{"id":1174,"date":"2025-06-19T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:32:37","slug":"icg-rohingyas-from-bangladesh-camps-are-fighting-against-arakan-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"ICG: Rohingyas from Bangladesh camps are fighting against Arakan Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The International Crisis Group (ICG) has expressed concern as the Rohingya armed groups in Bangladesh\u2019s refugee camps ramped up recruitment, using religious language to mobilise refugees to fight the Rakhine armed group, the Arakan Army.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/asia\/south-east-asia\/myanmar-bangladesh\/348-bangladeshmyanmar-dangers-rohingya-insurgency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report <\/a>released on June 18, the ICG said that the Arakan Army had seized much of the Rakhine State. It is in contact with Bangladesh\u2019s interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is facilitating a humanitarian corridor to help the Rohingyas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRohingya armed groups &#8230; have already started carrying out attacks on the Arakan Army in Rakhine State and are training fighters in camps along the border,\u201d it said, adding that a Rohingya insurgency\u2014led by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)\u2014against the Arakan Army is unlikely to succeed, but it would do grave damage to intercommunal relations in Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=790\">Rakhine Corridor: UN envoy denies involvement, rests it on two governments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=593\">Timeline: Army, politicians, experts reject Yunus\u2019 Rakhine corridor plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRohingya in Rakhine State are likely to be caught between the armed groups, while prospects for the return of one million refugees living in Bangladesh would fade away,\u201d the organisation said, suggesting that the Bangladesh government step up informal cross-border aid and trade with Rakhine State while curbing the influence of Rohingya armed groups in refugee camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Arakan Army should strive to govern for all communities in Rakhine, while foreign donors\u2014where possible\u2014should limit aid cuts affecting refugees, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the capture of power in August last year, the Bangladesh government has been assisting a US-backed, UN-assisted <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=734\">corridor <\/a>in Rakhine via Cox\u2019s Bazar or the hill districts. But all political parties and security experts have been opposing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, Jamaat-e-Islami, militant groups Ansar al-Islam and Hizb ut-Tahrir, and the Pakistani High Commission assisted the ARSA and other armed Rohingya groups to wage an offensive in Rakhine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Crisis Group (ICG) has expressed concern as the Rohingya armed groups in Bangladesh\u2019s refugee camps ramped up recruitment, using religious language to mobilise refugees to fight the Rakhine&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,43,98,147],"tags":[301,152,73,50,54,56,114],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-crime","category-diplomacy","category-world","tag-ansar-al-islam","tag-arakan-rohingya-salvation-army-arsa","tag-hizb-ut-tahrir","tag-interim-government","tag-jamaat-e-islami","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-rohingya-corridor"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}