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Yemeni al Qaeda leader calls for attacks in support of Myanmar’s Rohingya
[Dhaka Tribune] A big shot of al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has called for attacks on Myanmar authorities in support of minority Rohingya Moslems, the SITE monitoring centre said on Saturday as thousands fled what they say is a government assault on their villages.

Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Rohingya pose one of the biggest challenges facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of failing to support the Moslem minority that has long complained of persecution.

Khaled Omar Batarfi (also known as Abu Meqdad al-Kindi) a front man for AQAP AFP

Khaled Omar Batarfi (also known as Abu Meqdad al-Kindi) a front man for AQAP AFP

In a video message released by al Qaeda’s al-Malahem media foundation, Khaled Batarfi called on Moslems in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Malaysia to support their Rohingya Moslem brethren against the "enemies of Allah."

Batarfi, who was freed from a Yemeni prison in 2015 when al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
 (AQAP) seized the port city of Mukalla, also urged al Qaeda’s Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) branch to carry out attacks.

"So spare no effort in waging jihad against them and repulsing their attacks, and beware of letting down our brothers in Burma (Myanmar)," Batarfi said, according to the US-based monitoring centre.

About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR.

Myanmar officials accuse the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of burning homes. The group grabbed credit for coordinated attacks on security posts last week that prompted festivities and a large army counter-offensive.

But Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh say the Myanmar army is conducting a campaign of arson and killings to drive them out.

The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants colonists, despite claiming roots that date back centuries. Bangladesh, where more than 400,000 Rohingya live since they began fleeing Myanmar in the 1990s, is also growing increasingly hostile to the minority.
Posted by: Fred 2017-09-04
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