The diverse Muslim population of Myanmar has attracted relatively little serious academic study in recent years despite their occasional importance. Clashes, often described as Muslim-Buddhist riots, but often related to underlying economic, political or property issues, have punctuated Myanmar's domestic politics during the last century and this one. Internationally, the treatment of Muslims who are often state known as Arakanistan. In that, they were lineal descendants of the Mujahadeen who fought the British in the Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Rathedaung regions in 1947 in an effort to be included in East Pakistan.
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