My response

Dear Ko Ko Linn:

I don't know what you studied at YU. If you studied linguistics, anthropology, and history you may understand how the consonant syllables and vowel sounds are interchangeable when two or more different languages interact in the context of cultural collisions.

I explained to Kyaw Htoo Aung that the name "Roshang" was only the Bengali corruption for "Rakhine." If you study Burmese stone inscriptions the Karen people were called by the Burmese in different names, such as "Sakraw" "Zaying," and at last "Kayin". Even if the Rakhine were called "Roshang" by Bengalis in the AD sixteenth and seventeenth century it does not become an evidence that the so-called Rohingya had lived in Arakan since then. Please read "The Maghs" by Abdul Mabud Khan, a Bengali historian, Dhaka, University Press, 1999. He clearly pointed out that the Rohingyas are the Bengalis living in Arakan who like to be call by that old name "Roshang."
Aye Chan



Ko Ko Linn <ko_linn_yu@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Dr. Chan, I have learned at YU exactly what you teach there. Don’t you remember what teach at YU?OK, let me explain like you on what I wrote in my letter. I wrote all the term that you used in your letter is refer to Arakanese. The term Rohingya is also used for Arakanese which is related to Roshang. It is not a problem for me that who used the term, but it is sure that the term Rohang is related with Roshang.

You effort is to misguide the history under the topic of a historian. Please don’t try to mix us with migrated Bengalis during the colonial period. May be our forefathers were confessed Buddhism or Hinduism on that time and later became Muslims. Not only Bengalis but also everyone surrounded Arakan use the term Magh to refer you. If you are Magh came from Magadda of India then you can claim as Rakhine or Arakanes or Roshangya or Rohingya.
We have only problem with those Mongoloid tribes who are claiming themselves as Rakhine or Arakanese. As for us, we are Aryan. Now only need to prove that who are you? Aryan? Dravidian? Or Mongoloid?

Truly! Ko Ko Linn (YU)

AYE CHAN To: Ko Ko Linn , May Yu , Free Rohingya , APUF Cc: BRG , BMG Burmese , DFB Burma , Democracy Burma , NLDmembrsnSupportersofCRPPnNLDnDASSK Date: Nov 28, 2005 6:52 AM

Subject: Re: My response

Dear Ko Ko Linn:

You wrote, "The term Rohingya is also used for Arakanese which is related to Roshang. It is not a problem for me that who used the term, but it is sure that the term Rohang is related with Roshang.h Surely it is related to Arakan and specically it refers to "Rakhine." I have explained you that it is a Bengli corruption. I don't mix up it with the Bengali emigrants in colonial period, presently the inhabitants of Buthidaung and Maungdaw. Read my paper. I classified four groups of Muslims in Arakan State.

I separate the matter of the Bengalis from former Mayu Frontier Area who want themselves to be called Rohingya. This term is nothing to do with their historical background. I refer my paper again. OK! If you studied history at YU, h ave you read Burmese chronicles? All the chronicles, Mahayazawingyi, Hmannan, Monyway Yazawin all claims that the founders of Tagaung Dynasty came from Maghda. That is because of the Indian cultural influence, they attempted to trace the Burmese kings to the Sakkya family of Buddha. It is a common phenomenon in the historiography of Theravada Southeast Asia. Who was your Southeast Asian History teacher.

Hope it is not me. The English people called them English because they believe that they descended from the Angels who came to visit the earth from haven. The French call them Anglettre. Dou you believe that legend? Mr. Ko KO Linn! Professor Qanungo who wrote the History of Chittagong is still alive and teaching at Chittagong University. Ask him. Even the Islamization of Chittagong began after the Moghal conquest of the City in AD1666. It had been a tribal area before that. You know that the peoples from Chittagong Hill Tracts, Tripura State of India, late Assam and Manipur had been inhabited by the Mongoloid peoples. Although you are not an academic, I am ready to explain you if you want to know about that problem. But Don't get exited. Don't swear me. You studied logic. Please draw a conclusion after giving valid reasonings.

Sincerely, Aye Chan