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Date: December 31, 2007

223rd Anniversary of Downfall of Arakan Sovereignty

Today is the 223rd anniversary of downfall of Arakan sovereignty or Arakan Kingdom.

The Arakan kingdom was invaded and occupied by the alien Burman on December 31,
in the year 1784. After the annexation of Arakan kingdom, the bloodthirsty Burman
king Bodaw Maung Wyine and its barbaric forces cold-bloodily exterminated hundreds
and thousands of non-combatant innocent Arakan people indiscriminately disregarding
the Teaching of peace and Metta. The invaders from the other side of Arakan Yoma
who pretended to be the defenders of our nation and People did not show slightest
mercy even to the Co-religionist Rakhines and other Buddhist People. Moreover,
creating a new slogan "Kill the Arakanese first at sight instead of a Cobra (poisonous
Snake) if you find both together". Countless Men, women and children were slaughtered
alive, raped our mothers and sisters including teenagers and Minors, robbed the
valuable assets and Jwelleries, destroyed the Arakan palace, royal Libraries, Pagodas,
Monasteries, Temples, Mosques and other Islamic Institutions and all symbols of the
honor and dignity of the Arakan people, they have taken away the most revered and
symbol of Buddhism the shrine of Maha Muni Para (Statue) from Arakan showing
dis-respect to the Buddhist of the home-land.

Thousands of peace loving Arakan people were made slaves and carried away to
Mandalay to serve the Masters. The extermination of the Arakan people by the Burman
king and invading forces was tantamount to the destruction of Jews by the Nazis during
the Second World War. To escape the genocidal operations of the Burman king,
hundreds of thousands of the then Populace fled into neighboring Bangladesh for
asylum who are today found in the name of Moughs (Rakhines) and Rohai (Rohingya)
by Bangali name.

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Since the fall of Mrauk-Oo dynasty, the last Arakan Kingdom; the people of Arakan
have been left without an independent and sovereign country through the present time.
Naturally, restoration of our lost Arakan nation is our highest and ultimate political goal.
While we do not forget our lost of Arakan nation and the atrocities committed by the
inhuman King Bodaw Maung Wyine, we do support the establishment of a genuine
Democratic Federal Union of Burma, where the ethnic Burman and non-Burman
peoples including Rakhine, Rohingyas ands tribal hilly people of Arakan will all equally
enjoy freedom and self-determination.

On this tragic day, we strongly urge the ruling Burmese military regime, State Peace
and Development Council (SPDC) to:

1. Stop immediately the ethnocentric Burman rule and all forms of discrimination
against the ethnic non-Burma peoples particularly the Karen, Karenni, Chin, Shan,
Rohingyas, kuki, palaung etc.
2. Stop immediately its entire human rights violations in the country, including its
large-scale confiscation of land from the Rohingyas of Arakan to resettle the new model
Villages with non-Arakan people from Burma proper.

3. Withdraw immediately all its troops from the ethnic non-Burman territories,
including Arakan State;

4. Release all political prisoners, the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, U
Tin Oo, U Khun Tun Oo, U Win Tin including U Kyaw Min (aka) Master Shamsul
Anwarul Hoque, the leader of NDPHR and CRPP member.

5. Rescind all the undemocratic and unjust laws, decrees and orders particularly
1982-84 Citizenship law that made Rohingyas stateless.

6. Negotiate with all the democratic and ethnic Opposition parties including the leaders
of the Rohingyas of Arakan in a genuine Tripartite Dialogue as demanded by the
peoples of Burma as recommended by the United Nations, United States, EU and Asain
countries.

On this Black day -31st December of Arakan historical and unforgettable day, we, the
members of the Six Party alliance humbly request and urge the entire people of Arakan
disregarding race, religion, color and language to come forward to realize the root

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causes of the down-fall of Arakan, degeneration and degradation of Arakan People as
well as the failure of our part to restore our lost dignity and honor.

If we scrutinize seriously and ponder in cool-mind, we can easily understand that due to
lack of national Unity and solidarity, mis-understanding and suspicion of each other on
racial line, wrong fear of the threats of friends instead of foes, mis-calculation on siding
religious extremism, lack of world-political Diplomacy and above all internal hostility in
the homeland.

So, we earnestly request all Arakan people in homeland and overseas to forget the past
hostility and forgiving each other and let there be a new spirit, aspiration and
determination of New Year - 2008 Resolution to rebuild Arakan National Unity and
Solidarity to create a congenial atmosphere of peace and stability with united forces of
Rakhines, Rohingyas and hilly tribal people. By making disunity and creating chaos in
the past we lost our freedom, Independence and Sovereignty, so, by forging unity and
solidarity we can reverse to the freedom. The only Solution is it's opposite, that means
restoration and rebuilding of our unity like cemented wall to face the enemy who wants
to keep us SLAVES forever as a Colonized nation in the world.

Saddened with the memory of the Loss of Arakan Sovereignty, independence, dignity
and all kinds of honor,
Let us rename it as the BLACK DAY - DECEMBER -31st, Day of downfall of Arakan
kingdom, First day of Slavery! The day un-forgettable and scar in the hearts!

(President)
Dr. Than Aung alias Mohammed Ali

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