Rohingya lose their farmlands for Natala road

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingya are losing their farmlands for building a road – joining from Natala village to main road (Aley Than Kyaw- Maungdaw highway) - on Rohingya farmlands by authority, a villager said on condition of anonymity.

“The road is going to main road - Aley Than Kyaw-Maungdaw – through Rohingya farmlands where most Rohingya community lost their farmlands around 100 acres.”
According to sources, the Natala villagers were using the road which was pass the Udaung village before sectarian violence between Rakhine and Rohingya last year, but, now the Natala demanded to concerned authority to build a road for them separately for their movement from village to main road. The authority are building  the road on Rohingya farmlands which made Rohingya landless and will become starvation for shortage of foods.
Some owners of lands have been identified as Kamal (45), son of Hussain Ahmed of Khonza Bill (village), Abdu Goffar (40), son of Azhar Meah, Eliyas (40), Fozaran, Sultan (60) and Ali Zuhar (50), son of Lalmat, four persons hailed from Udaung village of Maungdaw township.
Sultan has some arable lands, these lands had already seized by the concerned authority for road construction. So, he will face starvation for shortage of foods in future and he will not able to cultivate paddy in the next coming rainy season, said a member of village admin office.
Many Rohingya farmers like sultan, will be facing with the shortage of food in the village.

Nasaka and police chase villagers to arrest in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Nasaka and police have been trying to arrest Rohingya villagers of Hatipara (village) and Zedi Pyin villages of Maungdaw Township on May 6, over the allegation that terrorist group from Bangladesh entered the Maungdaw north, a school teacher from the locality said preferring not to be named. 
“On that day, at around 6:00 am, a group of Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) numbering in 10, from Nasaka area No.5 led by Major Than Htite Aung and a group of police from Bawli Bazar of Maungdaw north went to the said villages of Hati Para and Zedi Pyin villages of Lone Don village tract under Nasaka area No.5 and surrounded the villages. After that, the security forces tried to arrest villagers over the accusation that a terrorist group from Bangladesh penetrated to Maungdaw Township.”
As a result, all the male villagers fled to nearby Mountain to avoid arrest, by Nasaka or police, said a local youth.
However, two villagers namely Zahid Alam (35), son of Abdu Shukur, a shopkeeper and  Hafez Anis Ullah (30), son of  Khobir Ahmed, a grocer were arrested by the Nasaka while they were coming to their village by riding bicycles  from Bawli Bazar market after selling their goods and vegetables, at about 6:30 pm.  They also seized Kyat 165,000 from Hafez Anis Ullah. After arrest, they were brought to the Nasaka camp where they were detained in the camp as they are unable to pay the Nasaka demand money, said a close relative of the victims.
Besides, the Nasaka officer ordered to the villagers to give list of the youths who are over 18- year old. The Nasaka and the police were also searching the houses of the said villages one by one till 6: 15 pm, the relative more added.
In Maungdaw north and south, more security forces were deployed since May 5, and asked the villagers not to go to the forest and not to go to the sea for fishing.
It is learnt that some exile media and some agents of Burmese government from Bangladesh informed to Burmese government that some terrorists from Bangladesh will entered Burma as on May 5, in Dhaka, at about 3:00 am, there were clashes  between security forces and Hefazat- Islam Party, many people died and wounded, even security forces were dead.
A village elder said, “  Since last year June, after the violence, Rohingya people have been suffering  from various kinds of persecutions and discriminations such as rape, arbitrarily arrest and extortion, movement of  restriction,  marriage restriction, land confiscation and have been closing the mosques, schools and religious schools and also villagers are being kept in their villages like “Birds cages”. They have no access to do anything to support their family members and most of the villagers are starving now.”
At this moment, more security forces –Nasaka, police and army--- are being deployed in Maungdaw Township, and the discriminations will be increased definitely. They will harass the villagers with false and fabricated accusation using the power of President Thein Sein’s Pseudo-civilian Government, said a local businessman.