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Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

Myanmar government blames an organization called 'Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army' for the Myanmar's Rakhine province that has become disastrous again after the armed attack on Friday.
Earlier, in October last year, the armed group was being blamed for the attack on Rakhine police outpost.The activities of such armed groups among the Rohingya have not been heard this organization's name before.
The Rohingya Muslims are constantly being subjected to discrimination-oppression and persecution from Myanmar's government, many of them are now leaning towards armed militant ideology?

Who are the ARSA?

Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army used to operate in English called 'Feth Movement'. Locally it was known as 'Harakah Al Yakin'.Myanmar government has already announced the Rohingya Salvation Army as a terrorist group.Myanmar says this group is headed by Rohingya jihadis, who have been trained abroad. But they do not have any clear idea of how big the organization is, how extensive their network is.According to Myanmar officials, this group leader of ARSA named 'Ataullah'. He was born in Karachi and grew up in Saudi Arabia.

According to a report by international research organization 'The International Crisis Group', the organization(ARSA) has originally been developed by the Rohingyas going to Saudi Arabia.
This organization has developed 20 leading Rohingyas in Macca. They have links to Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India.
The leader of the organization Ataullah is also known as 'Abu Amr Junooni'. Ataullah's father went to Karachi from Rakhine to Pakistan. There Ataullah is born. He grew up in Macca. There he studied madrasa. From a video on YouTube, it is assumed that he can speak both Rakhine Rohingya language and Arabic languages fluently. Ataullah disappeared from Saudi Arabia in 2012. Then after the start of fresh violence in Arakan recently his name was heard.
In Arakan who are associated with this organization, they are thought to have trained modern guerrilla warfare to support and sympathy of Rohingya torture of Myanmar by this organization among local Rohingyas.

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army( 'Arsa') said in a clear statement in March that they are working to protect the rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the main target of their "self-defense" attack is Myanmar's "oppressive regime."
The main demand of Arras is to give Rohingya Muslims nationality and equal status in Myanmar.
'ARSA' said in their statement that they are not involved in any kind of terrorism against civilians. They also do not believe in terrorism for their rights. They have nothing to do with any terrorist group in the world.Even they are giving the assurance of the safety of the people of different religions and people of Rakhine and their religious place of worship.

Nurul Islam, chairman of Arakan National Rohingya Organization, a London-based Rohingya organization, told BBC that everyone could know about the first Rohingya Salvation Army in October.When they attacked a police outpost.
According to him, those who have joined this organization, desperately have chosen such a way.
"Sometimes I see their statements on the internet. They are fighting for the rights and freedom of Rohingyas in Arakan."They are not even militant, nor do they have any connection with any international militant group. They are a group grown in Arakan who claim to be fighting for the Rohingyas.

ARSA wants to sit in peace talks with Myanmar

Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

An armed organization claiming that Rohingya is fighting for rights of Muslims in Myanmar, says they want to join peace talks with the Burmese government.The country's government has rejected a one-month ceasefire announced by Burmese Rohingya Muslim rebels.Myanmar's D Facto leader Aung San Suu kye's spokesman said in a tweet that the government will not have any interference with 'terrorists'.Although the words of Myanmar government in their speech regarding the violence in Rakhine, Rohingya militants and Muslim villagers themselves are burning their homes and attacking non-Muslims.Many of them fleeing from violence.But a BBC correspondent reported on Thursday that there was a Muslim village burning in Rakhine, which was set on fire by a group of Buddhists in Rakhine.This phenomenon is clearly contradictory with Myanmar's official statement about the ongoing violence in Rakhine.
"The International Crisis Group says that the emergence of organized armed groups among the Rohingyas can make the entire situation of Arakan more complicated. Instead, if the government of Myanmar goes to suppress them through the use of arbitrary military force instead of political solutions, then there will be more violence levels in cyclically.

Md Ahsan Habib
Blogger-Content Writer
08.10.2017