To his foes, Ata Ullah is a reckless amateur who has brought untold misery to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya after launching an insurgency in Myanmar. “He’s very charismatic,” Richard Horsey, an independent analyst based in Myanmar, told AFP. But after the 2012 communal rioting in Rakhine that displaced over 140,000 mostly Rohingya, Ullah abandoned his comfortable life in Saudi Arabia to go back to Myanmar and fight. The sources added that they assumed the funds came from wealthy Saudis and Rohingya in Saudi Arabia. “He does not want anyone else to set foot in Rakhine because he thinks they will overshadow him,” Burmi told AFP.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 22, 2017 09:11 UTC