The Rohingya crisis is one of the world’s most protracted and politically complex displacement crises stretching back several decades. In 1978, Myanmar’s military government launched a citizenship scrutiny campaign known as Operation Nagamin (Dragon King). The operation disproportionately targeted the Rohingya population of Arakan, later renamed Rakhine State, exposing them to widespread persecution, dispossession and violence. Around a quarter …
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