COLOMBO (TIP): An Indian national has been arrested for allegedly murdering a fellow Indian at a restaurant here in Sri Lanka, police said on July 6. The accused, who is the manager of the restaurant at Galle Face in Colombo, attacked Ajay Kumar, who was employed at the same place as the head chef, with a sharp weapon following a brawl on Wednesday night. Both the persons were lodged together at the nearby Slave Island area, the police said. The body of the 29-year-old victim is kept at the Colombo Hospital mortuary while the accused is in custody. The accused is scheduled to be produced before the Colombo Fort magistrate later on Thursday, the police said. The police arrested the suspect along with the sharp weapon used to commit the murder. (PTI)
Six killed in clashes in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh after ICC prosecutor visit
BANGLADESH (TIP): Six Rohingya people were killed in Bangladesh refugee camp clashes that broke out hours after an International Criminal Court prosecutor visited the settlements to gather testimony, police said on July 7.
Bangladesh is home to around a million ethnic Rohingya people, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar that is now subject to a genocide probe at the UN court.
This week’s violence was the latest in a series of deadly clashes between the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), two rival insurgent groups operating in the camps.
Faruq Ahmed, a spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion that looks after security in the refugee camps, told AFP that five people had been shot dead in a gunfight before dawn on Friday.
“All five who were killed in the gunfight are members of ARSA including a commander,” he said, adding that security had been stepped up in the camps as a result.
Ahmed said that the violence came hours after the murder of Ebadullah, a refugee community leader, apparently at the hands of ARSA members.
Local daily Prothom Alo said Ebadullah, 27, had been marshalling refugees to meet with ICC prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan, who visited the camps on Thursday afternoon to record statements from witnesses to the 2017 crackdown in Myanmar.
The insurgent group did not immediately comment on the killings, but its members have been accused of targeting Rohingya civic leaders who challenge its authority. (AFP)