Rohingya refugee leader shot dead in Bangladesh camp

Mohibullah was a teacher who emerged as a key refugee leader and a spokesman representing the Muslim ethnic group in international meetings

An international representative of ethnic Rohingya refugees was shot to death in a camp in Bangladesh by unknown gunmen late September 29, police said.

Mohibullah, 50, was a teacher who emerged as a key refugee leader and a spokesman representing the Muslim ethnic group in international meetings. He visited the White House in 2019 for a meeting on religious freedom with then-President Donald Trump and spoke about the suffering and persecution faced by Rohingya in Myanmar.

That same year, he was bitterly criticized by Bangladeshi media after he led a massive rally of 200,000 refugees to mark the second anniversary of the crackdown by Myanmar’s military that caused about 700,000 Rohingya, including Mohibullah, to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.