S.R.’s instinct was proper. His father, who was taking part in with some youngsters in a close-by tea store, had been fatally shot within the throat.
The gunmen, he mentioned, belonged to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Military, or ARSA, which was sad that his father, a camp liaison to the Bangladeshi authorities, assisted victims and shared details about the teams, together with ARSA.
Just like the Rohingya Solidarity Group, or R.S.O., the opposite predominant armed group working within the camps, ARSA has its roots in opposing the junta in Myanmar.
In interviews with greater than a dozen refugees, some have been afraid to utter the names of the 2 teams. Even away from the camps, they lowered their voices and referred to the teams by the size of their acronyms: the “four-letters” and the “three-letters.”
They mentioned members of the teams beat, kill, kidnap, rape and extort them for cash they don’t have — claims that each teams deny.