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Dear Editor:
Professor Bahar is a scholar. He should rather write a review article of my paper than criticize me on the webpage. I wrote the article, “Who Are Rohingyas” for an internet magazine. I use the term “Chittagonian” for the people who call themselves “Rohingyas” today. I have valid reasoning for it. Since Arakan was ceded to British Bengal in 1826 these people were called Chittagonian in all the British colonial records. Can Professor Bahar deny it? See R.B. Smart. 1957. Burma Gazetteer: Akyab District Vol. A. Government Press. Rangoon. pp. 86-87. All the administrative records of British Colonial period are available in the British Library, London. The Census of British Burma. Rangoon. Government Press. 1875 and the Records of Government of British India, Records of Governor’s Secretary Office, IOR 8/9, British Library, London use the term “Chittagonian” for these Muslims from Arakan State of modern Burma. It will be “anachronism” to use the term “Rohingya” for the research on the history of Arakan State in the colonial period. I will be deeply grateful to Professor Bahar if he can give an evidence of the existence of such people in the western frontier of Arakan prior to and in the colonial period.
Aye Chan
Department of International Cultures
Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan
Debate can continue, but detailed factual discussions like this are really better handled in a different forum, such as in an academic paper. Not here.
The reason is that off-topic discussions can quickly degenerate and attract trolls. That has happened on this website before and, unfortunately, is the risk of online discussion. For that reason, I need to keep a tighter rein than I would otherwise.
Prof. Bahar has had his say, as has Prof. Aye Chan. I’m sure both of you know how to contact each other if you wish to continue this discussion.
But from now onwards, this thread will no longer be accepting comments.
I found out about Doctor Aye Chan ony a few weeks ago.
I really idmire about his efforts.
I am not really interested in racism nor politic.
But we need to understand and learn a lesson from the history of Pyu.
There are so many mosques in almost all the cities, towns even villages in Myanmar.
And most of the mosques has 4 or 8 loud speakers pointing to all directions and praying so loudly in Myanmar in all cities, towns and villeges.
Christian Churches and Hindu temples never do that kind of things in Myanmar.
If Myanmar people build only one Pagoda in Dhaka in Bangladesh, see what will happen? Look at what happened in Chittagong hill tracts. A lot of Buddhists have been
genocided, tortured, raped, killed because of their belives, religion.
Now they want us to accept them as citizens in Myanmar.
We have to stereotype that they are dangerous people.