Rohingya News Agency-(Dhaka Tribune):‎ ‎India has alerted Bangladesh about the recent emergence of terror training camps for Rohingya Muslims in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) bordering Myanmar, reports Times of India.

Sharing intelligence input "from the ground," the Indian home ministry alleged that known Pakistani extremist outfits like Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) had been training Rohingya rebels in camps spread across the CHT for "launching revenge attacks" in Myanmar.

During the just-concluded Indo-Bangladesh home secretary-level talks, the two sides discussed the need to arrest attempts by LeT/Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) to exploit the Rohingya Muslims issue to open a new front on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

Indian Home secretary Anil Goswami was said to have drawn the attention of his Bangladeshi counterpart CQK Mustaq Ahmed to the terror camps that have sprung in the CHT region over the past six to seven months.

The newspaper, quoting Indian intelligence reports, said these camps were witnessing terror training sessions by LeT and Jaish commanders with help from local outfits like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), that are linked to NGOs like Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO).

Intelligence reports further said Rohingya Muslims are being trained in the use of firearms and bomb-making at these camps.

During the talks, Bangladesh assured India it would investigate these allegations on the ground.

According to reports, LeT/JuD had in mid-2012 created a new forum, Difa-e-Musalman Arakan (Burma) Conference (Defence of Muslims in Myanmar), to mobilise support for an anti-Myanmar government campaign. A two-member team – comprised of JuD spokesperson Nadeem Awan and JuD Publications Wing member Shahid Mahmood Rehmatullah – was debuted last August to forge covert links with like-minded Islamic organisations in Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Other terror outfits such as Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami, Jaish-e-Mohammed and JMB are also trying to exploit the Rohingyas' plight to establish new bases in Bangladesh.

Jammat-ul-Arakan, a new outfit comprising elements of JMB and extremist-minded Rohingyan activists, is reportedly running militant camps in Bandarban district along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.