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Monday, July 30, 2012

RE: [chottala.com] Targeted Massacre of Minorities in Assam



 
 
Fact will remain fact... History will be written not now but  fifty year later
 
These reflect the power of Bangladesh, our total failure in foreign policy..
 
Bengali Muslim outside of Bangladesh  in  Arakan or Assam will see more massacre until nobody will be there to witness.
 
Asking UN for solution  =  ( define a country without defense, that is current Bangladeshi Govt.).
 
Bangladeshi intellectuals  blaming Pakistan  for not standing up for Rohingya people !!!!!! as if Rohingyas are leftover from west Pakistan.
(COL)  
 
 
India's plan since   1947   = rootout muslim from chicken neck region of Assam... (please see the map of conflict region)
Burma's plan since 1952   = ethnic clenasing of Muslim.
 
All these possible for both countries(India and Burma) after we lost the unity of Muslim.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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Targeted Massacre of Minorities in Assam



By Dr. Habib Siddiqui, USA

South Asia is really going to the dogs or so it appears these days. When we thought that we had seen enough of a pogrom directed by the Rakhine extremists and Burmese authorities against the Rohingyas of Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar), we are forced to witness yet another massacre of unarmed civilians in the state of Assam.

Assam, located next to Bangladesh on the north-east corner of India, has a long history of recurring violence targeting minority Bengali-speakers. In 1983 Nellie massacre when Indira Gandhi ruled India, the pogrom, carried out with crude weapons in a matter of a few hours, left some 5,000 people dead. The killers didn't even spare young babies.

At the heart of Assam's troubles is a debate over the "infiltration" by outsiders, which has led to ethnic tension between the state's so-called indigenous population and Bengali-speaking people who have settled there for generations. Overlooked in this debate is the fact that all these territories were once part of British India with people – both Assamese and Bengali – living on either side of today's border that separates Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan/ East Bengal) from the state of Assam in India. The Assamese were mostly illiterate people and so many Indians (mostly from the province of Bengal) were brought in to work as engineers, doctors, administrators, clerks, railway workers and other government related jobs. Many of the Bengali-speaking famers were also brought in to boost rice production in the area, especially around the 'chars' (river islands). Having lived there for generations, these so-called migrants are as Indian (in today's parlance) as the ethnic Assamese or the tribes-people in the state.

Unfortunately, the ensuing change in demography, rivalry for land, dwindling natural resources and livelihood, and intensified competition for political power between the ruling party and the separatists has added a deadly force to the issue of who has a right to Assam. It is all about xenophobia. Successive Congress governments have used Assamese/Bengali Muslims as little more than a vote bank without recognizing their rights.

After the Nellie massacre and 1983 elections, India's federal government tried to placate local sentiments by signing an accord with the All Assam Students Union (AASU) in 1985 which was leading the pogrom against the Bengali-speaking settlers there. The hard-line Assamese, however, later described the 1985 accord as a "betrayal" and decided to wage an armed campaign against India to secede from India.

Twenty nine years after the Nellie massacre, a group of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is now negotiating with Delhi, asking for more concrete protection for indigenous populations against what they falsely describe as "relentless illegal migration from across the border".

The Bengali-speaking people in Assam have also become more assertive these days with the formation of the Assam United Democratic Front under a charismatic leader which seeks to protect the rights of minorities and their periodic ousting from settlements through violence. In 2011, it emerged as the main opposition to Assam's ruling Congress party, winning three times the number of seats won by regional Assamese parties and the Hindu nationalist BJP, which promotes Hindutva.

It is this emerging political prowess of the Bengali people in Assam which is being exploited as a boogeyman by the ruling Congress party and the Hindu extremists to promote or be indifferent to periodic rioting that engulfs the region. Four years ago, the Indian Army had to be called in to stop blood-letting. More than 100 Bengali Muslims were killed in one such raid at Bansbari, a makeshift camp for displaced Muslims in 1993.

The latest pogrom has affected four districts of western Assam, where the Bengalis (mostly Muslims) are pitted against tribes-people such as the Bodos, Rabhas and Garos. In Kokrajhar, the Bodo heartland, Muslims are regularly attacked by Bodo separatist rebels and this periodically erupts into full-scale riots. This latest conflict has left about 40 dead (all Bengali-speaking Muslims) and displaced tens of thousands.

As noted by Indian political commentator Aijaz Zaka Syed, "As usual, Muslims were caught in the deadly games of the Congress and assorted separatist groups. Our Hindutva benefactors added fuel to the fire by raising the specter of invasion by Bangladeshi Muslims. The same drama is being re-enacted today with consequences that could be even deadlier. Yet unlike in the past, this conflict isn't communal or religious in nature. It's an economic struggle for the land and dwindling natural resources."

In this latest pogrom, entire villages have been burnt down while the state administration remains curiously clueless and indifferent. Delhi insists Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi is "monitoring the situation" and doing everything possible to restore peace. "This is little comfort to the community, though, which increasingly lives in fear, worrying the worst may be yet to come. Gogoi is yet to visit the affected areas. Not even a flying, whirlwind tour for the cloistered satrap," writes Syed.

If the local Assamese administration and the federal Indian government are serious about the well-being of Assamese/Bengali Muslims as well as other communities living in Assam, they should take steps to cool down this simmering volcano that erupts from time to time. Lasting peace in Assam cannot happen when xenophobia is promoted. Period!

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Dr. Habib Siddiqui
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[chottala.com] She is our PM - listen to this 'Jhograte mohila's Interview with BBC in London, UK.



What a shame for our country to have such a 'jhograte' PM!


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[chottala.com] Professor Dr. Golam Hossain of Jahangirnagar University killed in a road mishap yesterday.



Professor Dr. Golam Hossain of Jahangirnagar University killed in a road mishap yesterday.  

 

31 July, 2012, Dhaka:

Dr. Golam Hossain, the Professor of the Department of Government and Politics of Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, was killed in a road mishap at Ashulia at about 11 0'cloock on 30 July, 2012. (Innalillahe Wa innalillahe Rajiun).

His namaj-e-janaza will be held at the Central Mosque premise of the university today.



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[chottala.com] BURMA'S ROHINGYA ORIGIN IN THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF ARAKAN: UNDERSTANDING THE ARAB- CHANDRA SYNTHESIS

BURMA'S ROHINGYA ORIGIN IN THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF ARAKAN:
UNDERSTANDING THE ARAB- CHANDRA SYNTHESIS (A WORKING PAPER ON ARAKAN
HISTORY)

Abid Bahar

Abstract (Several issues has come to the surface from the present
research on DHANNAWADI and VASALI period of ancient Arakan; (1) That
DHANNAWADI and VASALI were Indian dynasties with Hindu and Mohayana
Buddhist religious followers (2) During the Chandra rule there had
been some Arab settlements in Arakan. The language of the Chandras was
proto-Chittagonian: Sanskrit, Pali, and Arabic mixed similar to what
Buchanon Hamilton found in 1799 with Rohingyas in Burma, also that a
similar language was spoken by the Chakmas and Thanchangras of Arakan
and Bangladesh, its written form similar to Bengali. found in the
Ananda Chandra script (3) Beginning from 957 A.D. there had been a
huge migration of Tibeto-Burman Theraveda Buddhist population into the
plains of Arakan, by defeating the Chandras they took possession of
Arakan and the Indian look alike people retreated either toward the
Northern part of Arakan or went back to Bengal, making the event its
first Indian exodus of Arakaniese people to Bengal. (4) In our
contemporary period there has been a conscious effort among Arakan's
Rakhine crudader like historians to deny and cleanse from history, not
only the traces of Indian Hindu or Mohayana civilization but also the
traces of Muslim population and their Arab-Chandra synthesis of the
Chandras predating the Tibeto Burman Theraveda Buddhist existence. )

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The Rohingyas people of Arakan are mostly Muslims with a small Hindu
population among them. They are racially Indo- Semitic. They are not
an ethnic group developed from one tribal group affiliation or single
racial stock. Tides of people like the the Brahmins from India,
Arabs, Moghuls, Bengalis, Turks and people from Central Asia, came
mostly as traders, worriors and prechers overland or through the sea
route to Arakan. Many settled in Arakan, during the Indian Chandra
period, mixing with the local people formed the first neclus of the
Rohingya people in Arakan. Historically speaking, in their common
suffering in Burma, they found an identity now known to the world as
the Rohingyas of Arakan. (1) Part one of this series of articles on
Rohingya history is about the first Arab Chandra synthesis; covering
from 3rd century CE. to 1406 A.D in chronological order.

3rd Century (CE): "By the 3rd century (CE), the coastal region of Kala
Mukh (Arakan) had been settled with the colonists dominating and
coexisting warily with the indigenous people. In the sites of major
habitation Sanskrit became the written language of the ruling class,
and the religious beliefs were those prevalent at that time in
south-Asia (or Indian sub-continent). "(2)

4th to 10th century. DHANNAWADI and VASALI (Brahminical and Mohayana
Buddhist civilizations)

" As a port city, Vaishali was in contact with Samatat (the planes of
lower Bangladesh) and other parts of India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Historically, these early rulers came to be known as the Chandras and
controlled the territories as far north as Chittagong. "(3)

"The Anand Chandra Inscription, which contains 65 verses (71 and a
half lines) and now sited at the Shitthaung pagoda, provides some
information about these early rulers. Interestingly, neither the name
of the kingdom or the two premier cities – Dhanyavati and Vaishali –
is mentioned. This 11-foot high monolith, unique in entire Burma, has
three of its four faces inscribed in a Nagari script, which is closely
allied to those of Bengali and north-eastern India. As noted rightly
by Noel Singer had it not been for Professor E.H. Johnston of Balliol
College, Oxford, who translated the Sanskrit script and the Indian
epigraphists before him, the contents of the Inscription which
remained inaccessible for well over a thousand years would never have
been known. (4)

"The script on the panel on the east face is believed by Johnston to
be the oldest. According to Pamela Gutman it was similar to the type
of script used in Bengal (Bangladesh) during the early 6th century CE.
As to the panel on the north face, Johnston mentioned that several
smaller inscriptions in Bengali characters had been added in the 10th
century. Gutman however felt that the principal text in this section
is of the mid-11th century CE. The panel on the west face, which is
reasonably preserved, is believed by Gutman to be of the earlier part
of the 8th century. This priceless document not only lists the
personalities of each monarch but also some of the major events of
every reign."(5)

"So who is this Ananda Chandra? In verse 64, it clearly says that he
was a descendant of the Saiva-Andhra monarchs [presumably of Banga or
Bangladesh] whose kingdom was located between the Godavari and Krishna
Rivers of Bengal, and close to the Bay of Bengal. The founder of this
new dynasty was Vajra Sakti who reigned circa 649-665 CE. His
successor was Sri Dharma Vijaya, who reigned from circa 665-701. As
noted by Singer, and much in contrast to Rakhine claims, Dharma Vijaya
was not a Theravada Buddhist, but probably a Mahayanist. The next in
line was Narendra Vijaya who reigned from circa 701 to 704 CE. The
next to rule was Sri Dharma Chandra, who reigned from 704 to 720 CE.
He was the father of Ananda Chandra who was a magnificent patron of
Mahayana Buddhism and Hindu institutions.(6)

Arakani researcher San Shwe Bu thinks the Chandras were from Hindu
dynasty but later on like in Bengal converted to Mohayana Buddhism.
According to him the king and the people both were of Indian origin.
The coins of Wasali had the image of Siva engraved on it. M.S. Collins
says, "The coins of Wasali were in pure Brahminical tradition."(7)
The Indian Chandra aristocracy called the ancient dark skinned people
of Arakan with the derogatory name the Rakkhasas (Kula). These were
the indigenous people of Arakan.

What was the language of these people? The language of the Chandras
was proto-Chittagonian: Sanskrit, Pali, and Arabic mixed. See the "The
Anand Chandra Inscription. There is no trace of Burmese or Rakhine
Mogh script on it. According to Dr. Emil Forchhammer, a Swiss
Professor of Pali at Rangoon College, and Superintendent of the newly
founded Archaeological Survey (1881): "The earliest dawn of the
history of Arakan reveals the base of the hills, which divide the
lowest courses of the Kaladan and Lemro rivers, inhabited by
sojourners from India… Their subjects are divided into the four castes
of the older Hindu communities…"(8)

788 A.D. During the reign of Arakani Indian Chandra King Mahat Sing
Daya's time recorded in the royal chronicle that several Arab ships
wracked on Ramree Island. "Survivors were sent to Arakan proper and
settled in villages." (9) Similar Arab settlements were recorded in
the other parts of southern part of Chittagong of what is now
Bangladesh.

785-957 Arab traders began to settle both in Arakan and Chittagong.
Inter mixture with the local population no doubt led to the growth of
the first Chandra-Rohingyas of Arakan. During this time, in both
Arakan and Chittagong, the influence of Sanskrit, Pali, Arabic, Persi,
combined together eventually formed the Chandra-Rohingya dialect which
is similar to the Chittagonian dialect with their slight variations.
The same dialect is also spoken by the Chakmas, and the Tanchaingyas
of Chittagong Hill Tracts. Despite their racial differences their
linguistic similarities shows they must be the citizens of ancient
Chandra kingdom.

Durinng the 9th Century there was records of Chandra invasion of
Chittagong. Hindus of Chittagong believe that the name Chittagong was
derived from the original Sanskrit name "Chatta gram" into
"Chaitigaon." However, the Arakani historians claim that the name
Chittagong was originally given by an Arakanese mongoloid king. It
says, an Arakani king eracted a pillar at Chittagong in the nineth
century A. D. with a remark "to make war is improper." Interestingly,
during this time a Chandra king (not a Mogh king) ruled Arakan. It is
hard to believe, because there was no Rakine Mogh kingdom in Arakan
yet. At this time, Arakan was ruled by Chanda king Shoe Ratan. The
language of the king was not the Burmese Moghhi "Tsit-ta-gungin", "to
make war is improper" seems was made up later on. "To make war
improper" seems more like the declaration of a peace treaty between
two parties than as it was originally presented as the declaration of
victory by an Arakani king. Under the circumstance of the nonexistence
of Burmese language in Arakan at the time, instead of the Burmese
"Tsit-ta-gungin", it would seem that the Chandras's Sanskrit
expression "Shoukeet Thakom" (Choutagon, in English meaning you live
in peace) The latter expression in Chittagonian or in Chandra-Rohingya
language seems historically more consistent. One might wonder how this
misinterpretation of a huge magnitude "Tsit-ta-gungin", "to make war
is improper" remained as truth for so long.

Many of the contemporary research on Arakan show that after the event
of 1784 Burmese invasion of Arakan, Burmese king took the Arakani
chronicles to Burma proper. To Burmanize Arakan, we know the Arakani
Sanskrit chronicles were rewritten in Burmese along with a tendentious
interpretation of events entered into the present Arakani history.

957-1430 MONGOLOID BURMESE MOGH INVASION OF ARAKAN: RISE OF THE RAKHINE MOGH

(Arakan's two solitudes: Rakhine in the South and Rohingya in the
North. Mongoloid invasion of Arakan and the beginning of "Kula"
(Chandra Rohingya) exodus to North Arakan and Chittagong.) (11)

957 A.D. Something happened in the year 957 A.D. and historians'
record this as a significant date when Tibeto-Burman people in large
numbers entered Arakan and took its control by defeating the Chandra
Mahayanas Buddhists, imposing their Theravada Buddhism, the latter was
adopted from the Mons in the South who in their turn took it from Sri
Lanka. Similar changes didn't happen in Bengal. (10) In Bengal, most
Mahayana Buddhists were converted to Islam by Sufi mystics. With the
fall of Arakan to the Tibeto-Burmans, the Chandra Indians were either
pushed to the north of Arakan or some even left Arakan for Bengal.
Around this time, the defeated Chandra Royal family was found to
settle in Chittagong proper.The Dev Pahar, in Chittagong city named
after Dev Chandra was the site of this new Mohayana Buddhist
kingdom.(12)

In North Arakan, mostly Chandra Hindus (lower casts also known as the
Rakkhas) slowly adopted Islam converted by the already existing
Muslims of Arakan and most Buddhist elites perhaps joined the
Tibeto-Burnan Theraveda group or perhaps a defeated small number of
Buddhist adopted Islam. Arakan became on one hand Theraveda Buddhist
with largely Tibeto Burman stock, later came to be known as the "Mog/
Mug"/ Rakhines and the others were Rohingya Hindus and Muslims. Moghs
settled in the south and Muslims, Hindus of Indian look alike people
settled in the North. During the Chandra times and to its end in
Arakan, we see the traces of Arabic names such as Rambree, Sufi sites
on Myu Mountain tops, and Badre Patis in the Northern part of Arakan.

From the 11th century, clearly with the Tibeto-Burman rule, Arakan
began to have two solitudes, Rakhine Mogh and the Rohingya Muslims but
Arakan began to look East to its mongoloid Buddhist neighbors only
until the year 1430; the year Arakan's king Noromi Kla would be
deposed by Burmese invasion and he would take shelter in Gaur of
Bengal.

Revisionist History Writing and Rakhine Crusader like Activism: Ethnic
cleansing of the Arakani Indo sematic traces

A footnote to the above discussion that Rakhine ultranationalists in
their attemts to purify Arakan of Muslim traces for their only
Buddhist mongoloid race prove that the Buddhist civilization was there
for the past 3000 years, and even Buddha visited Arakan and the
Mohamuni was made in Buddha's presence. In this ethnocentric attempt,
they are not only getting rid of Muslim names from Arakan sites in
Mrohaung city and in its vicinity, in doing anti Indo semantic ethnic
cleansing, by getting rid of both Hindu traces and the Mohayana
Buddhist traces from Dhannwadi and Vasali kingdom sites in favour of
the Theraveda Rakkhapuri ultra nationalist Buddhism.

In his book, Vasali and the Indianization of Arakan, Noel Singer
notes, "Dhanyavti and Vasaishali on which stood Hindu temples, now
been taken over by Buddhists. There is a tendency to transform Hindu
gods into Buddhist deities." "Regretably, despite Rakhine
determination to eradicate Brahmanic evidence, this is unlikely to
happen for a considerable time." (13)

Their narrative about the Rohingyas (Hindu-Muslim) of Arakan by the
Rakhine xenophobes "starts with the British colonization of the
territory in 1826 after the first Anglo-Burma War of 1824-26, as if
Rohingyas had no past connection to the soil of Arakan."(14) In this
propaganda campaign, there are several Rakhine crusader like
historians; they are Kanbawza Win, Aye Chan, Maung Maung, and U Khin
Maung Saw. One such historian is also San Tha Aung. Noel Singer
remarks: "whose vehement claims that the inhabitants of the kingdom
throughout its history were devout Theravada Buddhist, it should be
noted that Svarga, the Hindu paradise, and not a Buddhist one was
indicated in the inscription." He "investigated the document further
in the 1970's apart from his biased version his labors failed to
produce any new revelations." (15) No doubt, the works of these
tendentious Rakine historians belittling the Rohingya presence in
Arakan must have played a significant role in the present ethnic
cleansing of the Rohingya people in Arakan.

1044-77 Rise of Burmese pagan king Anwardhta in Burma proper with
Teraveda political Buddhism, "reduces North Arakan"from a kingdom to a
province of Burma.

1044-77 Rohingyas (Arakani Hindus and Muslims) left Arakan for
Chittagong. Chakma Royal history says that in this war against the
Burmese, Chakmas sided with the Bengalis (the Chandras) but were
defeated.

1287 - Mongols under Kublai Khan conquer Pagan. Arakan revives again
as a kingdom.

1406 Burmese King Min Khaung Yaza invades Arakan and Noromi-kala the
king of Arakan along with his followers took asylum at Gaur court of
Bengal. The Sultan welcomed Noromi kla to serve as an officer in the
army.

1431 Noromi Kla was helped by the Bengal Sultan with General Wali
Khan leading 20, 000 troops to restore him to throne of Arakan, at the
same time Arakan became an autonomous province of Bengal, paying taxes
to the Sultan.

(Continues to Part 2)

ENDNOTES:

(1)Abid Bahar, "Dynamics of Ethnic Relations in Burmese Society": An
Unpublihed MA thesis, University of Windsor, Canada, 1981, p. 25, Abid
Bahar, "Mystery behind the Chakma and the Rohingya's linguistic
similarities"http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1721:mystery-behind-the-chakma-and-the-rohingyas-linguistic-similarities&catid=35:rohingya&Itemid=29

(2)Habib Siddiqui, Analysis of Muslim Identity and Demography in
Arakan - parts 1 and 2
http://drhabibsiddiqui.blogspot.ca/2011/10/analysis-of-muslim-identity-and.html

(3)Ibid

(4) Ibid

(5) Ibid

(6) Ibid

(7) M.S. Collins,Burma, 1925, p.39-43.

(8) Habib Siddiqui, Analysis of Muslim Identity and Demography in
Arakan - parts 1 and 2

(9) R.B. Smart, Burma Gazetteer Akyab district, Vol. 1, 1957, p.17

(10) Purna Chandra Chowdhury, Chottagramer Ithas, 2008, p. 31

(11) Michael Smith,The Muslim Rohingyas of Burma, 1995.

(12) Purna Chandra Chowdhury, Chottagramer Ithas, p. 31

(13) Noel Singer, Vasali and the Indianization of Arakan, 2008,
p108;San Tha Aung, Wathali, in Noel Singer, Vasali and the
Indianization of Arakan, 2008

MP U Shwe Maung's Parliamentary Speech in Burmese Parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YTUdcLAq8ag

(14)Ibid

(15)Ibid,

News Night With Talat - 25th July 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQjgIZdVt8;

Inside Story - Why is the world ignoring Myanmar's Rohingya?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=RfC0aJwZjFI;
Thousands of Muslims Massacred by Burma's Government and People
(Myanmar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uO4leI66Ko&feature=related;Tell
Me, What is Rohingya Genocide:
http://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/tell-me-what-is-rohingya-genocide-in-burma-by-abid-bahar-phd/;http://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/religiously-motivated-racism-and-the-ongoing-rohingya-genocide-in-burma/,
http://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/religiously-motivated-racism-and-the-ongoing-rohingya-genocide-in-burma/

(Dr. Abid Bahar teaches in Canada)


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[chottala.com] Mr. Jushu Barua has left us



Dear friends in the community,
 
We are deeply saddened to inform you the death news of Mr. Jushu Barua, who has just passed away this morning at 7:15am at his Arlington residence. He was diagnosed with cancer for a year and was under doctors’ care for quite sometime now.
 
He was only 36 years old at the time of his death and it is utterly shocking for all of us as we can all imagine. He left behind his wife, Mrs. Mukta Barua and his one year old daughter, Sreya Barua.
 
He was a man with great inner strength and fought till the end of breath. Our hearts are with the departed soul’s family in this time of sorrow and please accept our heartfelt condolences on this irreplaceable loss.
 
Let us all pray and wish eternal peace for the departed soul and may the Almighty grant his family the strength to bear this unfathomable loss.
 
We are extending our deepest sympathy and condolences for the bereaved family. Please do not hesitate to let us know if there is anything we can do.
 
Sincerely,
 
Prio Bangla Team




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Re: [chottala.com] Systematic Slaughter of Muslims in Burma (June 2012)

Well seems like continuation of BANGLADESH INDEPENDENCE WAR...kind of reminds me what happened under POLPOT rule in CAMBODIA...I guess Dhaka ROY-ER-BAZAR during the war...Jyotirmala first husband was oldest son of Raja Ram Mohan Roy..second husband was Musician Sitar Player BIRENDRA KISHORE ROY....

In fact it is actually here I mean the ROHINGA area or Burma where GUNOMEJU first landed from SRILANKA...I think this is the area known as HARBANG I think...

Here is a song played in RADIO you will have to find the musician to..the author and the bottle...I guess the song goes like this MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE..and then their is this bottle I think some COCA COLA Brand..CACTUS a type of plant found in Deserts..do you understand what they are saying by COOLING CACTUS...Well terrain in many Arab Countries are ..DESERT and thus CACTUS..thus the heat..

It is very scenic in this area by OCEAN..for what ever reason something went wrong here..all I can tell you to the ROHINGAS not to sell their lands...their could be many potential in the are..

Debasish Barua.


From: Bidrohee <bidrohee@yahoo.com>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:44 PM
Subject: [chottala.com] Systematic Slaughter of Muslims in Burma (June 2012)

WHERE ARE MUSLIMS??? WHERE IS HUMANITY???? WHERE IS HUMAN RIGHTS????
 
http://www.columnpk.com/muslim-massacre-in-myanmar-dr-asjad-bokhari/
 
 
http://www.facebook.com/BurmaMuslimMassacre2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Burma#Human_rights_violations_against_Rohingya
http://www.facebook.com/StopMuslimsMassacreInBurma
http://merhrom.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/massacre-of-muslim-pilgrims-by-the-gang-of-rakhine-terrorists-in-taungup/
 
http://www.la.connect.facebook.com/BurmaMuslimMassacre2012
http://takbeeremusalsal.blogspot.com/2012/07/myanmar-muslims-massacre.html
http://ganduhotspot.blogspot.com/2012/07/intl-union-of-unified-ummah-condemns.html
Video
http://www.hotklix.com/link/Television/Killings-Massacre-of-Muslims-in-Burma-Where-is-the-Media-and-the-Muslim-Ummah
http://islampeace1.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/muslims-situation-in-burma/
 
http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/195202-massarce-muslims-burma-myanmar-state-rohingyas-community-massacre-2.html
http://www.firstpost.com/topic/place/burma-massacre-of-muslims-in-burma-where-is-the-media-and-the-mu-video-sYMsZ8yk7Yg-91646-1.html
http://whyhowtofix.blogspot.com/2012/07/so-do-not-forget-massacre-of-muslims.html
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2012/07/14/16461.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  



Re: [chottala.com] Please Donate Your Zakat to Help Underprivileged Children in Bangladesh



Thank you both your responses and your interest in DCI's work for the underprivileged.  If either of you are interested in donating your Zakat, or if you know anyone who may be interested in donating their Zakat to support underprivileged children, you can visit the following link:  http://www.distressedchildren.org/index.php?page_id=1654  or you can e-mail me at fatimadci@yahoo.com  for more information and instructions on how to donate.  

Again, thank you both for your kind responses.

Regards,
Fatima 
--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, bristi ahmed <bristyahmad@...> wrote:
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> Exactly. This is best! Please people wake up, instead of being nut to talk about this and that for nothing, plz come and join to talk about this precious work of helping the needy at least in this month of Ramadan.
>
> From: Mohamed Alam khokan_va@...
> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Please Donate Your Zakat to Help Underprivileged Children in Bangladesh
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>  
>   Hello   Every one Ramadan Mubarak 
>     This is the best thing i seen from our com community . we all should respect this and hep our country needy family.
>   thank you all
> Mohamed  j alam
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> --- On Fri, 7/20/12, fatimadci fatimadci@... wrote:
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> >From: fatimadci fatimadci@...
> >Subject: [chottala.com] Please Donate Your Zakat to Help Underprivileged Children in Bangladesh
> >To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
> >Date: Friday, July 20, 2012, 1:26 PM
> >
> >
> > 
> >Hello Everyone:
> >
> >Assalamu Alaikum and Ramadan mubarak to all of you. The precious days of Ramadan are upon us, and with them the blessings of giving Zakat and Sadaqa. We are now in the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, the month of self-sacrifice and fasting. As you consider where to donate your Zakat andFitra this year, we humbly ask that you consider contributing your charity to Distressed Children & Infants International's Zakat funds. Your generous donations will ensure that we can continue our important work on behalf of underprivileged and orphaned children in Bangladesh. If you are interested, please email me for more details.
> >
> >Distressed Children and Infants International (DCI) is a US-based 501(c)(3) international nonprofit, established in 2003 for the purpose of helping impoverished children in Bangladesh and throughout the world. We strive to help underprivileged children lift themselves out of the poverty cycle by providing them basic life necessities, education, healthcare, and family support.  We also endeavor to create connections between American youth and the less fortunate children of other countries.  By doing so, we believe the children of America will become compassionate world citizens. To learn more about DCI, please visit http://www.distressedchildren.org/
> >This Ramadan you can relieve suffering in the following special ways:
> > * SPONSOR A CHILD (Sun-Child Sponsorship Program): For only $15/month ($180/yr) you can sponsor a child in a rural school. Keep a child in school, prevent child labor, provide health care, vision care, improve schools, create income opportunities for the child's family, and support community development.
> > * SPONSOR AN ORPHAN (Orphan Support Program): For only $50/month ($600/yr) you can provide housing, food, basic necessities, healthcare, vision care, education support, and skill training to Bangladeshi orphans at our Sun Child Home. Help provide the orphans with tutors, counselors, life skills training, and job training to help them transition from the orphanage to the outside world once they have reached their teens.
> > * SPONSOR AN EYE SURGERY: $50 can provide an eye surgery for an individual to prevent blindness.
> > * OR: Make a donation in any amount, for your specific interest or to our general emergency fund.
> >This Ramadan your Zakat can make a difference to a child, a family, or a whole village. You can also give Sadaqa for programs such as EID Gifts for Children and Fitra.
> >
> >Serving humanityis the greatest form of Ibadah and we should not miss this opportunity. Any contribution made will immensely help the distressed children of Bangladesh and India and help cleanse the world of poverty and injustice. May Allah bless you all for your contribution to this noble cause in the holy month of Ramadan. We at DCI wish you all a happy Ramadan and ask you to please distribute this message among your relatives and friends. 
> >
> >Eid Mubarak to you in advance. With kindest regards,
> >
> >Fatima
> >
> >Please send your Zakat and donation to: 
> >DCI Zakat Fund, 5 Shipton Court, Cheshire, CT 06410, USA
> >
> >Please send a Money Order, Bank draft or Check payable to "DCI ZAKAT FUND".
> >You may also donate by credit cardthrough PayPal at our website: www.distressedchildren.org
> >All contributions to DCI are tax deductible. IRS 501(c)(3) TaxExempt ID #8106714
> >
> >If you are in Bangladesh and want to donate Zakat in Bangladeshi currency, please contact our Bangladesh office at the following address:
> >Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI)-Bangladesh 
> >House#167, Road#3, Mohammadi Housing Ltd., Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh 
> >Tel# 88-01727264688, 88-01556630982, 88-01552460242, 8802-9135122 
> >Email: dci@..., rscbd@...
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[chottala.com] Forgotten Rohingya



Where is our pride as Bangladeshi to defend our cousins on the other side of the Border???
As a nation we are becoming powerless, afraid  to call Amassador of Burma in Dhaka for explanation regarding recent killings of Rohingya !!
Read:
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/columns/29-Jul-2012/forgotten-rohingya


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