The document summarizes the history and current situation regarding Muslims in Burma. It details how Muslims first arrived as merchants under British rule and faced persecution following independence, including Operation Monsoon where thousands were killed. Continued discrimination and violence in recent decades has led to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims being displaced. The document calls for international organizations to provide humanitarian assistance and pressure Burma to protect minority rights.

2. Content :
 Introduction
 General facts
 Religions in Burma
 History of Muslims in Burma
 Reason behind Terror
 Operation monsoon
 Military coup
 RIOTS
 Current state of affairs
 Solution

3. Introduction:
The Nation we know as
Burma was first formed
during the golden age of
Pagan in the 11th century.
Pagan is the first capital of
a Burmese kingdom that
included virtually of
modern Burma. The official
English name was changed
by the country's government
from the "Union of Burma"
to the "Union
of Myanmar" in 1989

4. General Facts about
Myanmar/Burma
Country Name
The Union of Myanmar (1989 – Present)
Independence Day -January 4, 1948
(Independence from the British colonial rule from 1885 – 1947)
The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (January, 1974 –
September, 1988)
Country Size
261,218 square miles – the largest country in South East Asia

5. Religions In Burma
 Buddhism - 89.2%
 Christianity (5.0%)
 Islam (3.8%)
 Hinduism 0.5%
 Spiritualism (1.2%)
 Others (0.2%)

6. History Of Muslims In Burma:
In early era Arab Muslim merchants arrived in
burma. Mostly came as a traveller and visitor . The
population of Muslims in Myanmar increased
during the British rule of Burma because of new
waves of Indian Muslim immigration.This sharply
declined in the years following 1941 as a result of the
Indo-Burman Immigration agreement, and was
officially stopped following Burma's (Myanmar)
independence on 4th January, 1948.

7. Reason Behind Terrors of Burma
 The rape and murder of a Rakhine Buddhist woman by
Muslim men.
 On 28 March 1942, Rakhines attacked Muslims in Chanbili
village of Minbya Township.
 During the 40-day long attacks that erupted in the town
of Minbya and spread to the entire Arakan province at
least 150,000 Arakanese Muslims were killed, villages
were looted and demolished

9. OPERATION MONSOON
Its Muslim blood which rained….!!
 1954 - Operation Monsoon – Muslim
Resistance Groups Killed enemas by
Burmese Army. Thousands of Muslims
were either killed or deported from the
country on grounds that they had
aided the resistance groups.

10. 1962 - Military Coup
 military took over power and
nationalized all private enterprises and
banks. As a result, Muslims, who
controlled major enterprises in Arakan
up until that year, lost their economic
power.

12. Buddhismization of Arakan
 In February 2005, the military junta ordered
Arakanese Muslims to build fences around
their villages and forcefully employed
Muslims for this work. Evacuated Rohengia
villages were settled by Buddhists and most
of the displaced Rohengias moved out of
Arakan.

13. This policy involves displacement of
Muslims from their land and settling
Buddhist in their place, confiscating
possessions and property of Muslims,
forced labor, shutting mosques and
preventing new ones being built, and
travel ban.

14. 2012 RIOTS
 Burmese Rohengia Organization UK as of 28 June,
650 Rohengias have been killed, 1,200 are missing,
and more than 80,000 have been displaced.
 Others say Since June 2012, 20,000 Muslims have
been killed in sectarian violence in the BURMA –
(Wikipedia)

16.  Thousands attempt to flee every year to
Bangladesh, Malaysia and elsewhere, trying
to escape a life of abuse that rights groups
say includes forced labour, violence against
women and restrictions on movement,
marriage and reproduction that breed anger
and resentment

17. CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS
 Muslims continue to be killed in Arakan on
a daily basis.
 Muslims cannot own fixed line telephones
or cellular phones.
 Women are being raped. Mosques, masjids,
houses and villages are being set on fire and
destroyed.

18.  The ongoing travel ban and curfew imposed
on the Rohingya population have
completely paralyzed life.
 Muslims cannot marry without a permit. A
couple wishing to get married has to pay a
tax. Sometimes they are denied a permit
even if they pay the tax.

19. Solution:
 1) OIC and its leaders, ASEAN leader countries
to continuously provide assistance on the
ground in Arakan and rescue Rohingya boat-
people from the sea.
 2) United Nation agencies to exercise its
power in distribution of aid to displaced
victims of Rohingyans and Kamans on the
ground.

20.  3) The international communities to
monitor the citizenship verification
process in order to be free and fair unless
4) United Nation to mandate to put
effective resolution onto Burma to ease
the crisis as soon as possible end
persecution against minorities.