Arakan is our common land(Rohingya-Rakhine Friendship Song)

By Abid Bahar

Arakan is our homeland
We sing song in the same band
We are Rakhine-Rohingya all mutual friend
Arakan is our common land

We in abroad remember Arakan and speak highly
We see our dear Arakan daily
We sing the glory of the bay by the sea
Can't forget the spectaclar Arakani fog in the morning only

We don't forget walking by the long sea beach
Rakhine and Rohingya soul cooled by the same breeze
We are brothers and sisters to each other
It's only xenophobes that bother
Brothers and sisters, let's sing the Rakhine-Rohingya Arakani song
We will not allow reconcilliation to go anymore wrong.
Only fear of each other can break the tie
Let's jointly fight for democracy and say xenophobia goodby!

We the common people have no problem
We live and enjoy the same mountain and land as our emblem
Only military creates the traffic jam
We love our dear Arakan and shouldn't have any problem!

Arakan is our homeland
We sing our song in the same band
We are Rakhine-Rohingya mutual friend
Don't forget, Arakan is our common land

(Song dedicated to Chris Lawa and to those Arakani people (Rakhine-Rohingya Reconciliation group in particular,) who are working together to promote human dignity and the Arakani people's birth rights and stop genocide in Arakan)

(Abid Bahar is a playwright and a historian of Arakan, the author of Burma's Missing Dots, 2010, abid.bahar@gmail.com