Timeline of Key Events

Abstract

2012: Violence between Muslims and Buddhists, sometime supported by state security forces, sweeps across Rakhine State leading to scores of deaths, destruction of property and mass displacement. Myanmar authorities separate communities, and displaced Rohingya and other Muslim communities are moved to camps where their movement is restricted. Curfews are imposed in several townships, however by September 2014 are lifted in all areas except for the Rohingya-majority townships of Maungdaw and Buthidaung.