Bersempena dengan tragedi taufan di Burma yang mengorbankan banyak nyawa, eloklah juga melihat-lihat sejarah negara Burma ini sendiri. Mungkin kebanyakan dari kita tidak mengetahui bahawa kita mempunyai ramai juga saudara seagama di Burma ini sendiri. Hampir di setiap bandar di Burma mempunyai rakyat beragama Islam. Namun tahukah kita bahawa saudara seagama kita di sana hidup sengsara dan ditindas. Hidup seperti pelarian dan dihina sesuka hati. Malah hak mereka sebagai rakyat di bumi kelahiran sendiri juga di nafikan. Di bawah ini terdapat sedikit berita berkenaan Muslim di Burma yang dipetik daripada laman web http://www.albalagh.net/current_affairs/0090.shtml

Artikel ini hanyalah sebahagian kecil daripada artikel panjang berkenaan kekejaman dan ketidakperikemanusiaan pemimpin Burma. Moga-moga taufan yang ALLAH turunkan di burma ini  membuka mata orang-ornag yang zalim di Burma ini.

ARAKAN, formerly called Rohang, Roshang, Rakhine Pray, Rakhapura, lies on the north-western part of Burma with 360 miles coastal belt from the Bay of Bengal. Through its geopolitical position, Arakan finds itself at the crossroads of two continental entities, South Asia and South-East Asia — between Buddhist Asia and Muslim-Hindu Asia and between the Mongoloid and the Indo-Aryan races.  It borders 176 miles with Bangladesh, 48 miles of which is covered by river Naf, which demarcates Arakan (Burma) from Chittagong (Bangladesh). It is separated geographically from the rest of Burma by the long range of Arakan Yoma mountain range running north to south. The area of Arakan is about 20,000 square miles. But Arakan Hill-tracts district (5235 square miles) and southern most part of Arakan were partitioned from Arakan. So, it has now been reduced to 14,200 square miles.(17)

The Muslim community in Arakan, who are next to the Rakhine Buddhists in number, consists of four groups: Tambukias, Turko-Pathans, Kamanchis and Rohingyas. The Tambukias trace their history back to the eighth century when their ancestors from Arabia were allowed to settle in southern Arakan by the contemporary king Maha Taing Chandra (788-810). The next group consisting of the Turks and Pathans are mostly found in the outskirts of Mrohaung, the last capital of Arakan. The Arakanese king Mong-Saw-Mwan alias Narameikhla (1403-33) recaptured his throne with the help of their forebears who were in the army of Bengal. Like the Tambukias, they were allowed to settle in Arakan by the grateful king. The ancestors of the Kamanchis came in the train of shah shuja, the Governor of Bengal (1639-59), who took shelter in Arakan with his family and retinues after being overthrown by his brother aurangzeb. Their descendants are to be found mostly in Ramree Island. The Rohingyas are descendants of Muslims who trace their ancestry to all those who settled in Arakan – the Arabs, Turks, Persians, Pathans, Mughals, Bengalis and some Indo-Mongoloid people. Hence, the Rohingya Muslims are not an ethnic group, which developed from one tribal group affiliation or single racial stock, but are an ethnic group that developed from different stocks of people. The ethnic Rohingya is Muslim by religion with distinct culture and civilization of its own. (more…)