Cops fail to curb Rohingya camps’ law and order

Though the Rohingya issue is bone of contention between Myanmar and Bangladesh, the stateless, hapless and Muslim community’s misery along with migration is deeply moving the sensitive souls.

However, the host community is miffed with their 33 camps becoming increasingly infested with killing, trafficking, drug peddling, child marriage etc.

Rohingyas for years have been cooped up in camps which sprawl down the denuded hills with their foul feelings pent up.

Their misery in polythene houses, hopelessness about secured migration back to their homeland, state of no education, no job have been making them disappointed and desperate to come out of the pecuniary condition.

Sense of deprivation of their basic human rights and harrowing experience of being evicted from Myanmar are either prompting some to turn to human traffickers to be trafficked out of the miserable shanties or resort to different types of criminal activities including kidnapping, intra-group clashes, leaving some killed every year.

According to Cox’s Bazar district police, in 2017, when the exodus of Rohingyas took place, eight murder cases were registered but the number rose year on year.

The number was 15 in 2018, 20 in 2019, 13 in 2020, 27 in 2021, and 32 last year.

Some were Majhis (leaders) among those who were killed, which implies that a certain group remains operative in the camps to make the Rohingyas leaderless so that their repatriation to Myanmar can either be thwarted or dangerously delayed.

So, local police, who are failing to nab the terrorists, drug peddlers, kidnappers, can glean very sensitive and anti-Bangladesh intelligence from the killers of Rohingya camp leaders or Majhis like Moulovi Mohammad Yunus and Mohammad Anwar- killed in 2022.

We ask the authorities concerned to catch the terrorists to safeguard not only the stateless Rohingyas but Bangladesh.