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collapse. With its invasion by Burma in 1784, the Muslim people liv-
ing in the region suffered great oppression. Many of them were forced

to flee to Bengal, which was under British rule. According to East
India Company records, in 1799 35,000 Arakanese Muslims fled their
lands because of persecution by the Burmese. The records tell us this;

"…in one day soon after the conquest of Arakan the Burmans put
40,000 men to death: that wherever they found a pretty woman, they
took her after killing the husband; and the young girls they took with-

out any consideration of their parents, and thus deprived these poor
people of the property…" 2

Some of the Muslims fleeing Burmese violence left the country
and had to migrate to India.

The Rohingya Muslims
were recognized as the citi-
zens of Burma.
Nearly 500,000
Rohingya Muslims
A total of 250,000
Rohingya Muslims The sectarian con- reside in Bangladesh.
took refuge in flicts broke out There is a very severe
Bangladesh. How- between Buddhists disorderliness on the
General Ne Win over- ever, Bangladesh and Muslims on June border
threw the government in recognized them 8th, resulting in
a military coup and the A total of 207,172 not as refugees but many deaths. The
oppression against the Rohingya Muslims as illegal immi- Rohingya Muslims
Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh. grants after 1992. migrated in masses.
began.

The government The military gov- The Arakan Nation-
denied the right to ernment in Burma al Council declared Myanmar prohibited the
vote to Rohingya enacted a new Cit- that the Rohingya use of the word
Muslims. izenship Law that Muslims were citi- Rohingya and forced the
abolished the citi- zens of Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslims to be
zenship of the identified as Bengali.
Rohingya Muslims.