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Also interesting is why Burmese were so half hearted in supporting Britain over Japan: The British allowed unlimited numbers of Bangladeshi Muslims into Burma as cheap labor. Sound familiar?

The riots George Orwell was involved with in Burma himself were mostly native Burmese and Arakanese against Rohingya and Muslims from "India" (inc. Bangladesh).

While there may have been mixed Persian-Arab-Bangladesh-Arkanese people in Arakan (Coastal NW Burma), Muslims were no more than 4% of the entire population of this region bordering Bangladesh.