Migrated People in Arakan

Migrated People in Arakan:

The Rohingyas are not an indigenous ethnic group of Myanmar (Burma).We
can confidently say that there has never been such an ethnic group
throughout the history of Burma and also her state Rakhine. 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. These Muslim people (Rohingyas) are not Arakan
(Rakhine Pyay) origin and also can’t be called them as arakanese
(Rakhine thar). They migrated into Arakan after the province was ceded
to British India under the terms of Treaty of Yandabo concluded at the
end of the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1826. Most of them settled down
in the Buthidaung and Maungdaw Districts of Arakan State, the frontier
areas near Burma’s border with Bangladesh. Their migration in the past
usually happened during the agricultural season when Arakan faced the
problem of the shortage of agricultural labourers. These Muslims, of
mainly Bengali origin, were not culturally integrated and played a
part in history of domestic conflicts in Myanmar after 1947. They then
claimed an identity of their own and organized themselves in the so-
called Rohingya movements. It is obvious that the term “Rohingya” was
created in 1950s by the educated Chittagonian descendants from Mayu
Frontier area (present day Buthidaung and Maungdaw Districts).

We didn't hear the word rohingyas before 1950 in our region and also
didn't find any historical source materials in any language till then.
Rohingya name was created by some of the Bengladeshi Muslim Extremist
with the aim to occupy Arakan. Bengalis and Rohingyas squatters
(people who come to our land to claim it as theirs) are trying to
occupy our land. Arakan is our own land and our continent. This is not
property of the Bengalis and Rohingyas or their descendants. Bengalis
and Rohingyas squatters are today stealing not just our land; they are
stealing our farmland, our forests and all of our other resources.
They are also stealing our honor, our dignity, and our sense of being
one Rakhine nation. And also their aim is to destroy our nation and
religion, after that they will try to form Muslim country in our own
land.

"So, we must protect our own land for our children, grandchildren and
children yet to be born. We must protect our land for those who can't
speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees."

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