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Arakan Magazine – Issue Q4/2025
In This Issue:
- Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
- Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
- Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
- Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
- Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
- Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
- Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
- Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
- ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
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The Ethnic Rohingyas of Arakan:Living Under the Oppressive Claws of a Tyrannical Regime in Burma
The Situation Of Rohingyas In Arakan-Burma(Myanmar).
Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan( BRAJ)
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Introduction
The Arakan State of Burma, bordering Bangladesh, is inhabited by two
ethnic sister communities, the Rakhine Buddhist and the Rohingya
Muslim. The Rakhine Buddhists are the majority group while the
Rohingya Muslims are minority group. The Rohingyas numbering
approximately 1.5 million, enduring continued persecution and the
ethnic cleansing policy of military regime in Burma. Also about 1.5
million Rohingyas have been living in exile in many countries all
over the world. The Rohingyas in Burma continue to suffer from
several forms of restrictions and human rights violations. The
Rohingyas freedom of movement is severely restricted and right to
education is harshly deprived. The Rohingyas have effectively been
denied Burmese citizenship by the current SPDC military regime,
although the previous democratically elected governments had
recognized them as the citizens of Burma. They are also subjected to
various forms of extortion and arbitrary taxation; land
confiscation , forced eviction and house destruction and
restrictions on marriage. Rohingyas continue to be used as forced
labors on roads and at military security camps.
ethnic sister communities, the Rakhine Buddhist and the Rohingya
Muslim. The Rakhine Buddhists are the majority group while the
Rohingya Muslims are minority group. The Rohingyas numbering
approximately 1.5 million, enduring continued persecution and the
ethnic cleansing policy of military regime in Burma. Also about 1.5
million Rohingyas have been living in exile in many countries all
over the world. The Rohingyas in Burma continue to suffer from
several forms of restrictions and human rights violations. The
Rohingyas freedom of movement is severely restricted and right to
education is harshly deprived. The Rohingyas have effectively been
denied Burmese citizenship by the current SPDC military regime,
although the previous democratically elected governments had
recognized them as the citizens of Burma. They are also subjected to
various forms of extortion and arbitrary taxation; land
confiscation , forced eviction and house destruction and
restrictions on marriage. Rohingyas continue to be used as forced
labors on roads and at military security camps.
Between a rock and a hard place: Rohingya refugees in BangladeshM. Reddy
April 14, Burma Issues
In October of 2004, the government of Malaysia, despite its generally
ambivalent posture towards refugees, declared that it would recognize the
Rohingyas, a group of Muslim people who live in Arakan State in Burma, as
refugees and would furthermore offer them identification documents and
work permits. Although the Malaysian government declined to offer
Malaysian citizenship to any Rohingya refugee, the government’s actions
are nonetheless significant, especially as Malaysia is the first and only
country in the world to offer resettlement opportunities to this
population .
ambivalent posture towards refugees, declared that it would recognize the
Rohingyas, a group of Muslim people who live in Arakan State in Burma, as
refugees and would furthermore offer them identification documents and
work permits. Although the Malaysian government declined to offer
Malaysian citizenship to any Rohingya refugee, the government’s actions
are nonetheless significant, especially as Malaysia is the first and only
country in the world to offer resettlement opportunities to this
population .
Muslims in Burma are not for Separate State but strive for equal rights.
Date : 2005-01-12
Suthep Chaviwan reporting from Bangkok, Thailand
Armed Arakan fighters massing in the jungles located in the Burma – Bangladesh boarder region.
Bangkok, Thailand, 12 January, (Asiantribune.com): Armed Muslim groups of Burma, both in Arakan State bordering with Bangladesh and in the western side close to Thai border said that they do not demand for separated state from Burma, but only wanted equal rights similar to what people in other faiths enjoy.
Toward Understanding Rohingya
(By Shau Khat alias MSK Jilani), USA
The name' Rohingya ' was not given by the separatists nor fundamentalists from Bangladesh after 1993-94. The word' Rohingya ' is a legitimate and recognized word during the periods of democratic rules in Burma.
The word' Rohingya comes from' Rohang ' which was the original and ancient name of Arakan. Today, some Arakanese-Rakhine educated people were not interesting to really understand the word' Rohingya' and its actual meaning.
THE RIGHT OF ARAKANESE TO SELF-DETERMINATION
The Principle of Self-Determination is one of the most important ideas in 20th century political history. It relates to the creation of new States out of the old colonial empires, to the sovereignty of Peoples and to the very basis of UN itself. Self-Determination is an essential human right, supported in the opening articles of both the major Covenants as well as in the Charter of the UN.
Self-determination emerged in the 19th century through nationalism in countries which were then parts of empires. It was an idea formed in opposition to those empires, linking up with the idea of democracy and self-rule.
Cultural Problem of Muslim in Burma
One of the most important problems of the Muslims in Burma is cultural problem, which is generally termed as identity crisis. A community is recognised not only by its belief and ideology but also by the physical manifestation of the ideals it holds. Thus it constitutes a separate and distinct culture of its own.
ARAKAN: AN UN-DECOLONISED COLONIAL TERRITORY
Arakan with an area of about 20,000 square miles was long famous and widely known to Arabs, Dutch, Portuguese and British traders as a centre of international trade and commerce and is situated in the tri-border region between modern day –Burma, Bangladesh and India. Although it is made a part of Burma now, it had never been so in the past. Culturally, socially, economically and politically the people of Arakan were independent for centuries. Chiefly for its geographical location, it had not only remained independent for the most part of history, but also endeavoured to expand its territory in the surrounding tracts whenever opportunity came. Completely cut off from Burma by high mountain range of Arakan Yoma, the people of Arakan neither drank from the same water with Burmans nor dependant on them for trade or commerce. Not a single river flows from Burma to Arakan and Arakan to Burma.
Deprivation of Education in Arakan
(By Fayas Ahmed)
Arakan, Burma is extremely deprived of high level of illiteracy among the children as well as adults, said Hamid, who is studying in Malaysia University.
Most of the village tracts have at least one primary school (class 1 to 4). But remote areas’ admission is weakened by distance and lack of communication during the rainy season. But, widespread poverty keeps many children have to leave school as they are compelled to support to their families. Most of the students have to give up their schools during the winter and summer seasons to provide helps to their parents in their croplands. Most of the parents send their children for religious education in Madrasa and Maqtab to learn Quarn in Arabic. Furthermore, teaching in primary schools is only conveyed in Burmese language, which most of the children cannot speak and understand, said an intellectual.
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