Islamization of Burma Through Chittagonian Bengalis as “Rohingya Refugees BY KHIN MAUNG SAW
Racial tensions reached the peak when the British Civil Administration collapsed in Arakan in 1942 because of the Second World War. There was blood bath of racial riots. Khawtaw Kalas (Bengali Muslims aka Rohingya) were helped by the Muslim deserters of the British Indian Army. All 195 Rakhaing villages in Butheedaung and Maungdaw area were wiped out. They vandalized, raped and slew.
Many Arakanese including the Deputy Commissioner of that area U Oo Kyaw Khaing, who was on a mission to defuse the communal conflict, were killed. Many Rakhaings had to take refuge inside the Border Town Tet Chaung also well known as Maungdaw. These Khawtaw Kalas wanted to commit ethnic cleansing of the Rakhaings living in that town. The town was blockaded, besieged and attacked by Khawtaw Kalas together with the deserters. An Arakanese Judge called U Aung Tha Kyaw sent a type of S.O.S message to Captain Taylor of the British Army stationed at the other border town Teknaf, the yonder side of the Naaf River in British East Bengal. Though both towns were British Colonies, Teknaf was under the administration of British India and Maungdaw was under the administration of British Burma. Due to this bureaucracy, Captain Taylor could not cross the border without permission from the British Administration in India. However, the Judge U Aung Tha Kyaw could persuade Captain Taylor successfully by asking him to come over to the yonder side of the river to take charge of the government treasury which was being evacuated to India. Before Captain Taylor and his company, mainly recruited by well disciplined Karens and Gurkhas, could enter Maungdaw, they had to crush the Muslim renegades and Khawtaw Kalas. In this way captain Taylor could take care of British government treasury and the judge U Aung Tha Kyaw could save a few thousand lives of the Rakhaings. The Rakhaing in Butheedaung were not as lucky as their compatriots in Maungdaw. They had to flee from the attacks of the Khawtaw Kalas and the Muslim deserters. They embarked a ship to sail to the yonder side, however, unfortunately, their ship capsized because of overweight and many died.12 However, till now, Islamists, Rohingyarists and their lobbyists are writing a fake history by accusing the Rakhaings (Arakanese) being responsible for ‘Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingyas’. The facts that there were 41,414 Arakanese (Rakhaings) in Maung Daw in 1941, but, based on the census of 1956, the total population of Arakanese (Rakhaings) reduced to 5,808. On the other hand, the Chittagonian Bengali population in 1941 was 124,452 and increased to 187,792 in 1956. This is proof as to who did the ethnic cleansing. At that time in 1942, there were about 1 Million Arakanese only but there were about 20 Million Chittagonian Bengalis. As a simple logic, who could have done the ethnic cleansing? More than 5,000 Arakanese (Rakhaings) had been relocated to Dinajpur by British Government, during the riots in 1942. U Tha Hla, the former Deputy Chief of the Burmese UN Mission in New York at the late 70’s was one of the ‘refugees’ then13. U Sein Tun Aung also mentioned to the audience during the ‘Arakanese Religion and History Seminar’ in London, 9th August 2009, how his grandparents, land owners, were killed by their own workers, Chittagonian Bengalis.
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