HISTORY OF ROHINGYA IN MYANMAR

According to historical records, the Muslim community has inhabited  Arakan  (the ancient name Rakhine) since the reign of a Buddhist king named Narameikhla or Min Saw Mun (1430-1434) in the kingdom of Mrauk U. After being exiled for 24 years in the sultanate of Bengal, Narameikhla Arakan with help from the Sultan of Bengal at that time. Then he led the Bengali people to live in Arakan and helped administer his administration so the first Muslim community was formed in the region.

At that time the Mrauk U kingdom was the subordinate kingdom of the Bengal sultanate that King Narameikhla used his Arabic title in the names of his royal officials and used the Bengal coin which reads Arabic alphabet on one side and Burmese characters on the other as his currency. After successfully escaping the Bengal sultanate, the Narameikhla descendants continued to use the Arab title and considered themselves sultan and dressed in imitation of the Mughal sultan. They still employ Muslims in the palace and even Buddhists, the Muslim customs of Bengal are still used.

In the seventeenth century the Muslim population increased because they were employed in various areas of life, not just in government alone. The Kamein tribe, one of the ethnic Muslims in Rakhine who is recognized by the current government of Myanmar, is a descendant of Muslims who migrated to Arakan at this time. However this harmony and harmony did not last long. In 1785 the Burmese empire from the south attacked and captured Arakan; they applied a policy of discrimination by expelling and executing the Arakan Muslims. In 1799 as many as 35,000 Arakan people fled to the Chittagong region in Bengal which was then occupied by the British to seek refuge. The Arakan people call themselves Rooinga (the native of Arakan), which is then spelled into Rohingya today. Other than that, 

In 1826 the Arakan region was occupied by the British colonial government after the British-Burma I war (1824-1826). The British government implemented a policy of moving farmers from adjacent areas to the abandoned Arakan, including previously displaced Rohingyas and native Bengalis from Chittagong. At that time the Arakan territory was included in the administrative area of ​​Bengal so that there was no international boundary between the two and the migration of the population in both areas was easy. In the early nineteenth century the wave of immigration from Bengal to Arakan increased as it was driven by the need for a cheaper wage of workers imported from India to Burma. Over time the population of migrants outnumber indigenous peoples so often cause ethnic tensions.