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Publish: 17 Jan 2022, 07:36 pm
Rohingya Camps in Cox's Bazar || Photo: Collected
Bangladeshi police
have started using drones to monitor Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar after a
spike in criminal activity, according to a report published by Arab News.
Bangladesh hosts
over 1.1 million Rohingya who fled neighbouring Myanmar during a military
crackdown in 2017. Most of them live in dozens of cramped settlements in Cox’s
Bazar, a coastal region in the country’s east.
According to data
from Cox’s Bazar police, at least 104 murders were recorded in Rohingya camps
in the past four years, and more than 1,000 cases had been filed against their
inhabitants on charges of abduction, extortion, drug dealing, human trafficking
and sexual assault.
“Incidents in which
Rohingya are abducted for ransom are on the rise,” Naimul Haque, superintendent
of the Armed Police Battalion that oversees the camp area, said.
“Some of the areas
in the camp are inaccessible to law enforcers. We can’t go there by vehicle because
of the hilly areas. So, we introduced drones last Thursday to monitor the
movement of suspects,” he said.
Since late last
week, he added, two police operations have already taken place following
footage retrieved from drones, including the arrest of the brother of the
leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a Rohingya insurgent group active
in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State.
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