FILE - In this June 2, 2020, record photo, radical store for vegetables astatine the Kutupalong Rohingya exile campy successful Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi constabulary said a cardinal exile leader, Mohibullah, was changeable to decease successful the Kutupalong campy by chartless gunmen precocious Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. The 50-year-old erstwhile teacher was among 700,000 Rohingya who fled into Bangladesh aft a subject crackdown against the taste radical successful Myanmar successful 2017. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File)

FILE - In this June 2, 2020, record photo, radical store for vegetables astatine the Kutupalong Rohingya exile campy successful Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi constabulary said a cardinal exile leader, Mohibullah, was changeable to decease successful the Kutupalong campy by chartless gunmen precocious Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. The 50-year-old erstwhile teacher was among 700,000 Rohingya who fled into Bangladesh aft a subject crackdown against the taste radical successful Myanmar successful 2017. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

DHAKA – An planetary typical of taste Rohingya refugees was changeable to decease successful a campy successful Bangladesh by chartless gunmen precocious Wednesday, constabulary said.

Mohibullah, 50, was a teacher who emerged arsenic a cardinal exile person and a spokesperson representing the Muslim taste radical successful planetary meetings. He visited the White House successful 2019 for a gathering connected spiritual state with then-President Donald Trump and spoke astir the suffering and persecution faced by Rohingya successful Myanmar.

That aforesaid year, helium was bitterly criticized by Bangladeshi media aft helium led a monolithic rally of 200,000 refugees to people the 2nd day of the crackdown by Myanmar’s subject that caused astir 700,000 Rohingya, including Mohibullah, to fly to neighboring Bangladesh.

The unidentified attackers changeable Mohibullah astatine the Kutupalong exile campy astatine Ukhiya successful Cox’s Bazar district, said Naimul Haque, an commandant of the Armed Police Battalion successful Cox’s Bazar. He was rushed to a infirmary wherever helium was declared dead.

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No groups claimed work and it was not wide instantly who was down the attack.

Human Rights Watch called Mohibullah a captious dependable for the Rohingya community. “He ever defended the rights of the Rohingya to harmless and dignified returns and to person a accidental successful the decisions concerning their lives and future. His sidesplitting is simply a stark objection of the risks faced by those successful the camps who talk up for state and against violence,” Meenakshi Ganguly, the rights group's South Asia director, said successful a statement.

“Mohibullah’s decease undermines not lone the conflict of Rohingya refugees for greater rights and extortion successful the exile camps, but besides their efforts to safely instrumentality to their homes successful Myanmar. Bangladesh authorities should urgently analyse Mohibullah’s sidesplitting on with different attacks connected Rohingya activists successful the camps," she said.

Overall, Bangladesh has been sheltering much than 1.1 cardinal Rohingya refugees from Myanmar aft erstwhile waves of persecution.

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