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MYANMAR: A People Facing Buddhist Violence |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has a population of 48 million, 15 percent of whom are Muslims. Most of the rest are Buddhists. The Muslims live in the Arakan region of the country. |
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Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendors Of Arakan by Pamela Gutman, A Book Reviews |
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Friday, 06 October 2006 |
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By Habib Siddiqui
Al-Jazeerah, January 13, 2006 For centuries, before the current poisonous situation in which one community does not recognize another, Arakan was a place of harmony and mutual trust in which the two major religious communities (Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims) thrived side by side as sister communities. All this happened because of the first of the Mrauk-U kings who had sought and got help from the Muslim Sultan of Bengal in 1430 CE to restore his kingdom. In the centuries that were to follow, the minority Muslims became essentially the royal guards, generals, ministers and advisers. |
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