Does This Photo Expose Bangladesh’s Game?
What is the RSO doing with Bangladesh's National Security Intelligence?

Bangladesh’s involvement with the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) has always been marked by contradiction and complicity. One day, Bangladesh brands the RSO as a criminal group and vows to root it out. The next, its leaders are seated as honoured guests at high-profile visits, rubbing shoulders with senior officials. Inconsistency? No, it is a deliberate strategy.
A recent screenshot of a broadcast on Somoy TV drives home this uncomfortable truth. See above. The red arrow identifies none other than Ko Ko Linn, the head of the RSO, while the green arrow zeroes in on Ayoub, a senior commander. Sitting squarely between them is Shah Jahan, Joint Director of Bangladesh’s National Security Intelligence in Cox’s Bazar. It is an image that calls into question every stern announcement, every supposed crackdown, and every press conference in which the RSO’s activities were denounced.
This is the same RSO that Bangladesh used to uproot the Rohingya community living in No Man’s Land back in January 2023. Just a month later, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence denounced the RSO as “one of eleven criminal gangs operating in the camps!