# Tatmadaw clearance operations begin in Rakhine after 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks

Date: 2017

## The fact

From 25 August 2017 Myanmar’s armed forces conducted clearance operations in Rakhine State after ARSA attacks the same day. [Min Aung Hlaing](/people/min-aung-hlaing) was Commander-in-Chief. ARSA’s attacks are neighbouring. They are not a veto of CinC authorship. An ICC application is not a public warrant. Flight and death totals are estimates and are not supplied as Contribution.size.

## Context

[Aung San Suu Kyi](/people/aung-san-suu-kyi) was state counsellor in 2017 and is an unresolved person candidate on this run. The Gambia v. Myanmar ICJ case (provisional measures 23 January 2020; jurisdiction 22 July 2022) is neighbouring court procedure, not this Contribution as a twin. He is not stored on ukraine-war.

ARSA attacks 25 August; clearance operations from that date; FFM 2018; ICC application 27 November 2024. Store the operations as CinC command. Keep Tatmadaw clearance operations begin in Rakhine after 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks on 2017-08-25 separate from neighbouring 25 August 2017 Rakhine operations, 1 February 2021 coup, 25 July 2022 hangings, 11 April 2023 Pazigyi strike, 10 February 2024 conscription, and 3 April 2026 parliamentary elevation.

The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services from 2011, SAC chairman from 2 February 2021 to 31 July 2025, and president from 10 April 2026 can order clearance operations, a coup, hangings, airstrikes, and a draft. That office does not sit as an ICC judge, does not write an ICJ order, and a contested casualty estimate is not converted here into Contribution.size.

## Evidence and sources

International Criminal Court carries the official instrument or communique. UN Human Rights Office records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is junta atrocity: completed CinC command of 2017 Rakhine operations later alleged as crimes against humanity, not a Soviet repression row and not a unique death integer.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Clearance operations from 25 August 2017 under CinC command, independently recorded by the FFM; ICC Prosecutor applied on 27 November 2024 for an arrest warrant covering 25 August–31 December 2017.

Not established: A unique Rohingya death total, or that the ICC has issued a public warrant.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The ICC application names him. Warrant issuance remains a chamber decision. Casualty integers are estimates.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Tatmadaw clearance operations begin in Rakhine after 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks, not a later speech about Tatmadaw clearance operations begin in Rakhine after 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Tatmadaw clearance operations begin in Rakhine after 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks on 2017-08-25 is not a licence to treat every later International Criminal Court communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Tatmadaw clearance operations begin in Rakhine after 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was Commander-in-Chief. The ICC application names him. Warrant issuance remains a chamber decision. Casualty integers are estimates. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Min Aung Hlaing: https://factrail.ai/people/min-aung-hlaing

## Drivers

- Min Aung Hlaing junta atrocity (Myanmar): https://factrail.ai/drivers/min-aung-hlaing-junta-atrocity

## Sources

- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2018/09/myanmar-un-fact-finding-mission-releases-its-full-account-massive-violations
- https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-application-arrest-warrant-situation-bangladesh

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-rohingya-clearance-2017