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Rakhine Crisis in Numbers

by Moe Myint
October 24, 2017
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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 16, 2017. / Reuters

Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 16, 2017. / Reuters

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YANGON — Since Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked police outposts in northern Rakhine State on Aug. 25, security personnel and hundreds of militants have been killed, but undoubtedly civilians have been hit hardest.

The militant attacks and ensuing military operations have thrown scores of Hindus, Arakanese and self-identifying Rohingya Muslims into turmoil. The Irrawaddy illustrates the crisis in the following infographics, which show the total death toll of the crisis, high number of abductions, alleged mass killings, and the stream of Muslim refugees fleeing for Bangladesh—now at more than 600,000.

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Outposts Under Attack and Mass Destruction

The map below shows the locations of 30 border police outposts attacked by ARSA on Aug 25 in the entire Maungdaw district. It also provides the positions of villages burnt down in the aftermath of the attacks. International organizations, rights groups, and fleeing self-identifying Rohingya say the military and local Arakanese are behind the arson. The military and government says the culprits are militants and even the Muslim homeowners themselves.

Civilian Deaths Allegedly by Militants

Although ARSA has denied targeting civilians, The Irrawaddy reporters have spoke with Hindus who have given first-hand accounts of an ARSA attack. In addition to Hindus, this bar graph shows the rising number of Muslims and Arakanese reportedly killed by militants prior to the Aug. 25 attacks.

Civilian deaths allegedly by militants
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Abductions in Northern Rakhine State

These are the numbers of Hindus, Muslims and Arakanese believed to have been abducted by ARSA for collaborating with the government from 2016 October to 2017 October.

Abductions in northern Rakhine State
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Rakhine Crisis Death Toll

The death toll among ARSA fighters, civilians and government troops based on statistics collected by the UN and the government.

Rakhine crisis death toll
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Exodus of Muslims and non-Muslims

Militant violence has displaced nearly 30,000 non-Muslims in Maungdaw district—mainly Arakanese sub-ethnic groups Mro, Thet and Daingnet as well as Hindus. Meanwhile, more than 603,000 self-identifying Rohingyas—locally known as “Bengalis”—have fled to Bangladesh to escape military clearance operations.

Within a few weeks of Aug. 25, the total number of Muslim refugees climbed to a half million on the Bangladeshi border. The Irrawaddy visualizes the beginnings of the mass exodus in the following map using UN statistics.

Refugee Elsewhere

Myanmar’s problem of internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees is not only confined to Rakhine State. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre documented in 2014 an increase of 140,000 IDPs after 2012 communal riot in Rakhine State.

Moreover, civil wars between the government army and dozens of ethnic armed organizations have resulted in at least 500,000 IDPs in Shan, Kachin, Karen, Mon, Kaya, Bago, and Tanitharyi areas in 2014.

References

  1. Locations of ARSA attacks on 25 Augustobtained from a map shared on the Commander-in-Chief’s Office Facebook page. GIS dataset of burned villages obtained from “Destroyed buildings in Maungdaw and Buthindaung townships, Maungdaw District, Myanmar” map, published on 5 October, obtained from UNOSAT.
  2. Data on ARSA’s alleged killingsof Muslims and Arakanese by date obtained from the State Counsellor Office Information Committee Facebook page. Data on ARSA’s alleged killings of Hindus obtained from previous Irrawaddy reporting and corroborated by data obtained from the Commander in Chief’s Office Facebook page.
  3. Data on ARSA’s abductionsof Muslims and Arakanese by date obtained from the State Counsellor Office Information Committee Facebook page. Data on ARSA’s alleged abductions of Hindus obtained from previous Irrawaddy reporting and corroborated by data obtained from the Commander in Chief’s Office Facebook page.
  4. Data on deaths from ARSA’s attacks, targeted civilians between Oct 2016 and Aug 2017 and ARSA’s alleged mass killing of Hindus in Aug and Sept 2017 from the same sources as [2] and [3]. Data on death toll of suspected militants from the Commander in Chief’s Office Facebook page. Data on death toll of Muslims from the UN Special Rapporteur’s speech on September 8.
  5. Data on locations of self-identifying Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar from the Inter Sector Coordination Groupobtained via Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  6. Map of IDPs in Myanmar in 2014 obtained from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center.

This report was updated with source references on Oct 25 after its publish date on Oct 24. 

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