ARAKAN ROHİNGYA MÜSLÜMANLARININ TARİHİNE GENEL BAKIŞ: GEÇMİŞLERİNİ YOK SAYMA ÇABALARI VE TARİHSEL DIŞLANMALARI

Year 2020, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 316 - 348, 31.12.2020

Hüseyin Günarslan

https://doi.org/10.20486/imad.810265

Abstract

Arakan Güneydoğu Asya ülkelerinden birisi olan Myanmar´ın bir eyaletidir. Eski adı Burma olan Myanmar Budist çoğunluğun yönetimi elinde tuttuğu ve Müslüman azınlıklara haklarını vermemesi ile tanınan bir ülkedir. 14 eyalete sahip olan ülkenin Arakan eyaleti en fazla Müslümanın yaşadığı bölgedir. Bu eyalette yaşayan Müslümanlara Rohingya adı verilmektedir. Arakanlı Rohingya Müslümanlarının maruz kaldığı şiddet olayları günümüzde medyanın da etkisi ile çok daha fazla bilinir olmakla birlikte bu insanların geçmişi ile ilgili hala yeterli bilgi bulunmamaktadır. Bu insanların etnik bir soykırıma maruz kaldıkları genel olarak kabul görmekle birlikte Myanmar Budist hükümetinin uygulamalarına son verdirtecek bir yaptırım yoktur. Özellikle Burma´nın bağımsızlığı sonrası Arakanlı Müslümanlar yüzlerce yıldır yaşadıkları topraklarda istenmeyen insanlar ilan edilip öldürülmektedir. Dünyanın gözü önünde hala devam etmekte olan bu soykırıma Müslüman dünyası da dâhil olmak üzere yeterli düzeyde tepki gösterilmemektedir. Bunun en önemli sebebi ise Türkiye dâhil olmak üzere bu insanlar hakkında çok az bilgiye sahip olunmasıdır. Bundan dolayı çalışmanın amacı, günümüz Arakan Müslümanlarının dünyanın unutulmuş bir bölgesinde en fazla haksızlığa uğrayan insan topluluğu olduğunu ortaya koymakla birlikte onların tarihlerini de aydınlatmaya çalışmaktır. Çalışma sonucu elde edilen veriler bu insanların tarihleri boyunca büyük sıkıntılara maruz kaldığını ve özellikle Myanmar´ın bağımsızlığını kazandığı 1948´den günümüze artan oranda bir soykırıma tâbi olduklarına işaret etmektedir.

Keywords

Myanmar, Burma, Arakan, Rohingya, Bengal, İngilizler, Soykırım

Overview of the History of Arakan Rohingya Muslims: Efforts to Ignore Their Past and Historical Exclusions

Abstract

Arakan is a province of Myanmar, one of the Southeast Asian countries. Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is a country that the Buddhist majority holds power, known for not giving its rights to Muslim minorities. Arakan province is the region with the highest number of Muslims. The Muslims living in this province are called Rohingya. Although the violent incidents suffered by the Muslims of Arakan Rohingya are much more known with the influence of the media today, there is still no sufficient information about thehistory of these people. It is generally accepted that these people are subjected to an ethnic genocide. However, there is no sanction to end the practices of the Myanmar Buddhist government. Especially after the independence of Burma, Arakanese Muslims have been declared unwanted people and started to be killed in the land they have lived for hundreds of years. This genocide, which is still continuing in front of the world, is not adequately reacted, including the Muslim world. The most important reason for this is that we have very little information about these people, including Turkey. Therefore, our study reveals their history and shows that today's Arakan Muslims are the most discriminated people living in a forgotten part of the world. The data obtained from the study, indicate that these people have been subjected to great troubles throughout their history and that they have been subjected to an increasing amount of genocide since 1948, especially when Myanmar gained its independence.

Keywords

Myanmar, Arakan, Rohingya, British, Genocide

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