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Ata Ullah

Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, also known as Ata Ullah, was the commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) during the Rohingya insurgency in Burma.

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Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi was born in Karachi, Pakistan, the son of a Rohingya migrant who fled from Myanmar's Rakhine State to avoid persecution for his Muslim faith. His family moved to Mecca, Saudi Arabia when he was young, and he was educated at an Islamic school there. Ata Ullah served as an imam to the 150,000-member Rohingya diaspora committee during his time in Mecca. He left Saudi Arabia in 2012 after religious violence erupted in Rakhine State, and he may have been trained by the Taliban in Pakistan for six months, or trained in Libya. On 9 October 2016, he led hundreds of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army militants to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, attacking Burmese border posts.

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