The leader of the Rohingya Armed Group in Bangladesh was arrested

A leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a neighboring raid in Bangladesh this week and was charged under the Anti -Terrorism Law.

God, Rohingya ethnic and leader The Army of Salvation, Arakan RohingyaBangladesh police said in a statement that ARSA was arrested on Monday. He was arrested in the Narayangang area, on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, according to a local police officer. Nine other members of ARSA suspects were arrested in raids.

Shahinor Allam, an official at the Seedherang Police Station in Narayanganj on Wednesday, said that the ten suspects were accused under a law to combat terrorism in a court in Narayangang, and is now a police detainee.

Coordinated attacks by ARSA rebels were used on security sites in 2016 and 2017 as an excuse for the Myanmar Army to launch a The incendiary campaign From intentional burning, mass rape and killing against the Rohingya minority. Dozens of Rohingya villages were eliminated from the map, while the Myanmar army called “security operations”. The United States has described the expulsion of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh, which paid the fastest flow of refugees in modern history, which is genocide.

Today, more than a million Rohingya is limited to a series of tents settlements in neighboring Bangladesh, one of which is the largest refugee camp in the world. Arms battles in the camps between the militant groups, including ARSA, have added Another layer of shock For the life of the Rohingya and the extremism of a generation of desperate young people.

Arsa and other rebel groups Camp leaders assassinatedIncluding those who work for Rohingya to return to Myanmar. The gunmen recruited boys and youth by force in their ranks. They also directed smuggling rings that deposit the young Rohingya in sex deals and servants, according to the elderly Camp and human rights groups.

Mr. Atta Allah, the leader of ARSA, was born to the Rohingya family exiled in Pakistan and grew up in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he received religious instructions. The group was not so unknown until thousands of its fighters were besieged by the security foci in Myanmar, killing about 20 police and military personnel in the 2017 attacks, according to the Myanmar government. Arsa rebels were trained in black, to mobilize themselves with the cry of the battle “Speak out loud, God is the greatest”, according to the group members.

Mr. Atta Allah, who was identified by the Bangladeshi police in the name of Atta Allah, Abu Ammar Junouni, who was secretly recruited between the Rohingya in Myanmar, both young and old, on the pretext that only armed rebellion can face decades of persecution facing the Muslim minority in Bodhait-Miles.

But in recent years, Arsa has become known as gangs like gangs in refugee camps in Bangladesh, where it is fighting with other armed groups, including the Rohingya Solidarity Organization. Human Rights leaders say that Ray Rights is the salaries of Human Rights Enezod, they were indulged in human trafficking.

“The role of God in organizing overwhelming violations against civilians is undeniable,” said John Qwainley, director of the Fortify Rights Group, a human rights group that was released on Tuesday. 78 pages On the strict activity in the Rohingya in Bangladesh. “He directly supervised the terrible violence, including killings, kidnappings and torture of civilians in the Rohingya in both Myanmar and Bangladesh.”

Mr. Queenly added that the actions of Mr. Atta Allah and other rebels may constitute war crimes.

There is no great hope that the Rohingya will return to Myanmar any time soon. Even before the army appeared in Myanmar a coup four years ago, as a country southeast Asia drowned in the civil war, the Rohingya carries the ethnic chauvinism of the army. Rohingya waves fled home, found a shelter and legs in Asia and the Middle East. There are now much larger Rohingya outside Myanmar more than their homeland.

Discounts in American aid in recent weeks Add more pain For the life of the Rohingya in Bangladesh camps, with clinics and other basic services stop.

Armed groups claiming to be fighting on behalf of the Rohingya over the decades in Rakhine State, their homeland in western Myanmar. Some armed organizations in the Rohingya called for independence, while others stopped the conditions similar to the racist semester of the army, which was dominated by the Buddhist Group in Amar Arqiya. The massacres against the Rohingya were incited in 2016 and 2017 by another ethnic minority, which is the Buddhist Rakhine, which fills the same West Myanmar sector as the Rohingya.

Today, Rakhine’s ethnic rebellion called the Arakan army has sparked control of most of the state of Rakhine from the Myanmar army, including the northern part of the state where the Rohingya is collected. The changing battlefield led to an extraordinary alliance. Some armed groups in the Rohingya kidnapped boys and youth from the refugee camps in Bangladesh and sent them to Myanmar to fight on the side of the Myanmar army. Many Rohingya believes that the Arakan army is committing Mysteries are much worse Against the army, Myanmar.

Ethnic cleansing campaigns in Myanmar the army targeted multiple minority groups of multiple religions. But violence towards the Rohingya was the most extreme. Military and civil governments in Myanmar Rohingya rejected as foreign interferences from Bangladesh and refused to use the name “Rohingya”, for fear of legitimacy to the presence of the ethnic minority. Most of the Rohingya were mainly stripped of their nationality, although their leaders served once in Parliament and in other positions in August.

Good sword She contributed to the reports from Dhaka, Bangladesh.