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Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier

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Updated: Mar 31, 2024

18 December 2019

By Martin Smith, Transnational Institute (TNI)




Rakhine State, historically known as Arakan, represents the post-colonial failures of Myanmar in microcosm: ethnic conflict, political impasse, militarisation, economic neglect and the marginalisation of local peoples. During the past decade, many of these challenges have gathered a new intensity, accentuating a Buddhist-Muslim divide and resulting in one of the greatest refugee crises in the modern world. A land of undoubted human and natural resource potential, Rakhine State has become one of the poorest territories in the country today.


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