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The group started fighting against the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army after peace activist, Mohib Ullah, was allegedly killed by the latter group on 29 September 2021. [ 2 ] On 6 February 2024 the Arakan Army and the RSO cooperated on a joint assault against ARA, who had captured a Border Guard Police camp along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border ...
Throughout the Rohingya genocide's peak in 2017, several Rohingya militant groups have embedded themselves in refugee camps along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. [1] Of the ten militant groups active in the camps in early 2023, the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ASA) are two of the largest.
In the western state of Rakhine, the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic-minority armed group battling Myanmar’s military junta, said it seized a predominantly Rohingya town close to the Bangladesh ...
The two largest Rohingya militant groups - the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) - do not appear to have mass support in the camps in Cox's Bazar ...
According to an ARSA spokesperson, the group was founded as Harakah al-Yaqin (lit. ' Faith Movement ') in 2013, following the 2012 Rakhine State riots. [20] [3] A former member of ARSA described how he was recruited by the group's leader, Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, three years prior to the attacks in October 2016.
Arakan Rohingya Army: ARA 2020 Unknown Mobile headquarters: Rakhine State; Bangladesh–Myanmar border; Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army: ARSA 2013 ~200 (2018) [11] [12]
The Arakan Army has also stated that nearly 11 militant groups, including the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), and Arakan Rohingya Army (ARA), operate from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, carrying out killings, rapes, kidnappings, and torture against the Buddhists and Hindu population on ...
The Arakan Army said that clashes continued with junta forces and armed Rohingya groups outside the town. [51] Twelve Rohingya civilians were reportedly killed in a junta airstrike on 17 May, and that same day the Arakan Army allegedly bombed a school with drones where Rohingya civilians were sheltering, killing 18 and wounding around 200. [52]