Bangladesh Police Arrest Rohingya Militant Leader

The Irrawaddy
by Muktadir Rashid
July 25, 2023

Hazeef Noor Mohammad (third from right) with other arrestees. / RAB

A commander of the militant Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), who was allegedly responsible for the killing of Squadron Leader Rizwan Rushdi of Bangladeshi military intelligence in November 2022, has been captured in Cox’s Bazar.

Alleged ARSA leader Hashim found dead at Rohingya camp

bdnews24.com
Rangamati Correspondent,
Published: 03 Nov 2021

Mohammad Hashim, an alleged Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) leader, has been found dead at the Whykong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf.

The matter was confirmed to the media by SI Mahbubur Rahman of the Whykong Police Outpost at 10:30 pm on Tuesday.

Police did not issue a clear statement on the cause of death.

Hafizur Rahman Chowhdury, chief of Teknaf police, said they are making preparations to recover the body.

Hashim is known in the camp as the ARSA ‘second-in-command’.

Rohingya community leader shot dead in Bangladesh refugee camp

REUTERS
By Ruma Paul and Poppy Mcpherson
September 29, 2021

Mohib Ullah, a leader of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, talks on the phone in Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh April 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, a United Nations spokesperson and a local police official said, following months of worsening violence in the world's largest refugee settlement.

Mohib Ullah, who was in his late 40s, led one of the largest of several community groups to emerge since more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after a military crackdown in August 2017.

Rohingya Women Aren't Just Refugees—They're Leaders

marie clarie

By Jennifer Chowdhury

Jul 9, 2019 

In June 2018, the Shalbagan refugee camp in Bangladesh, home to 41,000 Rohingya—the Muslim minority group that fled genocide in Myanmar—became the first of 30 new camps to elect leaders. When the results were tallied, organizers at the United Nations Refugee Agency and The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, which spearheaded the vote, were pleasantly surprised to learn female refugees had won half of the 12 volunteer seats. “I’ve always been interested in helping out, so when I got the chance to run, I did,” says Rehana Akhter, 35, one of the newly elected members. “This has never happened before in our society!”

Rohingya leader dies from gunshot wounds in hospital

Dhaka Tribune  

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Published at 11:26 pm March 30th, 2019 

Abdul Matlab Collected

A Rohingya camp chairman Abdul Matlab died at a hospital in Narayanganj on March 30 who was bullet shot by some miscreants on March 24 in his own locality

Abdul Matlab, a Rohingya camp chairman who was shot by miscreants at Leda Rohingya camp in Teknaf on March 24, died in a hospital under treatment on Saturday.