Rohingya Patriotic Front

Rohingya Patriotic Front
Participant in the Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
Active 1974 (1974)–1980s
Ideology Rohingya nationalism
Islamism
Leaders Muhammad Jafar Habib[1]
Muhammad Yunus
Nurul Islam
Headquarters Buthidaung, Rakhine State
Area of operations Rakhine State, Myanmar
Strength 70[1][2]
Originated as Rohingya Liberation Party
Became Rohingya Solidarity Organization
Opponents Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
Battles and wars

Internal conflict in Myanmar

The Rohingya Patriotic Front (abbreviated RPF) was an Islamist insurgent group in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). The group consisted of Rohingya fighters led by Muhammad Jafar Habib, who was the former Secretary of the Rohingya Liberation Party (RLP).[1]

History

In 1974, Muhammad Jafar Habib, the former Secretary of the RLP, founded the Rohingya Patriotic Front (RPF), after the failure and dissolution of the RLP. The RPF had around 70 fighters,[1][2] and had Muhammad Jafar Habib as self-appointed Chairman, Nurul Islam, a Yangon-educated lawyer, as Vice-Chairman, and the Muhammad Yunus, a medical doctor, as Secretary General.[1]

In March 1978, government forces launched a military operation named Operation King Dragon in northern Rakhine State, with the focus of expelling Rohingya insurgents in the area.[3] As the operation extended farther into Rakhine State, tens of thousands of Rohingyas crossed the border, resulting in a large number of them seeking refuge around the border with Bangladesh.[2][4][5]

In the early 1980s, more radical elements broke away from the Rohingya Patriotic Front, and formed the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO). The RPF ceased activity by the late 1980s.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Pho Kan Kaung (May 1992). The Danger of Rohingya. Myet Khin Thit Magazine No. 25. pp. 87–103.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bangladesh Extremist Islamist Consolidation". by Bertil Lintner. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Jihad: 'The ultimate thermonuclear bomb' by Pepe Escobar, Oct 2001, Asia Times.
  4. ↑ Lintner, Bertil (1999). Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948,. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. pp. 317–8.
  5. ↑ "Bangladesh: Breeding ground for Muslim terror". by Bertil Lintner. Retrieved 21 October 2012.


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