“I May Be Killed Any Moment” 29 The assassination continues to instill great fear among Rohingya throughout the camps, especially human rights defenders. On the day of the killing, an eyewitness told Fortify Rights: “If someone can shoot Mohib Ullah, they can easily shoot and kill me. I am now in hiding.”80 The assassination of Mohib Ullah—following a wave of international outrage at his killing— is among the few cases documented by Fortify Rights where the Bangladeshi authorities carried out a serious investigation and arrested suspects following a killing of a Rohingya refugee in the camps. However, the fact that the Bangladeshi authorities identified and arrested several ARSA members involved in Mohib Ullah’s death demonstrates their intelligence and capacity to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of such killings—and lack the will to do so in most other cases. * * * Since the assassination of Mohib Ullah, a prominent Rohingya human rights defender (see text box above), the camps have seen more and more killings. The year 2024 got off to an especially deadly start. On January 1, 2024, Mohammad Faisal—a community teacher, father, and poet—wrote a poem about violence in the camps and shared it on Facebook: Darkness makes me afraid. Fearing the fire, Fearing the robbers. When it’s day, I am afraid of kidnappers. ... Hearing the gunshot.81 Three days later, on January 4, 2024, unidentified assailants abducted Mohammad Faisal from Camp-4 extension in the night and later shot him dead.82 A Rohingya woman who saw Mohammed Faisal’s dead body in the hospital told Fortify Rights: “I went [to the hospital] and saw that he had been shot in his head. ... His brain was exposed.”83 Prior to his killing, Mohammad Faisal was actively assisting Bangladesh authorities in investigating crimes in the camp.84 One of his close colleagues told Fortify Rights: “In Camp-4 extension, there are a lot of [criminal] groups. He was reporting about robberies and criminal activities in the camps [to] UNHCR [U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees], NSI [National Security Intelligence], and DGFI [Directorate General of Forces Intelligence].”85 Another Rohingya who knew Mohammad Faisal told Fortify Rights that Mohammad Faisal wrote and published critical posts on Facebook about the violence in the camps: 80 Fortify Rights, “Bangladesh: Investigate Assassination of Rohingya Human Rights Defender Mohib Ullah,” September 29, 2021, https://www.fortifyrights.org/bgd-inv-2021-09-29/. 81 Mohammad Faisal, “No One Cares,” Facebook message, January 1, 2024, https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_ fbid=3541390602779549&id=100007259312912&mibextid=qi2Omg. 82 Fortify Rights interview with H.I., Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, January 9, 2023. See also, “Rohingya Man Abducted and Shot Dead in Cox’s Bazar,” Bd News 24, January 5, 2024, https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/lusnbp0y6m/. 83 Fortify Rights interview with A.A.D., Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, August 6, 2024. 84 Rohingya associate of Mohammad Faisal confirmed to Fortify Rights he was not part of any militant activity, saying “He is not from the ARSA or RSO.” See, Fortify Rights interview with A.A.D., Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, August 6, 2024. 85 Fortify Rights interview with H.H., Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, January 9, 2023.