Police in have arrested the leader of a insurgent group who was allegedly involved in carrying out attacks against security forces, authorities said on Tuesday.
48-year-old Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi, the chief of the , was arrested near the capital Dhaka as he was suspected of murder and carried out acts of sabotage, district police chief Praytush Kumar Majumder told the media.
Jununi and five of his associates were arrested by the elite Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday. Another four of his associates were arrested in the central district of Mymensingh, police said.
The police first took them into custody for interrogation.
Later, a district court approved a 10-day remand for custodial interrogation of the suspects in connection with charges of murder, sabotage, and illegal entry into Bangladesh, police inspector Kaiyum Khan said.
ARSA’s history of criminal activity
against the stateless Muslim minority’s persecution in Myanmar.
Jununi has headed the insurgent group in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State since 2016, according to a report by the International Crisis Group.
While Jununi was leading ARSA in 2017, on security posts in Rakhine.
He is believed to have orchestrated the 2017 attacks. He first came to public attention soon after in videos posted online, where he was seen with masked gunmen vowing to liberate the Rohingya from “dehumanized oppression.”
The attacks prompted a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar that drove more than 750,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.
Jununi is also accused of involvement in the murder of a Bangladeshi military intelligence officer.
ARSA is also accused of cross-border drug smuggling, kidnappings, abductions, .
Edited by: Wesley Dockery
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