Rohingya National Army

Rohingya National Army
Participant in the Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
Active	1998 (1998)–2015
Ideology	Rohingya nationalism Islamism
Area of operations	Rakhine State, Myanmar
Strength	Unknown
Opponents	Government of Myanmar Tatmadaw Western Command of the Myanmar Army Union of Myanmar (until 2011)
Battles and wars	Internal conflict in Myanmar Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar

The Rohingya National Army (abbreviated RNA) is a Rohingya Islamist insurgent group in Rakhine State (Arakan), Myanmar (Burma). In 1998, the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), and the Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front (ARIF) formed a mutual alliance and established the RNA, whose affairs and establishments were managed by ARNO. The group was mainly active in the early 2000s.^[1]

In June 2015, three Burmese government contracted engineers were kidnapped near Myanmar's border with Bangladesh, with the perpetrators suspected of being the RNA. Attempts by Burmese and Bangladeshi border guards to locate the victims failed, and they were eventually beheaded by their captors.^[2]

See also

• Rohingya Solidarity Organisation
• Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
• Islam in Myanmar

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