2017 Rohingya military operations in Rakhine State

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ethnic cleansing campaign human rights crisis military operation

The 2017 Rohingya military operations in Rakhine State were a large-scale campaign by Myanmar’s armed forces that led to mass killings, widespread human rights abuses, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims into neighboring Bangladesh.

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Surface form	Occurrences
2017 Rohingya refugee crisis	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ethnic cleansing campaign ⓘ human rights crisis ⓘ military operation ⓘ
allegedCrime	crimes against humanity ⓘ genocide ⓘ war crimes ⓘ
characterizedBy	arbitrary arrests ⓘ extrajudicial killings ⓘ forced displacement ⓘ mass killings ⓘ sexual violence ⓘ torture ⓘ village burnings ⓘ widespread rape ⓘ
condemnedBy	Amnesty International NERFINISHED ⓘ Human Rights Watch NERFINISHED ⓘ Organisation of Islamic Cooperation NERFINISHED ⓘ United Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Myanmar ⓘ
describedAs	textbook example of ethnic cleansing ⓘ
describedBy	United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights NERFINISHED ⓘ
destinationOfRefugees	Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Cox’s Bazar District NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroupTargeted	Rohingya NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCause	ARSA attacks on Myanmar security posts on 2017-08-25 ⓘ
location	Rakhine State NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Rakhine State NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainSubject	Rohingya people NERFINISHED ⓘ
numberOfRefugees	over 700000 ⓘ
participant	Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Border Guard Police of Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar security forces NERFINISHED ⓘ Rohingya Muslims NERFINISHED ⓘ Rohingya civilians ⓘ Tatmadaw NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Rohingya conflict in Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ persecution of Rohingya in Myanmar ⓘ
perpetrator	Myanmar military NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar security forces NERFINISHED ⓘ Tatmadaw NERFINISHED ⓘ
pointInTime	2017 ⓘ
religiousGroupTargeted	Muslims ⓘ
result	humanitarian crisis in Cox’s Bazar ⓘ mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh ⓘ
startTime	2017-08-25 ⓘ
subjectOf	International Criminal Court preliminary examination on Myanmar/Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar report NERFINISHED ⓘ case The Gambia v. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Cox’s Bazar refugee camps → majorInfluxEvent → 2017 Rohingya military operations in Rakhine State ⓘ

this entity surface form: 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis

Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) → notableEvent → 2017 Rohingya military operations in Rakhine State ⓘ

subject surface form: Tatmadaw