Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) (Bangladesh), GROUPS - ASIA – ACTIVEhttp://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-World-Insurgency-and-Terrorism/Rohingya-Solidarity-Organisation-RSO-Bangladesh.html

Targets, tactics and methodology The RSO and other Rakhine separatist groups have in the past engaged in armed guerrilla activity in Myanmar but there have been no reports of such activity in recent years. They aimed to gain de facto control of the Rakhine state and expel the Myanmar military through harassment and the classical tactics of guerrilla warfare. In Bangladesh the group is reported by the media to be involved in criminal and local terrorist activity, although many Rohingya activists do not support violent activity within Bangladesh. Although evidence of links between the RSO and militant Islamist groups is tenuous, it is likely certain radical elements within the group support the methods of HuJI, which seeks to terrorise non-Muslim communities into leaving Bangladesh and establishing an Islamist state through terrorist means. Most of the terrorism in the region blamed on the RSO by the government is likely to be conducted by HuJI, although there is evidence that some members of the RSO received training in Afghan facilities during the 1990's. A more pressing current concern is the cross Myanmar-Bangladesh border gun-running activities involving certain elements of the RSO and the fear that these weapons could be directed towards groups in opposition to the government in Dhaka. This problem was highlighted in May 2005 when Bangladeshi security forces arrested 26 rebels from Myanmar and uncovered several weapons caches during an anti-smuggling operation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.