Timeline of Modern Burma
Category: Other
Updated: 27 Sep 2017
An incomplete timeline of anti-Rohingya oppression in Burma
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Created byPaige Williams
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Events
First British-Burmese WarAung San founds
Communist Party
of BurmaThakin Nationalist
Movement emergesEU, US sanctions
imposedSuu Kyi awarded
Nobel Peace PrizeMNHRC maid
abuse scandalMyanmar National
Human Rights
Commission createdRohingya people
officially statelessRohingyans ask that Arakan become
part of E. Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
during Partition of IndiaPeriods
Unstable new gov't
led by U Nu
marked by
insurgenciesMuslim Indians in Chittagong migrate/return to find agricultral work in Arakan/Rakhine (read description)Japanese
OccupationDaw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest ~15 yearsGrouping
British occupation
Authoritarian dictatorship under
Gen. Ne Win
SLORC and the Burmese Path to Socialism
Events
SLORC ignores NLD election sweep
and retains powerIncreased army presence in North Arakan leads
to flight of 270,000+ Rohingya by spring 1992HRW/Asia records
Burmese in Thailand:
95k refugees and 200k
illegal migrantsSaffron
RevolutionCyclone Nargis
leaves 130k
dead or
homelessConstitutional
Referendum
passed; high
fraud ratesGovernment changes names to
State Law & Order Restoration Council;
changes English transliteration to MyanmarPost-SLORC era
Current ARSA conflict & increased Rohingya oppression
Events
Ata Ullah arrives in Rakhine1st ARSA (then Harakah al-Yaqin)
attackTatmadaw (gov't police) kill 69 insurgents in RakhineTMD raid ARSA insurgent campsARSA attack TMD, who kill 77 fightersARSA proposed ceasefire rejected by governmentARSA accused of killing 28 HindusThe Economist reports 400k Rohingya have fled to BangladeshAnti-Muslim/Rohingya riot kills
almost 100, burns mosque
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