Some of the major armed operations against the Rohingya people

Some of the major armed operations against the Rohingya people, orchestrated by the Burmese government since 1948 are mentioned below:

Military Operation (5th Burma Regiment) - November 1948

Burma Territorial Force (BTF) - Operation 1949-50

Military Operation (2nd Emergency Chin regiment) - March 1951-52

... Mayu Operation - October 1952-53

Mone-thone Operation - October 1954

Combined Immigration and Army Operation - January 1955

Union Military Police (UMP) Operation - 1955-58

Captain Htin Kyaw Operation – 1959

Shwe Kyi Operation - October 1966

Kyi Gan Operation - October-December 1966

Ngazinka Operation - 1967-69

Myat Mon Operation - February 1969-71

Major Aung Than Operation – 1973

Sabe Operation February - 1974-78

Naga-Min (King Dragon) Operation - February 1978-79 (resulting in exodus of some 300,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh)

Shwe Hintha Operation - August 1978-80

Galone Operation – 1979

Pyi Thaya Operation – July 1991-92 (resulting in exodus of some 268,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh)

Na-Sa-Ka Operation – since 1992

Major Development in the Rohingya Refugee Problem---Source : Wipperman and Haque, op.cit., 2007

Major Development in the Rohingya Refugee Problem

1942 1,00,000 Rohingya Muslims were massacred during World War II. A large number of their settlements were uprooted.

(22,000 Rohingya Muslims repatriated By British India Administration in Rangpur [EastBengal India] Now Bangladesh.)

1948 Arakan Becomes a province of independent Burma. Since then Rohingyas have been driven out of Burma and now living in exile as refugees.

1974 Muslims in Northern Rakhine state (Arakan) are given foreign instead of National Registration card.

1978 'Dragon King' operation in Burma cause second refugee influx (2,00,000 persons).

1982 The Burma citizenship law of 1982, which violets several fundamental principles of customary international law standards, has reduced them to a position of defacto statelessness.

1992 Third refugee influx, 2,50,000 persons hosted in 21 camps in Bangladesh.

1993 By November, 50,000 refugee had been forcibly returned.

1994 UNHCR stops individual voluntary repatriation in August 1994, as thousands return to Burma each week. After this date reports forced repatriation increase.

2007 some refugees were resettled in Canada as part of a pilot resettlement programme.

Source : Wipperman and Haque, op.cit., 2007