Rohingya people
| Flag of the Rohingya Nation | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Burma (Arakan), Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,Thailand, Malaysia , | |
| Languages | |
| Rohingya language | |
| Religion | |
| Islam |
The Rohingya which is known as Bengali in Burma and Bengali are from Bangladesh Country.
Language
The Rohingya language is the modern written language of the Rohingya people of Arakan (Rakhine) State of Burma (Myanmar). It is linguistically similar to the Chittagonian language spoken in the southernmost part of Bangladesh bordering Burma. Rohingya scholars have successfully written the Rohingya language in different scripts such as Arabic, Hanafi, Urdu, Roman and Burmese, where Hanifi is a newly developed alphabet derived from Arabic with the addition of four characters from Latin and Burmese.
More recently, a Roman script orthography has been developed, using all 26 English letters A to Z and two additional Latin letters Ç (for retroflex R) and Ñ (for nasal sound). To accurately represent Rohingya phonology, it also uses five accented vowels (áéíóú). It has been recognized by ISO with ISO 639-3 "rhg" code.[1]
History
There was no Muslim community in Arakan before the state was absorbed into British India. Some Bengali retinues of King Saw Mun (r.1430- 1433) who regained the throne with the military aid from Sultanate of Bengal were allowed to settled down in the suburban area of Mrauk-U, the new royal capital. They were the earliest Muslim settlers who do not seem to count many. There had been a minor Muslim presence mostly made up of Muslim mercenaries, itinerant merchants from Persia and Golkonda and some Bengali captives of the Arakanese and Portuguese pirates sold into slavery. The descendants of those people can be found in the vicinity of Royal capital Mrauk-U and Kyauktaw Township. [R.B. Smart: 1957: 87] Professing the Islamic faith, they have lived in Arakan since the early seventeenth century, where their way of life pertains to their lands of origin. Speaking Arkanese dialect, they never claim themselves being Rohingyas. They want to be called themselves Arakanese Muslims. It is obvious that the term “Rohingya” was created in 1950s by the educated Chittagonian descendants from Mayu Frontier area (present day Buthidaung and Maungdaw Districts) and that it cannot be found in any historical source materials in any language till then. The creators of that term might be of the second or third generations of the Bengali immigrants from the Chittagong District in modern Bangladesh. R.B. Smart wrote: “Since 1879, immigration has taken place on a much larger scale and the descendants of the slaves are resident, for the most part in the Kyauktaw and Myohaung [Mrauk-U] townships. Maungdaw township has been overrun by Chittagonian immigrants. Buthidaung is not far behind and new arrivals will be found in almost every part of the district [R.B. Smart: 1957: 87].
Burmese Junta
The current Junta ruling Burma relies heavily on Burmese nationalism and Theravada Buddhism to bolster its rule, it heavily discriminates against minorities like the Rohingya, Chinese people like the Kokang people, and Panthay (Chinese Muslims).
Successive Burmese governments have provoked riots against ethnic minorities like the Rohingya and Chinese. The Burmese state and Burmese Buddhist monks reportedly encouraged violence against the Rohingya.[2]
Religion
Religion is particularly important to the Rohingya people, who are predominantly Muslims. Mosques and religious schools occupy most villages. Traditionally, men pray in congregation and women pray at home.
Thousands of Bengali-Rohingya fought with Talibans against US and their grand plan to make Burma an Islamic state has been exposed publicly from the records seized by international forces. They are stopped now for a while but if we are naive and ignorant about their ongoing threat, Burma will be just another Afghanistan.
Human rights violations
The term Rohingya was coined by Islamic extremists during 1950s to islamize Burma during its turmoil after independence. Since the colonial time of Burma, there were many attempts by Islamists to secede Burma especially in the western part which had been flooded with illegal immigration of Muslims. There were numerous incidents in which native Buddhists Rakhine villages and people were destroyed.
During 1980s and 90s, Rohingya organizations became powerful with the aids from the Arab Islamists and Bengali Islamists' man-power. At the same time, Burma has been facing great difficulty and it is the right moment for the Rohingya invaders to jihad Burma and finish its existing cultures especially the Buddhism. That is the reason why they are propagating Rohingya in full force to be an ethnicity of Burma so that it can become a Trojan Horse and terminate its native people and their cultures.
See also
- Persecution of Muslims in Burma
- Islam in Burma
- Human rights in Burma
- Burmese Indians
- Muslims of Manipur
- Rohingya massacre
Notes
- ^ ISO 639 Code Tables - SIL International
- ^ Karl R. DeRouen, Uk Heo (2007). Civil wars of the world: major conflicts since World War II. ABC-CLIO. p. 530. ISBN 1851099190. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
References
- "Rohingya". Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Retrieved June 2005.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - "A Short History of Arakan". Mohammad Ashraful Alam. Retrieved June 2005.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - "Myanmar, The Rohingya Minority: Fundamental Rights Denied". Amnesty International. Retrieved August 2005.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Amnesty International (English)
- The Muslim “Rohingya” of Burma by Martin Smith 1995 Arakan Rohingya National Organisation
- The Burmanization of Myanmar's Muslims, the acculturation of the Muslims in Burma including Arakan, Jean A. Berlie, White Lotus Press editor, Bangkok, Thailand, published in 2008. ISBN 9744801263, 9789744801265.