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Rohingyas Outcry and Demands by Rohingya Patriotic Front

Introduction
History is the mirror of life and measure of its performance. It reflects human life in all its passing phases and
evaluates its works through ages. History upholds the great romance of human experience in the past. It is through
this mirror that others can know of a people who can as well as know themselves properly. The correct assessment
of a people's past history determines the pace of its present progress and the shape of its future.
We and our people, in Arakan, are yet unknown to the outside world. Our history has long since been remained
totally neglected and unwritten. To understand the history of the Muslims of this land, a study of the histories of
Burma proper, Bengal, Islamic world, Indonesia, China and a few other Southeast Asian countries is of vital
importance. Of all these countries Bengal and the Islamic World played a distinctive role of their own for several
centuries, favoured by some natural peculiarities and circumstances.
Had we not been subjected to suffer from the grim ordeals of life at the hands of those who lived together with us
pacefully for centuries and also were governed and ruled by our ancestors, and investigation into our past history
would surely be not possible till eternity. It is perhaps a blessing in disguise for us that we have any how at last
become conscious of our very existence under the Socialist Government of Burma. We the Muslims of Arakan have
a more than 1300 year-old tradition and history of our own, expressed in our shrines, cemeteries, sanctuaries,
seminars, socio-cultural institutions etc. found scattered even today over every nook and corner of the land.
Whatever so far have been found written about Arakan or Burma are centered round Hinduism, Buddism,
Christianity and a few non-Muslim personalities. All that are found about Muslims are merely collateral and mostly
corrupted. Inspite of once being the majority community in Arakan, with centuries-old tradition, culture, history and
civilisation of our own we received little or no attention from any quarter. By His grace, the days are not far off
when, to the surprise of our persecutors, the 'Gordian Knot' of our numerical strength too will be cut as an evidence
in support of our decades-long assertion of being in majority at least up to 1942 A.D. But the irony of fate is that this
protracted ignorance of the remarkable contributions of ours in various fields of activities in Arakan and Burma
proper have not only misled the world but also obviously illusioned some literates amongst us.
To be able to understand fully and correctly about a people it is also of utmost importance to know their history and
geography of their country. As is evident from traditions, accounts, texts, annals, chronicles and histories, hundreds
of saints and mystics from the Islamic lands in Western and Central Asia preached Islam, simultaneously with its
advent, along all the coastal areas of from Oman to Philippines and China to which "Kaya-pari/Kaira-pari and
Hanifar Tonkies (shrines)", in the Mayu Territory between the rivers Kaladan and Naaf, the shrines of "Babaji Shah
Monayam" of Ambari and "Pir Badr Shah" at Akyab also bear a conclusive testimony.
As a prelude to the above historical events it can authentically be asserted that the history of the Muslim people is
indeed a chequered one. For, so-long as our Holy Prophet (SM) lived, he remained the central figure of attraction.
By the time the prophet passed away almost the whole of Arabian Peninsula has embraced Islam. With his
unwavering faith in Allah and with is firm belief in his mission, he had left behind a great example for his followers
to emulate. The early Muslims with the missionary zeal of the Master, carried the torch after him almost with the
same fervour and enthusiasm covering more than half the world.
The mental of Prophethood feel on our Holy Prophet Mohammad (SM) in 610 A.D. and within 50 years of this date
of advent of Islam the Arabs (the Arabic speaking people inhabiting the Arab home-land including North Africa,
Eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula) constructed the first Mosque at Canton in Southeast China
to which region they had been undertaking voyages along the old established sea-route to the Far East since 330
A.D. They had already a trading post in Canton -- for many centuries the only entry by sea into the country.
Besides the above sea-route, the Arabs and other Muslims like those of the Persians, Moors, Moghuls and
Indonesians also used the old Chinese land-route through Arakan for minimizing their traved durations going to
Burma and China.