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Arakan League for Democracy (Exile)UK

50, Edensor Garden,Chiswick,London, W4 2QZ
His Excellency Mr.Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are here to let the British Prime Minister ,British Officials and the people of the world know about the true history of Burma concerning with Rohingya issue. As we may all aware that the Bengali Muslims illegal immigrants and a very few British citizens are exploiting Burma Crisis and trying to overwrite the Burma's true history with their make up stories. Therefore it is our duty to protect our true history. First of all, I would like to say words of thanks to all ethnic nationalities of Burma who are gathering in this occasion to let the world know that we all are genuine ethnic nationalities of Burma, and we, in unity, want to uncover that illegal Bengali immigrants who are naming themselves as Rohingya and demanding themselves as indigenous ethnic nationalities of Burma with specially created make up stories and lying the whole world, actually does not belong to us. I am an Arakanese, therefore, in this occasion, I would like to reveal some points in brief, our history, how those so-called Rohingya people arrived to our land and how we, native people of Arakan State are suffering from those invaders. I suppose everybody present in this occasion has already known that Independent Buddhist Kingdom of Arakan had been splendidly flourishing since 3325 BC in terms of six dynasties: namely Dwarawaddy, First Wethali ,Dhanyawaddy, second Wethali, Lemro and Mraul U ruled by over 200 monarches. Buddhism is flourishing in the whole Arakan State since the time of Buddha, and our Arakanese are truly devotees of Buddha since then. At the time of Kind Bodawphaya, in 1784, Arakan became part of Burmese Empire, and since that time we all are sharing our hard or good time together until now. With all other ethnic nationalities of Burma, we had fight for our independence; we had fight for our democracy together. Dear Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen Ethnic nationalities of Burma do not practice racism to each other in regard of religion. Therefore 135 indigenous ethnic nationalities of Burma who practice different religions are co-exciting in the country without any conflict. Apart from these indigenous ethnic groups, Chinese and Indian descendants are also enjoying in our country with citizenship status as Chinese descendants Burmese or Indian descendents Burmese and they all are faithful to the country. They are not demanding ethnic rights with invented stories and lying the world as does Rohingya who are illegal migrants from Bangladesh. As we all know, the term Rohingya is unknown to all of us in pre-war days. All British Colonial Archives have proven that there was no such ethnic group called Rohingya neither in British Burma

nor in British Indian Empire. So who are they? They are the descendents of Bengali agricultural labourers who had come and worked in Arakan State following Indian immigration waves to Burma during the British colonial era. The predecessors of Rohingya were the Islamist Mujahids who wanted to take a part of Burma and form an Islamic state since Burma was separated from The British Indian Empire in 1937. As a sequence of Mujahid movement, native Arakanese from Buthedaung, Maungdaw and Rathedaung townships had to fled from their home town, and those Bengali occupied the places. Just before the declaration of Burmese Independence in 1947, they demand these three townships in the northern part of Arakan State to be incorporated into East Pakistan which is now called Bangladesh. When the Pakistani leaders discouraged their demand, they declare Jihad on Burma and created the term, Rohingya. Since that time, whenever they got a chance, they tried to kill Arakaneses; rape Arakanese women and fire Arakanese villages and on the other hand, they try to grow their populations in terms of highly birth rate and taking other Bengalis from the side of Bangladesh. So, what is their intention? Why do they create that term Rohingya which has the meaning native Arakan in their Chittagaung dialect of Bangladesh? Why do they want to lie the world with ridiculous invented stories saying that they are indigenous ethnic group of Arakan more earlier then Arakanese? Why are they not content themselves to live in Burma with citizenship status like other Indian or Chinese decendents? The answer is very clear now. They are so cunning and so greedy. They want to sweep away native Arakanese with their enormous population growth and ultimately change Buddhist Arakan State to Islamic Rohingya State for their Bengali immigrants and decedents. There are reliable evidences of secret link between those Rohingya and Islamist extremists, and recently Wikileaks also revealed about that. Therefore, Rohingya issue is not merely an immigration issue for us. It became a threat to National Territory, National Security and National Sovereignty for Burma. Arakanese are currently the most suffering ethnic group, who are trying to defend their own land with their own extent. To my conclusion, I would like to convince that Rohingya issue is not a religious issue, not a humanitarian issue. It is an immigration issue but the degree of importance of so high in terms of Nationalism. We honestly request the Rt. Hon. British Prime Minister to give kindly commitment that during the period of the British Colonial authorities in Burma '' ROHINGYA'' was not on record as one of the ethnic groups in Burma. Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank our ethnic nationalities of Burma for your strong support in this demonstration.

May ThetNwe for and on behalf of the members of Arakan League for Democracy (Exile) UK