Police have arrested a key suspect for his active involvement in the murder of prominent Rohingya leader Md Mohib Ullah, who was gunned down at a camp in Cox’s Bazar last month.
The arrestee identified as Azizul Haque is believed to have directly taken part in the killing of the top Rohingya leader on September 29, said Superintendent of Police Naimul Haque, commander of the Armed Police Battalion 14 (APBn).
He was arrested along with three others at around 4am on Saturday at the Iron Bridge area in Kutupalong Lambasia Rohingya camp under the Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
The three have been identified as Murshid Amin, Md. Anash, and Nur Mohammad.
Mohib Ullah, the chairman of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, had come to be known as a ‘voice for the Rohingya’ in the Western media.
He represented the group ousted from Myanmar at a UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2019 and also had a meeting with then US President Donald Trump.
A group of unidentified men gunned down the 48-year-old Mohib Ullah at a camp in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya on September 29.
In the case filed over his murder, police have so far arrested four people, one of whom has already has given a confessional statement to a magistrate.
Meanwhile, just weeks into his murder, six Rohingya refugees were killed on Friday in an attack led by armed criminals at a madrasa in Balukhali Camp 18.
