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WhO Are the Rohingyas
A few weeks ago, it was announced on a broadcast of BBC
Burmese program that a Burmese national of the Rohingya
ethnic group had been granted political asylum in Japan. We
should be pleased with this sign of the Japanese
government’s humanitarian attitude towards people who could
face various kinds of dangers in their homeland, including
death, regardless of their race, religion or nationality.
However what concerns me in this case, as a native historian
of Burma, is the ethnicity of the so-called Rohingyas. Who
are the Rohingyas? This issue has been a problem for Burma
since it gained independence from Great Britain.
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RoHINGYA MUSLIM
INFILTRATION INTO Myanmar
Bangladesh shares about 300 Km border with Myanmar. Since 1947, the
successive Pakistani and Bangladeshi governments have been
sponsoring the Bengali Muslims to infiltrate into Rakhaing
state of Myanmar to alter the demographic profile if favour
of the Muslims. So called Rohingya Muslims are nothing but
illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh, they have no ancestral
and historical root in Myanmar.
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