Army kills one, more injure in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Army killed one Rohingya and more injured in Lambagona village while army open fired the village tonight at about 10; 00pm, said a villager from Lambagona village.
“The army stationed at Tharaekonbon village tract and Rakhines from Tharaekonbon (New settler) attacked Lambagona village to loot and harass the villagers at about 10:00pm where the villagers scream out for help and nearby villagers rushed to the spot to save the villagers of Lambagone.”

“When the sound of villagers rounding the village, the army open fired to the village where one villager –Abdul Salam son of Amir Husson – was shot dead on the spot and more villagers wounded for fired.”
The army officer of army station at Tharaekonbon stopped the Natala (New settler) villagers who wanted to attack the Lambagona village again and other army personnel round up the village of Lambagona, said a villager.
“The Rohingyas are staying inside the village as the army didn’t allow them to go out the village and searching the villagers who wounded in the fired. The Rohingya are not allowed to go to the hospital for medical treatment. The wounded person will be died if they will not get proper treatment.”
The high ranking military officer urged the Rohingya community from Maungdaw to stay peacefully together with Rakhine, but their soldiers are going to kill the Rohingya and trying to loot the property of Rohingya, said elder from Maungdaw.
“The authorities are trying to hide their crime against Rohingya during the period of riot and on the other side they are also killing Rohingya and looting the property with Rakhine community.”
If the authority paly double role, the conflict will not end in the Arakan State and the international community must enter to this areas and must control law and order for seek of Rohingya ethnic cleansing

High ranking military officer calls Rohingya in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A high ranking military officer from Military Operation Commands (MOCs) number 15 , called a public meeting with all Rohingyas from every villages tracts today at about 10:00am in Maungdaw, according to an elder from Maungdaw.
“The officer with other Maungdaw concerned authority and officials in Maungdaw district administration office hall where all the officers discuss how to control Maungdaw and to keep the two communities and the group met with Rakhine community at 9:00am.”
“The officers and Rakhines discussion was unknown to Rohingya community.”
The official met with Rohingyas at 10:00am where the military officers said you created the conflict between Rakhine and you on June 8 in Maungdaw. We imposed curfew in the areas where we had seen that you are living peacefully, so we removed one hour from start and one hour from end. If you are living peacefully in the future, we will remove the curfew from the town, according to a Rohingya who attend the meeting.
“Both of you and Rakhine must stay together in the town peacefully and if any International organizations or any foreigner  will asked in the future , you must said that there is no conflict  in the areas  and living peacefully,” the officer urged the Rohingya in the meeting.
The Military officers and civil authority went to Maungdaw south yesterday where the army officer told the villagers of Alay than Kyaw, not to tell anyone- INGOs, UN and other aid workers- who will visit the areas in the future. You don’t tell the visitors about the event which you had faced last operations by security forces. If you told the true situations since June 8 on you, we will fire all your villages and drove away from these places, according to an elder from Alay than Kyaw.
“The officer also urged the Rohingya villagers from Maungdaw south, to stay peacefully with Rakhine as before and the authority will bring the situation as before.”
The high ranking officers and civil officers are urging the Rohingya community to stay peacefully with Rakhine community, the police personnel from Maungdaw and Rakhine are still harassing, looting and beating Rohingya. No one was ready to give justice to Rohingya even the high ranking officer, said a villager from Maungdaw. “If the authorities want to live peacefully together with Rakhine, why the authority still locked our Mosques and not allowing us to pray in the Mosques? Is the authority really want peace in Maungdaw, please allow us to pray inside the Mosques during our feasting month of Ramadan and coming Eid festival.”
Similarly, Cho Pro Aung, a Warrant officer from District Police office cheated 30 Rohingya females who came to the police station with fake promise to inform the lists of Rohingya prisoners who were bring to Maungdaw for trail in Maungdaw court today, said a Rohingya from Maungdaw.
“The police officer collected 1000 kyats per female for sharing information of Rohingya prisoners from Buthidaung jail, but he cheated the female without giving any information of prisoners.”
Besides, the Maungdaw Township Adminsitration officer U Kyi San and its collaborator Mujeb Ullah  met with Rohingya villagers of Fayazi para  today  where the officer urged the Rohingya not to listen the outside information which will not help you to bring the peace in Maungdaw. We can do it peace in Maungdaw, if you follow our advice. Don’t tell anyone who will ask the situation of your lives since June 8. Just give them that you are living peacefully together with Rakhine, said a villagers from Maungdaw.

Rohingya dead body found in Naf River

Teknaf, Bangladesh:  A  Rohingya dead body was found in Naf River of Bangladesh side on  August 15, according to Anwer  from Teknaf.

Bangladesh rescuer carried the dead body Rohingya from Naf River

“The dead body was flooding in the Naf River which fishing men had seen and inform to the concerned authority. The police from Teknaf came to the spot with rescuer and took the dead body from the Naf River.”
“The dead body was seen that he died before three days.”
“The police confirmed that the body was a Rohingya and it may be drown within heavy rain and windy before three days.”

Bangladesh rescuer carried the dead body Rohingya from Naf River

But, the local from Teknaf said, he was murdered and threw to the river by Mogh of Khinepyin village as the dead body flow from the Purma River.  There are clashed between Rohingya Muslim and  Mogh since June 8. The authority is also supporting the Mogh while Mogh attacked the Rohingya. So, it may be from a village near the Purma village.
Most of the Police and Mogh also went to the Rohingya villages at night and disturbing Rohingya community – beat, loot and arrested for extort money.

Persecutions of Rohingyas and their Miserable Condition Continue (UPDATED)

Friday, 17th August 20012, 01:00AM 

Arakan State, Burma 

Mrauk Oo (City) 

The situation Rohingyas in 22 villages in Mrauk-Oo City of Arakan state are getting worse day by day due to lack of foods, emergency medical treatments and other humanitarian crises resulting from the boycott and blocks of extremist Rakhines led by Monks. Many of them (Rohingyas), particularly children and elderly people, are dying due to starvation and diseases. Seven people were dead due to lack of nutrition and lower blood pressure in Purin village alone. Of them, four were children aged from one to seven and three were elderly people” said Imam of a Mosque in Purin village. 

The Imam continued “authorities, in Mrauk Oo, restrict Rohingyas from moving from one place to another and blocked all the roads to the market and the city. Hence, we are unable to know what is going with our Rohinngya brothers in other villages located nearby Rakhine villages. Authorities always stand by Rakhine extremist group in attacking and killing Rohingyas. The authorities in Mrauk Oo even warned those Rakhines, who have been selling goods to Rohingyas with hiked prices, not to sell anything to Rohingyas. These Rakhine hooligans are always ready to burn Rohingyas’ houses and to kill them. Some of them even say “whatever you want to eat, eat now or you will have no time to eat later and the only way to save your lives are converting yourselves and your religion into Buddhism.” They are using such kinds of harsh words to demoralize Rohingyas who are already physically crippled. Women and Children are crying and praying to Allah to save them from the hands of these evils. And they are pleading international communities such as UN, OIC, NGOs, INGOs to have a visit to Mrauk Oo and help them out from cruel authorities and inhumane Rakhine extremists who have been on their ways to cleanse all Rohingyas from Arakan and to give them critically required humanitarian assistances.” 

Buthidaung 

An elderly Rohingya, from Kunnia Para of Maung Daw, who was released from Buthidaung jail a few days ago, said on the condition of anonymity “hundreds of Rohingyas were arrested soon after the violence (against them) on so-called charges of involving in the riot. Of them, 600 are kept in a dark room of Hostel No.2, Ground Floor under sub-human standards. The capacity of the hostel is 100 people only. They can only take shower once in a week with a gallon of water for a person. They are taken outside of the prison nude. They are provided food once in 24 hours. Till date, 43 Rohingyas died in jail with the injuries received from severe tortures. Their dead bodies were buried by a road-side near to the jail. Authorities are not returning their bodies to their respective families and that is a violation of human rights and standard. The innocent Rohingyas are languishing in jails in miserable condition for no reasons. International observers should visit Rohingyas in jails and immediate actions should be taken to help the victimized Rohingyas.” 

Breaking News: There have been fighting going on in Taung Baazar of Buthidaung Township between armed Rakhines and Rohingyas. Reports coming about the situation are uncertain. 

Maung Daw 

“Police Officer Aye Tun Sein (Ranks-one star) from Maung Daw and with his Rakhine hooligan-associates have been severely harassing Rohingya shopkeepers and pedestrians in Maung Daw. To date, around 200 Rohingyas’ houses and 170 shops were looted by them. Local administrative authorities ordered Rohingyas to resume their business and shops. On the other hand, Rohingyas can’t do so unless they give huge amount of money to above-mentioned police. The police officer arrest Rohingya shopkeepers and any Rohingya pedestrians who come to the downtown of Maung Daw to buy the necessary foods and medicines threatening that they (Rohingyas) are in the pictures taken during the riot and he (the police officer) has permissions to arrest them. Then, Rohingyas are taken to a nearby “Super Star Boarding” owned by Rakhines. There, they are kept in a room and tortured until they can give huge amount of money. 

The police seize the government-approved phones (cost 200,000 each) from Rohingya shopkeepers. Time and again, police buy the goods from Rohingyas’ shops by paying only 50% of actual price. Besides, police are extorting money from Rohingyas to build 30 quarters for police personnel. They including police superintendent of Maung Daw are demanding Kyat 30 Lakhs every month from Rohingyas” said Rahim from Maung Daw. 

“On 12th August 2012, Thaung Htut, a two star Ranking police officer, with his two Rakhine associates and 8 Hluntin (security guards) went to Bagonna village of Muang Daw and destroyed 7 houses besides looting everything in broad day light. Moreover, Military camped near Nurulla Village of Muang Daw are making Rohingyas forced-labors and making them do hard-work without any payment at all. 

On 14th August 2012, some 15 Rohingyas from Myothugyi, Myoma Kayindan, Nyaung Chaung and Pandaw Pyin were arrested by Hlutin (Security Guards). Then, Hluntin called some 30 Rakhine youths and let them (Rakhines) beat Rohingyas until they were pleased. When one of the victims from Myoma Kayindan (a trishaw driver) went to Police to complain, police replied “we can’t do any justice for you and your people. If you can’t bear up the tortures, you can leave the country” a Rohingya from Myoma Kayindan reported on the condition of anonymity. 

Breaking News: “Some 70 Rakhine extremists with weapons have come to Sainda village and HausSara Village of Maung Daw to kill Rohingyas and loot their properties a while ago (i.e. around 8pm Myanmar Time on 16th August 2012). Now, there has been fighting going on between these armed Rakhines and Rohingyas. NaSaKa have come to the village and gun-shots are being heard. It is not certain yet that NaSaKa is firing at whom. Besides, there are 50 Rakhine extremists armed with guns have come to Baggonna village and there are around 20 military at Bagonna Baazar. They have not done anything yet. But the villages are extremely worried as to what will be done to thme” reported by Ahmed from southern Maung Daw. 

Rathedaung 

“Recently, three Rohingya villages made up of 900 houses in Rathedaung Township were razed to the ground by Rakhine extremists. Rohingya victims from these villages are languishing in Mayrulla, Udaung, Aandaang and Shil Khali villages of southern Maung Daw without any foods, medicines and shelters etc. 

Breaking news: In Kalachaung village (a Rohingya village), in the evening of 15th August 2012, some unknown people fired with guns at the village. Soon after, these people ran away and the authorities could not trace who these people were. Rakhine authorities accuse that these people were Rohingyas. Why would Rohingyas shoot at their own village? Shockingly, Rakhine authorities and military are raiding the Rohingya village and killing, arresting Rohingyas and looting their properties” said a Rohingya from Aandang. 

Kyauk Taw 

Maung Myint (second name) from Buthidaung reported last week, in RuaNya Village of Kyauk Taw, 10 Rakhine Militants from an India based Rakhine militant group were arrested by Myanmar government. Seven of them were caught with guns and other weapons. One of them was their leader. It is reported that these militants were brought by Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) members. Subsequently, three of its members are being prosecuted by the government. I wonder why Burmese media didn’t mention this in their news. 

And the displaced Rohingyas in Kyauk Taw are without any assistances and shelters. Many of them (mostly Children) have been dying due to starvation and lack of medicines. They plead the government of the country and international communities to save them from meeting untimely demises.

Masterminds Behind the Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing in Burma | Nay San Lwin (Via salem-news.com)

Rohingya men have been arrested; their villages, houses, mosques and properties burned down during the recent unrest.

(BERLIN, Germany) - The tragic cruelty and the carnage of Rohingyas that occurred in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan (now known as Rakhine) state, is assumed to have been caused by Dr. Aye Maung, member of parliament and chairman of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) because in his interview with Venus News Journal on June 14, 2012, he said, “The Rakhine state should be established in the way Israel was initially established.” 

That's the dream of the Rakhine people. They want to drive out Rohingya Muslims from the Rakhine (Arakan) state, their current leader Dr. Aye Maung asserted in that interview. 

In the last week of last month, a RNDP statement indicated, “Bengalis must be segregated and settled in separate, temporary places so that the Rakhines and Bengalis are not able to mix together in villages and towns in Rakhine state.” “Repatriating non-citizen Bengalis to a third country in a short period of time must be discussed with the United Nations and the international community,” the statement added. The RNDP also issued a statement early this year against a job announcement by CARE International in Myanmar, an NGO working in Arakan state, for using the term “Rohingya.” 

“By resorting to a strict policy of ethnic cleansing, Aye Maung, an MP and chairman of the RNDP, is oppressing the Rohingya, who have lived in Arakan state for centuries, while his parents only emigrated to Arakan state in 1953-54 from Bangladesh. His citizenship should be verified as he is a non-citizen Bengali-Magh,” said Htay Lwin Oo, an activist from the United States. There were many Buddhist settlers in Arakan state after the independence of Burma, but the regime never raised the issue because the agenda is only to drive out the Muslims. The Rakhine people are officially accepted as an ethnic people of Burma and in Bangladesh too, while Rohingyas are denied citizenship in Burma and recognized as refugees in Bangladesh. 

As an armed group of Rakhines in exile, the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), which was founded in 1968, struggling to get back its lost Kingdom, held meetings in Malaysia last year where an attendee asked a question about the struggles and aims of ALP, which wants an independent Arakan state. ALP's struggle is not for federalism but for independence, ALP members told the Bangladesh-based Narinjara news agency. ALP and the Rakhine state government held peace talks early this year, but the two sides have still not reached a cease-fire agreement. A recent RNDP statement said, “The government and Rakhines must combine forces to lay down a security protocol for Rakhine state and the Rakhine people.” It seems that the RNDP wants to bring ALP's forces into the region to oversee the Muslims. 

“In recent months, there have been an increasing number of anti-Rohingya activities, including seminars in Rangoon and Arakan state organized by the RNDP and anti-Rohingya demonstrations,” Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK, recently said in the British parliament. 

Ever since the 1970s the Rohingya have been accused of being illegal Bengali immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh, although the Rohingya enjoyed a variety of rights that were provided to all citizens after the independence of Burma. The preceding regime imposed many restrictions on Rohingya marriage, travel, religious freedom, forced labor, etc. The Rohingya have been denied citizenship since the 1982 citizenship act was passed when the dictator Ne Win was in power. Two out of three lawmakers at the time of the 1982 citizenship act were Rakhines. 

Many Rohingya men have been arrested. Many Rohingya villages, houses, mosques and properties were burned down during the recent unrest. Rohingya shops were looted by mobs. Nowadays, the shops are being relocated by the authorities as per the plan of the RNDP. All the Rohingya were driven from the town, and there is no guarantee that they will get back their land where they lived for centuries. “The actual death toll is a bit difficult to determine, but Tun Khin confirmed that “as many as 650 Rohingyas were killed, 1,200 are missing and more than 80,000 have been displaced.” Some elderly people died due to a lack of medical treatment. Rohingya refugees are facing a food crisis as donors are not allowed in the area where Rohingya Muslims are sheltering. The foreign minister of Burma rejected humanitarian assistance offered by the Malaysian government. 

According to the Burmese presidential website, President Thein Sein told the UNHCR chief that Burma will take responsibility for its ethnic nationalities, but it is impossible to recognize illegal border-crossing Rohingya who are not native to Burma. He asked UNHCR Chief António Guterres to recognize Rohingya as refugees and operate camps inside the country till they can be resettled in a third country that is willing to take them. But the UNHCR chief quickly rejected that idea, saying: “The resettlement programs organized by the UNHCR are for refugees who are fleeing a country to another, in very specific circumstances. Obviously, it's not related to this situation.”

Treatment of Muslim Rohingya Minority Shows Burma Has a Long Way to Go | EMILY RAUHALA (Time Magazine)

Muslim residents carry their belongings as they evacuate their houses amid ongoing violence in Sittwe, capital of Burma's western state of Rakhine, on June 12, 2012

The callous handling of sectarian violence in Arakan reminds us that the country's transition is far from complete 

For much of the past five decades, Burma has been a byword for political repression. The generals that seized power in 1962 ruled with fearsome, often reckless, authority, stomping out dissent and turning one of Asia’s breadbaskets into a barren, hungry place. In the past two years, the story changed. The men in green handed power to a quasi-civilian government, promising to end the country’s isolation. In April, the world watched Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi lead the National League for Democracy to a near sweep in by-elections hailed as a landmark for the Southeast Asian nation. Suu Kyi, long incarcerated by the junta, was now a parliamentarian acceptable to the regime. The nation’s own reversal, it seemed, was only a matter of time.

But a recent spate of violence in the country’s northwest reminds us that Burma’s transition is far from complete. Even as the West relaxes sanctions and investors flock to Rangoon, swaths of the country seethe. Since June, clashes between ethnic Arakan Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Arakan (also called Rakhine state) have left at least 78 people dead and tens of thousands displaced. An investigation by Human Rights Watch found government forces did little to quell the violence, leaving terrified villagers to defend themselves with sharpened sticks and homemade spears. Worse, police and paramilitary forces have since launched a crackdown on Rohingya, conducting violent sweeps, opening fire on villagers and arresting large numbers of Muslim men and boys.

The uncomfortable truth is that in Arakan, at least, the new Burma looks a lot like the old. This patchwork nation is still split along sectarian lines, still divided by history, geography and language. Military men still hold key positions in government. And whereas reformers might have spoken out, many are staying silent, turning away as Arakan burns. Fact is, most of Burma’s people don’t see the Rohingya as part of the country’s ethnic fabric. Asked about the Rohingya, President Thein Sein, a former general, suggested refugee camps or mass expulsion as “solutions.” “The government claims it is committed to ending ethnic strife and abuse,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement accompanying the group’s 56-page report on the crisis. “But recent events in Arakan state demonstrate that state-sponsored persecution and discrimination persist.”

The immediate cause of the unrest was the alleged May 28 rape and murder of an ethnic Arakan woman, allegedly at the hands of three Muslim men. Word of the killing spread quickly, hastened by pamphlets steeped in anti-Muslim propaganda. On June 3, Arakan villagers in a neighboring township stopped a bus and murdered 10 Muslims onboard. Within the week, riots broke out in at least two cities to the north, Human Rights Watch found, escalating an ongoing cycle of mob violence. In the regional capital, Sittwe, most of the Rohingya are gone. The Muslim quarter sits shuttered. “It’s like looking at the aftermath of a natural disaster,” an unnamed Channel 4 News correspondent said, surveying the damage in a dispatch from the city. “Except human beings did this.”

In many ways, the conflict has been brewing for years. The Arakanese and the Rohingya live, literally and figuratively, at Burma’s periphery. The coastal state, which traces the Bay of Bengal to the Bangladesh border, is separated from the rest of the country by mountains. It is poor, even by Burma’s standards, and most of its residents are minorities in a country dominated by the ethnic Burmese of the heartland to the east. Like the Rohingya, and indeed most of Burma’s minorities, the Arakanese suffered immensely under military rule. Unlike the Rohingya, they are citizens. If there is common ground to be found between Naypyidaw and Arakan, it is the belief that Rohingya don’t belong in Burma.

The Rohingya are among the most isolated and oppressed people in the world. The end of British colonial rule left them stateless, sandwiched between present-day Burma and Bangladesh. Though many trace their Bay of Bengal roots back centuries, the Burmese government insists they are illegal South Asian migrants, relics of colonial times. They have never been recognized as one of Burma’s 135 indigenous races and have routinely been denied the right to travel, marry or work. The ruling junta played on nativist sentiment, stoking racial hatred. A Burmese diplomat once called them “ugly ogres.” Many still see them as outsiders bent on stealing Buddhist lands.

The suspicion is such that even Burmese activists seem afraid, or unwilling, to speak out. Suu Kyi, the symbolic heart of the country’s opposition, has been accused of dodging questions on the matter. While touring Europe in June, she responded to a query about the crisis by saying, obliquely, that she does not know if the Rohingya are Burmese. Absent opposition from inside Burma, Muslim groups from Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Turkey have rallied behind the Rohingya cause. The Burmese government last week agreed to aid from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, but maintains that the conflict is nonsectarian. In a way, of course, it’s right: this is, at its heart, a matter of basic rights and government accountability. On both counts, the new Burma has far to go.

“No need” for foreign commissions to investigate the Arakan violence: Thein Sein

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burmese government is changing their promised to delivery aids and ground investigation in Arakan state to Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), UN and internationals INGOs which the Burmese president said to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, according to an elder from Maungdaw who base on an exclusive interview with VOA Burmese Service chief Than Lwin Htun in Naypyidaw on August 14.

“But now the Burmese authority didn’t want to do this as it is an internal problem between two groups not religious and ethnic problem.”
The government is giving assistance to the victims and has asked an “independent” Burmese Human Rights Commission to investigate the unrest, which erupted in June, where the Rohingya and Buddhist communities are living together. There is “no need” for a foreign commission to investigate the violence as an international issue, said President Thein Sein in an exclusive interview with VOA Burmese Service.
The Maungdaw district Administration officer –Aung Myint Soe- called and  giving the government plan to Mujeb Ullah, the Ward number 2, acting administration officer and Maung Ni village, Admin officer Abdul Rahman  at  his  thatch plan garden around one hour in the morning today, said a village who watch to them from village.
“Many people believe that the district admin officer draws with them a master plan which will be a trap for Rohingyas in front of International commission to investigate in the field of Maungdaw as the Rohingya believe OIC and UN will come to investigate.”
“The authority keeps these three village admins –Mujeb Ullah, Abdul Rahman and Ayub Khan –the Myothugyi village admin- to organize Rohingyas to say as per authority told to the foreign investigation commission.”
The authority and their puppet s went to Latha village with Rakhine community and organized a meeting  with Rohingya villagers where the officers said both communities will stay together from today and no fighting in the future. The officers take photographs of  Rohingya- Rakhine handshaking, said  a villagers from  Maungdaw.
The Nasaka area commander, district admin officer and some army officer s went to the Oo daung villager where the groups called villagers and held meeting at 3:00pm on August 13 where the authority told to the villagers to stay freely in the village without fear of arrest and taking signatures of villagers with writing that we are now staying peacefully in our village which was record by authority in video, said an village elder.
“The Rohingya who  were forced to signature are: Karim Ullah, 35, the chairman,Ibahim, 45, Mohamed Tayub, 32, Abul Hanif, 45, Rashid Ullah 35, Iliyas, 40, Salim Ullah, 40 and Kairul 28.”
The authority are try to show  to the International community that both community are staying peacefully together in the town, but police officers and Rakhines  from Maungdaw harassing ,looting and beating Rohingyas every day, said a teacher from Maungdaw.
“Anwer hailed from Pandawpyin village, was beaten by Rakhine youths from Ward number 4 while he and his mother were going to home by a rickshaw today morning. Anwer  become seriously wounded and his head was full of blood.”
“Anwer and his mother went to the district administration office to complain the event with proof, but the Rakhine staff were not allow him to meet the officer and he returned without justice from authority.”
“How will be possible, if the Rakhines and the police are going to harass beat and loot Rohingyas, to stay together in a town. It may again start a riot in the areas. The authority must be kept full security to protect the lives of Rohingyas and Rakhines.”
If the authority didn’t open the religious building –Mosques – for pray which will not show that the authority want peace in the town. It also show the discriminations of religious to the oust sider. The authority still not giving permission to move the people from their village for their survival, said a religious leader from Maungdaw.
Rohingyas are not allow to go to the Maungdaw market to buy their daily survival. Some Rohingyas’ village started village market to fulfill their survival, said an elder from Shwezar village.
“In our village, there is small village market and Rohingya around the villages of nearby come to the market to buy the foods stuff and other things. But, the authority become eyesore  on market and the village admin officer – a Rakhine- is taking photograph of the market today for their further action on the village.”
“The authority are allowing Rakhine to being goods and sold to Rohingya shopkeepers of Shwezarr which are selling in the village market from 8:00am to noon.”