Taking the sequel further, now the question is being raised that the Muslims are not native and they should leave Arakan and other areas. If this argument of Buddhist monks is taken for granted and accepted as it is, then they are also not from the same area like, present day Israelis, Americans, Africans and several Asians, turning the world into an in-comprehensible conundrum. If we trace the history of the Muslim arrival, we see that the first Muslims who arrived to Myanmar landed on the coast of Arakan, present-day Rakhine and settled there during 9th or 10th century. Then several Arabs and Persians passed over this route and propagated Islam further and their numbers continued increasing. Now that they have almost lived over there around 10,000 or their 20th generation is living over there and if they are no aliens, how can the Tibetans monks be native to the land where several of their families have arrived in just 18th and 19th century. The question who is native and who is native does not suit in the case of Rohingya Muslims.
Apart from this logical fallacy, another manifestation of the Buddhist monks has come to the fore in the shape that not only they were engaged in wholesale Muslim killing under the very protection of the security forces, they also stopped aid providing NGO’s from approaching the camps of the displaced Muslim refugees. More than 250,000 refugees are living in appalling conditions where food and medicine stores are depleting fast and soon it will give birth to another looming human tragedy.
The second logical fallacy is that even Buddhist monks are of the view that if aid reaches the Muslims, they will settle permanently over there, threatening their majority and winning in elections to make road to the parliament. To some extent, this Sunni-dominated population’s sudden increase makes it correct. However, this does not mean that they should be either expelled or exterminated. They have full rights like their Buddhist counterparts and if they cannot live together as the monks feared, it is better that the UN should be invited to find the way out by dividing the country, for this land can harbor the population more than this and it has also happened in Indonesia where Christian minority of East Timur suffered under the Muslim majority domination and ultimately they chose to have their own separate land.
The third logical fallacy is that the Burmese authorizes state that most of the Muslims migrated from India and present day Pakistan due to their role in the Freedom War of 1857 and they found safe havens in Myanmar. That is why they must go back to their native land. If this is accepted as true, several Burmese crossed over to Bangladesh and China during Japan invasion and they never came back. Moreover, it does not make sense that if a population is living in some area, you should insist them to go and seek their native land they have lost for hundreds of years. [to be continued]
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