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The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (abbreviated ARSA),[4][5][6] previously known as Harakah al-Yaqin (abbreviated HaY),[7][8] Aqa Mul Mujahidin[9] and in English as the Faith Movement,[7] or the Movement of Certainty,[2] is a Rohingya insurgent group active in the jungles of northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is led by Ata Ullah, a Rohingya man who was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and grew up in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.[1][2]
According to the lead interrogator of ARSA suspects jailed in Sittwe, Police Captain Yan Naing Latt, the group's goal is to create a "democratic Muslim state for the Rohingya". Although there is no firm evidence linking the ARSA to foreign Islamist groups, the Burmese government suspects that some of its members are involved with foreign Islamists.[10] This has been denied by the ARSA, who claim to have no links to terrorist groups or foreign Islamists. The ARSA have also stated that their only target is the "oppressive Burmese regime".[4] |
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