Rohingya 09 GENOCIDE DAY An Unconstitutional Operation in North Rakhine BY AMAN ULLAH MAP BY WIKIMEDIA Following the initial attacks attributed to ARSA in October 2016, government authorities have at various points in time declared parts of northern Rakhine State to be subject to ‘area clearance operations.’ This term was also applied to areas of Kachin State during 2017. In Rakhine State, the last time authorities reported area clearance operations to be in effect was in Maungdaw Township on 12 September 2017, via a public announcement from the government’s Information Committee on 13 September 2017. In the name of this clearance operation the Myanmar security forces purposely destroyed the property of the Rohingyas, targeting their houses, fields, food-stocks, crops, livestock and even trees, to render the possibility of the Rohingya returning to normal lives and livelihoods in the future in northern Rakhine almost impossible.