The Rohingya community of Arakan , Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most down-trodden ethnic minorities of the world. They are victim of political oppression, economic exploitation, cultural slavery and communal violence in their ancestral land Arakan where they have...
The blood-drenched Arakan is being tormented decades after decades in a terrible death throe which has germinated from the grim showbiz of the Reign of Terror of the military rulers. The people of Arakan who had been once living in peace and perfect amity, have to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
