Rohingya: Exodi & Repatriations
Category: Other
Updated: 10 Oct 2017
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Created byPaige Williams
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Events
1st Mass Exodus due to
Operation Dragon King
200k flee2nd Mass Exodus
200k fleeMinor Exodus
10k Return after Repatriation3rd mass exodus begins
due to government reaction to
ARSA attack. 500k+ have fledAl-Jazeera reports 232k Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh2012 Rakhine (Arakan)
State RiotsCensus reports 150k
Mulsims in ArakanRohingya Solidarity
Organization (RSO)
formedArakan Rohingya
Islamic Front (ARIF)
formedRSO & ARIF
rejoin to create
Rohingya National
Alliance (RNA)al-Yaqeen Faith Movement,
now Arakan Rohingya Salvation
Army (ARSA), formedPeriods
168k flee during three-year periodOutbreak of anti-Muslim violence
in Arakan causes 82k
to seek asylum in BangladeshBangladesh and Burma force
repatriation by denying food
to refugees; 12k die of starvation50k return to Burma
due to threats of violence
and starvation from Bangladesh,
Burma governmentsUNHCR aids "voluntary" repatriation effort
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