Short History Of So-called Rohingyas aka Bengali-Muslims

(Translation of Thaung Kwyel’s article from CORAL ARAKAN NEWS on Jan 26, 2014.)




Cartoon published in January 1953.

The cartoon on left published 60 years
ago this month in the “Yakhine Tanzaung Magazine” (1953 January) accurately depicted in
just one-page-panel the unimaginable sufferings of native Yakhine-Buddhists in
Maungdaw and Butheedaung Townships back in the 1950s.

While native