Rohingya Blogger
A clash broke out between the Bangladesh army and the
Chakma rebels in the forest in Khagrachari area, Bandarban district; around on
Dec 23 morning and the labourers working in a private road construction project
in the area got stuck in the fighting.
Cox's Bazaar – A Rohingya refugee working as a day
labourer in a road construction project was killed in fighting between
Bangladesh's army and Chakma separatist rebels in Bangladesh on Sunday (Dec
23), sources report.
One shot of bullet pierced through the shoulder of a
Rohingya refugee working there and killed him soon after that. He was then
taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for postmortem and handed over to
his relatives for funerals on Tuesday (Dec 25).
He was identified as Mohammed Zubair, 23, (son of) Abdu
Rahim from Held Shed No: 69, Room No: 01, Kutupalang registered refugee camp,
Bangladesh.
"The Bangladesh authorities identified him using a
phone number written on a paper found in his pocket. They called the number and
handed his body over to his relatives," said Mohammed Amin, a registered
Refugee in the camps.
He was given funeral at a football field nearby the
Kutupalong registeted refugee camps about 11pm on the same day (i.e. Tuesday).
Also known as Shanti Bahini is a Chakma Buddhist militant
group, the armed-wing of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (United
People's Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts), fighting for an autonomous/
independent region out of Chittagong hilltracts. Chakma is a Buddhist minority
group in Bangladesh, who considers themselves distinct from other Buddhist
groups (including Rakhine) in the country, but in Myanmar, is known as 'Dinet'
considered as a sub-group of wider Rakhine Buddhist groups.