indigenous ethnic group of Myanmar (Burma). There has never been such an ethnic group throughout the history of Arakan or Burma. The people called Rohingyas are direct descendents of immigrants from the Chittagong District of East Bengal (present day Bangladesh). The British colonial officials called them Chittagonians in their administrative records.

They have migrated to Arakan after it was occupied by the British. They came to work as seasonal agricultural workers and many of them have been illegally living in the Buthidaung and Maungdaw area since then. They had killed local Arakanese people and occupied the land of Arakanese people, robbed Arakanese village, raped Arakanese women, destroyed and burnt Buddhist monasteries and villages in Buthidaung, Maungdaw and adjacent areas. Arakanese and other Arakanese tribes such as Mro, Thak (Chakma), Daingmnak, etc., who are particularly inhabited in the remote area bordering Bangladesh, are mostly suffered the atrocities committed by the illegal Bengali Muslims. Thousands of people had been killed and hundreds of thousands of other people had been forced to flee vacating their own land and had to move to the northern part of Arakan. There were more than two hundred Arakanese villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw areas before the II WW, but only about sixty Arakanese villages were left after the war (Background of Rohingya Problem by Kyaw Zan Thar, MA). There were no Amnesty International and other international Medias available to voice a word about their sufferings at that time.


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