When contacted on Friday, Romain retracted his earlier statement and referred it to the Border Guard Bangladesh.
No security agency and paramilitary forces of Bangladesh have yet issued any statement in this regard.
‘All we want is freedom’
Like millions of other Rohingya who were displaced from their homes in 2017 following a coordinated brutal military crackdown to root out the ethnic Muslim community, Muhib and his family members took refuge in a camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar Was.
The US, the United Nations and the European Union have termed this campaign as ethnic cleansing.
Muhib, along with a few others within his camp, moved back to Myanmar in 2018 to join a movement led by the RSO to fight against the Myanmar military.
“What we want is Arakan azadi,” he said, using the Urdu word for independence and the old name for the Rakhine region, adding that he had been an active RSO member even before he was forced to move to Bangladesh in 2017 Huh.
“The shelling was part of our insurgency operations against the Myanmar forces.”
Claiming that his insurgency unit has at least 85 members, Muhib told http://bdnews24.com that he has been training several types and types of handguns and assault rifles in the remote mountainous interior of the Rakhine region for three years since 2018. trained to run.
However, he declined to name the unit’s leader, claiming that the unit’s members do not share their identities with each other for security purposes.