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Dr. E Forchhammer and Islamic Monuments in Arakan

By Aman Ullah

Dr. Emil Forchhammer, a German-born Swiss Professor of Pali at Rangoon College, in his report of Arakan , which was publish in 1891, described not only all   the historical, social, cultural, archaeological aspects of Arakan but also its  religious side. He touched from the dawn of history to end of its independent. The report was organized into 3 chapters; in chapter I he dealt with specially Mahamamuni Pagoda and other Buddhists monuments, in chapter II Mrohaung and in chapter III with Launnyet, Minbya, Urittaung, Akyab and Sandoway and in the 1970s reprint version it contains 115 pages.
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Dr Emil Forchhammer and Early History of Arakan

By Aman Ullah

Dr. Emil Forchhammer was German-born Swiss Professor of Pali at Rangoon College. He was the first Europeans who became involved in research of Old Burma. He was Superintendent of Archaeological Survey, which was newly founded in 1881. His premature death in 1890 meant a great loss to Burma. His reports on the archaeological remains of Arakan and Burma are Government publications; and his studies of Buddhist law are now extremely rare books, and the stores of knowledge they contain are not easily available.
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High level flag meeting held at Bangladesh-Burma border

Battalions Commander level flag meeting was held between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) on February 18 at friendship bridge of Gumdum- Taungbro border (Bangladesh-Burma border) under the Naikonchari, Bandarban district, Mohammed, a local businessman from border said.
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Veterinarians extort money from Farmers

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Two veterinarians extorted money from Rohingya farmers in Maungdaw north after giving false promises – would give injections to the cows/ buffalos to prevent from diseases, on February 9, according to Noman, a local elder from the village.   Continue reading “Veterinarians extort money from Farmers”

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Correcting the false narrative of the Ma Ba Tha

By Habib Siddiqui

Wirathu and his band of criminal Buddhist monks have hijacked Buddhism and poisoned the political discourse inside Myanmar. Ma Ba Tha uses the news of the rape and murder of a Rakhine woman allegedly by Rohingya Muslims in Arakan in 2012 to paint a very damning picture of the divide between “us” and “them”. And such a nasty propaganda, a false one, which I must remind our readers, has worked because people are always willing to believe the worst about one’s enemies if they are programmed as such.
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Flag meeting held in Maungdaw

Teknaf, Bangladesh: A flag meeting was held between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Guard Police (BGP) of Burma at the entry and exit point of Maungdaw town on February 7, Zakir Meah, a businessman from Maungdaw said.
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Bangladeshi released prisoners with BGB and BGP in Maungdaw

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