200 kyat for a family list photocopy

Maungdaw, Arakan State: A village administration office staff forced villagers to pay 200 kyat for a photocopy of family list, according to a village administration office member from Maungdaw.

“One photocopy cost only 30 kyats in Maungdaw, but collecting 200 kyats for one. Shwezarr is only one mile far awayfrom main Town”

“Ms.Nay Myo Than, the clerk , Shwe Zarr village tract  is collecting  money from villagers since the Burma border security force (Nasaka) and Immigration separately collect family lists and group photos of Rohingya villagers from Shwezarr village tract.”

She was taking all the family list after  Nasaka and Immigration checked and took the photograph and  told the villagers that she need the population list of village, said a school teacher from Shwezarr.

“If need to collect the population list, can able to work in the place where the other authority were doing. But, she refused to worked and said need 200 kyats for photocopy.”

“We offered to work with her to help the list which she need and told her it need the villagers in the night for Nasaka checking or authority check anytime,” said a group of student from the village.

“She doesn’t want the list, but need money from Rohingya community.”

The Nasaka and immigration checking the family list and photographing is same but collecting money are not same even one Nasaka area. It is only making to extort money and checking how many the authority reduced Rohingya population from northern Arakan, said a politician from Maungdaw.

“In Rohingya traditional, bride will be transfer to her husband family resident, which the authority had already given the marriage permission; it means that the authority had permitted to marry and able to stay in her husband’s house. Why the couple had to pay money to authority to transfer the wife or husband to stay freely in a place for their future life?”

“It is just made a cause to extort the money from this oppress community “Rohingya” only not for other ethnic group.”