ARAKANLAND
Rohingya militants get freshly united
The Somokal
Sunday, Dhaka
8 January 2012
Abu Taher, Cox’s Bazar
The divided Rohingya militants are freshly getting united. According
to a reliable source, they are collecting a fund of taka 500 (five
hundred) million for buying arms and ammunitions.
According to the source, Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO),
Arakan Movement, Arakan People’s Freedom Party, Arakan Rohingya
National Organization (ARNO), and some other parties including
Harkatul Zihad have decided to group into alliance and work together.
Top leaders including RSO President Dr Muhammad Yunus, Rohingya leader
Dr Wakar Uddin, Abul Fayaz Zilani, Nurul Islam, Salamat Ullah,
Muhammad Shafi Ullah, Nazmul Alam, have attended a meeting in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.
In the meeting decision was reached to wage activities under the
banner of ‘the Arakan Rohingya Union’ (ARU) consisting of divided
Rohingya militant outfits. The responsibility of the new outfit was
given to Dr Muhammad Yunus, Abul Fayaz Zilani, and Nurul Islam.
Shortly after the meeting the top leaders have made moves for
collecting fund. The source has ensured that arms and ammunitions
will be bought with the fund.
The top leader Salamat Ullah returned from Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh
last month for newly organizing the Rohingya militants. At present he
is residing at Chunoti of Chittagong in Bangladesh. On the other hand
Nazmul Alam went back to Bangkok from Riyadh. Abu Siddiq Arman has
been given new responsibility as coordinator in Cox’s Bazar area.
Besides that some top Rohingya militant leaders are in Cox’s Bazar
now. A Rohingya militant leader, Nur Muhammad, was spotted a few days
ago in Cox’s Bazar.
The source said, in recent years the Rohingya groups got split into a
number of smaller groups because of internal feud. In this
circumstance they have united under one banner and got engaged in
collecting fund. They are also engaged in various forms of illegal
traffic, including drugs, human trafficking, and illegal arms. Last
week an arms dealer was arrested from Gorzonia area with an AK-47
assault rifle. The detained said that he bought the rifle for 3.5
lakh taka and was meant for selling at 4 lakh taka, when he was nabbed
in the trap.
From more than one source it has been confirmed that the Rohingya
militants are collecting fund through operation of NGOs. They have
already collected about taka 250 (two hundred and fifty) million in
the name of some NGOs in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban, including, among
others, “Muslim Aid,’ ‘Karuna,’ ‘Imam Muslim,’ ‘Darul Ansar,’
‘Samannito Manabik Uddyog,’etc.
The money brought through HUNDI (illegal financial operation) goes to
various religious institutions and the rest to militants’ pockets. In
a recent investigation it has been found that Imam Muslim Islamic
Centre at Zhilongza, Cox’s Bazar, has been running by militant
funding. The director of the institution, Hafez Sala-ul Islam, is the
chief coordinator of the military wing of the RSO.
From the investigation it has become clear that, militancy has been up
in Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong and Cox’s Bazaar, due to the activities of
the top Rohingya militants in the areas through madrasas (Muslim
seminaries), religious institutions, and NGOs.
The former secretary of the Central Executive Committee of RSO,
Salamat Ullah, established a madrasah named as Adarsha Shikkha Niketon
at Kalatali, in Cox’s Bazar.
Two more militants, Muhammad Zaber and Nur Muhammad are working here.
Zaber is the vice president of the Central Executive Committee of RSO,
and Nur Muhammad is a member. The Rohingya militants have been
utilizing two refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar as their network. Many
illegal militants have been illegally staying in the camps and
conducting terrorist activities from inside the camps; mentionable
among them are, Ali Zohar, Haji Fazal, Rafiq Ahmad, Hafiz Nayan, Lalu
Daktar, Shamsu Majhi, Hafiz Zalal, Moulana Shafiullah, Nurul Haque
Mazhi, Nur Mohammad, Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Sayed, Abu Qader, Abu
Yahiya, Hamid, Ruhul Amin, and Abdullah Mohammad.
The source said that more than three hundred of these militants have
been working as Imam or Muezzins across the country (Bangladesh).
Many of them are Afghan-returnee militants.
Assistant Police Super of Cox’s Bazar, Chatradhor Tripura has said,
“the police is maintaining law and order situation in the camps with
limited number of forces. The refugee camps are very sensitive areas.
There is a watch by international organizations inside the camps.
The police do not conduct raids without specific information. This
‘advantage’ may have been exploited by the Rohingya terrorists.”
Source: http://www.samakal.com.bd/details.php?news=14&view=archiev&y=2012&m=01&d=08&action=main&pub_no=925
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