Operation Dragon King

Operation Dragon King
Operation Dragon King
Part of the Rohingya conflict
	Rohingya villagers rounded up by Burmese soldiers and immigration officials
Planned by	Socialist government of Ne Win
Objective	Register citizens in northern Arakan; Expel so-called "foreigners" (i.e. Rohingyas) from the area;
Date	6 February – 31 July 1978; (5 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
Executed by	Tatmadaw, Burmese immigration officials
Outcome	Massive humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh
Casualties	200,000–250,000 fled to Bangladesh (180,000 later repatriated)

Operation Dragon King (Burmese: နဂါးမင်း စစ်ဆင်ရေး), officially known as Operation Nagamin in English, 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]

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