Ataullah Abu Ammar Yununi (better known as Ata Ullah ) is the leader of the illegal Movement to Save the Rohingya Arakan , a Rohingya rebel group in western Rakhine Myanmar . Born in Karachi , Pakistan . Suspected of close ties with the Saudi authorities .
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Biography
Ata Ulla was born in Karachi, Pakistan, into a family of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State in Myanmar. At an early age, the Ullah family moved to Mecca , Saudi Arabia , where he received a religious education in a madrassah and served as an imam in a mosque of the community of the Rohingya diaspora [1] [2] .
Participation in the rebel movement
In 2012, shortly after the ethnic-religious conflict in Rakhine, Ata Ulla left Saudi Arabia and underwent military training at the Taliban in Pakistan and possibly Libya and some other countries. He became famous in October 2016 after publishing several videos in which he introduced himself as the leader of the Harakah al-Yaqin group (Haraka al-Yakin, “Movement of Faith” in Arabic), which claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on border police posts on the Myanmar border and Bangladesh [3] [4] [5] .
The Haraka al-Yakin movement is created and controlled by a committee composed of ethnic Rohingya headquartered in Mecca. The committee has close ties in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and possibly in India, with committee members visiting Bangladesh and northern Rakhine. A number of rebel leaders with military training, including Ata Ullah, arrived in Myanmar from Saudi Arabia. Some of the rebels who joined the group, numbering several hundred people, are Rohingya who returned from refugee camps in Bangladesh. The bulk of the fighting forces are Muslim residents of Rakhine, trained and organized in cells at the village level [6] [7] .
In its actions, the group uses the tactics of an unexpected attack by large groups of poorly armed, but fanatical supporters. As Ata Ulla said in one of his video messages:
| If there are 200 of us, then fifty will die, but the remaining one hundred and fifty will kill the enemies with knives |
The use of such a scheme in October 2016 when attacking border police posts led to the deaths of more than a dozen government police and military. The retaliatory actions of government forces, during which a significant number of rebels were killed and civilians were injured, stimulated a sharp increase in the influx of young Muslim supporters into Ata Ullah units [6] [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Paul Millar. Sizing up the shadowy leader of the Rakhine State insurgency . sea-globe.com . Globe SouthWest Asia (February 16, 2017). Date of appeal September 16, 2017.
- ↑ Mike Winchester. Birth of an ethnic insurgency in Myanmar . atimes.com . Asia Times (August 28, 2017). Date of appeal September 16, 2017.
- ↑ What is happening in Myanmar and who are the Rohingya? . TUT.BY (September 16, 2017). Date of appeal September 17, 2017.
- ↑ Vasily Golovnin. Rohingya take up the knives . New newspaper (September 13, 2017). Date of appeal September 17, 2017.
- ↑ Conflict in Myanmar. History of origin and radicalization . IA RED SPRING (September 12, 2017). Date of appeal September 17, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Burma Muslims help all the news. Everything that is known (inaccessible link) . RU24.TOP Top Russian news . Russian News Agency (September 16, 2017). Date of treatment September 17, 2017. Archived September 17, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Who are the Rohingya and what happens to Muslims in Myanmar? . Russian service of the BBC (September 4, 2017). Date of appeal September 17, 2017.
Links
- Myanmar: A New Muslim Insurgency in Rakhine State . Asia Report N ° 283 . International Crisis Group (December 15, 2016). Date of appeal September 17, 2017.