The Disappearance of Dil Mohammed: A Voice for the Rohingya Silenced

THE I DIPLOMAT
Shafiur Rahman
May 19, 2023

On January 18, prominent advocate Dil Mohammed was abducted from a Rohingya camp in No Man’s Land. He has not been heard from since.

A steadfast Rohingya advocate emerged amid the chaos in the volatile borderlands between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya refugee who became the de facto spokesperson for the No Man’s Land Rohingya encampment, navigated a complex web of political and military forces to champion the cause of his people. But on January 18, as the encampment burned to the ground in a harrowing attack, Dil Mohammed was apprehended by the long-dormant Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), which had recently re-emerged. No news of his fate has emerged since.

In Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar, 2 Rohingya militant groups fight for dominance

RFA
Nazmul Ahasan for BenarNews
2023.02.02
Oakland, CA

The Rohingya Solidarity Organization emerged in 2021 to fight the military but finds itself up against a rival.

Rohingya women and children rest in a village in Naikhongchhari, a sub-district of Bandarban, Bangladesh after fleeing from a clash between rival Rohingya insurgent groups and a blaze in their refugee settlement along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, Jan. 18 , 2023.[Abdur Rahman/BenarNews]

A 12-hour gunbattle and the torching of a refugee settlement along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border thrust the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, an old armed insurgent group, back into the spotlight.

The fighting last month between members of RSO and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgents left at least one person dead and forced hundreds of Rohingya refugees to flee the encampment.