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Just finished watching "National Treasure" movie... Reminded me of Da Vinci Code which similarly is about CONSTHEOries of the FIRST KIND... ALJAZEERA news about ROHINGYAs of ARAKAN being oppressed & kicked out of THAILAND... When I was in KSA I met some Muslims who I was told were from Burma... I did not think much of them bec. I thought they were "East" Pakistanis or Banglas who were so numerous in the kingdom (They accepted very very low salaries & took the most menial of jobs.)... Now it seems there is another BIG GROUP of MUSLIMS in the world who are not written about in HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY books!!! How can hundreds of thousands if not millions of these people be invisible or cannot be seen in the books, magazines, or newspapers if there is no CONSPIRACY to deny their very EXISTENCE to the rest of the world... And you believe you really know what is really going on on planet EARTH? And that there is no CONSPIRACY going on around you??? Take the case of these ROHINGYAs... WHY ONLY NOW are they focusing on their problem?... WIKI has links to sites about them... HEY STUPID BANGLAs ... What are you doing? ROHINGYAs look like you BODOHs! Or is BANGLADESH also like SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN & EGYPT who do not know what to do with their PALESTINIAN ARAB MUSLIM brothers in GAZA... THESE COUNTRIES NUMBER MILLIONS & MILLIONS... THERE IS MASS STUPIDITY THERE IS NO MASS INTELLIGENCE...
RE: ROHINGYA
FROM URL:
http://www.freerohingyacampaign.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=86
Who's Rohingya?
Rohingyas are a minority muslim,ethnic group in Northern Arakan, Western Burma.
They desire peaceful co-existence among all communities they are living with. Their struggle is for establishment of justice and peace.Rohingyas are aboriginal inhabitants of Arakan.
The word Rohingya is not a surfacing from politics. It is a historical name of a community living in Arakan. Historically the old name of Arakan is Rohang and her people are Rohingyas. Rohingyas did not write the history of Rohang, it was written by other people, mostly Europeans. It appeared not only in a single book, it appeared in many books. It is not a myth; it is a history by evidence.
Arakan was an independent sovereign Muslim Kingdom up to 1784AD in which year it was colonized by Burmese king Bodawphaya. It is a multi-national country with two major communities of Rohingyas and Maghs. Rohingyas are Muslims and Maghs confess Buddhism. It is a riverine country comprises an area of 22,000 sq. miles. It is situated between Bangladesh and Burma and bordering India in the north. It is harboring Bay of Bengal with a length of about more than 300 miles in the west. Arakan is separated from Burma by a barrier of big high mountain call Arakan Yoma in the east sloping down from north to the south. It is ornamented with a thick tropical evergreen rain forest. Naturally and geographically it has relation with Bengal in many ways.
Please read ''A Short Historical Background of Arakan"
''Introduction''
ARAKAN, once a sovereign and independent State, is now one of the states of the Union of Burma. The Arakan State comprises a strip of land along the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal from the Naf River to Cape Negaris and stretches north and south touching Bangladesh on the Northwest. The river Naf separates it from Chittagong region of Bangladesh.1 It is cut off from Burma by a range of near impassable mountains known as Arakan Yomas running north to south, which was an obstacle against permanent Muslim conquest. The northern part of Arakan, today called the “North Arakan,” was point of contact with East Bengal. These geographical facts explain the separate historical development of that area – both generally and in terms of its Muslim population until the Burmese king Bodaw Paya conquered it on 28th December 1784 AD.2 Under different periods of history Arakan had been an independent sovereign monarchy ruled by Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.
''The Etymology of Arakan and Rohang''
The word Arakan is definitely of Arabic or Persian origin having the same meaning in both these languages. It is the corruption of the word Arkan plural of the word Al-Rukun. There exists some controversy about the origin of the name of ‘Arakan’ on which traditional and legendary sources differ. In fact, the name of Arakan is of much antiquity. In Ptolemy’s Geografia (150 AD) it was named ‘Argyre’. Early Buddhist missionaries called Arakan as ‘Rekkha Pura’. In the Ananda Chandra stone pillar of Chandra dynasty (8th Century) at Shitthaung Pagoda in Mrauk-U the name of Arakan was engraved as “Arakades’s”. In a Latin Geography (1597 AD) by Peta Vino, the country was referred to as ‘Aracan’. Friar Manrique (1628-43 AD) mentions the country as ‘Aracan’.
In the work of Arab geographer Rashiduddin (1310 AD) it appears as ‘Rahan or Raham’. The British travellers Relph Fitch (1586 AD) referred the name of Arakan as ‘Rocon’. In the Rennell’s map (1771 AD), it is ‘Rassawn’. Tripura Chronicle Rajmala mentions the name of Arakan as ‘Roshang’. In the medieval works of the poets of Arakan and Chittagong, like Quazi Daulat, Mardan, Shamser Ali, Quraishi Magan, Alaol, Ainuddin, Abdul Ghani and others, they frequently referred to Arakan as ‘Roshang’, ‘Roshanga’, ‘Roshango Shar’, and ‘Roshango Des’. Famous European traveller Francis Buchanam (1762-1829 AD) in his accounts mentioned Arakan as “Reng, Roung, Rossawn, Russawn, Rung”. In one of his accounts, “A Comparative Vocabulary of some of the languages spoken in the Burman Empire” it was stated that, “ the native Mugs of Arakan called themselves ‘Yakin’, which name is also commonly given to them by the Burmese. The people of Pegu are named ‘Taling’. By the Bengal Hindus, at least by such of them as have been settled in Arakan, the country is called Rossawn. The Mahammedans who have long settled at Arakan call the country ‘Rovingaw’ and called themselves ‘Rohinga’ or native of Arakan. The Persians called it ‘Rkon’.” The Chakmas and Saks of 18th century called it ‘Roang’. Today the Muslims of Arakan call the country ‘Rohang’ or ‘Arakan’ and call themselves ‘Rohingya’ or native of Rohang. The Maghs call themselves ‘Rakhine’ and call the country ‘Rakhine Pye’ or country of Rakhine.
WIKI also gives a www. rohingya.org...
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