- The Rohingya conflict in Western Burma is a conflict between the state of Burma and its Rohingya Muslim minority since 1947, also sometimes involving Buddhist Rakhine groups and individuals.
- Around 800,000 Muslim Rohingyas live in Burma with around 80% living in the western state of Rakhine.
- Most of them have been denied citizenship by the Burmese government.
- The United Nations consider the Rohingya one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.
- Local authorities sought to impose the number of children each Rohingya Muslim can have to two, a move criticised by the UN.
- Their initial ambition during Mujahideen movements (1947-1961) was to separate the Rohingya-populated Mayu frontier region of Arakan from western Burma and annex that region into newly formed neighbouring East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).
- In the 1970s, their uprisings appeared again during the period of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
- Recently, during the Arakan State Riots, the aspiration of the Rohingya militant groups, according to various media reports, is to create northern part of Arakan an independent or autonomous state.
- Since 2012, violence has been on the increase.
- A UN Special Rapporteur said that discrimination against the Rohingya Muslims was one of the underlying causes of the outbreak of violence.
- In January 2014, reports emerged of a massacre in the Rakhine village of Du Char Yar Tan. This was denied by the Burmese government.
- A UN team visited the scene and reported of alarming levels of violence, including the killings of many civilians.