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
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