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Abid Bahar

A lesson needed to be learned by the Rakhine Moghs after it lost its legendary Arakan kingdomthat anarchy and hatred against others in society could also be self-inflicting that it creates

division within the society causing outsiders to interfere in its internal affairs. However, in the

ever decaying Arakan, the Rakhine Mogh refuse to learn and the culture of anarchy continues.

Now the Mogh Rakhines have turned their vigorous menace not against anybody from outside

but against the local minorities, particularly against the Muslim population of Arakan known as

the Rohingyas, thus the cycle of Rohingya suffering continues. With the culture of anarchy

growing to its climax, in 1942 there was a huge bloodbath of Rohingyas in all over Arakan. To

the Rohingyas it is still remembered as the Karbalae Arakan (the doomsday in Arakan). Ever

since, there has been more organized efforts in 1978, 1992-93 to commit massacre on the

Rohingyas of Arakan resulting in the displacement of the Rohingya population all over theworld.

Alarmed by this continued lawlessness and the hoodlum's growing massacres and threat,

Rohingya leaders have been reminding the world community that there has been a systematic

Rohingya genocide going on in Arakan. The genocide began in a large scale from the 30's

when the name "Rakhine" was first officially coined. This radical nationalist movement was

inspired by the Rakhine xenophobic leaders ( surprisingly some are even leading Rakhine

Buddhist priests) propagating that Rohingyas are foreigners in Arakan. In reality however,

Rohingyas have been in Arakan from the 7th century, long before the arrival of the Rakhines.

History records that, Mogh Rakhines, a Tibeto- Burman group arrived in Arakan only during the11th century by defeating the Indian king of the Chandras.

During the 1942 riot between the Rakhine Moghs and the Rohingyas, over a 100,000 Rohingya

were killed and more people fled Arakan to take shelter in Southern Chittagong. This trend

continues till today. It is shocking that in this present massacre, neither the president of Burma

nor Aung San Su Kyi made a statement condemning the brutal murder of these people traveling

by bus till on June 6 morning . Mogh Rakhines are only 5% of the Burmese population. We

wonder why some of the prominent citizens of Burma are silent on this issue!

In this alarming situation, Rohingyas in large numbers take shelter in Bangladesh. We also havereport that to escape from the Burmese government's actions against many of the Rakhine

terrorist hoodlums, the culprits cross over to Bangladesh territory and find safe heaven in

Bangladesh. Unfortunately instead of such terrorists to be identified and handed over to the

Burmese government, Hasina's anti Muslim AL government advisers one being Sajb Wajed find

the suffering Rohingyas as the terrorists.

It seems that there must be something wrong in the politically motivated global human rights

movements. Thus, like many other suffering minorities, Rohingya suffering in Arakan continues

in murder, rape, forced labor and in outside the country, Rohingyas as the boat people dies of

hunger in the Bay or them in distant countries seeking a shelter refused. In all these, theirsuffering is growing to a new height.

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No doubt, it has to be stopped at the source by the Burmese people with government help

through finding the culprits who had committed the Rohingya murders in the broad day light and

finding those people who are behind them provoking the hoodlums to attack the innocent

Burmese Rohingya people traveling within Burma- their place of birth. In Burma's failure, the

1942 massacre will continue to revisit Burma. To us the humanity, and to the Rohingyas inparticular "Each man's death diminishes me,.. Therefore, don't send... to know, for whom the

bell tolls, It tolls for thee."

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