On 13th and 14th October, Rohingya camp authorities have moved the families of Mohibullah including 10 other families related to the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH). The news was confirmed yesterday by Bangladesh Police and Rohingya Refugee leaders.
These 42 people who were under constant life threat were moved to an undisclosed location, officials told BenarNews.
The commanding officer of the Armed Police Battalion Unit-14, Naimul Haque said, “We’re offering them overall protection there. A total of 42 members of 11 families were escorted away, responding to a request of the Muhib Ullah murder case investigator.”
ARSPH spokesman and Mohibullah’s nephew, MD. Rashidullah told BenarNews, “We are not willing to disclose the name of our relocated place. We are safer here than at the camp.”
Rashidullah also mentioned that his family and the 10 other ARSPH families were willing to settle in a country other than Bangladesh or Myanmar.
“We submitted an application to the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, UNHCR, and the U.S. government requesting we be able to settle in a third country,” he said.
“We mentioned the names of three countries in our application, and correspondence is ongoing,” he added.
Meanwhile, authorities announced that they had moved 31 other refugees to a U.N. agency’s transit centre in the area after six of their relatives were killed last week in an attack on a madrassa at the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar.
MD. Kamran Hossain, Deputy Commander of the Armed Police Battalion 8 said, the families of the six killed at the madrassa had been safe but were too afraid to remain at the Balukhali camp.
