(A working paper on the Rohingya people)
Dr Abid Bahar Ph.D.
Historically speaking, Rohingya people have been driven out of Arakan in large numbers from A.D.1784, 1942, 1978, and 1992. But the worst one in the words of FIDH International Federation of Human Rights: The …exodus is a deep, sustained trickle of low visibility. The Rohingyas progressively leave Burma in small groups, families or individuals…. Little by little, the population is being forced to leave Arakan because of a deliberate policy of cleansing." Today over a million people, approximately 200,000 live in Bangladesh, 20,000 in Malaysia and about 700,000 in different Arab countries and smaller numbers in Western countries and in Japan. There are still another 1 and a half million Rohingyas live in Arakan under serious hardship and repression. Burma continues to have anti-Rohingya xenophobic military government. The scenario doesn't look good.
