শান্তি নোবেল বিজয়ী সুচির ইতিহাস নিয়ে লেখা পড়া আছে। কিন্তু তিনি জেনে শুনে রোহিঙ্গ্যা মুসলিমদের অবদান অস্বীকার করছেন। মন্ত্রী ও হন। এমনকি ব্রিটিশ বিরোধী আন্দোলন , সুচির বাপের সাথে রাজনীতিতে জড়িত ছিলেন রোহিঙ্গ্যা মুসলিমদের বহু নেতা।
বার্মার জাতীয় সংসদের নির্বাচনে বহু রোহিঙ্গ্যা মুসলিমদের ভোটাধিকারের কথা লিপিবদ্ধ আছেন। রোহিঙ্গ্যা মুসলিমদের কয়েকজন জাতীয় সংসদের আইন প্রণেতা হয়েছিলেন।
৭০০ শতাব্দীর শুরু থেকে মুসলমানরা আরাকানে বসবাস করছে।
১২০৩ সাল থেকে প্রায় ১০০ বছরের অধিক সময় আরাকানে মুসলমানদের শাসন ছিল।
সুলতান সামসুদ্দিন গাজীর (৯৬২ হিজরি/১৫৫৫ খ্রিস্টাব্দ) টাঁকশালের নাম ছিল আরাকান। মুদ্রায় প্রাপ্ত টাঁকশালের নামটি যদি সঠিক হয়, তাহলে ধরে নিতে হবে ষোড়শ শতাব্দীতেও আরাকান নামটি প্রচলিত ছিল। প্রাচীনকালে আরাকান দুটি রাজ্যে বিভক্ত ছিল। এর একটি অংশ ছিল দক্ষিণ আরাকান বা সান্দোওয়ে, অন্যটি উত্তর আরাকান বা মূল আরাকান। ত্রয়োদশ শতাব্দীর শেষ দিকে এ দুই অংশ এক হয় এবং ১৭৮৫ সাল পর্যন্ত এ ঐক্য থাকে। ১৭৮৫ সালের একসময় আরাকান রাজ্যটি বার্মা বা মিয়ানমারের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়। মহা কবি আলাওল আরাকান রাজদরবারে যথেষ্ট সম্মান ও প্রতিপত্তিসম্পন্ন মর্যাদাবান ব্যক্তি ছিলেন। তাঁর কবিতায় ও পাওয়া যায় রোহিঙ্গাদের জীবনী।
Member of the Union Parliament from Maungdaw South
In office
1956–1962
President of the Maungdaw Township Council
In office
1955–1956
Abul Khair was a police officer in British Burma who was later elected to the parliament of the Union of Burma.
Khair was elected president of the township council of Maungdaw in 1955. He was nominated by the Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League, the founding political party of Burma. During the Burmese general election, 1956, he was elected from Maungdaw South to the Union Parliament.[1] He received the highest vote share among Rohingya candidates.
Member-elect of the Parliament of Myanmar from Maungdaw-1
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Ebrahim, also known as Chit Lwin, is a Rohingya lawyer, accountant and former politician. He was elected as a Parliament of Myanmar MP in 1990 election. He was the vice chairman of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights. The party was later banned by the Burmese military junta and its members are barred from contesting elections.
He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1967 and worked there till 1983. Since 1984, he has been a lawyer in the High Court of Rangoon.
Zura Begum MP
Member of the Union Parliament from Maungdaw-2
Zura Begum, also known as Aye Nyunt, was one of the first two female legislators of the Union of Burma, along with Khin Kyi. She was a politician from Arakan, Burma (now Rakhine State, Myanmar). She was elected to the Parliament of Burma during the Burmese general election, 1951, as the representative of Maungdaw-2 constituency.
Fazal Ahmed (born 1941) is a Rohingya lawyer and former politician in Myanmar. He was a leader of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights (NDPHR). He was elected as Parliament of Myanmar MP during the Burmese general election, 1990.
He also worked in the office of the Deputy Commissioner in Maungdaw .
He was one of the four NDPHR MPs in the Burmese parliament.
Member of the Legislative Council of Burma from Maungdaw-Buthidaung
In office
1936–1948
He was elected to the Legislative Council of Burma during the Burmese general election, 1936 from the Maungdaw-Buthidaung constituency in Arakan Division
M. A. Gaffar
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Burma from Buthidaung
In office
1947–1948
Governor Hubert Rance
Member of the Chamber of Nationalities from Akyab
In office
1952–1956
President Ba U
Member of the Chamber of Nationalities from Maungdaw
In office
1956–1962
President Ba U
Win Maung
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
Mohammed Abdul Gaffar (1910 –1966), also known as Abdul Gaffar, was a politician from Arakan, Burma (now Rakhine State, Myanmar). He was elected to the Legislature of Burma in British Burma from Buthidaung in 1947. After Burmese independence in 1948, the President of Burma Sao Shwe Thaik appointed Gaffar as one of the seven members of the Inquiry Commission of Arakan in 1949. Gaffar was elected to the Chamber of Nationalities from Akyab West constituency in 1952. He was elected from Maungdaw in 1956. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Health in the government of Prime Minister U Nu.
Nur Ahmed
Member-elect of the Parliament of Myanmar from Buthidaung-2
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
He was the Chairman of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights. He was elected to the Parliament of Myanmar in 1990.
Shamsul Anwarul Huq
Member-elect of the Parliament of Myanmar from Buthidaung-1
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Shamsul Anwarul Huq (born 1944), also known as Kyaw Min, is a Rohingya academic, pro-democracy activist and former politician in Myanmar. He has also been a political prisoner. Huq was a leader of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights. Huq was elected to the Parliament of Myanmar in 1990.
Political career[edit]
Huq was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights. He was elected from Buthidaung-1 constituency during the Burmese general election, 1990, after receiving 30,990 out of 41,668 votes. His party won a total of four seats. The Burmese military junta banned his party in 1992. At the invitation of Aung San Suu Kyi, Huq joined the Committee Representing the People’s Parliament in 1998.
In 1992, Huq was detained by Burmese military intelligence for three months during operations against the Rohingya population. In 1994, military intelligence detained him for 45 days. In March 2005, he was arrested from his home in Rangoon, and was charged under Section 18 of the 1982 Burmese nationality law and Section 5 of the Anti-State Emergency Law. He was sentenced to 47 years in imprisonment. His wife, two daughters and one son were also arrested under the 1982 Burmese nationality law, and sentenced to 17 years in prison. The convictions barred the family from contesting elections.
Then-President of Burma Sao Shwe Thaik refused to pardon or commute the sentences of most of those who were sentenced to death, and U Saw was hanged inside Rangoon’s Insein jail on 8 May 1948. A number of perpetrators met the same fate, while minor players, who were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, also spent several years in prison.
Member of the Pyithu Hluttaw
In office
31 January 2011 – 29 January 2016
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Aung Thaung Shwe
Constituency Buthidaung Township
Shwe Mg, aka Abdul Razak[1]; born 30 June 1965) is a Rohingya rights activist of Myanmar and politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2016. In the Myanmar general election, 2010, he was elected as a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Buthidaung Township .
Sultan Ahmed (Parliamentary Secretary)
Sultan Ahmed MP
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Burma from Maungdaw
In office
1947–1948
Member of the Union Parliament from Maungdaw
In office
1951–1962
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Minorities
Ahmed was elected to the Legislature of Burma in British Burma in 1947 as a representative of Maungdaw constituency.
Sultan Ahmed was one of the longest serving legislators from Arakan, Burma (now Rakhine State, Myanmar). Ahmed was the president of the Jamiat-e-Ulema party, which was allied with the Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League, the founding political party of Burma. Ahmed served in the Burmese parliament until the 1962 Burmese coup .
After Burmese independence in 1948, Ahmed became a member of the Burmese constituent assembly. During the Burmese general election, 1951, he was elected to the Union Parliament from Maungdaw-1 constituency. He was re-elected in 1956 and 1960. Ahmed was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Minorities, with the rank and status of a Deputy Minister. He was one of the longest serving Parliamentary Secretaries in Burmese history.
Sultan Mahmud MP
Minister of Health of the Union of Burma
In office
1960–1962
Member of the Union Parliament from Buthidaung North
In office
1957–1958
Member of the Union Parliament from Buthidaung North
In office
1960–1962
Sultan Mahmud (1900 – 1982) was a politician from Arakan, Burma (now Rakhine State, Myanmar).
Mahmud served as cabinet secretary in the Central Legislative Assembly. After Burmese independence, he was elected to the Parliament of Burma through a by election from Buthidaung in 1957. He was re-elected in 1960. He served as Minister of Health of the Union of Burma from 1960 till the 1962 Burmese coup .
The assassinated were:
Aung San, Prime Minister
Ba Cho, Minister of Information
Mahn Ba Khaing, Minister of Industry and Labor
Ba Win, Minister of Trade
Thakin Mya, Minister Without Portfolio, unofficially considered as Deputy Prime Minister of Burma
Abdul Razak, Minister of Education and National Planning
Sao San Tun, Minister of Hills Regions
Ohn Maung, Secretary of State Transport
Ko Htwe, Razak’s bodyguard
