We hereby request the apology from BBC and worst and least-responsible journalist Anna Jones for what they did. Anna Jones wrote an article about of Bleak outlook for Burma's ethnic groups at BBC’s Asia-Pacific web site. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11595983)
In that article there has a map and the facts are wrong. The Rahkine or Arakanese peoples have been excluded in this "historic map" of ethnic groups in Myanmar/Burma. It is an ultimate insult on an old ancient Arakanese Kingdom, the Arakanese history and its increasingly besieged people of the modern Arakan/Rakhane State. What a disgrace! Shame on "fair and truthful" BBC! On behalf of the community of the world.
We have been following the news regarding BBC Burmese, BBC News and Anna Jones who are insulting Burmese people. They are now more insulting on the Burmese people since their explanation is justifying their action. They don't apologize to the Burmese people. They don't even say SORRY to Burmese people. They are now even more insulting on Burmese people by saying that thank you for reading BBC News rather than we are really sorry and apologizing us. As a Burmese activist, I am very upset and strongly demand the BBC News, BBC Burmese and above all Anna Jones to take full responsibility and they must say sorry to all the Burmese people.
We thank to them for their "excuses or explanation" for what they have done. We would appreciate if they had not changed the date of the creation of the original document to 18 November 2010 which looks very creepy indeed. They amended their map to include the Rakhine people before this "explanation" which is also quite strange. There is still no apology that the people have been demanding. Well, I understand what they are saying is this: we have done nothing wrong in posting this original document and the map on 6 November 2010!
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