An Arakanese guerilla leader was arrested on Tuesday in a border village of Chittagong Hill Tract in Bangladesh, during a raid conducted by the Bangladesh army, reports an Arakanese politician from the border area.

U Htun Aung Kyaw, Commander in Charge of the Democratic Party of Arakan, a member organization of the Arakan National Council, was caught by the Bangladesh army in the village of Bodi Punking under Rumaw Township in Bandarban District, on the evening of May 29.

There is no information yet regarding whether or not he was arrested in possession of arms and ammunition.

A day after he was arrested army authorities send him to the Bandarban jail, and it is believed that a Bangladesh intelligence unit may interrogate him about his work and networking in Bangladesh.

U Htun Aung is a senior guerilla leader and has been reportedly a wanted person of Bangladesh law enforcement, as he was a leader in collecting tolls from Bangladeshis living in the hill districts.

The Democratic Party of Arakan, a renegade group from the National United Party of Arakan, is currently staying in the Bangladesh-India-Burma border area, from where they are struggling for a Burmese federal union.

This is the second time U Htun Aung Kyaw has been arrested by Bangladeshi authorities; he was first arrested around 1989 on a remote island in Bangladesh waters in Cox’s Bazar district, along with a platoon. He was released from prison three years later.