Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - Ko te iwi Rohingya he iwi iti e noho ana i te raki o Arakan, Burma (ko Rakhine State, Myanmar), kua pa ki te whakatoia o mua e te kawanatanga Burmese me te nuinga Buddhist. Whai muri i te General Ne Win me tana Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) i mau ki te mana i roto i te coup i te tau 1962
, i whakakorehia ngā whakahaere tōrangapū, pāpori hoki a Rohingya e te kāwanatanga. Ko te mutunga o te pakanga whakaoranga i te taha tata o Bangladesh i kaha ake te wehi o te kawanatanga o Burma mo nga "kaiwhaiwhai ke" e uru ana ki to raatau whenua, ana i te 1977, ka tiimata te kawanatanga ki te whakarite mo te Operation Dragon King, i tiimata i te timatanga o te tau e whai ake nei.