A Muslim publisher and four others have been detained in Insein Prison for attempting to produce a calendar containing quotes from government officials in the 1950s and 1960s using the term “Rohingya”.
The calendar contains quotes from speeches by former prime minister U Nu and other major post-independence figures describing the Rohingya as a distinct ethnic group. It also quotes a 1946 speech by Bogyoke Aung San in which he invites Muslims to live in peace with the Buddhist majority.
The current government – and many people in Myanmar – insist that Rohingya is a confected identity and that those who call themselves by this name are instead Bengali.
The publisher, U Kyaw Kyaw Wai, and four associates have also been fined K1 million for offences under the Printing and Publishing Law, and police have sealed a print shop that is storing copies of the calendar.
U Kyaw Kyaw Wai and his associates were fined on November 23 at Pazundaung Township Court in Yangon after their arrest on November 21.
Immediately afterward, the police arrested the five again and detained them under the criminal code for allegedly intending to cause “fear or alarm to the public”.
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