Gunmen murder Rohingya teacher and student in Bangladesh
The Hindu
Gunmen in Bangladesh have killed a teacher and a student in a Rohingya refugee camp for refusing to return to Myanmar to fight, their parents said on May 30.
Gunmen in Bangladesh have killed a teacher and a student in a Rohingya refugee camp for refusing to return to Myanmar to fight, their parents said on May 30.
Hundreds of Rohingya boys and young men have been seized from refugee camps in Bangladesh, where they had sought safety after Myanmar's military drove about 750,000 members of the persecuted Muslim minority out of the country in 2017.
Now Rohingya militants working with the Myanmar junta are recruiting the refugees, according to camp residents, UN reports and analysts.
The militants say their fellow Rohingya need to ally with Myanmar's army -- the same forces who drove them into exile -- to face a common enemy in another Myanmar rebel force, the Arakan Army (AA).
Police said the two men, student Nur Absar, 22, and teacher Nur Faisal, 21, were killed by "unknown assailants" in Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.
"One died on the spot, another died in hospital," said Arefin Jewel, a police spokesman in Kutupalong.
"We are investigating whether it is a case of forced recruitment".
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