Northern Arakan as Rohingya’s Ancestral Land: G.H.Luce Citing the Stone Inscription from Ava Period
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 21 Dec 2015
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service
Maung Zarni
Irrefutable Evidence: Rohingya as Indigenous People of N. Arakan before modern Burma’s emergence.
THE #ROHINGYA OR ROHINJAS OF PRE-COLONIAL #MYANMAR
16 Dec 2015 –Rohinjas were NOT descendants of colonial era “farm coolies” from East Bengal as Myanmar government blatantly lies to the world.
Based on the 14th century stone inscriptions, Luce described them as “a fine type of devout and scholarly-minded Muslims.”
They have been indigenous to North Western Arakan since 1400 AD.
According to the late Gordon H. Luce, essentially the founder of modern historical studies of the ancient Myanmar or Burma and the mentor of Professor Than Tun, the presence of the Rohinjas in Burma was evidenced in the stone inscriptions from the Ava period (AD 1400).
Source: G. H. Luce (1985) Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: Languages and History. Volume I. pages. X. Table of Contents & page. 95.
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Dr. Maung Zarni is a Burmese activist blogger, Associate Fellow at the University of Malaya, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, and a nonresident scholar with the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press. He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years.
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