SECURITY officials in Bangladesh arrested the leader of a Rohingya insurgent group on charges of illegal entry, sabotage and terrorist activities in the South Asian nation.

Police said that a team of the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi, known as the commander in chief of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in a raid on Tuesday in Narayanganj district near the capital, Dhaka.

Mr Jununi, a Pakistani-born Rohingya who grew up in Mecca, leads a group that has conducted attacks on officials in Myanmar as part of what it describes as “a defensive war with the brutal Burmese military regime” on behalf of the Rohingya, who face discrimination and violence in Myanmar.