Publisher, four others jailed over calendar
A Muslim publisher and four others have been detained in Insein Prison for attempting to produce a calendar containing quotes from government officials in the 1950s and 1960s using the term “Rohingya”.
The calendar contains quotes from speeches by former prime minister U Nu and other major post-independence figures describing the Rohingya as a distinct ethnic group. It also quotes a 1946 speech by Bogyoke Aung San in which he invites Muslims to live in peace with the Buddhist majority.
