For those who are worried about the Rohingya taking over the part of western Burma by Dr.Zarni
By Maung Zarni
For those who are worried about the Rohingya taking over the part of western Burma, a simple math may put things in perspective:
Arakan/Rakhine Area is 18,500 Square Miles (according to 1901 Burma Census. Feel free to update and check the old Rakhine-land has shrunk or expanded since 1901) .
There are two groups that have for all intents and purposes occupied the whole of Burma and half of Burma:
1). the Burma Army and its manager-owners in Naypyidaw: They occupy over 260,000 sq. miles.
2). A. the Yunnan Chinese (estimated to be about 200,000 Chinese including laborers in Kachin state alone (about 46,400 square miles). None is locked up and protected by the mighty China;
B. Chinese entrepreneurs and again "naturalized" Chinese in most of the Upper Burma (which include Northern and Southern Shan States (57,900 square miles) and the Dry Zone (41, 200 square miles).
These foreigners who "bought citizenship" don't speak a word of Burmese who have bought off the military intelligence since Gen. Khin Nyunt's DDSI time and the int-controlled Immigration authorities.
What percentage of the country's population - all ethnic backgrounds, including Bama ethnic and non-Bama ethnic peoples of all classes and backgrounds - really feel threatened or outraged by the colonization of Burma by its own army of 300,00 - 400,000-troops?
What percentage of the country's public feels threatened by the rising presence, domination and influence of the Chinese in the country, and China as the next imperialist power that has started the process of semi-colonization of Burma?
Don't compare the Rohingyas with Chettiers from Tamil-nadu. Even Chetty, according to Burma's most respected historian the late Dr Than Tun, were not really that exploitative. Their money lending practices and interest rates were far more benign than the Chinese money-lenders and the urban-based Bama money lenders and absentee landlords.
But Chettiers were scapegoated, and the Kalars were scape-goated while the British and European commercial interests and colonial powers sucked the whole country and population dry.
We the Bama even have the saying "stick your spear in the ground that is lower (than where you are)".
As a people or peoples, we are inflicted with this cancer - the mental predisposition, petty-mindedness, savage mentality of beating up the nearest weaker party each time there is pent-up outrage against the Mighty Common Enemy, whom we could not bring down, the way the Muslim Arabs in Libya recently did with Gaddafi and his sons.
Then there is little wonder that we have always been a nation of colonized minds and spiritually and morally broken oppressed people whose fate keeps changing hands - from the absolutist delusional Buddha-wanna-be murderers and plunderers we are conditioned to refer to as "Warrior-nation-builders", then the British Thakhingyis, then the Fascists whom we called Masters, then AFPFL politicians we called "Par-li-man Amat Min" and Okka-hta, then "Bogyokes" and now "Thamadagyi".
Credit : Dr.Zarni
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