Bangladesh arrests members of Rohingya insurgent group after refugee leader’s murder

Mohib Ullah, who was killed on Wednesday, had met former US president Donald Trump and joined a UN Human Rights Council session in 2019

Three suspects with links to an armed insurgent group were detained and are being interrogated, officials said

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Bangladesh police officials stand guard near the crime scene after the Mohib Ullah a top Rohingya community leader, was shot dead in Cox’s Bazaar. Photo: EPA-EFE

Published: 12:30pm, 3 Oct 2021Updated: 8:12pm, 3 Oct 2021

Police in Bangladesh arrested three suspects believed to have links to an armed insurgent group among Rohingya refugees, as officials promised justice for the killers of a prominent Rohingya rights activist.

“The killers will certainly be brought to justice. None will be spared,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Saturday, three days after the murder of Mohib Ullah, the head of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH).

Ullah was gunned down by unknown assailants late on Wednesday inside the Kutupalong camp, one of the largest refugee settlements worldwide, prompting demands from the international community that Bangladeshi authorities urgently investigate the murder.

Located in the south-eastern Bangladeshi district of Cox’s Bazaar, the sprawling camp is home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in neighbouring Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

Bangladeshi police had arrested three suspected members of a Rohingya insurgent group by Friday, officer Nayeemul Haque said.

“The suspects are being interrogated,” the officer said without elaborating.

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah, pictured in 2018. Photo: Reuters