GENOCIDE IN MYANMAR

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COUNTDOWN TO ANNIHILATION: GENOCIDE IN MYANMAR 1993-95: Rohingya who fled during operation Pyi Thaya repatriated under UNHCR’s watch. 1993: Border Region Immigration Control restricts marriages of Rohingya in Maungdaw township. 1994: Myanmar stops issuing birth certificates to Rohingya children. 1997: Head of Sittwe Immigration Office restricts Rohingya travelling outside their township. 2001: Twenty-eight mosques and Islamic schools destroyed in and around Maungdaw township. 2005: Maungdaw Township Peace and Development Council restricts Rohingya marriages and birth rate. 2008: Rohingyas granted temporary registration cards and permitted to vote in widely discredited Myanmar Constitution referendum. 2008-9: Government ‘spot-checks’ Rohingya homes and restricts movement. 2010: Myanmar elections, Rohingya allowed to vote. 2012: Violence erupts in Rakhine state between Buddhists and Muslims. 2014: March: Rakhine nationalists attack international NGO offices in Sittwe; April: Rohingya excluded from April nationwide census. 2015: February: parliament grants temporary white card holders (mostly Rohingya) the right to vote in planned constitutional amendment. Days later the President reverses the decision and declares white cards invalid; May: boat crisis in Andaman Sea reported in the international press; June: UNHCR estimates over 150,000 people have fled from the Myanmar/Bangladesh border area since January 2012; August: Rohingya representative in northern Rakhine state, U Shwe Maung, is barred from re-election. 8
Abbreviations and glossary 969 nationalist movement within the Sangha AHRDO Arakan Human Rights and Development Organization ALD Arakan League for Democracy ANP Arakan National Party (sometimes referred to as ‘Rakhine National Party’) Arakan former name of Rakhine state and people ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations Bamar majority ethnic group in Myanmar, often used interchangeably with ‘Burmese’ and ‘Burman’ Burma former name of Myanmar (pre-1989) CSOs civil society organisations ECC Emergency Coordination Centre ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross IDPs internally displaced persons INGOs international NGOs ISCI International State Crime Initiative ‘kalar’ pejorative term for Muslims Kaman Muslim ethnic minority in Rakhine state 9
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