A few weeks ago, it was announced on a broadcast of BBC Burmese program that a Burmese national of the Rohingya ethnic group had been granted political asylum in Japan. We should be pleased with th...
The Burmese forces chased the Rakhaings into the British side of the border and remained there encamped until three Rakhaing resistance leaders were handed over to them by the British authorities w...
The history of Rakhaing abounds ups and downs. The centuries-long sovereignty over portions of Bengal heightened the Rakhaing power to a climax it had never before or ever since attained. However, ...
The land of Rakhaing is unique in many respects because of its geography, homogeneous ethnicity, Buddhist tradition and intense nationalism; nevertheless over the past several decades a demographic...
Burma happens to be the largest province in the India Empire with an area equal to that of Spain and Portugal combined, the countries which, it might incidentally be mentioned, tried to carve and t...
A number of Bengalis from Chittagong were found setting in the western coast of the Naf River. Before the time of U Maung Nyo, there were guards only and all the area were inhabited by Rakhaings (B...
The Rakhaing community of Bangladesh is one of the indigenous peoples living widely scattered in the districts of Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Khagrachari, Rangamati, Bandarban, Patuakhali & Bargura, T...
For more a millennium the policy we know as Arakan existed as a culturally strategic border state, the only state in Southeast Asia to be connected to India by both land and sea routes. The study o...
Bangladeshi illegal immigrants to its neighboring countries cause great alarm in India and Burma. The illegal immigrants’ issues have rocked Indian Parliament many times and caused strong protests ...
Although a State of the Muslim majority, there is a considerable number of Buddhist population in Bangladesh. They are scattered in south and southeastern parts of the country. This concentration o...
Bangladesh’s Islamist radicals first gained international attention in 1993, when author Taslima Nasreen was forced to flee the country after receiving death threats. The fundamentalists objected t...
During the colonial period Chittagonian Muslims or Bengalis came to the land of Rakhaing freely to get employed in the developing cultivation there, which was part of the then British economic poli...
Questions on social and economic change are probably among the first that come to our mind when we wonder about the consequences of Arakan's political and institutional transitions: questions relat...
"Muslim settlers wanted to take us villagers to a cluster village (concentration camp), but we refused to go there. The villagers were beaten up by the Muslim settlers of which three families manag...
Certain radical elements within the group support the methods of HuJI, which seeks to terrorise non-Muslim communities into leaving Bangladesh and establishing an Islamist state through terrorist m...