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Special drive on to nab Jamaatul Arakan activists

Star Report
Law enforcers have been conducting special drives for the last one week to bust a militant outfit that sprang up recently in the country's southeastern hilly terrain.
The hitherto unknown group, who identified themselves as Jamaatul Arakan, is believed to be an offshoot of the now defunct and banned militant outfit-- Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
The name of Jamaatul Arakan surfaced after police arrested four of its members from a hideout in Cox's Bazar district last Saturday.
Two days later, the law enforcers arrested nine others from the district over their alleged involvement in militancy. Police are trying to verify whether they too belong to the group.
Tipped off by the arrestees, a joint force of law enforcers from Cox's Bazar and Bandarban police stations launched a manhunt yesterday to haul up the rest of the gang members of the so-called Jamaatul Arakan.
However, police have so far considered the outfit a relatively small group of militants.
"Of the four outfit members, arrested on Saturday, one by the name of Omar Faruq claimed himself to be the leader of Jamaatul Arakan," Selim Md Jahangir, superintendent of police (SP) of Cox's Bazar, told The Daily Star yesterday.
"One of them is an ex-JMB member while another one a Majlish-e-Shura member of Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji)," he said, adding "They are now in our remand, and we have gleaned vital information from them."
"We have learnt that this group has been staying in a hideout of Bandarban's remote Ali Kadam area and taking training on philosophy ofmilitancy," theSPsaid.
But at one point internal conflict broke out among them over some policy issues, and some of them left Ali Kadam, he added.
The Cox's Bazar police chief also said a special joint drive involving policemen from both Cox's Bazar and Bandarban began yesterday to flush out the militants, if there were any, at Ali Kadam in Bandarban.
Quoting the Jamaatul Arakan members, now in police custody, Selim Md Jahangir said they claimed to have launched the militant group in December last year, and so far 40 to 50 people had been enrolled in the outfit.
When asked what prompted the group to choose the nomenclature Arakan that goes by the name of a state in a neighbouring country, the Cox's Bazar police chief said they did not find any direct connection of Rohingyas from Arakan with it.
"We are verifying |the information provided by the arresteesl," Selim said, hoping that the picture would become clear if the other militants were arrested.
Police sources confirmed that the four militants, arrested on Saturday, hail from Chapainawabganj, Dinajpur, Mymensingh and Cox's Bazar districts.
There was a Rohingya man among the nine arrestees held on Monday over their alleged involvement in militancy, sources added.