Myanmar’s religious affairs ministry plans to write a book to prove the Rohingya are not indigenous to the country. It said “The real truth is that the word Rohingya was never used or existed as an ethnicity or race in Myanmar’s history.”
Every secondary student knows well the concept of history but Myanmar leaders and some scholars do not know the concept. They think they can write whatever they want as history. History is the bodies of knowledge about the past produced by historians, not to destroy a nation but to preserve their history.
History is vital importance for the society, it must be based on evidence and logical thought, not on specious theory or political ideology. Primary sources form the basic “raw material” of history; they are sources which came into existence within the period being investigated. If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything.
Encyclopedia of Myanmar, history of Burma and many historical books including high school textbook and University textbook of Myanmar mentioned Rohingya as indigenous ethnic of Burma. The prominent historian of Burma, Dr. Than Tun wrote Rohingya have lived since 1000 years ago. (Courtesy of aungaungsittwe.com)
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