Farewell to Motherland

Aug 30, 2007 | CRDB

It was 1978. I was a lad of eight years old. The military operation against the Rohingyas "Dragon King" was going on. Rohingyas were fleeing from different parts of Arakan to Bangladesh to save their life from the military crackdown. The name of my village...

Burma: The Road to Democracy

Aug 30, 2007 | CRDB

Today it is well known to the world that during the long army rule, Burma has turned into a land of blood-bath. The military regime has taken the whole country to the brink of devastation. Our yards were full of grain and our country was full of smiles. But with the...

Population Transfers and Religious Persecution

Aug 30, 2007 | CRDB

The interviews with Rohingya refugees revealed what appeared to be a government policy of moving non-Muslim Burmese into northern Arakan in an effort to displace the people the government calls "foreigners." The population transfer has only intensified...

Genocidal Operations against Rohingyas

Aug 30, 2007 | CRDB

As stated earlier, although the slavish history of the Rohingyas begins with the annexation of Arakan in 1784, but the story of their large scale persecution and oppression begins with the beginning of the 20th century. Particularly, since 1937, when Burma was...

A movement for democracy, freedom and human rights

Aug 30, 2007 | Dr. Habib Siddiqui

by Dr. Habib SiddiquiThroughout history, we have seen the importance of personality in shaping the destiny of a nation. These personalities become larger than their lives. They gravitate people to overcome their local and ethnic/tribal/ regional inertia towards a...