Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

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The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA; Rohingya: 𐴀𐴝𐴌𐴏𐴝), formerly known as Harakah al-Yaqin (Arabic: حركة اليقين, lit. 'faith movement'; Rohingya: 𐴀𐴝𐴥𐴓𐴘𐴝𐴑𐴞𐴕), is a Rohingya insurgent group originating from northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. According to a December 2016 report by the International Crisis Group, it is led by Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, a Rohingya man who was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and grew up in Saudi Arabia. Other members of its leadership include a committee of Rohingya émigrés in Saudi Arabia. Ataullah and the group's leadership have allegedly received military training from the Pakistani Taliban. Myanmar's Anti-Terrorism Central Committee declared ARSA a terrorist group on 25 August 2017 in accordance with the country's counter-terrorism law. ARSA is also considered a terrorist group by Malaysia. ARSA has been accused by Myanmar's government of being involved with and subsidised by foreign Islamists, despite there being no firm evidence proving such allegations....

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