1950年代におけるアラカン人仏教徒議員の新州設立要求

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine U Kyaw Min's speech in the Burmese Parliament on 12 March 1957 and the political situation in which it was received. There were several movements in the name of Arakan, and most of them were fought by local guerrillas. The reason why U Kyaw Min's speech is worth considering is that he requested a State for the Arakan in the Burmese Parliament. He regarded himself as representing the majority of the Arakan, and demanded that the AFPFL Government to make effort to gain the confidence of the Arakanese. In fact, U Kyaw Min was a politician who used the Arakanese position in seeking power in the Burmese Politics. But his speech does reflect the political situation of Burma. Since the independence of the Union of Burma, not much attention was paid to the people and regions in the modern history of Burma, which were distant from the politics of the central Burma. U Kyaw Min's speech allows us to reconsider the distance, shown after nine years of independence of the Union of Burma and a year before the first Army takeover.