Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar | Published: 00:53, Feb 23,2019 |
Six people including three German journalists were attacked inside the Rohingya camp during their filming at Lambashia camp of Kutupalnong in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar on Thursday afternoon.
The ARD German TV cameraman, Gunder Stegner, 61, along with his German colleagues Stefanie Appel, 49, and Ernico Leube, 44, and Bangladeshi fixer Mohammad Shihabuddin was beaten and were given treatment at a nearby hospital afterwards.
One police constable was also injured in the incident apart from the driver of the microbus carrying the foreign nationals.
The police officials in Ukhiya said 11 Rohingyas were arrested in this connection and valuables lost during the attack were recovered.
‘All eleven were sent to the court on Friday,’ said one of the police officials in Ukhiya.
Cox’s Bazar police superintendent ABM Masud Hossain said that six people including four journalists were injured when a Rohingya mob attacked them at Lombashia under Kututpalong mega Rohingya camp in the afternoon.
Those journalists were working on a documentary film for German television and at one stage they were attacked by the Rohingyas, the police officials said.
Law enforcement agency rescued and admitted them to the local hospital while Rohingya mob also damaged their vehicle and camera.
Rezaul Karim, Kutupalong government registered camp in-charge, told New Age that, three German journalists were filming a story on the Rohingya crisis in the afternoon on Thursday. They were returning to Cox’s Bazar after covering the story but the journalists picked up two minor girls aged about eight to ten on their micro-bus intending to give them new clothes.
At one stage the girls started crying, the official said, when a group of Rohingyas intercepted the journalists suspecting them of being involved in trafficking, which led to the attack that finally left those journalists, their driver and one police constable injured.
The mob also damaged their microbus, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, German ambassador in Dhaka Peter Fahrenholtz twitted around Friday noon saying that ‘it happened because of a misunderstanding. They all are well and safe now.’
Rohingyas community leaders also commented on the incident. In a statement on Friday, the newly formed organisation Rohingya Refugee Committee, Bangladesh, said that, ‘We Rohingyas in Cox’s district, Bangladesh Camps, are extremely concerned about the attack on Journalists.’
The statement read, ‘On February 21, at 12:30pm ‘three foreigners known as German Journalists carried two Rohingya children in their vehicle from camp 4 to Camp 1 E.’
The statement read: Rohingya community assumed that children are being trafficked as this happens frequently in the camps. People asked the driver and the interpreter why the children have been taken with them but they failed to explain properly.
The statement further added that the condition within the camps was such that Rohingyas live in constant fear and insecurity. ‘We would like to have more engagement between communities, NGOs, and authorities on security issues inside the camps,’ the statement concluded.
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