Professor Abid Bahar, Ph.D. (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada,) presently teaches at Dawson College (Montreal). He has contributed numerous papers to international seminars and conferences and published numerous papers on Burma. He has attended several international conferences, most recently in Japan on Problems of Democratic Development in Burma. As a specialist in Ethnic Relations in Burma, he was recently invited to speak at the United Nation's expert consultation on citizenship and minorities held in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Bahar continues to write on ethnicity and race relations in Burma, Bangladesh and India. In 1982, he completed his thesis entitled: The Dynamics of Ethnic Relations in Burmese Society: A Case Study of Ethnic Relations between the Burmese and the Rohingyas. ---- The contemporary history of Western Burma was written by xenophobic and tendentious writers. Dr. Bahar makes a genuine contribution by filling the missing dots with knowledge, which qualifies this priceless effort a handbook for Burma readers. Aung San USA Professor Abid Bahar is not a Rohingya, but he has worked meticulously to unearth the history of Arakan and relate his research to contemporary developments in Burmese society. His example as a researcher is one I personally aspire to follow and I am sure many students of Arakan and modern Burma feel similarly. Enayet Ullah, BRAG, Thailand
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Abid Bahar
The root issue here is the statelessness of the Rohingya. The main point to peruse is the
(1) restoration of Rohingya citizenship (no point in sending them back to a country where they aren't citizens)
and
(2) divide the Rakhine state between Rakhine and Rohingya (Rohingya area called Mayu district) and control it by the federal government.
(3) Police will be hired from Rohingya people, which used to be the case until the hated General Ne Win took over power.
(4) We don't need the Security Council's UNSC's permission to force Burma to commply to these demads. We need only member countries's determination. If these demands are not complied by Suu Kyi.s government, the individual countries like the US can come up with santions against Burma.
If they can do it with North Korea why can't they do it with Burma?
So Rohingya lobbying of member countries must continue with even in accelerated speed.
So,
keep up the pressure!
Keep up the relentless pressure from every direction and from everywhere!!
ROHINGYA SUNFLOWER KID’S PROGRAM MODEL
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(Dr. Abid Bahar has visited Rohingya refugee camps in 1978 in Bangladesh and have also visited the 1971 Bangladesh’s liberation war time fefugee camps in India. He specializes on Educating Young Children and teaches in Canada. After years of research, he has developed a program model for homeless children and refugee children)
It is true, children lean through Play. But in our time especially in the West Children play with name brand toys but what about children living in refugee camps and in homeless condition?
In the following are brief ideas from abid Bahar’s Sun Flower Kids Program Model for the refugee children. Children in these contexts got to learn through play.
TYPE OF PLAY
For different age groups different mode of play is needed
For children below age 3 they will be taught the essentials of daily chore and mostly use social play and pretend play. For children above four playing with items that will not require to buy things but are available around. Such plays are like playing with hopscotch, running race, playing soccer and volleyball.
THE GUIDANCE APPROACH
Appropriate types
Philosophy: The fundamenta philosophy to guide by the guardians, teachers and parents to be guiding them keeping patience and giving love. One must know that many of these children have lost their parents and now live without parental protection. They also is going through trauma.
They have to be guided with positive discipline not punishment
CURRICULUM CONTENTS
Context based content:
About the curriculum, teachers have to teach the children the basic survival techniques/ skills. First they will be learning languages: learning the local language and English and their alphabets and vocabularies and learning their self understanding, about their family and the community where they live (geography). As they grow they have to be provided with their history and culture and techinacal training.
When they are pre teens and teens, they have to be provided with trainings in tailoring, driving vehicles, working with industrial and general machinery.
( No part of this should be used without the written consent of the author)
For details on the program phone: 514-374-0035
Poem:
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Ha Hi Hi!
Mujib Kothai?
Mujib Kothao Nai
Bipodhete Mujib nai
Hi Hi, Hai!
Nai Nai Mujib Nai
Awami Leager Prothesthai Mujin Nai
Vasha Andolone Mujib Dhakate Nai
Sathe Marche er Bokthetei Mujiber UDI Nai
Mujib Nai, Mujib nai
Pakistaner General Der Shathe Alochoneai Shadhenotha Nai
Pura Mukti Juddhar Somoi Mujib war theatre Nai
Ki Holore baai?
Mujib kae pitha bole Hasina,
kintu Mujib chelo mastander boro bhai!
Book Review S K Sinha`s Book `Broken Dream`
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Abid Bahar
S.K. Sinha, the former Supreme Court judge of Bangladesh, now out of favor with Hasina is in the USA seeking political asylum. He was forced to leave Bangladesh he says.
Now he calls Bangabhavon as `Bang Bhavon.' a house of frogs and Hasina seemingly is the head of the house.
At first Hasina's case of appointing Sinha as the chief judge appeared to be generous that a judge from minority background was made the chief justice, But after reading Sinha's book "Broken Dream" it shows he was a junior judge made the chief justice in Hasina`s court to easily manipulate him as a puppet Tue, it was him who had presided over the cases of judicial killing of many in the so called International War crimes Trial, and also he was used by Hasina in the BKSAL dictator Mujib's killing case. Now that the dirty job of judicial killing and jailing Hasina's opponents through him is complete, he was forced to resign. Sinha claims that he was kicked out of the country by force and intimidation by none but Hasina's DJFI military commanders.
Yes, Could Be The Circumstances !
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Sinha, once a powerful judge in Bangladesh, now a very confused person, a refugee looking for a new home. I met S. K. Sinha at a recent seminar at Harvard University seminar in Boston where I was also an invited guest speaker. Sinha, seemed very lost often gasps for words while speaking. He is a poor speaker by all accounts. However, he has written a book over 500 pages long with lack of the central argument, and having almost no editing done in the book. While speaking, I felt uncomfortable to see the supreme Court judge of my country and his less than average performance. For the native English speakers in the USA, it would have felt insult to their language. In broken English he murmured to say that he lost everything he had in Bangladesh. It seems that he is a broken man with a lost dream, he is now using his book to survive as the last straw before he also finally drowns as was the case of the former army General Moin U and many others who helped Sheikh to capture power..
One would wonder, if this is the destiny of a killer judge hired by a lady dictator. Is it the nature's judgement, God`s judgement. Either way, for a killer of many innocent victims, this must be his true destiny. When asked if he always used his conscience to give a judgement on a case of death penalty or he was compelled by the government to draw easy conclusions, he first replied by beating around the bush then when asked repeatedly he said, he couldn't always be neutral.
Book Review: Part 3 ( Bangladesh`h`s Killer Judge
ReplyDeleteDuring the question period, he appeared to show his real color. He seemed to be an arrogant man, He boosted that he is the judge who wrote the judgement for Mahmudur Rahman`s 6 month`s jail. Mahmudur Rahman was the editor of Amerdesh. He was jailed for protesting against his unlawful detention. In his presentation, Sinha also confessed that he was the judge who wrote the verdict for Saydee`s life imprisonment. He was also the judge who delivered the death sentence of Salauddin Kader Chowdhury. Sinha confessed that Salauddin Kader failed to show his MA transcript from Pakistan. I said this was a circumstantial evidence used by you for a person's death sentence.
Mr. Sinha asked for political shelter in the USA. In the USA, the refugee hearing Board
( US Border Guard office) will surely ask him to testify if he willingly helped the government to any judgement of death of political opponents. In his deliberation, it became clear that he was not a secular judge but one who believes in his deep Hindu roots (fundamentalism), no wonder also he had deep roots in Awami background. It seems he was the combination of the two com-busting elements.
In his speech at Haevard,, he often repeated that he had differences of opinions with Hasina especially in corruption cases. He said, Hasina wanted to favor her corrupt ministers by granting them bail., or advised him to just over look the Awami criminal cases. The case he particularly mentioned was Mohiuddin Alamgir, the former Home minister who he said robbed millions from Bangladesh and illegally brought them to the USA.
In his book `Broken Dream`in his characterization of Bangabhavon, he calls it the 'Bang Bhavon', a house of jumping frogs. When asked for details whether this was a deliberate expression, he remained silent. Strangely though, he called Sheikh Mujib as a man with no vision which according to him caused the trouble in the early years of Bangladesh which still lingers. This was made perhaps to make the audience happy. This is a welcoming expression but it will surely put him into more trouble with Awami League if he returns to Bangladesh. Because there is a law put into action that anybody criticizing Mujib will have 6/ 7 years of imprisonment. If Sinha invented this law, he will taste the poison of his own making. (the black law, for supporting hero-worshiping that is fascism in Bangladesh).
In his deliberation, he also showed no sympathy for the suffering of Bangladesh`s opposition leader Khaleda Zia.who is presently in jail On the other hand as expected, he criticized Khalida Zia and Tatik. Strangely, a few uninformed BNP sympathizers in the USA are spending money and time, trying to rehabilitate Sinha by introducing him to the US Senate and Congress. Alas, they fail to understand that you can’t teach an old Awami killer judge new tricks to favor the BNP party. The point is, Sinha is not a BNP sympathizer and will never be. As the way things are moving, he can not help the BNP or anybody when he needs the most help just to survive in the USA.
(DR. Abid Bahar teaches in Canada on Ethics of Leadership)
Puthi poem: Who is taking over Arakan?
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“We are the people of Arakan” says
A Rohingya historian
Buddhist narrative says “ We are the “virus” in action
We are from Arakan” says
A Rohingya historian
Rakhine Mogh says “We are taking over their land and their vision”
We are from Arakan” says
A Rohingya historian
Rohingya’s origin is in the ancient indigenous Chandra nation
Rohingya origin in Chandra- Arab synthesis from 7th century began
Arakan was a Hindu kingdom until the 11th century like the Shan nation
Rakhine Mogh says We are taking over Arakan?
Mass migration of Moghs during the 11th century from mainland Burma began
Pushed the Chandra Arabs (Hindu-Muslims) toward northern Akakan
Who is taking over our Rohingya land?
The land divided: Southern Arakan for Mogh Buddhists
North for Hindus and Muslims, the land was not shared by friends
Who is taking over Arakan?
Theravada Buddhists ruled the nation with knife and fist
Chakma, Tanchingya, Kuki, Rohingya disappeared from Southern Arakan just like the mist
Who is taking over Arakan?
Buddhist continued to push the Rohingya from the south
toward the north through destruction
Buddhist narrative says, “Rohingyas are taking over Arakan”
In the medieval period, Wali Khan and Sindhi Khan came to help Noromi Kla save Arakan
Rohingya people are the decendents of Wali Khan and Sindhi Khan
“Who is taking over Arakan?’ says the historian.
Who is destroying our mosques, schools, renaming our places turning into a Rakhine nation?
It is the Buddhist monks and the holighan
“Who is taking over Arakan?’ says the historian.
Who is causing the Rohingya extermination?
Mogh narrative says “ Rohingya are the foreign settlers in northern Arakan.”
In maungdaw, Buthedaung, Akyab and Mro haung
But the name “Rohang” originated from Mrohaung, says the historian
Akyab from Persian ak ab (one river, like Punjab), Arakan from Rokon,
We are the people of maungdaw, Buthedaung, Akyab and Mro haung
Moghs slaughtered the Moghul prince Shah Suja and his family
Mogh’s slaugher, piracy and terror is in their native culture.
In 1666, Shaistha Khan removed them from lower Bengal in a historic adventure
We have been in Arakan before Burma occupied it in 1774
Francis Buchanon met Rohingya of Arakan even before.
But Burmese genocide led many Rohingya and Mogh take shelter in the Chittagong ‘s Cox’s Bazar sea shore
We the Rohingya are people of the land
We were happy people before 1982 and acted like a band.
We had ministers in the Aung San’s cabinet, and after, we had MPs. We are the people of the land
Our people were removed from jobs, businesses. Do you know the man, demon who?
It was General Ne Win who came to power through a coup
We were the citizens of the country until 1982
From Ne Win’s infactious barbarian hate
His army began to rape our women, kill our children in 1978
it evicted 200 000 Rohingya killing by marchettes and bate
We were 3 million in 1977. We are from Chandra, Arab, and from Shindhi Khan gong
Still they claim we are illegal immigrants from Chittagong
We were reduced to 2 million in 1993, We are now reduced to only 800,000, strong
Mogh intellectuals call us “viruses to be exterminated” from Arakan
Aye Chan and Aye Mong, the ideologues working hard as if Ivan
the terrible of the Nazi German
Aye Chan spreads the anti Rohingya venom
among the Rakhine Mogh villager non literate men and women
Even the xenophobe Suu Kyi doesn’t want to use our name “Rohingya” which as the democracy leader she can
The Rohingya historian says “Who is taking over Arakan?
Isn’t it the xenophobe Mogh and Burman?
She dropped our MPs from her parliament of Burman, Kachine and Shan
The truth is we are the Rohingya people of Arakan,
We are in the process of a genocidal extermination.
To save the Rohingya, we need none but the UN’s protection
(Abid Bahar is a playwright and a public speaker, now teaches in Canada)
Election 2014,
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Al cadres scaring people,
Telling them not to go to vote,
if they are not Awami boat followers,
They will not be safe to return home
to the family. Police brutalizing the opposition,
when they are criticizing Hasina, chatro league
and the AL, In criticizing Hasina, it is the target
missed. people people are targeting the wrong target.
The target should be the shadow behind Hasina, you
check-it was Mujib who introduced fascism in Bangladesh
Mujib was killed but through his Awami fascist propaganda he
survives in his bad blood and his fascist followers; he is made an ideal Bangladeshi. Aa ha!
But he killed Deputy speaker Shahed Ali, Seraj Sikder, in 1974 he killed half a million Bangladeshis in a man-made famine
He killed the infant democracy of Bangladesh for BKSAL one party dictatorship
In 1973 he cheated in Dawedkandhi election recount for Mostaque,
For his fascist dishonesty Mustaque returned Mujib to death
Mujib was a violent man, died violently and
Strange but true, this founder of fascism
instead of condemned in history books
was made by Hasina, the father
of Bangladesh,The shadow
behind Hasina is alive
through his bad
blood and
he lives
in his
blood
thirsty
follow
ers.
Muslim Identity and Demography in the Arakan State of Burma
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Habib Siddiqui
NRB Council, USA
Date Written: October 26, 2011
Abstract
Burma (or today’s Mayanmar) is a country of many nations – many races, ethnicities and religions. Racism runs deep and acts like a double-edged knife cutting through the fabric of the Burmese society, justifying hostility against disparate groups that have nothing in common either in language or in religion. And no group is treated as inhumanly as the Rohingya people of Burma, who live in the northwestern Arakan (Rakhine) state, bordering Bangladesh. The Burmese military government has denied them their citizenship rights declaring that they were a legacy of the British Colonization period whose forefathers had immigrated from Bengal (today’s Bangladesh). Its draconian measures and unfathomable atrocities and harassment have forced millions of the Rohingya to live either as stateless people in its own soil or as unwanted refugees elsewhere.
In this paper, the author examines the Rohingya issue tracing their history of settlement in Arakan and shows that far from the propaganda of the Myanmar regime and racists within the Burmese and Rakhine society, the Rohingyas are the Bhumiputras (Adibashis) – the genuine children of the land of Arakan. The author opines that the only way Myanmar can survive and evolve into a civilized state is not through the brutal and savage arms of injustice, denial, xenophobia, abuse and oppression of the minorities but a federal democratic framework that genuinely protects all ensuring their human rights and equality without any discrimination.
Keywords: Burma, Myanmar, Rohingya, Rakhine, xenophobia, racism, bigotry, Islam, minority rights, human rights, discrimination, citizenship
Suggested Citation:
Siddiqui, Habib, Muslim Identity and Demography in the Arakan State of Burma (October 26, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1949971 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1949971
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64 References
See Dr
Abid Bahar's refutation of Aye Chan's xenophobic works 'The Development of a Muslim Enclave in Arakan (Rakhine) state of Burma (Myanmar) and 'Influx Viruses,' in 'Problems of Democratic Development in Burma and the Rohingya People
Posted: 2007
See, this author's well-researched article: Rohingya -the Forgotten PeopleCrossref
Abdul Karim
The Rohingyas: A Short Account of their History and Culture
Posted: 2000
D G E Hall
The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Mrohaung in ArakanCrossref
The Bhumiputra Rohingyas Were
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Tamatdaw - Myanmarese
Repressive Military Organisation.
Being Forced Into Exile By Continuing
Persecutions And Tortures By Those Very
Racist Bamars (Burmans) & Then Torched
Many Many Rohingya Villages According
To Their Scorched Earth Policy Of The
Anarchist Brutally Cruel Militarist
Of The State Of Myanmar (Burma) !!
Now,
International Community Intervention
Is Immediately Needed To "Annihilate"
The Myanmar's Military Regime Personnel.
Let Us All Struggle Truly Hard To
Terminate Military Rule In Myanmar
Once For All In This current Age.
Thank You.
Supporters Of Arakani Rohingyas.
The Commonwealth Of Australia
Syed A. Saleem (+61403563984 )
Great Intellectual Presentation
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A Dedicated Human Rights Activist
And
A Notable Pacifist.Thanks Mr. Saleem