| Reported by EMG |
 People in Yangon object on 11 June reports of foreign media on Rakhine unrest
Foreign media are now presenting bias
reports on the clashes between Rakhine people and Bengali Rohingyas to
destroy the image of Myanmar and its people.
For example, the reporting of the BBC
news agency mentioned on 8 June that police forces are firing on at the
rioters in Maungdaw Township, quoting the so-called witnesses. The
report of this news agency was based on religion.
Moreover, the AFP news agency also
stated on 7 June that police forces are shooting the mobs. Their news
mentioned the conflict between Muslims and Rakhine people. The truth is
that no police fired on the rioters. Only Rohingyas killed Rakhine
people and burned down their houses.
The Nation Media of Thailand stated the
news “Call for UN to intervene in Rohingya ‘genocide’. They first
mentioned the news with the photo of Eleven Media Group without caption.
In fact, the photo is the burning Rakhine houses ignited by Rohingyas.
As the news was stated with no captioned photo, international readers
misunderstood the country and the people.
However, the Nation changed the photo without hesitation at the request of the Eleven Media Group.
As some foreign media biased the reports on Rakhine unrest, Myanmar citizens protested against them in Yangon on 11 June.
People in Yangon also took to street in
front of Yangon City Hall to object the reports of some foreign media by
holding placards written ‘We oppose to BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB’ and ‘We
oppose to unfair local and foreign media’.
They also raised the placards such as
‘Rohigya are Terrorist. Get out of our country’ and ‘We have our own
swords, but we observe the law. We are Myanmar nationalities’, ‘Protect
our country, our culture and our brethrens’ and ‘We Love Peace’.
Chairman and CEO Dr. Than Htut Aung of the Eleven Media Group said, “The Nation website posted that ‘some 800-1,000 people - including women, children and elderly people - have disappeared recently’. The sources of these words are Rohingya organizations and some Thai NGOs. The news also stated ‘Paramilitary and "racist" Rakhine are burning houses and shooting people, with some being burned alive.’ These facts are totally wrong. There is no paramilitary in Rakhine.How could 20,000 Rakhine people in Maungdaw Township kill the 400,000 Rohingyas(20 times more than Rakhine people)? The Eleven Media Group only uploaded the news and photos which show the blazing Rakhine wards burnt by Rohingyas. Moreover, the groups also asked for immediate action to stop this serious genocide and ethnic cleansing by sending a UN peace keeping force to Arakan to protect innocent people.” Dr. Than Htut Aung continued, “To erase such propagandas of some foreign media, local journalist are reporting news from the scene without considering about their lives. However, foreign media are exploiting the efforts of local media. The government should hold a press conference by inviting foreign missions and correspondents. This is the right time for the world figures to unveil the truth. The Eleven Media Group has sent our reliable and energetic four reporters to Rakhine State. They are now taking news photos to clear accuses of foreign media without convincing evidences that our country and Rakhine people are the killers and the terrorists. They have to take risk in conflict areas where there is no rule of law, but jut swords and weapons. Everybody can imagine their awkward situation. Therefore, we expressed our objection to the Nation Media Group regarding with the aforementioned photo on their website. While the EMG is safeguarding our country, we want the people to cooperate with us. We will also present the accurate news without bias. People should also participate in our efforts sensibly.”
With regard to bias report of foreign
media on Rakhine unrest, editor in charge Aung Paw Tun of the Messenger
News Journal said, “The reports of some foreign media four to five days
ago are not fair. Their presentations are deviating from the actual
events. It is not a good intention. The Reuters news agency said Rakhine
people came back after setting fire, and Rohingyas were burned alive
and they were extinguishing fire. These news are destroying the image of
Rakhine people.”
“Based on the bad images of previous military government, Rohingyas are conducting propaganda campaign through foreign media. They see the military government oppressed them. By taking advantage on little good image of the previous government, international media also view the government is oppressing the minorities. As the new government cannot avoid the shadow of previous government, some foreign groups are conducting such campaigns from the side of Rohingyas. The existing issue is not a religious conflict. But such incident usually occurs in the countries where migrant people are residing. As their own land experienced population boom and the cultivated lands become insufficient, these effects spread to the neighboring countries. The root cause of this problem is due to the weakness in policies and law of our country. Negligence and corruption of immigration department for 20 years caused the infiltration of Bengalis. Our media must reveal the actual situation patriotically and professionally,” said chief editor Ko Kyaw Min Swe of the Voice News Journal. Chief reporter Ma May Nge of Pyi Myanmar Journal said “ It is necessary to release the right information from media. Some foreign media released the news every second of the 2007 incident. For the incident in Rakhine state, no foreign media is releasing any actual news. I have read a news on BBC website. They wrongly posted that Presidential officer said Rakhine people were shooting Rohingya. This news was very terrible and totally wrong. It is horrifying to accuse a staff from president office. The wording can get people confused. There is no bias in media. It should be in the middle. The incident is concerning with the whole country. So we must stand on the right position. The problem is not between the Islamists and the Buddhists. Foreign media should not intend to destroy the unity of our country. This is not a religious riot. This is a plot to invade our land, and a blow to nationality. We never accept the attacks through religion.” U Zaw Thet Htwe, who is trying to emerge Myanmar Journalists Union, said, “Foreign media do not understand very well about Myanmar history. Such reporting will destroy the image of our country and people. Myanmar journalists in foreign based news agencies should respect their professional and love their own land. Without emphasizing only on human rights and human value, they should also consider about national interest of the country.” The following is the report on the Nation media website.
Call for UN to intervene in Rohingya 'genocide'
Half a dozen organisations concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Arakan State in Burma issued an open letter to Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, yesterday urging the UN to "intervene and protect a million Rohingya people of Arakan from a planned genocide". The letter, signed by Maung Kyaw Nu, president of the Burmese Rohingya Association in Thailand (BRAT) said some 800-1,000 people - including women, children and elderly people - have disappeared recently while the death tolls are still being calculated. Rohingya organisations and Thai NGOs, such as the People's Empowerment Foundation, claim that paramilitary and "racist" Rakhine are burning houses and shooting people, with some being burned alive. "Rohingya youth are running to hide in the forest. Some are crossing to Bangladesh. All dead and wounded bodies are taken away by the government forces," the letter said. It added that the Burmese regime plans to "kill and clear all Muslims from Arakan State." "We urge immediate action to stop this serious genocide and ethnic cleansing by sending a UN peace keeping force to Arakan to protect innocent people. We urge the UN to send a mission to control the serious situation in Arakan State and save the remaining Rohingyas as quickly as possible," said the groups. They added that international and Asean intervention to save people's lives was urgently needed and urged the international media to monitor closely the serious situation in Arakan. International humanitarian groups, the statement said, should step up their presence in Arakan State to support humanitarian work while the Burmese regime should explain what is going on. "We also demand the UN constitutes an independent and impartial inquiry commission to investigate these crimes against humanity and bring the culprits to justice," it concluded. |
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Bias reporting of foreign media on Rakhine-Rohingyas issue disgraces Myanmar images
Bias reporting of foreign media on Rakhine-Rohingyas issue disgraces Myanmar images
Rohingya illegal Bangladeshi immigrants
U Tin Oo, the Vice-President of National League for Democracy (NLD) with
RFA on 2 October calling the Muslim Rohingya illegal Bangladeshi
immigrants, according to press release dated on 5 October, 2011.Rohingyas, Harn Yawnghwe, and Fraudulent Claims?
Monday, October 24, 2011
Rohingyas, Harn Yawnghwe, and Fraudulent Claims?
(Direct translation of Aung Than Oo’s article “Human Rights and Self Interest”.)
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| EBO-OIC Signing in Saudi Arabia for Rohingya Claims? |
The
topics I’m going to write about in this article basing on my past
experiences and what I could intellectually think of are the dishonest
land claims of foreign-born Bengalis illegally entering Burma from the
neighboring Bangladesh.
In
this article I tried my best to avoid the two common prejudices of race
and religion even though my aim is to prolong our race Burmese and our
religion Buddhism, and at the same time I am extremely careful not to
attack or insult other races and other religions.
Principally
I am going to write about the so-called Rohingyas who under the cover
of human-rights issues in Burma are recently and presently claiming that
they are an authentic ethnic race of Burma while hiding their original
Bengali roots, especially now that they are making so much noise and
attracting undeserving international attentions and Arab money
generously as Muslims.
We
could even accept them in Burma as the settlers if they honestly admit
that their ancestors were and they themselves are the cheeky illegal
migrants from Bangladesh into our naturally-endowed Burma. But their
lies as a true ethnic group trying to demand aboriginal rights and to
impose their dominating religion Islam onto us Burmese Buddhists
brazenly and dishonestly are totally unacceptable.
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| Harn Yawnghwe with Burmese-Muslims in Saudi Arabia. |
And they would often greet me in Bengali, “Sar-lar (Pussy),” and I would reply, “Ma-sar-bu (Not hungry in Burmese),” as a joke back.
In
reality those words are extremely-rude Bengali swear words but for us
those were just friendly greetings between us Burmese and them Bengalis.
We could say those words to each other, for we didn’t really hate each
other as different races and religions and we knew very well that we
respect each other and treat accordingly.
But
nowadays there have constantly been many religious-terrorism cases
breaking out all over the world because of the
Islamic-fundamentalist-driven religious extremism. For example Islamic
Afghanistan was once a very Buddhist country since ancient times more
than two thousand years ago.
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| Blowing Up of Two Bamiyan Buddhas. |
(Translator’s
Notes: The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two sixth century monumental statues
of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan
Valley in the Hazarajat region of Central Afghanistan, situated about
150 miles northwest of Kabul. They were dynamited and destroyed in March
2001 by the Taliban on orders from Mullah Mohammed Omar declaring that
they were Buddhist Idols.)
But
since Mullah Omar-led Taliban became the rulers after the Soviets’
departure the extreme Islamic fundamentalism has arrived in Afghanistan.
And the Islamic fundamentalists hate other religions especially the
Buddhism.
And
despite their respectable religious iconic status and their high
historical values the more-than-100ft-tall Buddhas of Bamiyan were soon
smashed into thousand pieces by the Islamic Taliban with tanks and
cannons and dynamites so that the truly-visible historical evidence of
their Afghanistan once being a proud Buddhist country is permanently
deleted.
The
fact that, despite all the desperate pleads from the Buddhists all over
the world and Christian organizations and world heritage organizations
and even UNESCO, the extremist Taliban ignored the world and brutally
destroyed the famous Buddhas of Bamiyan.
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| Famous Borobudur in Indonesia. |
That
act alone has proved the undeniable fact that a Buddhist country like
Afghanistan could easily be turned into a Muslim country by brute force.
Indonesia is another country that met the same fate as Afghanistan.
World famous Borobudur is the proof of once thriving Buddhist society in
now Islamic Indonesia.
Another
country turning Muslim in modern time is Lebanon. Originally Christian
but in Lebanon the Muslims gradually outnumbered the Christians as the
Palestinians slowly moved in after all the Arab-Israel wars. Finally a
long civil war broke out between Christians and Muslims and Christian
lands were forcefully taken over by the Muslims.
I
strongly believe that it is the patriotic duty of every citizen of a
country or society to defend their race and religion, and to fight back
if the foreigners illegally entering their country have either conspired
or even intended to swallow up the original inhabitants by imposing
their race and religion through the cross-marriages with local women and
then forced-conversions.
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| NLD Tin Oo with ASSK (1988). |
Retired
General Tin Oo (Now NLD Vice-President) who once took stern actions
against illegal Bengali Mujahedins from neighboring Bangladesh in 1950s
as the Commander of Burmese Army Western Command was recently condemned
by so-called Rohingya Dr. Waka Hudin, a naturalized Bengali-American, on
RFA (Radio Free Asia).
I
have decided to write this article when I heard the rude demands of
Waka Hudin on the RFA for our U Tin Oo to apologize him as U Tin Oo’s
mentioning of so-called Rohingyas as the Bengali descendants was an
insult.
Dr.
Waka Hudin also persistently maintains his fraudulent and make-believe
theory that the so-called Rohingyas are the descendants of seagoing Arab
traders shipwrecked and stranded on the Arakan Coast and ended up
settling there with the local women whoever they were.
But
Arabs are basically a Caucasian race and they are generally tall and
white. But the so-called Rohingyas are short and dark like the Bengalis
from neighboring Bangladesh. Not only that they do speak fluent Bengali
and do not speak Arabic at all and do not speak Burmese well like any
other ethnic nationalities of our Burma. Everything about their behavior
and culture and appearance is exactly same as the Bengalis from
Bangladesh.
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| Fenced Burma-Bangladesh Border Line. |
Oh
one more thing! I had to laugh out loud when Waka Hudin added in his
interview on RFA that his Rohingyas also wear lon-gyi (sarongs) like the
Burmese. Our honorable Dr. Waka Hudin had forgotten the fact that the
Bengalis also wear lon-gyi.
My
proposal to end this controversy of whether the so-called Rohingyas are
the Arabs as they themselves have fancied in recent years or the
Bengalis as Burmese have been labeling them for hundreds of years is the
scientifically-proven and time-honored DNA test.
Just
do DNA tests on the blood samples of those fanciful Rohingyas and my
challenge to them is if the DNA test said they are non-Bengalis then we
will let them stay in our Burma and if they are Bengalis will they go
back where they came from, the miserably crowded Bangladesh?
(Translator’s
Notes: Please do look carefully at the following comparative population
densities i.e. Population per square mile in 2010.
Whole Bangladesh (Muslims) 1,217
Maungdaw Township (Muslims) 870
Taungbyo Township (Muslim/Buddhists) 700
Whole Arakan State (Buddhists) 233
Whole Burma (Buddhists) 191
Like
water people must naturally flow down from the higher level of
population density to the lower level of population density. Not just
natural migrant flow, the Muslim reproduction also is much much higher
than the Buddhists for the obvious religious reason. Our Burma is the
last bastion of Buddhism against unrelenting tide of Islam.)
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| Ilegal Immigrants on the US Border. |
Just
look at the United States of America. Thousands of Mexicans from Mexico
are illegally entering the neighboring states of Texas and California
and Americans are using their Border Guard Forces to capture them and
send them back.
Even
with such tough measures the Spanish-speaking Mexicans and other
Latinos are now rapidly filling the states of Texas and California.
Nowadays California is 50% Mexicans and 50% Americans. But these
Mexicans still call themselves American-Mexicans. They have never
claimed they were the Natives of North America. Even the American-Whites
do not call themselves Natives. Because everyone knows that the true
Native Americans are only the Red-Indians.
Dr.
Waka Hudin has claimed the so-called Rohingyas have been living there
in the Arakan State of Burma for thousands of years. But in reality the
term Rohingya was not even mentioned once in the well-established and
extensively-studied history of Arankan State and her Yakhine people.
Now
this Waka Hudin guy, who can speak only broken-Burmese and who is
constantly telling the porkies about his great fanciful Rohingya race,
is demanding that our NLD leader U Tin Oo apologize him for saying the
truth about the so-called Rohingyas being the illegal Bengalis. For me
it is the rudest insult possible to throw at us Burmese by a so-called
Rohingya.
(Translators’
Notes: Maybe after a few more years there in America Dr. Waka Hudin
will eventually be claiming his great-great-great-------grand parents
were a shipwrecked Arab trader and Pocahontas, just kidding. One thing
about these Musulamen is they will take any racial cover to suit their
environment but never abandon their religion and thus they always need
an Arab male, preferably a Saudi for financial convenience, at the root
of their blood line.)
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Harn
Yawnghwe became active very early in Burmese-Exile politics by forming
ADDB (Associates to Develop Democratic Burma) in Quebec City and
publishing Burma Alert journal.
(Translator’s
Notes: 100 US$ a pop for annual Burma-Alert subscription direct to his
bank account had once made him a rich exile in Canada and given him a
taste of blood money or political funds from the sympathetic donors.
Being the youngest son of Burma’s former President late Sao Shwe Thaik
the last saw-bwa of Nyang Shwe also helps his cause.)
Because
of his western education and his English proficiency and his famous
Shan background he was picked by so-called Burmese Exile Government
(NCGUB – National Coalition Government of Union of Burma) as their sole
Representative in Europe.
His
successful approaches to the EU and the European governments to
economic-blockade Burma by submitting the Burmese military government’s
serious violation of human rights in Burma had made him an exile
politician trusted and relied on by us the Burmese democracy activists
here in Europe.
We’ve
also known the fact that he has received substantial amount of funds
donated by the European Union (EU) and also other European governments
for restoration of democracy in Burma.
Even
though Harn Yawnghwe had received millions of Euro for NCGUB and also
to implement many of his proposals with various titles, we’ve never seen
or heard how much he got, or from which organization, or how and where
he’d spent that millions of Euro. Not a word about their accounts from
Harn Yawnghwe or NCGUB.
Later
when the EU countries especially my Germany have changed their Burma
policy from isolation to engagement and started diverting their funds to
the NGOs and other democratic organizations inside Burma our Harn
Yawnghwe has again followed the money trails and started cooperating
with so-called the Third Force inside Burma.
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| VAHU's Dr. Zaw Oo |
Then
I had another shocking experience of Harn Yawnghwe’s alarming behavior
at the Burma Day Discussion chaired by East-Timorese President Ramos
Hose at Belgian Brussels on 5 May 2010.
During
that discussion our group had tabled two proposals against Military
Government in Burma. One was for the international community to neither
recognize nor accept the 2010 Burma’s election based on 2008 sham
Constitution. Other one was for the European countries to support
forming the International Inquiry Commission to investigate war crimes
and war criminals in Burma.
But
we all were unbelievably shocked when Harn Yawnghwe stood up and
demanded if Burmese war criminals were to be listed for prosecution in
the International Court our NLD Vice-Chair General Tin Oo must also be
listed as a war criminal and charged.
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Now
what Waka Hudin said on the RFA (Radio Free Asia) demanding U Tin Oo to
apologize for saying a lie that his so-called Rohingyas are just common
vanilla Bengalis from Bangladesh was exactly same as Harn Yawnghwe’s
calling our U Tin Oo a war criminal.
Obviously
what Harn Yawnghwe has been doing recently is actively recruiting
non-Burman groups, both ethnic and non-ethnics, by throwing donated
Euros from Europe at them so that they would all be bitterly against the
majority Burmans. We are now even so concerned about Harn Yawnghwe’s
involvement in our UNFC (United Nationalities Federal Council).
(Translator’s
Notes: UNFC was formed in mid-February 2011 by KIO (Kachin Independence
Organization), NMSP (New Mon State Party), SSA-North (Shan State
Army-North), KNU (Karen national Union), KNPP (Kareni National
Progressive Party), CNF (Chin National Front), and few other ethnic
organizations.)
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| OIC Emblem. |
As
I have said before I do not have any hatred towards Muslims. But I
bitterly hate the extremist fundamentalist Muslims like Afghan Taliban.
Accordingly the Burmese Muslims should not be lying to the world by
re-labeling themselves as Rohingyas. For us Burmese they could only be
acceptable if they honestly admit they are just Bengali-Burmese-Muslims
born in our Burma.
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| Harn Yawnghwe & Daughter at Rangoon Airport. |
I
honestly believe this Rohingya fiasco is dangerously pushing to create
not just the racio-religious clashes between Burmese Buddhists and
Burmese Muslims but also the serious threats on the racial, religious,
and territorial integrity of our Burma. The whole Rohingya issue is also
mucking up our democratic struggle as the complex religion and race
issues do not mix well with politics.
Right
now Harn Yawnghwe and his daughter are in Rangoon taking the first
concrete steps to open an internal hunting-ground for them together with
Ne Win Maung’s Egress and Zaw Oo’s so-called VAHU think-tank.
They
are well used to receiving foreign funds from international donors and
now they can foresee the money coming as social-aid for Burma. Obviously
they can also smell the generous amount of easy money coming from
Europe as the European countries started diverting their aids from the
exile groups to the social organizations inside Burma.
By
this article I have gathered and highlighted the dishonest and
self-serving activities of EBO’s Harn Yawnghwe and the so-called
Rohingyas so that Daw Aung San Su Kyi and her NLD as a political party
could avoid them at all cost.
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One of the greatest problems comes from the fear on both sides of the border, that is to say Bangladesh as well as Burma, that there will be illegal immigrants crossing all the time
Suu Kyi Calls for Clarity on Myanmar Citizenship After Fighting
By Daniel Ten Kate and Jennifer M. Freedman on June 14, 2012
Myanmar needs to clarify citizenship
laws and carefully police its borders in the wake of clashes
between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims that have killed
dozens, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said.
Myanmar President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency on June 10 in western Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh in a bid to end religious and ethnic clashes that erupted a week earlier. Rohingyas have been denied citizenship and face restrictions moving around the country.
“We have to be very clear about what the laws of citizenship are and who are entitled to them,” Suu Kyi told reporters in Geneva today when asked if Rohingyas should be granted Myanmar citizenship. “All those who are entitled to citizenship should be treated as full citizens deserving all the rights that must be given to them.”
The clashes in western Myanmar highlight the difficulty in unifying the country of 64 million people even after a military junta that kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for 15 years shifted to democracy. The Rohingyas are not among Myanmar’s 135 official ethnic groups and those fleeing this month’s violence have also been denied entry into neighboring Bangladesh.
‘Delicacy and Sensitivity’
The conflict in Rakhine “will have to be handled with delicacy and sensitivity,” Suu Kyi said on her first trip to Europe since 1988. “We need the cooperation of all people concerned to regain the peace that we want for our country.”The unrest began after an alleged rape prompted a mob of about 300 Rakhine Buddhists to murder 10 Muslims on June 3, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. Myanmar imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in four towns in Rakhine and prohibited more than five people from gathering in public areas at a time, according to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
Rohingyas, Sunni Muslims who are descended from Arab traders, are prevented from obtaining citizenship and traveling freely throughout Myanmar, according to Human Rights Watch. About 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar, also known as Burma, and 200,000 are in Bangladesh, the group estimates.
The U.S. State Department has linked the Muslim minority to designated terrorist organization Harakat ul-Jihad-i- Islami/Bangladesh, which it said in a 2010 report “had trained and fielded operatives in Burma to fight on behalf of the Rohingya.” Bangladesh banned the group in 2005, the report said.
‘Victims’
Last year Eric Schwartz, a deputy to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called Rohingyas he visited in Bangladesh refugee camps “victims guilty of nothing other than a desire to flee repression and create a better life for themselves.” Clinton on June 11 said Rohingyas should be included in talks to halt the violence.Bangladesh saw influxes of about 250,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in 1978 and in the early 1990s, followed by repatriation efforts “that were not wholly voluntary,” the UNHCR’s policy development and evaluation service said in a December report.
“One of the greatest problems comes from the fear on both sides of the border, that is to say Bangladesh as well as Burma, that there will be illegal immigrants crossing all the time,” Suu Kyi said, referring to her country by its former name. “This is due to the porous border. We need more responsible, uncorrupt border vigilance.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Daniel Ten Kate in Bangkok at dtenkate@bloomberg.net; Jennifer M. Freedman in Geneva at jfreedman@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg at phirschberg@bloomberg.net
Rohingya Bengali is not one of the ethnic groups of Myanmar at all - Ko Ko Gyi (A Prominent 88 Students Leader)
Ko Ko Gyi "Rohingya Bengali is not one of the ethnic groups of Myanmar at all"
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