Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mutanen Rohingya 'yan tsiraru ne da ke zaune a arewacin Arakan, Burma (yanzu jihar Rakhine, Myanmar), waɗanda suka sha wahala a tarihi ta hanyar gwamnatin Burma da yawancin Buddha. Bayan Janar Ne Win da jam'iyyarsa ta Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) sun kwace mulki a juyin mulki a shekarar 1962
, Gwamnatin ta rushe kungiyoyin siyasa da na zamantakewar Rohingya. Karshen yakin neman 'yanci a makwabciyar Bangladesh ya karfafa tsoron gwamnatin Burma na "masu mamaye kasashen waje" da ke kutsawa cikin kasarsu, don haka a shekarar 1977, gwamnati ta fara shirye-shiryenta na Operation Dragon King, wanda aka fara a farkon shekara mai zuwa.