Arakan News Agency | Exclusive
Three Rohingya refugees were abducted, on Tuesday, by an armed group in Bangladesh camps as security is deteriorating and kidnappings against Rohingyas are on the rise.
A reporter of the Arakan News Agency stated that the 3 refugees were abducted at night from camp 4, adding that police forces were able to rescue 2 of them. The rescued were later moved to hospitals in a bad condition.
Sources stated that the third abductee is still in the hands of the armed group in camp 17, and his life is believed to be in grave danger and his fate is unknown.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are subjected to almost daily kidnappings by criminal gangs demanding ransom. These kidnappings sometimes end with residents finding the body of the kidnapped person murdered after his impoverished family failed to raise the large ransom.
Lately, a Rohingya girl was kidnapped in the camps, and a large ransom was demanded from her family. Also, Two Rohingya refugees were abducted and beaten by fake cops, another was abducted but returned to his family after paying ransom, while a kidnap attempt was foiled by refugees at a Cox’s Bazar camp.
More than one million Rohingya refugees live in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh, fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar since the genocidal campaign launched by the Myanmar military against them in 2017. The United Nations describes Cox’s Bazar as the largest refugee camp in the world.
