Six IDP refugees in Pauktaw were arrested

Six Rohingyas (Internal Displaced Persons) of Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu Township, were detained by the police from the refugee camp of Thantet Maw (Sandama), Paotow Township on 11th November, 2012. The detainees name and detail are as;

No. Name Father Name Age Address

1 U Kyaw Oo U Kyaw Daing 40 Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu

2 U Tauyub U Faroque 40 Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu

3 U Hla Phyu Chay U Nazumuddin 28 Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu

4 U Maung Maug Chay U Nazumuddin 30 Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu

5 U Jalarl U Nazumuddin 35 Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu

6 U Ba Pu U Nazumuddin 37 Paik Seik, Kyauk Phyu

Polices neither show summon nor give reason to detainees. There, all police staffs are Rakhine nationals and RNDP supporters. Polices, Paramilitaries, NaSaKa Staffs, and all Rakhines are above the law. To enforce rule of law, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi called to Rakhines and Rakhine State Government. Though, colorful atrocities have been happening in every day in every township of Rakhine State.

Brussels, Belgium based ICG urged to President U Thein Sein and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, not to be broken out crisis again in Rakhine State on 10th November, 2012. Eleven Diplomatic Commissions urges on 9th November, 2012 to Rakhines and Governments to stop violence, to enforce rule of law in that region and to uproot all hindrances, to provide humanitarian aids to all needy persons.

The UN High Commissioner for the Human Rights asked to Myanmar Government to give Citizenship to Rohingya Muslims, said to reporters by Commissioner for Human Rights, Nabi Pillay on 11th November, 2012. The main root cause of the crisis is discriminations and local sanctions against Rohingya.

Rohingya Refuse to Register as ‘Bengali’ | Chris Lewa

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Pauktaw Township, Arakan (Rakhine) State, have refused to sign government-issued registration forms in order to push for recognition as an official minority.

Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project humanitarian group which works for Rohingya rights, told The Irrawaddythat local people are not happy that the authorities erased the term “Rohingya” from completed forms and instead replaced it with “Bengali.”

Almost all members of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Pauktaw Township have since refused to cooperate with the fortnight-old registration process which was ostensibly initiated to get accurate numbers for the different communities present there.

Local people feared that they would be declared illegal migrants and deported if they registered under the loaded term “Bengali,” which used by many Burmese in the belief that the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh. This claim is vehemently denied by the Rohinyga who highlight that many of their community have lived in Burma for generations.

Border authorities, Burmese soldiers, immigration officials, police and Arakanese politicians from the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) have been attempting a house-to-house registration procedure to check personal details.

A field report from the Arakan Project revealed that from the very first day those who refused to use the term “Bengali” were removed from the survey.

On Saturday, Rohingya in Set Kyi Pyin Village informed the local authorities that they would only sign the forms if United Nations and Association of Southeast Asian Nations representatives were present as witnesses, according to the Arakan Project.

Meanwhile, Thet Tun, a MP for the RNDP in the Arakan State Parliament, told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that the term “Rohingya” was invented. “They are Bengali, but they do not accept it any more now and they only accepted the term Rohingya,” he said.

Thet Tun added that around 1,800 displaced people at a refugee camp In Nget Chaung Village refused to cooperate with the authorities and register unless they were allowed to be called Rohingya.

The Arakan Project accused the local authorities of forcing people to sign the registration form by threatening that they otherwise would not receive clothes for their children or help rebuilding burned houses.

The Arakan State government formed a committee last month to register every township in its boundaries. From this body, 15 separate groups attempted the village-to-village registration process in Pauktaw Township.

Individuals being surveyed were presented with a four-page form. The first details name, age, village, occupation, education, marital status, race and possessed documents. The second has ancestral details, grandparents, great-grandparents and immigration information. The third includes criminal convictions or proceedings, while the final page is for a signature or fingerprint. There are 135 official ethnic groups in Burma according to the widely-condemned 1982 citizenship law enacted by former dictator Gen Ne Win. The Rohingya are not included amongst this number and have faced restrictions on travel, marriage and reproduction as a consequence.

Arakan News Updates: A New Method for Expulsion of Rohingyas in Process

12th November 2012,Pauktaw, Arakan- Yesterday (i.e. on 11th November 2012), Six Educated Rohingyas from the refugee camp of Thantet Maw (Sandama), Pauktaw Township, were arrested by Police. These internally displaced people were the victims of the recent violence in Kyauk-Phyu Township who sought refuge in Pauktaw. The details of the arrestees are given below.

No. Name Father’s Name Age Address in Kyauk Phyu

1 U Kyaw Oo U Kyaw Daing 40 Paik Seik

2 U Tauyub U Farooque 40 Paik Seik

3 U Hla Phyu Chay U Nazumuddin 28 Paik Seik

4 U Maung Maung Chay U Nazumuddin 30 Paik Seik

5 U Jalal U Nazumuddin 35 Paik Seik

6 U Ba Phu U Nazumuddin 37 Paik Seik

Though Police did not give any reason why they have arrested these people, according to other Rohingyas, they were arrested because they refused to sign on the paper terming themselves (Rohingyas) as Bengalis. Besides, the similar process is being carried out against Rohingyas in the village of Anauk Rai, Pauktaw Tsp as well. Authority is forcing Rohingyas to sign on the papers on which it is written that they (Rohingyas) are not Rohingyas but Bengalis. Those who refuse are being inhumanely tortured and detained.

Recently, Burmese government has formed a commission consist of Military, NaSaKa (Border Security Affairs), Immigration and Rakhine extremists in response to the call of the UN High Commissioner for the Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, to give Citizenship to Rohingyas. But what actually Burmese government doing is the re-implementation of a black law established by the late dictator Gen. Ne Win. This 1982 Citizenship Law of Burma was coined and specifically designed to expulse Rohingyas out of Myanmar. The law clearly violates Article 15, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.