Some Rohingya leaders are moving about mysteriously inside the country as well as abroad. They have the ulterior motive to delay the official process of repatriation of the stranded Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar.
It is reported that they have created link with different international terrorist organisations including some Pakistani NGOs. It is believed that Pakistani ISI is also seriously active to draw them into the local and international Islamic extremist organisations. One of the leaders, named Mohibullah, went to America and met President Donald Trump. And the same Mohibullah was seen addressing a big rally on Sunday.
The question arose that if he is a refugee in a foreign land how could he travel with a passport. There is a reason to believe that this man is playing mysterious game to thwart the peaceful repatriation. About 1.2 million Rohingya refugees, staying in Bangladesh, have become an unbearable burden and posed a serious threat to law and order situation as well as country’s security, including many countries in Asian region.
Rohingyas are maintaining constant relationship with Pakistan and different militant groups in order to make Bangladesh unstable. And Mohibullah had sneaked into Bangladesh in 1992 along with many other Rohingyas, including over 100 cadres of Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), a rebel group in Rakhaine. He is leading the entire conspiracy. On Sunday thousands of Rohingyas staged a huge rally in Ukhiya demanding that the international community step up pressure on Myanmar to meet their five-point demand, including repatriation, citizenship and trial in the international court of those involved in killing and persecution. The rally was organised under the banner of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights. And Mohibullah is the chairman of the organisation.
He also addressed the rally as chief guest resulting into a question raised by the government about his (Mohibullah’s) motive and activities. According to the sources, remaining behind the scene, the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights is playing the key roles so that Rohingya people do not agree to leave Bangladesh. He has links to different NGOs at home and abroad. All of those NGOs are active against the repatriation process.
Not only that, Mohibullah was one of those 27 representatives from different minority groups, who had met US president Donald Trump in the month of July. His participation in the meeting with Donald Trump came to limelight after the rally of Rohingya people held on August 25 in Cox’s Bazar. Being a Rohingya man, he is not supposed to have any passport, according to report. But he has created instances of visiting different countries frequently.
The matter of his frequent visit to different countries is now a mystery. It is not clear how could he leave Bangladesh and also how did he arrive here. It is suspected that he also has links and close communications with different militant groups.
The Rohingyas staying in various Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, since 2017, have significantly damaged hills and forests ranging over 6200 acres of land, with estimated loss of Tk 1,865.56 crore in 2 years. Furthermore, cutting down of hills and trees have led to wide-scale destruction of the ecosystem and bio-diversity of the area, official sources said.
They are now staying in 34 refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Kutubdia, Moheshkhali, Pekua, Ramu, Teknaf, Ukhia and Chakaria. In a report the Cox's Bazar Forest Department (South) informed the Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Division, Chittagong, that as a result of mass deforestation the biodiversity across a large area has already been affected badly Besides, amid the government's efforts to send back the displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar, some NGOs are deliberately trying to build new makeshift camps for them, cutting down hills and forests, angering local people.
Locals alleged that a number of NGOs are building new camps for the expansion of Rohingya settlements in a vast area of Thaingkhali in Ukhiya upazila, uprooting trees and cutting hills despite government restrictions on further hill cutting. Apart from security, social and biodiversity, the Rohingya crisis is also putting an adverse effect on country’s economy. The Bangladesh government has already spent Tk 2,748 crore for the refugees, according to NGO Bureau sources. A total of 189 non-government organisations are spending the funds through 1021 projects.
Bangladesh has been successfully curbing the menace of terrorism and militancy from its territory as the present government accelerated the efforts by initiating a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to terrorism and militancy.
The regional security is very important because every region has its security environment defined by the geographical location and geopolitical and socioeconomic The locals alleged that some local NGOs and INGOs are pocketing foreign aid meant for Rohingyas in the name of development work in the camps.
A peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis is a must as they continued engaging themselves in various crimes, fueling concern over security and safety of Bangladesh, experts say. The foreign countries like neighbouring India, China, USA, Europe, Australia, Canada and United Nations also assured Bangladesh of proving all sort of supports in order to force the Myanmar government to take their national back to their homeland.
On the other hand, the Rohingyas who took shelter in the country’s Cox’s bazaar district are now living in a state of panic as many of them are also engaged in various clashes, violence, killing and raping.
According to security expert Major General (retd) Abdur Rashid, Asia is facing issues like violent extremism, international terrorism, forced migration, among others, which go beyond borders. If the crisis is not resolved peaceful, once the situation would take a serious turn. Many Rohingya introducing themselves as Bangladeshis are preparing passports and going abroad.
Around 500 hotels and guest houses in the district are dependent on tourism. If the Rohingya crisis is not resolved, it will be also a big blow for the tourist spot,” he said. Meanwhile, a large number Rohingyas involved in Yaba trading is quite organised and ruthless. They have their spies everywhere. As a result, common Rohingyas are too scared to speak up.As Yaba is coming from Myanmar and other neigbouring countries through a long border stretching 90 to 100 kilometers, Rohingya along with and Bangladeshi drug peddlers travel every day by boat and some of them also carry Yaba in their stomach, along with vegetable supplies.