Arakan News
Updates: Atrocities against Rohingyas Continue ,Wednesday, 19th
September 2012-09-20
Maung Daw, Arakan- While Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi is celebrating and enjoying her visit in US showing no
signs of care for the ongoing humanitarian disasters in her country, the
atrocities, looting, arbitrary extortion of money and forced labouring
continue there. On the other hand, Burmese regime is deceiving the world
by declaring that they are carrying out investigations into the
violence and the same regime is carrying out the atrocities against
Rohingyas in cooperation with Rakhine extremists.
“At 5:30 PM on 17th September
2012, Salimullah son of Abdul Shukkur (35 years old) from Du Shira Dan
village of southern Maung Daw was found dead nearby a forest. At 11 AM
of the day, he left his house in order to pick up some vegetables from
the forest and was subsequently got slaughtered and killed. It happened
nearby the residential place of Rakhines. Later his dead body was taken
to the NaSaKa (Border Security Forces) station at Magyi Chaung in
southern Maung Daw. Besides, on 18th September 2012, one more Rohingya
was found dead nearby a village of Rakhines in Baggona” said Nyi Nyi
Aung from Maung Daw.
“Authority of southern Maung Daw
announced that each and every Rohingya above the age of 12 in the
village Baggona were involved in the violence. Hence, all Rohingyas in
the village including under-aged children are portrayed as criminals
irrespective to whether they have committed crimes or not. And authority
is going to arrest all Rohingyas from the village as they announced.
Therefore, the village is regularly raided by Police, NaSaKa etc. As
result, most of Rohingyas in the village cannot stay in their homes and
are on hiding. Is it according to the law or arbitrary arrests and
tortures of Rohingyas. If it is according to the law, what kind of law
is it?” A. Faiz, a Rohingya from Sothern Maung Daw, exclaimed.
“At 10:00 AM on 17th September
2012, Noor Hakim, an educated Rohingya youth from Quarter 5 of Maung
Daw, was arrested by the police officer Hla Myint, a Rakhine. He was
arrested when he was on his way to opening his shop and subsequently
charged with unknown cases. (The government ordered to resume their
businesses and reopen their shops. When Rohingyas do, they are
arrested.) In addition, Noor Hakim was the sole caretaker of his whole
family because his father, Abdul Razak, was arrested with other Rohingya
scholars in 2008 and locked up for months. When he came out of the
lock-up, he was forced to leave the country by the authority.
Similarly, at 4:00 PM on 18th
September 2012, Rabiul Alam (28 years) son of U Ausi Rahman from Quarter
5, Maung Daw was arrested by the same police officer. He was arrested
because he refused to give money demanded by the police officer. On top
of that, at 8:30 AM on 19th September 2012, a Son of Amir Saab Kamal
Uddin from Bohmuu Village of Maung Daw was arrested again by the same
police officer. The police officer released him after extorting money
amounting Kyat 6 Lakhs. The arrested Rohingyas are taken to the
Buthidaung jail after following day of their arrests, where they are
tortured to death. It is said that the police officer is the currently
in charge of Maung Daw and he is doing all kind atrocities possible to
Rohingyas. Besides, he has been a police officer in Maung Daw for
decades without any transfer to other places.
According to district
administrator of Maung Daw, the court released an arrest warrant to
arrest 190 Rohingyas more. Additionally, he threatened that the actual
arrests could exceed the number mentioned. Therefore, every Rohingya in
Maung Daw is living his daily life in fear. Moreover, at 8:00 PM on
September 19, 2012, a group of NaTaLa and Rakhine extremists together
with Military went to attack the Rohingya villagers in DuChira Dang of
southern Maung Daw. When the villagers resisted, they left. Yet, the
villagers are not being able to sleep in the fear of possible
forthcoming attacks” reported by Riyaz, a Rohingya youth, from Maung
Daw.
Though the Burmese government is
externally claiming that the situation has calmed down, they have been
committing all the atrocities silently. In fact, Arakan has a silent
killing field and mass graves of Nazi Extermination Camps where
Rohingyas are being cleansed on daily basis.
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