Burma is facing terrorist attacks in her north-western frontier bordering Bangladesh.
In those frontier towns under crisis, majority of locals have immigrant backgrounds.
And they do have Bangladeshi ancestry and cultural affinity, linguistic similarity with
Chittagongnians in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Our man, Maung Zarni, a resident of this hall of shame, seems could not resist to
exploit this Burmese sovereign and humanitarian crisis. A real opportunist indeed!
From time to time, that attention-seeking Oxygen begger rants. Recently, he asks
the government of Bangladesh to accept refugees - self-labelled Rohingyas who are
ethnic cousins and coreligionists of Bangladeshis. Forefathers of Rohingya came to
Burma from Bangladesh. It is not their fault, borders were porous, vote banking,
voting masses mobilisation, illegal practice in Burmese parliamentary democracy
period in 1950s under Nu's government (late prime minister of U Nu of the Union
of Burma) were rampant. Burmese government has been trying to solve that issue
and UN has been involving. Su's government has been calling for collaboration of
the government of Bangladesh. Those are delicate matters need to be handled
with careful attention to detail and insight. But our bogus Doctor with a plagarised
doctorate dissertation does not seem to grasp it.
Bangladesh is also a country under perpetual crisis. It is a low-land nation, the land
of rivers. That country of Bangladesh which is one third the the size of Burma, and
yet three or four times of population of Burma, will probably sink under sea in one or
two human generations. In other words, in an epoch, Bangladesh will go under sea
with rising sea levels. The government of Bangladesh will have to plan strategically
how to mobilise 200 millions of her citizens to a new home.
Therefore, it is understandable that Bengali nation will hesitate to involve. It may
not accept Rohingyas - even for temporal refuge - who are ethnic Bengalis whose forefathers have sought shelter in Burma decades ago to come back to Bangladesh.
In layman terms, "Why you bother with neighbour, even if he is your cousin, even
he speaks same language with you, when you have your own crisis, i.e. your only
residence got threatened by rising tides?" In short, Bangladesh has a crisis at hand
to solve, it will have to relocate 200 millions of citizens within coming decades. Take
note plagiariser!
Interestingly, some of the most prominent Rohingya advocates are happened to be Bangladeshi academics who are promoting Rohingya issue. It may be co-incidence,
some of them are affiliated with Bangladeshi strategic institute.
For curious minds, read article below, it is from a blog affiliated with Science:
Bangladesh and Sea Level Rise, written by Greg Laden on April 29, 2013
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/04/29/bangladesh-and-sea-level-rise/
One google search will lead to a full professor at the Harvard-of-Bangladesh, the
University of Dhaka, who is seen Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic
Studies (BIISS) who has promoted Rohingya issue. His name and affiliation below:
Professor Imtiaz Ahmed
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
He is, like one of those guys like late Saudi King, led to more suffering of Rohingya
community. Because of people like him, the sovereign issue of Burma, diaspora issue
for Bangladesh, a regional issue inflated into an international significance. Illegal immigration issue which could have been peacefully fixed got religious overtones.
And Zarni seems to be one of them who caused more miseries for poor Rohingyas
whose Bengali forefathers have led them to unwelcoming land of Tibeto-Burmans.
Aslo, those Arakanese who have long shared their homeland to incoming immigrants
are suffering too. They have done nothing wrong and they are bearing the brunt of
the burden which the world community ignores. Those Arakanese who are Buddhist
and Hindu faith are suffering without advocates while at least Rohingyas have false
friends like Mr. Zarni.
Your blogger's advice to Zarni is simple, go back to desk, complete his own thesis
without stealing people's work, use less anecdotal words and narratives, research
in-depth to write a good PhD dissertation. Do us a favour, use your thinking-brain!
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