If I were a Rohingya
By MAUNG ZARNI If I were a Rohingya I'd convey to the whole wide world Amartya Sen's incisive reading of our history: "Burma (as a post-independence nation-state created only in 1947) came to the Rohingya" (not the other way around). If I were a Rohingya I'd tell the world that We Rohingyas were pre-colonial & pre-Union of Burma natives of Araccan or Arakan and that our brother/sister Buddhist Rakhines whom we call Mogh and we Rohingya Muslims shared the land as our common birthplace. They call us Hkaw Taw Kular and we call them Mogh. Neither was more "indigenous" between us. If I were a Rohingya I'd tell the world that we have our own respective and respectable self-identified group names, Rohingyas and Rakhine. If I were a Rohingya, notwithstanding our racist slurs - Khaw Taw Kular and Mogh - we have been co-residents of Araccan or Arakan (Rakh...