41 more Rohingya found on an island off Thailand’s Satun province

[snoop1130]

 

Thai authorities have found 41 more Rohingya, from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, on an island off the southern province of Satun, after Thai fishermen rescued ten people floating in the sea this morning (Wednesday).

 

The Rohingya on the island, including some children, appeared to be malnourished and they were given food and water by Thai officials, after they were found.

 

The officials said that they will take all of them to the mainland for questioning as to whether they came together by boat, with the ten Rohingya plucked from the sea by a Thai trawler today.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/41-more-rohingya-found-on-an-island-off-thailands-satun-province/

 

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[n00dle]

7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The Rohingya on the island, including some children, appeared to be malnourished and they were given food and water by Thai officials, after they were found.

given Thailands track record with the Rohingya, they were lucky to get that.

Edited September 6, 2022 by n00dle

[proton]

Send them to Bangladesh where they belong

[Chris.B]

UK border force is on the way to pick them up.  ????

 

[EricTh]

1 hour ago, proton said:

Send them to Bangladesh where they belong

The ancestors of Rohingya actually came from Bangladesh but strangely, Bangladesh do not want to accept their own flesh and blood permanently.

 

None of the Muslim countries want to accept them except for Malaysia. That's why most are trying to flee to Malaysia. 

 

They have to pass Thailand to reach Malaysia.....

Edited September 6, 2022 by EricTh

[ThaiNotes]

10 hours ago, EricTh said:

The ancestors of Rohingya actually came from Bangladesh but strangely, Bangladesh do not want to accept their own flesh and blood permanently.

That's Tatmadaw propaganda and false.  They originate from the Arakan region in what is now part of Burma, but historically was independent.  See, for example, https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/2759620/

[EricTh]

1 hour ago, ThaiNotes said:

That's Tatmadaw propaganda and false.  They originate from the Arakan region in what is now part of Burma, but historically was independent.  See, for example, https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/2759620/

Really?

 

Then why do they speak a language that is very close to Bengali language (official language of Bangladesh) and also look like them physically?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_language

 

As far as I know the natives of Arakan are the Tibetan-Burmese people such as Arakanese and other related tribes there.

 

The early Arakanese kingdoms such as Mrauk-U and Lemro were Buddhist kingdoms and not Muslims.

 

Le-Mro is a Arakanese word for four cities.

 

 

Edited September 7, 2022 by EricTh

[ThaiNotes]

5 hours ago, EricTh said:

Then why do they speak a language that is very close to Bengali language

There is a large group of languages which are closely related, including Assamese, Bengali, Bishnupriya, Manipuri, Chakma, Chittagonian, Hajong, Rangpuri, Kamtapuri, Rajbongshi, Noakhalian, Rohingya, Surjapuri, Sylheti, Tanchangya - all spoken in that part of the world.  To assert that the Rohingya are Bengali just because they speak a language in the same family is ridiculous.  It's as ridiculous as suggesting that Spaniards are really Italian because their languages are similar, or that the English are really German because their language evolved from North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic).

 

 

[EricTh]

17 hours ago, ThaiNotes said:

There is a large group of languages which are closely related, including Assamese, Bengali, Bishnupriya, Manipuri, Chakma, Chittagonian, Hajong, Rangpuri, Kamtapuri, Rajbongshi, Noakhalian, Rohingya, Surjapuri, Sylheti, Tanchangya - all spoken in that part of the world.  To assert that the Rohingya are Bengali just because they speak a language in the same family is ridiculous.  It's as ridiculous as suggesting that Spaniards are really Italian because their languages are similar, or that the English are really German because their language evolved from North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic).

 

 

Go and study language evolution. Language in the same family show close ancestors and their common point of dispersal.

 

Spanish and Italian both came from the same close ancestors which is the roman empire who migrated from Italy in the past. 

 

 

To say they are not related IS ridiculous!

 

Rohingya are not Bangladeshi but they came from there.

 

Or are you going to argue that white Americans did not come from Europe? lol

 

Edited September 8, 2022 by EricTh

[ThaiNotes]

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

Go and study language evolution. Language in the same family show close ancestors and their common point of dispersal.

No need.  I already have a Masters degree in linguistics.

 

However, I have a question for you:  why do you assume that the language group originated in Bengal, when its members are used in Bihar, Nepal, Assam, Arunchal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bangladesh as well as Bengal and elsewhere?

 

And wherever the language originated, it's perfectly possible for one language to displace others.  For example, the peoples of South America didn't originally speak Spanish or Portuguese.  The fact that the Rohingya speak a language related to Bengali says nothing about where they're from.

[EricTh]

1 hour ago, ThaiNotes said:

No need.  I already have a Masters degree in linguistics.

 

However, I have a question for you:  why do you assume that the language group originated in Bengal, when its members are used in Bihar, Nepal, Assam, Arunchal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bangladesh as well as Bengal and elsewhere?

 

And wherever the language originated, it's perfectly possible for one language to displace others.  For example, the peoples of South America didn't originally speak Spanish or Portuguese.  The fact that the Rohingya speak a language related to Bengali says nothing about where they're from.

 

Master of linguistics and yet do not know the basics of migration?lol.

 

Do you know the difference between native tongue and adopted tongue?  Just because some Thai can speak English doesn't mean they are Anglo-Saxon. Better do a basic course again.

 

Don't bother to reply anymore because I will block you.

 

Edited September 8, 2022 by EricTh