Bengali-Muslims’ Mujahid Insurgency (1948-1954)

Bengali-Muslims’ Mujahid Insurgency (1948-1954) 

  

Armed Bengalis receiving military training.

Armed Bengal to get military training.Who and what are the Muslim Rohingyas and the Burmese Buddhist Yakines really love to hate? The term Rohingya was invented or conceived after a failed Bengali Islamic insurgency in Burma, commonly known as 1948-1954 Arrakan fighting in the northwestern area of ​​Burma.Historically there has been a constant struggle between the Burmese and ethnic Yakhines Arrakan in motion by the Burmese king Anawrahta pagan in the 11th century. In 1404 the Burmese King Min Khaung Yaza attacked Le MRO (Le Myo) and Arrakan took more than two decades.Kong Le Myo Min Saw Mon fled to Gaur in Bangladesh today sought refuge at the court of Sultan Azam Shah of Bengal. With the new Bengal Sultan Jalal Khan Udinese came back from Burma in Arakan again 24 years later, in 1433 founded the city of Mrauk-U (Myauk-U), as the capital of the United Kingdom Yakhin (second, unfortunately, be proud Yakhines). His successors trade and territorial concessions given Portuguese, in return, the Portuguese military support.

In 1784 Arrakan fell to the Burmese. Today known Mahamuni Buddha image in Mandalay were deported to Burma as a war trophy. Burma, after the conquest Arrakan, came into direct contact with all the British in India and Burma finally fell to the British after three Anglo-Burmese war.

Cross-border invasion by illegal Bengali Muslims:

Of 1824 the first Anglo-Burmese war, had many Bengali Muslims, known as Chittagonians because it came from Chittagong in India before moving to the northwest Arrakan no restrictions at all. According to the ancient seat of many Burmese journals Bengal Muslim villages in Maungdaw and Butheetaung and Kyauktaw and Minbyar and Myebon.Solid solution is an alarming increase in the total population of British Arrakan Sittwe district. In 1832 the population Sittwe fourth more than 100,000, and the population grew to more than 600,000 in 1931 and 1941 was over 750,000. In 1942 I was Bengali-Muslim population in the region and Butheetaung Maungdaw is over 300,000

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Dead on the streets during 1943 Bengal Famine.

Dead in the street 1943 Bengal famine.Great Bengal famine population often famine in India was one of the main reasons for the steady stream of Bengali Muslims in Arrakan.In 1939 the British colonial government commission of inquiry to the rapid growth of Bengali Muslims in Arrakan of 30,000 in 1825 to examine 217.800 in 1930. That the Committee report that the racial struggle between Buddhists and Muslims Yakhine Bengali in the near future, if ruthless Islamic flood across the border has not stopped or at least reduced. HisA racial problems between Buddhist and Muslim natives are a beginner cook and eventually blew the Second World War and reached Burma Arrakan dangerous limbo land between the Imperial Japanese Army and the great British 14th Army of India and Myanmar border.

The first Bengali Muslim riots (1942)

When once the British withdraw from Burma in 1942, there were many military weapons and ammunition left by the withdrawal of British troops in Arrakan. Shoulders and Karen Burmese soldiers from the British army stayed in Buddhist Yakhines Arrakanese paragraph) and Indian troops in the hands of Bengali Muslim audience in Maungdaw-Butheetaung area.
This quantity of weapons, finally lit first Buddhist, Muslim race riots in Arrakan half of the 1942nd The riots began with a violent armed robbery cases committed against the Indian Buddhist refugees Yakhines Japanese army from Burma Taunggup Pass.

 

Hungry children in East Pakistan (Bangladesh).

Armed Yakhine Buddhists attacking and plundering the neighboring Muslim village of Bengal and hostility erupted into a huge mess, which gave the British study, armed Bengali Muslims responded by attacking and looting villages Yakhine Buddhist.I Yakhine Governor ICS (Indian Civil Service) The Bengals Khin Kyaw were killed and countless Yakhines fled, either in the British-controlled area of ​​Chittagong in the south or deep Arrakan Bengali Muslims as genocide Yakhines clean up and destroy all the other villages in the predominantly Buddhist and Muslim Butheetaung from Maungdaw.At the end of 1942, the entire area of ​​Maungdaw-Butheetauung firmly in the hands of armed Bengali-Muslims.BIA attempt to get back the lost territory of BurmaBo Yan Aung (left) and BIA officials (1942).At the beginning of the Japanese occupation of Burma Bo Yan Aung unit led by BIA (Burma Independence Army) Arrakan in vain to regain lost ground shooting Muslims.Two senior officers of the BIA and Yan Naung Bo Bo MYO Nyunt was killed in Maungdaw of Bengali Muslims and the BIA is trying to reconcile Yakhine Bengali Buddhists and Muslims have failed.Since 1942, the British regained Burma in 1945, Bengali Muslims were completely under the control of Maungdaw-Butheetaung region and mass illegal immigration continues unabated.Start mujahideen rebellion (1947)During the period of British military administration after the British reoccupation of Burmese refugees from both Yakhine Chittagong and other parts Arrakan returned back to their old neighborhoods with the help of the British Army.But Bengali Muslims now occupies the old village Yakhine refused to accept the original inhabitants Yakhins and violent means in a hostile environment for returnees because they believed in their dream world and the imagination to create a Muslim enclave ruled by strict sharia law in Maungdaw Butheetaung-regions within the newly created East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).The militant Islamic party Jamiat Ulema-TUL-e-Islam, led by President Umrah Meah was formed. And with the financial support elbow Muzahid Mohamed Ibrahim Khan from Pakistan and the Mujahideen Molnar Arrakan rebellion began to invade the country and in East Pakistan to catch.The armed rebels began their fight subversive activities in the area north of Maungdaw, and later expanded in Maungdaw-south region. Long-term offenders and a large rice smugglers name Abdul Kasim is the leader of the fight in the south of Maungdaw.Bengali Muslims bloody jihad in Burma(The following excerpts are from Dr. Jo Chan document "on the fight against insurgents in Arrakan" International Conference on Southeast Asia Studies at the University of Foreign Studies Pusan, Korea, June 2, 2011 -3.)Dr. Jo Chan Kanda University in Japan.Mujahids Chittagonian Muslims from northern Arakan Burma declared jihad against the central government refused to make an independent Muslim state in the two cities and Maungdaw and Buthidaung, located along the East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) border.Mujahedeen movement began before Burma's independence and difficult to program for the resettlement of refugees in Buthidaung and Maungdaw town. During the war forced Arakanese people Buthidaung and Maungdaw to leave their homes.People fled to Buthidaung Kyauktaw Minbya Arakanese majority and where. Arakanese were evacuated from Maungdaw to Dinajpur in East Bengal, British officials. Although the British government was restored after the war, Arakanese may not return to their homes.

 

Bo Yan Aung (front-left) and BIA officers (1942).
The following excerpt from the report of the Office of the Commissioner Arakan 18th April 1947 (National Archives, London, FO 643/74."Due to lack of funds, moved only 277 of about 2,400 native Arakanese, who was from Buthidaung and Maungdaw cities after the British evacuation in 1942, can be solved in the places where their original home. There is also a center of Buddhist Arakanese Muslims in 2000 brought fear and the horror of cannon fire near the village during the night. Although our hands are full of refugees, homeless, we can not assume responsibility for the return of Muslim refugees from camps Sabirnagar Government of India Press. "
 Muslim refugees from camps in Subirnagar failed to enter the interior of Akyab District Alegyun Apaukwa Gobedaung and relocate. All 3,000 of them first Akyab Island. Two Islamic Relief Committees were created in Akyab and Buthidaung may provide assistance to refugees. The proposal for about 1,500 refugees in small quantities to send Muslim villages in the municipality Buthidaung conditionally accepted. County social worker was asked to determine the cost of transportation and related materials.In August 1947, the Sub-divisional director of Maungdaw, U Tun Oo, was brutally murdered by Muslims. The Commissioner reported Arakan:"I have no doubt that this is a result of a long drahocenné smyslu Muslims. Killers who committed the murder suspect they are involved in the Muslim police and organize a strong Islamic sentiments and dominate the region. This is a direct affront and challenge to the legal authority of the Government of Burma Islamic Community Buthidaung and Maungdaw Township, was economically stimulated invasion of this country during the British rule. If you ignore cowardly government solid and heavy equipment, this strange community is trying to annex this area and encourage Pakistan to annex it. "The newly independent republics to deal with rising ethnic Karen groups and communists in the country after independence 1948th Large cities were captured by the Communists and the Karen rebels. Two battalions of regular army to join the Communists underground. City of Rangoon, was surrounded by Karen rebels. EU governments scratched in the international press with the nickname "Rangoon government." In such a situation only a few hundred soldiers from Battalion (5) Western Front fought mujahids. Purpose and power mujahids and the British Embassy in Rangoon report, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in London on 12th únor 1949th"It's hard to say whether the ultimate goal of Muslims is that they must remain an independent country within the EU or not, but it is likely that an autonomous state within the EU needs to draw with regard to Pakistan. They also seem mujahids arms around in October, but it does not exclude that some disappeared in the country and still seeks to achieve its objectives through the mixing itself. There are perhaps 500 Muslims among the poor, although the total number of members of the movement grows. "Buthidaung and Maungdaw was controlled by government forces, but the scenery around the city is out of hand.The report contains a detailed report about the visit of the Prime Minister Nu, a leader of the Burmese Army, Lieutenant General Smith Dun Akyab in October 1948thShe said that local officials in eastern Pakistan, information and support to insurgents across the border. Sub-divisional Officer and District Manager Cox's Bazaar, it was announced that the Islamic guerrillas supplied weapons and ammunition. The wounded rebels were reportedly able to get treatment from a hospital in Cox Bazar.According to the report of the Deputy Commissioner Chittagong Hill treasure, the buyer and the Burmese officials were informed that two leaders of the struggle, and Jaffar and Umrah Meah Meah, was deposited in Balukhali village in eastern Pakistan, near the border with Burma.The British Embassy in Rangoon sent a confidential letter to the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in Pakistan 28th Second 1949, this letter refers to the risk of provocation and interference by local officials across the Pakistani border. It reads:"Despite the proper adjustment of the central Pakistani government that is reasonably reliable reports that their local officials, such as Cox Bazar Islamic guerrillas have helped. You yourself are aware of the pro-partisan position in this case to district officials, Pakistan. Pakistani government must also be aware of and we think that if they do not restrict these officials can not risk causing the anti-Muslim riot in Akyab district as bad as those during the war to start. "The main source of funding in the fight against smuggling of rice from Arakan into East Pakistan. Their actions are part of an overall strategy for government forces to prevent the enforcement of the prohibition of exports of rice. It is reported that even the Muslim leader, Sultan Ahmed Meah and Umrah was involved in this illegal trade across borders.To solve this problem of lack of rice in the Chittagong District of East Pakistan in addressing regional officials apparently seek the cooperation of the warring leaders. For many years, party leaders are fighting a monopoly on rice smuggling across the border.The main objective of rebel fighters have been absorbed in the western Burma border in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).Burma Yakhine State (Arrakan).Newspapers, May 18, 1949, a day after Hindustan Standard mujahids."Dangerous aspect of these battles is the international aspect. Islamic insurgents wearing Pakistani flag, and many of them require the inclusion of the end of Arakan with Pakistan is expected to withdraw from the arms across the border and the state, but is now convinced that their weapons and ammunition supplies left by the old Japanese and British .... the vast majority of Muslims in Arakan is said that the real Pakistanis from Chittagong, even if they are kept for generations. of 130,000 is still 80,000 people in Pakistan. "If India, Pakistan and Burma gained independence, they were immigrants from British India, where the choice of citizenship in India or Pakistan. They can also decide to Burmese citizenship if they wish. The Pakistani government is very concerned that the Burmese government will use brutal tactics to suppress the rebellion.Pakistan is concerned that the crimes that the Burmese border region could lead to anti-Pakistan demonstrations in Burma, which could be a promising anti-Pakistan unrest in Burma. Such a situation would be very dangerous for Pakistan to Burma. It is reported that the 6000-7000 refugees arrived in eastern Pakistan. Authorities in Karachi was also concerned about the infiltration of Communists in Pakistan with the refugees.Akyab in Arakan is the fourth reported that only the town and the island of Akyab firmly in the hands of the Burmese government. The situation worsened after the resignation of one of the Burma military battalions (Burma Rifles 5). CPB (Communist Party of Burma) underground in March 1948, and his followers in Arakan agreement with the warring sides together in the fight against government troops.The Pakistani government has reported that the Communist Party of East Bengal was awarded to its members to establish contacts with the Muslim Communists in Arakan and convince them to Cox's Bazar division to infiltrate the Muslim cultivators to organize an uprising against the Government of Burma fell to the Communists, as evidenced by the following record ( communication between the British Embassy in Rangoon and Karachi)"It was confirmed in an interview that the Commissioner Chittagong division recently with one of the leading Mujahid, who said that the beginning of the agreement with the Communists, that when he was overthrown by the Burmese government in the fight against the communists to leave the area to be an independent country."