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    the Burma Road in the last months of the war. In the coastal province of Arakan, Allied amphibious landings secured vital offshore islands and inflicted...
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    campaign and was conducted by the XV Indian Corps. Ramree Island, part of Arakan (now Rakhine State), has an area of 520 sq mi (1,350 km2) and is separated...
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    south towards the Bay of Bengal along the line of the Naga Hills and the Arakan Yoma, continues around Indonesia, and follows the edge of the continental...
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  • instrumental in destabilizing the British Indian Army in the early stages of the Arakan offensive. It was during this time that the British Military Intelligence...
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    forces mounted two operations. The first was a disastrous offensive into the Arakan region in late 1942 that forced a retreat back to India by May 1943. The...
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  • Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-327-163-6. Peart, Alan (2008). From North Africa to the Arakan. Grub Street Publishing. ISBN 978-1-906502-03-4. Prien, Jochen; Rodeike...
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    an advance along the coast in Arakan Province. In February 1944, the Japanese mounted a local counter-attack in Arakan. After early Japanese success,...
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    of Burma. Minority groups were also armed by the Japanese, such as the Arakan Defense Army and the Chin Defense Army. Hong Kong was a British crown colony...
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    of Oktwin Battle of Toungoo Battle of Yenangyaung Burma Campaign 1942–43 Arakan Campaign 1942–1943 Chindits Raid Burma Campaign 1944 Battle of the Admin...
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    executed. The target for this first mission was the Japanese military base in Arakan, after which IAF strike missions continued against the Japanese airbases...
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    The formation of the British Fourteenth Army (The "Forgotten Army") The Arakan Campaign The Japanese attack on India The Allied counter offensives Road...
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    temperatures the “dry zone” of central Myanmar in the rain shadow of the Arakan Mountains, where annual rainfall can be as low as 600 millimetres or 24...
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    regiments, was divided between U Go and the diversionary Ha-Go offensive in Arakan. One battalion reached as far as Mowdok in Chittagong after breaking through...
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    really happened in an individual's history", as stated by geneticist David Reich, whereas previously studies were based only on mitochondrial DNA analysis...
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    century. According to João de Barros, Bengal enjoyed military supremacy over Arakan and Tripura due to good artillery. Its forces possessed large guns and cannons...
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    arrests of Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara and the surrounding Arakan state. Over the next three months, more than 200,000 Rohingya Muslims would...
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    suzerainty from Manipur to the Cambodian marches and from the borders of Arakan to Yunnan" and was "probably the largest empire in the history of Southeast...
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  • Movement  Mozambique Democratic Movement of Mozambique RENAMO  Myanmar Arakan National Party Kokang Democracy and Unity Party National Development Party...
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    Massacres Alexandra Hospital massacre Akikaze massacre Arakan massacres in 1942 Balalae Island mass graves Balikpapan massacre Bangka Island massacre Changjiao...
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    "suzerainty from Manipur to the Cambodian marches and from the borders of Arakan to Yunnan". The empire included Mon and Shan states and annexed territories...
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    largely dealt in Abyssian slaves, known in India as Habshis or Sheedes. Arakan/Bengal, Malabar, and Coromandel remained the largest sources of forced labour...
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    North-West Europe 1940 '44–45, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, Donbaik, North Arakan, Kohima, Mandalay, Ava, Burma 1943–1945 The following members of the regiment...
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  • Bangladesh including 250,000 in 1978 as a result of the Operation Dragon King in Arakan. The forced assimilation campaign during 1984–1985 directed against ethnic...
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    Wavell ordered the Eastern Army in India to mount an offensive in the Arakan, starting in September 1942. After some initial success the Japanese counter-attacked...
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    ending the campaign until the end of the monsoon rains. In the coastal Arakan Province, some of the Burma Independence Army reached Akyab Island before...
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  • Empire) Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885, 3rd Empire) Shan States (1287–1557) Arakan (1287–1784) State of Burma (1943–1945) In Thailand: Langkasuka (2nd–15th...
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    University Press Narasimhan, Vagheesh M.; Anthony, David; Mallory, James; Reich, David (2018), The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia (PDF), bioRxiv 10...
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    Operation Nagamin, the forced expulsion of the minority Rohingya people in Arakan State (now Rakhine state) to Bangladesh ended as Burma and Bangladesh signed...
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    offensive into the Arakan region of Burma. The Arakan is a coastal strip along the Bay of Bengal, crossed by numerous rivers. The First Arakan offensive largely...
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    attack intended to isolate and destroy British Indian divisions in the Arakan Province of Burma. The Allies intended that transport aircraft (particularly...
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