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| A Family of Rohingya Muslims |
Rohingya is a community
of Muslims that is living in Myanmar
since more than 500 years ago during the Mughal
rule in Subcontinent and later many of the Bengali farmers were encouraged
by the British Empire to live in
border state of Myanmar, Rakhine,
which was a highly cultivable land. Then a number of Muslims migrated to Myanmar
in 1948 during the eve of Burmese independence. In addition, some of the
Bengali Muslims also moved to Burma during the 1971 anarchy in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan). Since
then, the Muslim population of Myanmar, accounts only for 5% but it has been described
by many international organizations including UNO, OIC, Amnesty Intl. and a number of highly reputed news
agencies including The Economist, The New
York Times, and Forbes, as “the
most persecuted people on the earth”. The Muslims of Myanmar has been described
by the regional newspapers, as “a minority that has been attacked with
impunity, stripped of the vote and driven from their homes”. And it’s been
getting worse with the passage of time.
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