They would refer to themselves as “Rohingya Muslims” while they were in Myanmar (Burma), but actually, they are “Bengali” Muslims – natives of Bangladesh – who immigrated to Myanmar.

In Myanmar, the Bengali Muslims began to exhibit their Islamic supremacy and make demands for property, autonomy, and self-government. When they were refused, they began a campaign of crime, rape, forced marriages/conversions of Buddhist girls and women, violence, arson, and terrorism. Eventually, the Myanmar government and military got fed up and forced hundred of thousands of them to leave the country.

Rohingya Bengali Muslims have long demanded that Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country, give them citizenship, safety and their own land and homes they left behind in Bangladesh. Myanmar refused to recognize them as citizens or even as one of its ethnic groups, rendering them stateless.

As a result, more than 1 million Rohingya Bengali Muslims currently live in Bangladesh, with over 700,000 having been forced out of Myanmar since late August 2017, amid a violent crackdown by the country’s military.

Now, the Bangladeshi government, concerned about security issues, has turned against them and plans to relocate them to a “Refugee Island” in the Bay of Bengal. When a renewed bid to return several thousand of them to Myanmar failed, the government decided to relocate hundreds of thousands of them to the remote island of Bhasan Char, against their will.

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