The recent fire that left thousands of Rohingya people homeless in the southeastern coast of Bangladesh was an act of sabotage, according to an official probe on the incident.
The fire on March 5 hit Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a border district which hosts more than a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.
The investigators interviewed 75 people, including at least 50 Rohingya, who said that a rival Rohingya group set the tents on fire.
“At least five places caught fire within a short period of time. The day before the fire, there were shootings and clashes over dominance in that camp.
Some people in the camps restricted refugees from dousing it, allowing the fire to burn the shelters,” an official said.
The latest incident in which nearly 16,000 refugees were left homeless is a sign of growing turf wars in the world’s largest refugee camp.
