Rohingya activist gunned down inside refugee camp in Bangladesh

Rohingya activist gunned down inside refugee camp in Bangladesh

According to official data, over 120 refugees killed in Cox’s Bazar camps over last 5 years

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A Rohingya activist was gunned down inside a refugee camp on the southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh early Wednesday, police said.

“The Rohingya youth identified as Mohammed Joshim and a resident of camp-10 was shot dead by unidentified killers at Balukhali camp of Ukhia district in Cox’s Bazar,” Sheikh Mohammad Ali, a local police official, told Anadolu Agency.

The killers fired several rounds of bullets at Joshim, leaving him critically injured. The youth died on his way to the hospital, according to the official.

Mohammad Amir Jafar, a commander of the Armed Police Battalion (APBN) tasked with law and order inside the refugee camps, told Anadolu Agency: “Suspected members of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) forcefully took Joshim away from his makeshift tent in the camp and shot him dead.”

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, formerly known as Harakah al-Yaqin, is a Rohingya insurgent group active in northern Rakhine State of neighboring Myanmar.

The slain activist was actively involved in a campaign against the recent killing of Rohingya rights activists in the camp allegedly by ARSA, according to several Rohingya refugees and APBN officials.

“Joshim also worked as an informer for the law enforcement agency,” Jafar added.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, several Rohingya community leaders, requesting not to be named, said they are not sharing details with the media because they fear being killed like Joshim.

On Oct. 16, a group of about a dozen people attacked and killed two Rohingya community leaders, Maulvi Md. Yunus and Anwar Hossain, at camp no. 13.

According to official data, over 120 refugees have been killed in camps over the last five years.

The European Rohingya Council earlier expressed concern over the killing of at least 13 Rohingya in refugee camps in the last four months.

Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.2 million Rohingya mainly in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, who fled a brutal military crackdown in their home country Myanmar's Rakhine State in Aug. 2017.


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