RANGOON, Dec 28. The All-Burmese Muslim Conference, which ended here yesterday, passed a resolution protesting against Chittagong Muslims’ proposal that Maungdaw be annexed to Chittagong district. [In 1946, as independence was looming for both Burma and India, the Chittagong Muslims (aka Bengali Muslims) in Arakan demanded that the townships of Maungdaw and Buthidaung be severed from Burma, to join with Chittagong, part of East Bengal, India, which was 8 months from becoming one of the two halves of the new Islamic nation of Pakistan - a new country founded because of religion. Ali Jinnah, leader of India’s Muslims and their partition demands, refused the Chittagong / Bengali Muslims’ demands. The All-Burmese Muslim Conference, which had representation of various types of Muslims living in Burma (Kaman, Panthay, Myedu, and others) was strongly against the Chittagong / Bengali Muslims’ demands, violence, intolerance, supremacism, and threats of war. This simple newspaper article reveals the fact that the Muslims who integrated and contributed to the Nation of Burma were respected and respectful, and those Muslims who would not integrate nor contribute to the nation were not respectful, and hence, not respected.] Other resolutions passed at the conference demanded complete independence for Burma, and protested against continuing the post of the Adviser to the Government of Burma on Indian Affairs, on the ground that this entailed necessary expenditure to the Burmese revenues—A.P.A. [Notice that there is no mention of the term ‘Rohingya’ - because it didn’t exist.]
By Rick Heizman, August 18, 2020
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