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Rohingya conflict
Part of the internal conflict in Myanmar
Map of Maungdaw District in Rakhine State (Arakan)
Map of Rakhine State with Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships highlighted in red.
DateCommunal violence: 1942 – present
Insurgency: 1947 – present
LocationNorthern Rakhine State;[4]
Bangladesh–Myanmar border
Status

Ongoing

  • Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
  • Ongoing humanitarian crisis with notable spikes in 1978, 1992, 2015, 2016 and 2017
Belligerents
British Burma 1937 flag British Burma
(1947–1948)
Flag of Myanmar Union of Burma
(1948–1962)

Flag of Jihad Mujahideen
(1947–1961)

Supported by:
Flag of Pakistan Pakistan (until 1950)[1]

Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010) Military governments
(1962–2011)

  • Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
    (1962–1988)
  • Union of Myanmar
    (1988–2011)

RLA
(1972–1974)
RPF
(1974–1986)
Flag of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation RSO (1982–1998)
ARIF (1986–1998)[2]
ARNO (1998–2001)[2]
Allegedly supported by:[3]
Flag of Jihad Al-Qaeda

Flag of Taliban Taliban
Flag of Myanmar Republic of the Union of Myanmar (since 2011) ARSA (since 2016)
Commanders and leaders

Current commanders:
Flag of Myanmar Win Myint
(President of Myanmar)
Flag of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi
(State Counsellor of Myanmar)
Flag of MyanmarFlag of the Myanmar Armed Forces Min Aung Hlaing
(Commander-in-Chief)
Flag of MyanmarFlag of the Myanmar Armed Forces Sein Win
(Minister of Defence)
Flag of Myanmar Maung Maung Soe
(Chief of the Western Command until November 2017)[5]
Myanmar Police Emblem Aung Myat Moe
(Rakhine Chief of Police)[6]
Myanmar Police Emblem Sein Lwin
(Rakhine Chief of Police until September 2017)[6]

Former commanders:
Flag of Myanmar Aung Gyi (1947–1963)
Flag of Myanmar Tin Oo (1947–1976)
Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010) Than Shwe
(1992–2011)
Flag of Myanmar Thein Sein
(2011–2016)

Flag of Myanmar Htin Kyaw (2016–2018)

Current commanders:
Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi[7][8]

Former commanders:
Flag of Jihad Mir Kassem (POW)
(1947–1952)
Flag of Jihad Abdul Latif
(1947–1961)
Flag of Jihad Annul Jauli
(1947–1961)
Flag of Jihad Zaffar Kawal
(1961–1974)
Muhammad Jafar Habib (1972–1982)
Flag of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation Muhammad Yunus (1974–2001)
Flag of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation Muhammad Zakaria (1982–2001)[9]

Nurul Islam (1974–2001)
Units involved

Myanmar Armed Forces Emblem Tatmadaw

Rohingya National Army (1998–2001)[2][12]
Strength

Flag of Myanmar ~2,000 soldiers[13]
Myanmar Police Emblem ~1,000 policemen[14]
Previous totals:

1,100 (1947–1950)[15]

~200 (government estimate)[16][17]
Previous totals:
2,000–5,000 (1947–1950)[15]
2,000 (1952)[15]
170 (2002)[3]

500[11][18]–600[19] (2016–2017)
Casualties and losses
2016–2018:
46 security personnel killed[a]		 2016–2018:
475 killed[20][21] and 423 arrested[22][23]

2012–2018:
10,000+ civilians killed in total[b]
128,000 internally displaced[24][25]

950,000+ fled abroad[n 1]

a 14 soldiers, 31 policemen and 1 immigration officer.[20][34][35]

b 2012: 168,[36][37] 2013: 50+,[38][39] 2016–2018: 10,000[40][41][42]

Armed conflicts
Rebel groups · Ceasefires

Protests and governmental changes

  • 1962 coup d'état
  • 1962 Protests
  • 1974 Crisis
  • 1988 Uprising
  • 1990 election
  • Roadmap to democracy
  • Saffron Revolution
  • 2010 election
  • 2011–12 political reforms

Incidents and attacks

  • 1947
  • 1983
  • 1999
  • 2003
  • 2005
  • 2010
  • 2010 cyberattacks
  • 2013

Anti-Muslim violence


The Rohingya conflict an ongoing conflict in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly known as Arakan, Burma), characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, attacks on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar's security forces,[43][44][45] and armed clashes between insurgents and security forces in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and Rathedaung Townships, which border Bangladesh.

The conflict arises chiefly from the religious and social differentiation between the Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. During World War II in Burma (present-day Myanmar), Rohingya Muslims, who were allied with the British and promised a Muslim state in return, fought against local Rakhine Buddhists, who were allied with the Japanese. Following independence in 1948, the newly formed union government of the predominantly Buddhist country denied citizenship to the Rohingyas, subjecting them to extensive systematic discrimination in the country. This has widely been compared to apartheid[46][47][48][49] by many international academics, analysts and political figures, including Desmond Tutu, a famous South African anti-apartheid activist.[50]

From 1947 to 1961, Rohingya mujahideen fought government forces in an attempt to have the mostly Rohingya populated region around the Mayu peninsula in northern Arakan (present-day Rahkine State) gain autonomy or secede, so it could be annexed by East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).[51] During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the mujahideen lost most of its momentum and support, resulting in most of them surrendering to government forces.[52][53]

In the 1970s Rohingya separatist movements emerged from remnants of the mujahideen, and the fighting culminated with the Burmese government launching a massive military operation named Operation Dragon King in 1978 to expel so-called "foreigners".[54] In the 1990s, the well-armed Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) was the main perpetrator of attacks on Burmese authorities near the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.[55] The Burmese government responded militarily with Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation, but failed to disarm the RSO.[56][57]

In October 2016, Burmese border posts along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border were attacked by a new insurgent group, Harakah al-Yaqin, resulting in the deaths of at least 40 combatants.[58][59][60] It was the first major resurgence of the conflict since 2001.[2] Violence erupted again in November 2016, bringing the 2016 death toll to 134,[20] and again on 25 August 2017, when the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, (formerly Harakah al-Yaqin), launched coordinated attacks on 24 police posts and an army base that left 71 dead.[34][61][62]

A subsequent military crackdown by Myanmar prompted the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to investigate the matter and release a report on 11 October 2017 detailing the Burmese military's "systematic process" of driving hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas from Myanmar "through repeated acts of humiliation and violence".[63] According to a March 2018 report by the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), 43,000 Rohingya parents have been "reported lost, [and] presumed dead" since the August 2017 crackdown.[64]

Background[]

Further information: Rohingya people and Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
Closed Mosque - panoramio (1)

A closed mosque in Sittwe, Rakhine State.

The Rohingya people are an ethnic minority that live mainly in the northern region of Rakhine State, Myanmar, and have been described as one of the world's most persecuted minorities.[65][66][67] They describe themselves as descendants of Arab traders who settled in the region many generations ago.[65] However, French scholar Jacques Leider has stated that "the forefathers of the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Rakhine have migrated from Bengal to Rakhine"; that "their descendants and the Muslims as whole had in fact been rather uncontroversially referred to as 'Bengalis' until the early 1990s"; and that they were also referred to as "Chittagonians" during the British colonial period.[68] Others such as Chris Lewa and Andrew Selth have identified the group known as Rohingya as ethnically related to the Bengalis of southern Bangladesh while anthropologist Christina Fink uses Rohingya not as an ethnic identifier but as a political one.[n 2]

With the Japanese invasion and withdrawal of the British administration, tensions in Arakan before the war erupted. The war caused inter-communal conflicts between the Arakanese Muslims and Buddhists. Muslims fled from Japanese-controlled and Buddhist-majority regions to Muslim-dominated northern Arakan with many being killed. In return, a "reverse ethnic cleansing" was carried out. The Muslim attacks caused the Buddhists to flee to southern Arakan. Attacks by Muslim villagers on Buddhists also caused reprisals. With the consolidation of their position throughout northern Arakan, the Rohingyas retaliated against Japanese collaborators, particularly Buddhists. Though unofficial, specific undertaking were made to Arakanese Muslims after World War II. V Force officers like Andrew Irwin expressed enthusiasm to award Muslims for loyalty. Rohingya leaders believed that the British had promised them a "Muslim National Area" in Maungdaw region. They were also apprehensive of a future Buddhist-dominated government. In 1946, the leaders made calls for annexation of the territory by Pakistan. Some also called for an independent state. The requests to the British government were however ignored.[69][70][71]

After the colonial period, the first mass exodus from what was then East Pakistan took place to the 1970s.[72] In the 1950s, a "political and militant movement" rose to create "an autonomous Muslim zone", and the militants used Rohingya to describe themselves, marking the "modern origins" of the term.[73] The persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar dates back to the 1970s.[74] The term "Rohingya" has gained currency since 1990s after "the second exodus" of "a quarter million people from Bangladesh to Rakhine" in the early 1990s.[72]

The Rohingya were denied citizenship in 1982 by the government of Myanmar, which sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.[65] Since then, Rohingyas have regularly been made the target of persecution by the government and nationalist Buddhists.[75]

Mujahideen movements (1947–1961)[]

Early separatist insurgency[]

In May 1946, Muslim leaders from Arakan, Burma (present-day Rakhine State, Myanmar) met with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and asked for the formal annexation of two townships in the Mayu region, Buthidaung and Maungdaw, by East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). Two months later, the North Arakan Muslim League was founded in Akyab (present-day Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State), which also asked Jinnah to annex the region.[76] Jinnah refused, saying he could not interfere with Burma's internal matters. After Jinnah's refusal, proposals were made by Muslims in Arakan to the newly formed post-independence government of Burma, asking for the concession of the two townships to Pakistan. The proposals were rejected by the Burmese parliament.[77]

Local mujahideen were subsequently formed against the Burmese government,[78] and began targeting government soldiers stationed in the area. Led by Mir Kassem, the newly formed mujahideen movement began gaining territory, driving out local Rakhine communities from their villages, some of whom fled to East Pakistan.[79][better source needed]

In November 1948, martial law was declared in the region, and the 5th Battalion of the Burma Rifles and the 2nd Chin Battalion were sent to liberate the area. By June 1949, the Burmese government's control over the region was reduced to the city of Akyab, whilst the mujahideen had possession of nearly all of northern Arakan. After several months of fighting, Burmese forces were able to push the mujahideen back into the jungles of the Mayu region, near the country's border with East Pakistan.[citation needed]

In 1950, the Pakistani government warned its counterparts in Burma about their treatment of Muslims in Arakan. Burmese Prime Minister U Nu immediately sent a Muslim diplomat, Pe Khin, to negotiate a memorandum of understanding, so that Pakistan would cease sending aid to the mujahideen. In 1954, Kassem was arrested by Pakistani authorities, and many of his followers surrendered to the government.[1]

The post-independence government accused the mujahideen of encouraging the illegal immigration of thousands of Bengalis from East Pakistan into Arakan during their rule of the area, a claim that has been highly disputed over the decades, as it brings into question the legitimacy of the Rohingya as an ethnic group of Myanmar.[52]

Military operations against the mujahideen[]

Between 1950 and 1954, the Burma Army launched several military operations against the remaining mujahideen in northern Arakan.[80] The first military operation was launched in March 1950, followed by a second named Operation Mayu in October 1952. Several mujahideen leaders agreed to disarm and surrender to government forces following the successful operations.[76]

In the latter half of 1954, the mujahideen again began to carry out attacks on local authorities and military units stationed around Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung. In protest, hundreds of Rakhine Buddhist monks began hunger strikes in Rangoon (present-day Yangon),[52] and in response the government launched Operation Monsoon in October 1954.[76] The Tatmadaw managed to capture the main strongholds of the mujahideen and managed to kill several of their leaders. The operation successfully reduced the mujahideen's influence and support in the region.[15]

Decline and fall of the mujahideen[]

Rohingya mujahid surrenders (1961)

A Rohingya mujahid surrenders his weapon to Brigadier-General Aung Gyi, 4 July 1961.

In 1957, 150 mujahideen, led by Shore Maluk and Zurah, surrendered to government forces. On 7 November 1957, 214 additional mujahideen under the leadership of al-Rashid disarmed and surrendered to government forces.[53]

In the beginning of the 1960s, the mujahideen began to lose their momentum following the implementation of various policies by the Burmese government. The governments of Burma and Pakistan (which Bangladesh was a part of at the time) began negotiating on how to deal with the insurgents at their border and on 1 May 1961, the Mayu Frontier District was established in Arakan for the Rohingya.[81] On 4 July 1961, 290 mujahideen in southern Maungdaw Township surrendered their arms in front of Brigadier-General Aung Gyi, the then Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese Army.[82] On 15 November 1961, the few remaining mujahideen surrendered to Aung Gyi in the eastern region of Buthidaung.[52]

A few dozen insurgents remained under the command of Zaffar Kawal, another group of 40 insurgents were led by Abdul Latif, and a mujahideen faction of 80 insurgents were led by Annul Jauli. All these groups lacked local support and a unifying ideology, which lead them to become rice smugglers around the end of the 1960s.[53]

Rohingya separatist movements (1972–2001)[]

Separatist groups in the 1970s and 1980s[]

Zaffar Kawal founded the Rohingya Liberation Party (RLP) on 15 July 1972, after mobilising various former mujahideen factions under his command. Zaffar appointed himself chairman of the party, Abdul Latif as vice-chairman and minister of military affairs, and Muhammad Jafar Habib, a graduate of Rangoon University, as secretary general. Their strength increased from 200 fighters at their foundation to 500 by 1974. The RLP was largely based in the jungles near Buthidaung and was armed with weapons smuggled from Bangladesh. After a massive military operation by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) in July 1974, Zaffar and most of his men fled across the border into Bangladesh.[53][83]

On 26 April 1964, the Rohingya Independence Front (RIF) was established with the goal of creating an autonomous Muslim zone for the Rohingya people. The name of the group was changed to the Rohingya Independence Army (RIA) in 1969 and then to the Rohingya Patriotic Front (RPF) on 12 September 1973.[84] In June 1974, the RPF was reorganised with Muhammad Jafar Habib as self-appointed president, Nurul Islam, a Rangoon-educated lawyer, as vice president, and Muhammad Yunus, a medical doctor, as secretary general.[53] The RPF had around 70 fighters.[2]

In February 1978, government forces began a massive military operation named Operation Nagamin (Operation Dragon King) in northern Arakan (Rakhine State), with the official focus of expelling so-called "foreigners" from the area prior to a national census.[85] The primary objective of the Tatmadaw during the operation was to force RPF insurgents and sympathisers out of Arakan. As the operation extended farther northwest, hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas crossed the border seeking refuge in Bangladesh.[2][86][87]

In 1982, radical elements broke away from the Rohingya Patriotic Front (RPF) and formed the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO).[2] It was led by Muhammad Yunus, the former secretary general of the RPF. The RSO became the most influential and extreme faction amongst Rohingya insurgent groups by basing itself on religious grounds. It gained support from various Islamist groups, such as Jamaat-e-Islami, Hizb-e-Islami, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Angkatan Belia Islam sa-Malaysia and the Islamic Youth Organisation of Malaysia.[2][87]

The Burmese Citizenship Law was introduced on 15 October 1982, and with the exception of the Kaman people, Muslims in the country were legally unrecognised and denied Burmese citizenship.[88]

In 1986, the RPF merged with a faction of the RSO led by the former vice president of the RPF, Nurul Islam, and became the Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front (ARIF).[89][90]

Activity and expansions in the 1990s[]

In the early 1990s, the military camps of the RSO were located in the Cox's Bazar District in southern Bangladesh. RSO possessed a significant arsenal of light machine-guns, AK-47 assault rifles, RPG-2 rocket launchers, claymore mines and explosives, according to a field report conducted by correspondent Bertil Lintner in 1991.[55] The Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front (ARIF) was mostly armed with British manufactured 9mm Sterling L2A3 sub-machine guns, M-16 assault rifles and .303 rifles.[55]

The military expansion of the RSO resulted in the government of Myanmar launching a massive counter-offensive named Operation Pyi Thaya (Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation) to expel RSO insurgents along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. In December 1991, Tatmadaw soldiers crossed the border and accidentally attacked a Bangladeshi military outpost, causing a strain in Bangladeshi-Myanmar relations. By April 1992, more than 250,000 Rohingya civilians had been forced out of northern Rakhine State (Arakan) as a result of the increased military operations in the area.[2]

In April 1994, around 120 RSO insurgents entered Maungdaw Township in Myanmar by crossing the Naf River which marks the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. On 28 April 1994, nine out of twelve bombs planted in different areas in Maungdaw by RSO insurgents exploded, damaging a fire engine and a few buildings, and seriously wounding four civilians.[91]

On 28 October 1998, the armed wing of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation merged with the Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front and formed the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO), operating in-exile in Cox's Bazaar.[2] The Rohingya National Army (RNA) was established as its armed wing.

In 2002, the Tatmadaw began sharing intelligence with the United States regarding Rohingya groups in Myanmar. A report given to the CIA alleged that ARNO had 170 fighters in 2002, and that ARNO leaders met with members of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The report further claimed that 90 ARNO members were sent to Afghanistan and Libya for training in guerrilla warfare. None of the claims in the report were independently verified.[3]

The Islamic extremist organisations Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami[92] and Harkat-ul-Ansar[93] also claimed to have branches in Myanmar.

Emergence of ARSA (2016–present)[]

Main article: Northern Rakhine State clashes
Myanmar police patrolling in Maungdaw

Members of the Myanmar Police Force patrolling in Maungdaw in September 2017.

On 9 October 2016, hundreds of unidentified insurgents attacked three Burmese border posts along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh.[94] According to government officials in the mainly Rohingya border town of Maungdaw, the attackers brandished knives, machetes and homemade slingshots that fired metal bolts. Nine border officers were killed in the attack,[59] and 48 guns, 6,624 bullets, 47 bayonets and 164 bullet cartridges were looted by the insurgents.[95] On 11 October 2016, four soldiers were killed on the third day of fighting.[60] Following the attacks, reports emerged of several human rights violations allegedly perpetrated by Burmese security forces in their crackdown on suspected Rohingya insurgents.[96]

Government officials in Rakhine State originally blamed the RSO, an Islamist insurgent group mainly active in the 1980s and 1990s, for the attacks;[97] however, on 17 October 2016, a group calling itself Harakah al-Yaqin (later changed to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or ARSA) claimed responsibility.[98] In the following days, six other groups released statements, all citing the same leader.[99]

The Myanmar Army announced on 15 November 2016 that 69 Rohingya insurgents and 17 security forces (10 policemen, 7 soldiers) had been killed in recent clashes in northern Rakhine State, bringing the death toll to 134 (102 insurgents and 32 security forces). It was also announced that 234 people suspected of being connected to the attack were arrested.[20][100] Some of them will later be sentenced to death for their involvement in the 9 October's attacks.[101]

Nearly two dozen prominent human rights activists, including Malala Yousafzai, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson, called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene and end the "ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity" being perpetrated in northern Rakhine State.[102]

A police document obtained by Reuters in March 2017 listed 423 Rohingyas detained by the police since 9 October 2016, 13 of whom were children, the youngest being ten years old. Two police captains in Maungdaw verified the document and justified the arrests, with one of them saying, "We the police have to arrest those who collaborated with the attackers, children or not, but the court will decide if they are guilty; we are not the ones who decide." Myanmar police also claimed that the children had confessed to their alleged crimes during interrogations, and that they were not beaten or pressured during questioning. The average age of those detained is 34, the youngest is 10, and the oldest is 75.[22][23]

In early August 2017, the Burmese military resumed "clearance operations" in northern Rakhine State, worsening the humanitarian crisis in the country, according to a report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released on 11 October 2017. The report, titled the Mission report of OHCHR rapid response mission to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, detailed the "systematic process" pursued by the Burmese military in driving out the Rohingya population from the country, as well as various human rights violations allegedly perpetrated by military personnel.[63][103]

During the early hours of 25 August 2017, up to 150 insurgents launched coordinated attacks on 24 police posts and the 552nd Light Infantry Battalion army base in Rakhine State, leaving 71 dead (12 security personnel and 59 insurgents).[34][61][62] The Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) stated on 1 September 2017 that the death toll had risen to 370 insurgents, 13 security personnel, two government officials and 14 civilians.[21]

A one-month unilateral ceasefire was declared by ARSA on 9 September 2017, in an attempt to allow aid groups and humanitarian workers safe access into northern Rakhine State.[104][105][106] In a statement, the group urged the government to lay down their arms and agree to their ceasefire, which would have been in effect from 10 September until 9 October (the one-year anniversary of the first attacks on Burmese security forces by ARSA). The government rejected the ceasefire, saying that they do not "negotiate with terrorists". Zaw Htay, the spokesperson for the State Counselor's office, stated "We have no policy to negotiate with terrorists."[107]

At the end of October 2017, the UN estimated that over 600,000 Rohingya refugees had fled to Bangladesh since armed clashes resumed two months earlier.[108][109] The Bangladeshi ambassador to the UN described the situation as "untenable" for his country, which planned to sterilise Rohingya women in order to avoid a population explosion[110] and which also planned on seeking, in cooperation with the Burmese authorities, to repatriate some of the Rohingya refugees in Rakhine State.[111] However, much of the agricultural land abandoned by Rohingya refugees have been seized by the government,[112] and a vast majority of them do not have any official documents certifying that they have lived in the Rakhine State prior to the violence, due to their statelessness.

On 22 May 2018, Amnesty International released a report claiming it had evidence that ARSA rounded up and killed as many as 99 Hindu civilians on 25 August 2017, the same day that ARSA launched a massive attack against Myanmar's security forces.[113][114]

Humanitarian crisis[]

Further information: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Emergency food, drinking water and shelter to help people displaced in Rakhine State, western Burma

Internally displaced Rohingyas in Rakhine State, 14 December 2012.

An estimated 655,000 to 700,000 Rohingya people reportedly fled to Bangladesh between 25 August 2017 and December 2017, to avoid ethnic and religious persecution by Myanmar's security forces in their "clearance operations" against insurgents,[115][116][117] joining an additional 300,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who had arrived after fleeing earlier waves of communal violence.[118] The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated on 31 July 2018 that 128,000 Rohingyas were internally displaced inside of Rakhine State.[24][25]

At the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in late September 2018, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stated that her country was hosting at least 1.1 million Rohingya refugees, and asked international leaders to help support an "early, peaceful solution" to the humanitarian crisis.[119]

Seven Rohingya refugees were deported from India on 3 October 2018, following a decision by the Supreme Court of India to reject a petition to halt their deportation. The refugees had been held in prison since 2012 for illegally entering India, after they fled communal riots in Rakhine State.[120][121] The deportation went forward despite warnings by the United Nations, which cited inadequate conditions for repatriation.[122]

Report by the OHCHR[]

On 11 October 2017, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report titled the Mission report of OHCHR rapid response mission to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, which detailed the Burmese military's "systematic process" of driving away hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas from Myanmar. The report noted that prior to the attacks on 25 August 2017 and the military crackdown that ensued, the military pursued a strategy to:[63][103]

  • have male Rohingyas between the ages of 15–40 years arrested and/or arbitrarily detained
  • have Rohingya political, cultural and religious figures arrested and/or arbitrarily detained
  • ensure that access to food, livelihoods and other means of conducting daily activities and life be taken away from Rohingya villagers
  • drive out Rohingya villagers en masse through repeated acts of humiliation and violence, such as [the] incitement of [sectarian] hatred, violence and killings
  • instill deep and widespread fear and trauma (physical, emotional and psychological) in Rohingyas, through acts of brutality; namely killings, disappearances, torture, and rape (and other forms of sexual violence)

Misleading images[]

Misleading images have been used by both sides of the conflict, alongside claims of violence against civilians. Verifying the authenticity of images has become a challenge for researchers, due to media and travel restrictions imposed by Myanmar's government on Rakhine State.[123]

Following the August 2017 ARSA attacks and the subsequent crackdown by the military, photos were released by Burmese officials allegedly showing several Rohingyas setting fire to buildings in their own village. Government spokesman Zaw Htay tweeted a link to a government article about the photos, with the caption "Photos of Bengalis setting fire to their houses!" However, journalists later recognized two of the arsonists as Hindus from a nearby school building, prompting Htay to announce that the government would investigate the matter.[124][125]

In July 2018, the Burmese military's department of public relations published a propaganda book titled "Myanmar Politics and the Tatmadaw: Part I", in which it contained photos purportedly showing the illegal immigration of Rohingyas during British rule and violence perpetrated by Rohingya villagers against Rakhine villagers. It was later revealed by Reuters that the photos had been captioned misleadingly; a photo that supposedly showed a Rohingya man with the corpses of slain Rakhine locals was actually a photo taken during the Bangladesh Liberation War of a man recovering the corpses of massacred Bengalis, and a photo that claimed to show the entry of hundreds of "Bengali intruders" (i.e. Rohingyas) into Rakhine State was in fact an award-winning photo of Hutu refugees taken in 1996.[126][127] The Burmese military later apologised on 3 September 2018 for misusing the photos, saying in a statement, "We sincerely apologize to the readers and the owners of the photographs for the mistake."[128]

Facebook controversies[]

Following the ARSA attacks in August 2017, Facebook received heavy criticism for its handling of anti-Rohingya hate speech on its platform. In March 2018, a U.N. investigator accused Facebook of allowing its platform to be used to incite violence against the Rohingya, and said that the site had "turned into a beast." An investigation by Reuters in August 2018 found that over a thousand derogatory posts and comments against Rohingyas and other Muslims were viewable on Facebook, despite the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, pledging to U.S. senators four months prior to hire more Burmese language reviewers to combat the problem.[129]

A New York Times report released in October 2018 stated that starting around 2013, the Burmese military began an online campaign against the Rohingya, creating up to 700 throw-away accounts and fake news pages to spread disinformation and criticize posts not in line with the military's stances on issues. Facebook's cybersecurity policy head called the military's actions "clear and deliberate attempts to covertly spread propaganda." In August 2018, Facebook permanently removed several of the accounts, which included fake fan pages of celebrities and national icons.[130]

The report also stated that the military's intelligence arm began a campaign in 2017 to incite civil discord between Buddhists and Muslims, sending false warnings of future attacks via Facebook Messenger, purporting to be from news sites and celebrity fan pages. Buddhist groups were reportedly told to be wary of future "jihadist attacks", whilst Muslim groups were told that anti-Muslim protests were being organised by nationalist Buddhist monks.[130]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ See [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
  2. ↑ See (Leider 2013) for the academic opinion on the historical usage of the term by several academics and authors. (Leider 2013: 215–216): Lewa in 2002 wrote that "the Rohingya Muslims are ethnically and religiously related to the Chittagonians of southern Bangladesh."
    Selth in 2003: "These are Bengali Muslims who live in Arakan State... Most Rohingyas arrived with the British colonialists in the 19th and 20th centuries."
    (Leider 2013: 216) citing Christina Fink: "small armed group of Muslims generally known as Rohingya".

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 U Nu, U Nu: Saturday's Son, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) 1975, p. 272.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 "Bangladesh Extremist Islamist Consolidation". by Bertil Lintner. http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/publication/faultlines/volume14/Article1.htm. Retrieved 21 October 2012. 
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