Rohingya Liberation Party

Rohingya Liberation Party
Participant in the Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
Active 1972 (1972)–1974 (1974)
Ideology Rohingya nationalism
Islamism
Leaders Zaffar Kawal[1]
Abdul Latif
Muhammad Jafar Habib
Headquarters Buthidaung, Rakhine State
Area of operations Rakhine State, Myanmar
Strength 800–2500[1]
Became Rohingya Patriotic Front
Opponents Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
Battles and wars

Internal conflict in Myanmar

The Rohingya Liberation Party ( abbreviated RLP) was an Islamist insurgent group in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). The group consisted of Rohingya fighters led by former Mujahideen leader Zaffar.[1]

History

During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, weapons were smuggled across the border into northern Rakhine State. On 15 July 1972, Mujahideen leader Zaffar founded the Rohingya Liberation Party (RLP), after mobilising various Mujahideen factions under his command. Zaffar appointed himself Chairman of the party, Abdul Latif as Vice Chairman and Minister of Military Affairs, and Muhammad Jafar Habib as the Secretary General, a graduate from the University of Yangon. Their strength increased from 200 fighters in the beginning to 500 by 1974. The RLP was largely based in the jungles of Buthidaung. After a massive military operation by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) in July 1974, Zaffar and most of his men fled across the border into Bangladesh.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pho Kan Kaung (May 1992). The Danger of Rohingya. Myet Khin Thit Magazine No. 25. pp. 87–103.
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