RAB detained four individuals, including Arsa finance branch chief Kalim Ullah and organization leader Ataullah Jununi's former bodyguard Akiz, in the Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar.
Captain Lt Col HM Sajjad Hossain provided the information during a press briefing held at the RAB-15 Cox's Bazar office on Thursday afternoon.
During the operation, raids were conducted on Arsa hideouts, resulting in the recovery of both domestic and foreign weapons, as well as explosives.
Sajjad said Cox's Bazar RAB's intelligence team discovered a new hideout of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), a separatist group in Myanmar's Rakhine State, in the extended part of Rohingya camp No 20 in Ukhiya upazila.
Acting on the information, a raid was conducted on Wednesday night in block No 5 of the extended area of the camp, leading to the detention of Arsa Bangladesh chief commander Kalim Ullah Prakash, Ataullah Jununi's former bodyguard Akiz, Md Zobair and Sadek Hossain from a house.
Furthermore, a foreign pistol, a gun, bullets and explosives were seized from their hideout. Following the detention of the four Arsa members, additional raids were conducted on their various hideouts in the Rohingya camp the next morning.
Over the past year, RAB has apprehended 103 individuals associated with Arsa in raids on Rohingya camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf. These arrests include top-level commanders of Arsa, ranging from the chief financial coordinator to the gun group commander and military wing members.
