Operation Dragon King

Operation Dragon King
Part of the Rohingya conflict
Rohingya villagers rounded up by Burmese soldiers and immigration officials
Planned bySocialist government of Ne Win
Objective
  • Register citizens in northern Arakan
  • Expel so-called "foreigners" (i.e. Rohingyas) from the area
Date6 February – 31 July 1978
(5 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
Executed byTatmadaw, Burmese immigration officials
OutcomeMassive humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh
Casualties200,000[1]–250,000[2] fled to Bangladesh (180,000 later repatriated)[2]

Operation Dragon King (Burmese: နဂါးမင်း စစ်ဆင်ရေး), officially known as Operation Nagamin, was a military operation carried in 1978 out by the Tatmadaw and immigration officials in northern Arakan, Burma (present-day Rakhine State, Myanmar), during the socialist rule of Ne Win.[3]

  1. ^ "Burma/Bangladesh: Burmese Refugees In Bangladesh - Historical Background". www.hrw.org. Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b Skutsch, Carl (7 November 2013). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 9781135193881. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. ^ Constantine, Greg (18 September 2012). "Bangladesh: The Plight of the Rohingya". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 22 March 2018.