Myanmar says six Rohingya killed in attack were 'with insurgents'

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Date created : 05/04/2019 

Yangon (AFP) 

Some 750,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced out of Myanmar in a brutal crackdown in 2017 AFP/File

The Myanmar army said Friday that six Rohingya killed by helicopter gunfire in restive Rakhine state were working with a rebel group, the latest escalation in violence that the UN says "may constitute war crimes".

3 suspected ‘Rohingya robbers’ killed in ‘gunfight’

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Prothom Alo English Desk |  

Update:  Apr 06, 2019

 

Three suspected Rohingya robbers were killed in an alleged 'gunfight' with police in Habiber Ghona hilly area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early Saturday, reports UNB.

The deceased Nur Alam, 23, Mohammad Jubayer, 20 and Hamid Ullah, 21, are residents of 'A-block' of Nayapara Rohingya camp at Hneela union.

Officer-in-charge of Teknaf police station Pradip Kumar Das said that a team of police conducted a drive around 2:30am on information that a gang of robbers was depositing arms in the hilly area.


Sensing the presence of police, the gang members opened fire, forcing them to fire back, triggering the gunfight.

After the gunfight, police retrieved three men sustaining bullet-wounds from the spot.

Later, they died on the way to hospital.

Police also recovered four light weapons from the scene.  

 

Link : https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/news/193633/3-suspected-%E2%80%98Rohingya-robbers%E2%80%99-killed-in

Myanmar army says six Rohingya killed in air strike were ‘with terrorists’

REUTERS
April 5, 2019

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s military said on Friday six Rohingya Muslims killed and nine wounded in an aerial attack in the western state of Rakhine this week were affiliated with an armed rebel group.

The army-run Myawady newspaper said the villagers were “together with terrorists while the army was cracking down on the Arakan Army’s terrorist activities” on Wednesday in the township of Buthidaung.

‘Helicopter attack kills five Rohingyas, wounds 13'

Dhaka Tribune
Thursday, Apr 04, 2019
Reuters, Yangon 

In this photograph taken on September 7, 2017, unidentified men carry knives and slingshots as they walk past a burning house in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state, in northern Myanmar AFP

The latest incident occurred in a valley in Buthidaung township, near a village that was home to Rohingya Muslim families

Villagers and a lawmaker in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state said on Thursday that a military helicopter attacked a group of Rohingya Muslims gathering bamboo, killing five and wounding 13, but a military spokesman declined to comment.

Rakhine rebels kill 9 in contemporary strike on Myanmar police

Infosurhoy

by Denis Bedoya | 

Mar 31, 2019 | News


YANGON (Reuters) – Arakan Army insurgents killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State, the government said on Sunday, as clashes threaten to engulf a large part of the troubled region.

Villagers heard gunfire as fighters from the armed group, which recruits from the mainly Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group, raided a police post in the village of Yoe Ta Yoke late on Saturday night.

Rumana Akter, 20, is First Rohingya Woman Shot Dead by Bangladeshi Forces in Crackdown on Drug Peddlers

LATEST LY

Sunday, 31st March, 2019

 

Image of Rohingya refugees used for representational purpose | (Photo: UNHCR/Andrew McConnell)

 

 

Dhaka, March 31: Nearly a week after gunning down two Rohingya drug peddlers in the refugee-domination region of Teknaf, the Bangladeshi forces have shot dead another alleged narcotic peddler, identified as Rumana Akter. The 20-year-old is the first Rohingya woman to be killed amid the crackdown against drugs launched by Bangladesh since October last year.

Alleged gunfights kill 6 in 3 districts

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Prothom Alo English Desk | 

Update: 16:31, Mar 27, 2019

Six people were killed in alleged gunfights with law enforcement agencies in Cox's Bazar, Dhaka and Gazipur early Wednesday, reports news agency UNB.

In Cox's Bazar, four people were killed in separate reported gunfights with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members in Teknaf and Pekua upazilas.

Among the four deceased two were Rohingya drug peddlers and two sea robbers, the BGB and RAB claimed.

4 killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’

theindepedent 
Independent Online Desk
27 March, 2019  

Representational image

Four people, including Rohingya ‘drug peddlers’ and pirates, were killed in alleged gunfights with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Teknaf and Pekua upazilas early Wednesday, UNB reports.

Rohingya man's body found in Teknaf

Dhaka Tribune

Wednesday, Mar 27, 2019
Abdul Aziz, Coxs Bazar 

Map of Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

The deceased had multiple bullet wounds

Police have recovered a bullet-ridden Rohingya man's body from Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased has been identified as Md Sadek, 35, son of Md Jalil; both residents of the Nayapara Rohingya Camp's H block.

2 people from Rohingya community found dead

The Daily Star

Tuesday, "March 26, 2019"
Another hit by bullet

Two people from the Rohingya community including a suspected robber were found dead in different areas of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours today.

In Teknaf upazila, police recovered the bullet-hit body of Mohammad Abu Sayed Prokash, 35, locally known as Dakat Sadek, from near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp, our Cox’s Bazar staff correspondent reports quoting sub-inspector of Noyapara Refugee camp police outpost Abdus Salam.

A police officer killed in Mrauk-U

MYANMARTIMES
Nyan Lynn Aung  25 Mar 2019

A police officer was shot dead by two unknown assailants while he was having dinner at a restaurant near a police station in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, on Saturday night, police said.

Police Inspector Kyaw Kyaw Hla of Tain Nyo police station in Mrauk-U died of gunshot wounds to the head and chest while he was being operated on at hospital, the official said.

Malaysia’s Rohingya footballers mourn player killed after shirt caught fire following lightning strike

South China Morning Post  

Nazvi Careem  

Published: 5:31pm, 11 Mar, 2019

• Rohimullah, 19, was a spectator at a friendly game but stayed on the wet field during a lightning storm after others sought shelter
• Four others injured with witnesses saying they were using their mobile phones at the time of the strike

Rohimullah Bin Abdul Zalil (left) and Abdul Rahman Bin Abul Hussein. Photo: Handout

Malaysia’s Rohingya football community is in mourning after the death of 19-year-old Rohimullah Bin Abdul Zalil, who was killed after the sodden football pitch he was standing on was struck by lightning on Sunday.

One killed in lightning strike

THE Star ONLINE
Monday, 11 Mar 2019

PETALING JAYA: A lightning strike on a football field near Setia Murni, Setia Alam, killed a Rohingya player and injured three others.

Heavy rain had forced the afternoon game to stop but a few players were still on the field when tragedy struck.

Nine police killed in attack in Myanmar’s Rakhine - police

EYEWITNESS NEWS
AFP, 10 Mar 2019

FILE: Policemen in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar. Picture: AFP

A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh in violence UN investigators have said warrants the prosecution of top generals for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Military Major’s Wife Killed in Explosion in N. Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint 26 February 2019

Maj. Kyaw Swar and his wife Nan Moh Moh Zaw seen on their wedding day in a photo uploaded to his Facebook profile on February 9, 2019. / Facebook

 YANGON—The wife of a Myanmar military major, Maj. Kyaw Swar, who had recently arrived in strife-torn northern Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township, was killed in an explosion at their home on Tuesday morning.

Investment whitewash for Rohingya bloodshed

ASIA TIMES
 February 26, 2019

Historic temples. Sandy beaches. Fishing grounds and farmland galore. This is the idyllic and profitable picture that the government of Myanmar painted last week for potential investors in the country’s troubled Rakhine state. The government sought to allure crowds of potential investors from countries including Japan and South Korea who attended the Rakhine State Investment Fair in the town of Thandwe, with descriptions of Rakhine’s “untapped” investment potential.

Myanmar Military Major Killed in Fighting With Arakan Army in Rakhine

The Irrawaddy

By Moe Myint 25 February 2019

Maj. Aung Ko Nyein. / Masarita Nyarni / Facebook

 

YANGON — The Office of the Commander-in-Chief said a Myanmar military major was killed during fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township Friday night, near where the rebel group killed 13 border police officers in early January.

Brig. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, a spokesman with the office, identified the dead officer as Maj. Aung Ko Nyein.

‘Revenge’ Killing Follow Death of ARSA Leader

The Irrawaddy

By Muktadir Rashid 25 February 2019

A view of a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 16, 2018. / Reuters  
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DHAKA—Armed assailants shot dead one Rohingya paramedic and injured a computer technician at the Muchuni camp in Teknaf sub-district of Cox’s Bazar on Friday evening for allegedly sharing information about the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) military commander Nurul Alam who was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) earlier the same day.

One Rohingya shot dead, another injured

NEWAGE

 Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:40, Feb 23,2019

Armed assailants shot dead one Rohingya paramedic and injured a computer operator at Muchuni camp of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Friday evening apparently for sharing information about Ansar camp looting suspect Nurul Alam who was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion earlier in the day.

The police discovered the body of Rohingya paramedic Mohamed Hamid, 41, in the forest of the nearby hilly area hours after the sympathisers of Nurul Alam kidnapped him and shot at computer operator Hasan Ali at Muchuni camp of Nayapara at around 7:00pm.

Goons kill Rohingya refugee in Teknaf

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Cox's Bazar | Published: 13:13, Feb 23,2019

A Rohingya refugee was shot dead by Rohingya goons at Nayapara Salban in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on Friday night.

The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hamid alias Hamid Daktar, 41, son of Mohammad Hossen of Nayapara Salban camp in Teknaf.