ARAKANLAND
New York City, NY-12/31/2011- “Free, Free, Arakan” “Burma’s Colonization, Down, Down”, the voice of Arakanese was carried out by Arakanese in United States of America hold as 227th mark of Arakan Independence Lost Day. Nearly 100 Arakaneses have demanded the decolonization from Burmese rule in front of the United Nations.
The ceremony opened with Arakanese National Anthem and they saluted one minute all the Arakanese heroes or martyrs who sacrificed their live for Arakanese National Independence Movement. They sent the letters to United Nations Trusteeship Council, State Department of United State, Embassy of United Kingdom, Chinese Embassy and India Embassy according to U Kyaw Won’s report.
Similarly, Arakanese Community also successfully hold the 227th Anniversary of Arakanese Sovereignty fallen Day at the City of Liberal in Kansas State. There were attending 40 people from Kansas and Texas State. Further, Arakan League for Democracy (Exile-Japan) http://www.arakanforward.com/p/blog-page_29.html , Arakanese in Bangladesh, India, Malysia and Thailand hold the day of down fall of Arakan Independence. They honored all of those who fought to protect Arakan independence –and- sacrificed for independence. Arakan was an independent land and sovereign country throughout over 5,000 years. Traditionally, over 200 Arakanese Buddhist Kings ruled with the ten laws incumbent on Kings to practice. Arakanese was a highly civilized nation and proudly hoisting their National Flag.
The early Arakanese Kingdom was Dhanyawady and followed by Kingdom known as Wethali, Lemore and Mrauk U. In the 16th and 17th centuries, ports along the cost began receiving Arab, Central Asia, Danish, and Dutch and Portuguese traders. Growing international trade enabled Mrauk U to break free and Arakanese came to rule the entire coastline from Bay of Bangle to Adman Sea.
Unfortunately, Arakan was occupied by the Burmese in 1784 under the King Maung Wying, who sent the crown prince and a force of 30,000 to kill the Arakanese as slogan “The ‘Kyu’ reed, unless stubbed up, grows again.” Arakanese chronicle recorded 7,452,755 (Ton Wa Pam Khaine Ta Mring Mring Rakhine Lu Ko Thant) people was annihilated as genocide and Arakanese Royal Palace, 33 Major Buddhist Monasteries and 3700 Minor Monasteries were set fire by Burmese infamous King. Arakanese talismanic Mahamuni image, three grand divisions of the Buddhistic scriptures (Three Baskets), and 64 various kind of books including religious books , art and science books, written by Arakanese script, were captured- and- brought to Amara Pura, a capital city of Burmese Kingdom.
The British annexed the Arakan in 1824 after Arakanese refugees in adjacent Raj territories were attacked by the Burmese soldiers. The British ruled in Arakan 121 years through a policy of “Divide and Rule” by colonial powers. And Japanese fascist also controlled 3 years (1942-1945) in Arakan.
On 4 January 1948, at an auspicious middle-of-the-night hour, Burma became independent state from Great Britain and Arakan has been colonized by Burmese successive government. The policy of Burmese ruler U Nu, U Ne Win, Gen. Saw Maung , Senior General Than Shwe and President U Thein Sein absolutely oppressed the Arakanese people without “rule of law.” Their system or policy maintains to govern and order politically suppresses, economically exploit and socially subject base in Burmese extra-chauvinism. The people of Arakan are being hunger, poorness and neurosis due to Burmese government brutal rule by principles of fascism constantly. There has no free and fair election, the right to vote, freedom of expression, freedom of press, and freedom of association. Arakanese people have been suffered by the Burmese government has treated and committed "murder; extermination; torture; rape, political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane.
Burmese authorities have systematically neglected to fulfill the basic infrastructure as roads, schools, power plants, and transportation and communication systems for Arakan since 1948. Burmese government does not respect the basic rights of Arakanese people and denied the basis of the right of self-determination. This led to the United Nations’ General Assembly adopting in 1960, a “Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and People” (Resolution 1514 (XV)).
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