Untold and Unheard: The Rise of ARSA and RSO Terrorism in Maungdaw, northern Arakan

 A notorious Muslim extremist group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), was well-known for its terrorist activities against the local civilian population, especially non-Muslim people in northern townships of Arakan such as Buthiduang and Maungdaw. The activities of the ARSA were recorded in 2016 and it came to be noticed in a large degree when August-2017 violence operation by the Myanmar military that drove out several thousand Muslim residents in northern Arakan into Bangladesh took place.


The ARSA, very often, claimed to represent the interests and suffering of the Muslim community but it is the concerned Muslim community that is suffering due to its aggressive actions. Due to its religious extremism, the ARSA’s terrorist actions against the non-Muslim groups were culminated when 99 Bengali Hindus villagers from Kha-Maung-Seik village of northern Maungdaw were massacred in August 2017.


The Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), founded in 1980s and re-emerged after 2021-military coup in Myanmar, is reportedly backed by the Bangladeshi security agencies such as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Directorate General Force Intelligence (DGFI). Leader of the RSO is Ayoub Khan, and its political director, Ko Ko Lin, has possessed a Bangladeshi passport and showed its presence together with high profiles from Bangladesh government in public events.
https://www.globalarakannetwork.com/post/unnoticed-and-unheard-the-rise-of-arsa-and-rso-terrorism-in-maungdaw-northern-arakan

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