At least 11 family members of slain Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah’s family left Bangladesh on Thursday night.
A Turkish Airlines flight carrying them left Dhaka after 11pm, sources at Dhaka airport told Dhaka Tribune.
The 11 persons, including Mohib Ullah’s wife and children, were on their way to Canada, according to the sources.
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Mohib Ullah, chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), was shot dead at Lambashia camp No 1 in Ukhiya by unidentified assailants on September 29 last year.
File photo: Mohib Ullah, a teacher turned rights activist, was one of the most high-profile advocates for the Rohingyas. He was invited to the White House and to speak to the UN Human Rights Council | Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune After the killing, his family members requested safety and security through immediate relocation to a third country as they had been receiving death threats.Also Read - Everything you always wanted to know about Mohib Ullah
Earlier, at least a dozen activists sought protection from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, as well as Bangladesh authorities since Mohib Ullah’s killing due to renewed threats from armed groups and other risks of violence.
Formerly a teacher in Myanmar, the fallen Rohingya leader was popularly known as Master Mohib Ullah among the Rohingyas.
File photo of Mohib Ullah, a Rohingya Muslim leader from the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, poses for a portrait at his office in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, April 19, 2018 ReutersHe arrived in Bangladesh during the 2016-17 Rohingya exodus from Myanmar. He chaired the ARSPH, which has been facilitating the documentation of human rights abuses faced by the Rohingya in Myanmar in 2016 and 2017.
A staunch advocate of the Rohingyas’ right to return to Myanmar with dignity, safety and security, Mohib had been receiving death threats for some time, according to his family.
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Mohib Ullah, who became prominent after organizing a huge rally on August 25, 2019 to mark the second anniversary of the latest Rohingya exodus, used to be unofficially recognized by the West as a rightful representative of the forcibly-displaced Myanmar nationals from Rakhine.
The same year he was invited to the White House and to speak to the UN Human Rights Council.
