6-Murder in Camp: Accused gives ‘confessional statement’
An accused in the case filed over the murders of six Rohingyas in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar yesterday gave a confessional statement before a court.
Cox's Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Zerin Sultana recorded the statement of the accused, Arafat Ullah, 22, under section 144.
Talking to The Daily Star, Commander of 14th Armed Police Battalion (APBn), SP Naimul Haque, confirmed the confessional statement.
Arafat was arrested early yesterday around 2:30pm from Modhurchara-4 refugee camp in Ukhiya, said Naimul.
With him, a total of 15 persons have so far been arrested in connection with the killings. But only Arafat has so far given a confessional statement.
At least six Rohingyas were killed and eight others injured as a group of armed criminals attacked a madrasa inside the refugee camp early October 22.
Some refugees in the camps claim that the killings were executed by members of Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army (ARSA), though police denied it and said they found no existence of ARSA in the camps.
Earlier on September 29 night, a Rohingya leader Muhib Ullah, chairman of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), was shot dead at his office.
Many believe that he was killed by vested quarters to foil the repatriation process.
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