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Rohingya insurgent claims Wednesday’s gunfight was against Myanmar military, not ARSA
A Rohingya insurgent who is being treated at a hospital in Chattogram has claimed that the gunfight that took place on Wednesday along the Tumbru border at Ghumdhum in Bandarban’s Naikkhyangchhari was between his insurgency group and the Myanmar security agency.
The 23-year-old injured man, Muhib Ullah, who claimed to be a member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation or RSO – one of the myriads of active rebel groups in the Rakhine region in Myanmar – was carried to the Bangladesh side of the border by his comrades-in-arms after he was shot in his upper chest and on his hand.
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Hamid Ullah, 27, one of Muhib’s fellow insurgents, was killed during the gunfight, the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital for the refugee camps confirmed on Thursday.
Earlier on the same day, Romen Sharma, UNO or chief executive of Naikkhyangchhari Upazila administration, told the media that the gunfight was between the members of another rebel group called Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, or ARSA, and the RSO.
When approached on Friday, Romen backtracked from his previous statement and referred it to the Border Guard Bangladesh.
None of the Bangladesh security agencies and paramilitary forces has yet to issue any statement in this connection.
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