Though a Burmese from Mandalay - Burma's most popular site for the Thin Gyan or water throwing new year festival - I do not celebrate the New Year - because my country that likes to call itself "Buddhist" is committing a slow genocide
against the Rohingya stimatizing them as "Bengali". For we view them, wrongly, as simply the descendants of British colonial era 'farm coolies' who came to Western Burma only after the first Anglo-Burmese war of 1824. Wrongly because many of them have verfiably maintained their historical presence and distinct identity as early as AD1500. (Courtesy of Rohingya Blogger)
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