Workers' Liberty
by martin on
Author: Hein Htet Kyaw
12 December, 2024
Pic: displaced Rohingya in 2017, from Wikimedia Commons
The Rohingya are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from the state of Arakan (Rakhine). A British scholar named Francis Buchanan-Hamilton said in his 1799 article "Burma Empire" that "the Mohammedans, who have long dwelt in Arakan," refer to themselves as "Rooinga, or natives of Arakan". "Inhabitant of Rohang" was the early Muslim name for Arakan.