Rohingyas start mobilisation to fight rebel Arakan Army

An armed group from amongst the Rohingyas who have taken refuge in Bangladesh has launched fights against the Arakan Army that virtually controls the Rakhine region driving out government troops there, the International Crisis Group said Wednesday.

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The group has started re-cruiting fellow Rohingyas in their makeshift camps in south-eastern Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar bordering Rakhine of Myanmar, the International Crisis Group (GC) said.

But it feared the move could be counterproductive making the Muslim minority ethnic group to be more unwarranted in greater Myanmar society and frustrate Bangladesh ef-forts to send them back home in Rakhine.

Bangladesh currently hosts over 1.3 million Rohingyas, government data shows. Their influx began in 2017 to evade a ruthless Myanmar military action termed by the United Nations as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.