Oct. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Two leaders of the Rohingya refugee community have died this past Saturday due to machetes inflicted by almost twenty individuals in the Cox’s Bazar camp, the refuge in Bangladesh that has welcomed almost a million members of this community for years. ethnic group persecuted by the Burmese Army.
The deceased have been identified as the “mahji” (local chief) of Ujiya Camp 13, Mohamed Yunus, and his deputy, Mohamed Anwar, police confirmed to the Bangladeshi newspaper ‘Observer’.
Deputy Superintendent of the Bangladesh Armed Police Battalion, Faruk Ahmed, said that between 15 and 20 “thugs” attacked Rohingya leaders with machetes around 6:00 p.m. local time.
Both ended up seriously injured. Yunus succumbed to his injuries almost instantly while Anwar died at the Upazila health center at around 9pm.
The Police is investigating the causes of the event and has started a search and capture operation against the murderers of both responsible.
Also, the security forces of Bangladesh have taken the opportunity to draw attention to a possible security crisis in the Cox’s Bazaar camp, where 13 people have been killed in the last four months, four of them community leaders.
In June, the family of murdered Rohingya social leader Mohib Ullah, president of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, accused sympathizers of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) armed group for his death.
The family denounced at the time that the group intended to become a dominant force within the camps through a campaign of violence against community leaders.
ARSA, it should be added, has been denounced on several occasions by NGOs such as Amnesty International for carrying out massacres against Hindu civilians in Burmese Rakhine state, home to Rohingya Muslims, which the group has categorically denied.
