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‘Rohingya innocent of Jalan Alor shooting’

By  Alfian ZM Tahir  FMT News February 27, 2014 A Myanmar refugee group condemns last month's attempt to assassinate two visiting political leaders KUALA LUMPUR: A Myanmar refugee organisation has rejected the theory that Muslim activists were responsible in last month’s attempt to assassinate two visiting politicians from that Asean country. Mohamad Sadek, programme coordinator for the Rohingya Arakanese Refugee Committee (RARC) in Malaysia, said he knew of no Rohingya (Myanmar Muslim) who was rash enough to carry out the attack and thereby endanger his relatives back home. Furthermore, he told FMT yesterday, neither his organisation nor any individual Rohingya refugee had the resources or capacity to carry out an assassination mission. “It would be suicide if we tried to assassinate them,” he said. “Thank God no one was hurt. Imagine the retaliation in Myanmar if the two top politicians had been killed. Our relatives back home would also be kille...