Myanmar’s Rohingya rebellion has links to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan: report

A organisation of Rohingya Muslims that pounded Myanmar limit guards in Oct is headed by people with links to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a International Crisis Group (ICG) pronounced on Thursday, citing members of a group.

The concurrent attacks on Oct 9 killed 9 policemen, and sparked a crackdown by confidence army in Muslim-majority Rakhine State in northwest Myanmar.

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At slightest 86 people have been killed, according to state media, and a United Nations has estimated 27,000 members of a mostly stateless Rohingya minority have fled opposite a limit to Bangladesh.

Predominantly Buddhist Myanmar’s government, led by Nobel Peace Prize personality Aung San Suu Kyi, blamed Rohingyas upheld by unfamiliar militants for a Oct 9 attacks, though has released meagre serve information about a assailants it called “terrorists”.

A organisation job itself Harakah al-Yakin claimed shortcoming for a attacks in video statements and a Brussels-based ICG pronounced it had interviewed 4 members of a organisation in Rakhine State and dual outward Myanmar, as good as people in hit with members around messaging apps.

The Harakah al-Yakin, or Faith Movement, was shaped after village assault in 2012 in that some-more than 100 people were killed and about 140,000 replaced in Rakhine State, many of them Rohingya, a organisation said.

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Rohingya who have fought in other conflicts, as good as Pakistanis or Afghans, gave surreptitious training to villagers in northern Rakhine over dual years forward of a attacks, it said.

“It enclosed weapons use, riotous strategy and, HaY members and trainees report, a sold concentration on explosives and IEDs,” a organisation said, referring to makeshift bomb devices.

It identified Harakah al-Yakin’s leader, who has seemed prominently in a array of 9 videos posted online, as Ata Ullah, innate in Karachi, Pakistan, to a Rohingya migrant father before relocating as a child to Makkah in Saudi Arabia.

“Though not confirmed, there are indications he went to Pakistan and presumably elsewhere, and that he perceived unsentimental training in complicated riotous warfare,” a organisation said, observant that Ata Ullah was one of 20 Rohingya from Saudi Arabia heading a group’s operations in Rakhine State.

Separately, a cabinet of 20 comparison Rohingya emigres oversees a group, that has a domicile in Mecca, a ICG said.

Groups like Islamic State and al Qaeda in a Indian Subcontinent have referred to a predicament of a Rohingya in their material, and a terrain knowledge of during slightest some of a Rohingya fighters pragmatic links to general militants, a ICG said.

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However, ICG pronounced a organisation has particularly not intent in attacks on a municipal Buddhist race in Rakhine. And Harakah al-Yakin’s statements to date prove a categorical goals are to finish a harm of a Rohingya in Myanmar and secure a minority’s citizenship status.

“It is possible, however, that a objectives could evolve, given a appeals to eremite legitimacy and links to general jihadist groups, so it is essential that supervision efforts do not concentration usually or essentially on troops approaches, though also residence underlying village grievances and suffering,” a ICG said.

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