Rakhapura.com provides information on the culture of the Arakan people
Title
Arakan Information Website
Description
Rakhapura.com: Arakan Information Website was first appeared on the internet in 1999 with the name of Arakan Information Homepage. It was first hosted on a free web host service provided by Homepage.com. Since the first day of Arakan Information Homepage has been unleashed on the waiting internet community, it has received unbelievable supports and appreciations from many Arakanese people as well as foreigners who interested in Arakan and Burma affairs. The site has moved to Angelfire Free Hosting as the Homepage.com has closed in 2000 and its design and content has also been undergone for several times throughout these years in order to meet the demand of the readers and supporters. In August 2001, it has eventually reached to its permanent home as Rakhapura.com: Arakan Information Website at the URL http://www.rakhapura.com.
Till early 1999, there was no website run by Arakanese on the internet to represent the Arakanese community and provides adequate and reliable information on Arakan. There were some websites providing information about Arakan like www.arakan.org (published by ARNO). But most of their contents were against the Arakanese people and one could easily be misunderstood the real identity of Arakanese people and true history of Arakan.
Therefore, I got an initial idea to make a website for the common interest of promoting awareness about my fatherland, Arakan and Arakanese people; its history, culture and political affairs which are desperately demolished and Burmanized by chains of Burmese military rulers. I believe that sharing of information among the all ethnic nationalities of Burma and throughout the world will somehow helpful to achieve mutual understanding between them.
