A New Wave Of Buddhist Massacre In Myanmar, Maung Daw

Last Friday, May 3, 2013, the Rohingya elders and religious intelligent were strongly threatened in several meetings summoned by high-ranking officials from Military department. ''Any of the information about the absence of any of you from respective area during these days, and any of the attempt against the government as well as the involvement in the newly 'jihad' reportedly being organized in Bangladesh, will be liable to be shot death, so beware!

        The government has also increased security measures and deployed special intelligent agency to inspect anyone at the Rohingya predominant area. A point here deserving of attention is that the government formed people's Militia with modern weapons in all village tracts of Arakan. According to the Eleven, the Burmese 1st domestic Media Group ''Myanmar has beefed up security measures and tightened...'' and ''We have been reported the terrorists are trying to enter the country and attempt bombing. So, we have ordered to set up security measures. We must be always alert as they may wait for the chance to attack. Security has been tightened at the border check points, ''Ref; Min Aung Lt.Col. from Headquarter of Myanmar Police Force. The Burmese government through unofficial print and online media, is now believed to be rhetorically trying to have a chance to carry out another massacre under the cover of State security and stability through mass arrest extrajudicial killing of innocent Rohingyas, and restriction on movement and other human rights abuse.

        As the media turned the baseless accusation to helpless Rohingya citing, ''the Muslim living in Myanmar, espicially hardcore members are campaigning for enlisting their conspiracy'' and ''The main targeted areas are Maungdaw Township and Buthidaung Township where Bengali(refering to Rohingya) migrants account for 90 percent of the total population ''they added. Now, Rohingyas are likely being targeted by the authorities as it happened before.

        According to Mr. AKF Jelani, an exiled Rohingya activist and former candidate for MP from NLD in 1990, ''From May 1994, North Arakan had become a new killing Field. At SLORC death camps of Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships, Rohingyas were tortured, shot and slaughtered, more chilling is that the people were to dig their own grave before being killed or buried alive. Alleging as RSO sympathizers, Rohingyas were taken late at night from their homes and were tortured to death and buried alive, ''he mentioned more 'under the pretext of looking for insurgents, random killing in the villages is a regular routine action of the SLORC/SPDC brute forces''.

Innocent Religeo Escaped From Death, Maung Daw

        Fakira Bazar, MDW North: Molvi Noor Mohammed 49 s/o Sultan Ahmad had supposedly fled the country to escape from possible death sentence by the Burmese racist authority. For this possible penalty, no reason has yet been ascertained. Reportedly due to his alleged involvement in Rohingya political parties in Bangladesh.

        On 1st May, 2013 at about 8:00 PM, more than 30 Nasaka personals from the Region no (5), Kha Maung Seik had besieged his home. In searching for him as a highly wanted criminal, they virtually left no stone unturned in the home but as he already went selling wood to Maungdaw, he has not been arrested. Frankly, no violence during the operation as usually carried out by them has been reported.

        Molvi Noor Mohammed (religious intellectual) is nothing more than a poor old man. He used to teach in Madrasa (Islamic school) run by local charity from which he earned a meager income of 50000Ks and that was regarded his only livelihood. But unfortunately, since last year June's State-sponsored ethnic cleansing in Arakan province, he and the teachers like him and nearly the entire Rohingya community became an easy prey of starvation due to government’s restriction on movement, arbitrary taxation, extortion under no criminal offence, and artificial price hike of foods which has been greedily sold by local Rakhine businessmen to Rohingyas, as well as the government put strong restriction on any Islamic services. As a consequence, he began selling wood though that did not cover the necessity of his family. Rohingyas in northern Rakhine State (NRS) live in fear of being arrested with no legal charge, "everyone would be caught sooner or later" said a school teacher from NRS anonymously.

Dear World!!!

Dear world!

Having several huge eyes

Why do you pretend as innate blind?

For Burmese government and Buddhist people

How easy to oppress and deport

The Arakan bona fide people

As Rohingya is historically native

Ill tyrants enacted a ‘1982 Dutch-law’

And to day no one likes to reform at all

So we’re still in genocide and exile

Burmese forces kill not us with ax

They kill us with needle

Buddhist people let not us enjoy with ours

They want to eliminate Muslims in profound schemes

But allegations take place first upon Muslims

Yet we are in the brink of such of plight

Where the death comes before our liberation

And reward arrives before our imagination

No ethnic in any history has been faced like Arakan Muslims

So, Rohingyas are regarded as the most multipersecuted ethnic!

·         Dear world!

Due to waves of Rohingyas tears

Aren’t you became still wet?

For Burmese forces and Buddhist extremists

How easy to fine and extort

Life-blood of Muslim people

Miscreants grab and steal at night

Forces extort and fine without rights

When a house’s constructed,(200000) is fined

When a person’s married, (100000) is fined

For a death and birth, (20000) is fined

In check points,

Pocket money is extorted

Waves to resell to market are half-grabbed

When a riot takes place in a hamlet

Muslims throughout township are accused and banned

As all allegations are discriminatory

Very large sums of money is extorted

Sometimes replace the Muslims in those places

And who have nothing are incarcerated!

·         Dear world!

Due to gushing of Rohingyas’ blood

Aren’t you became still reddish?

For Burmese forces and extremists

How easy to shoot and kill?

Muslims minority

Government distributed guns formally

Twenty percents per Buddhist village

And enclosing everything for Muslims

Making ‘Genocide’ to eliminate ethnic

Mullah and leader are assassinated one by one

Peasant and wood cutter are hacked and strangled in forest

Fishermen are slaughtered in river and stream

Lagoonkeepers are assaulted and killed in hut and tent

During emergency declaration

How hot crime the Buddhists do commit

No action for them as there’s no law

If there’s a Muslim in out of time

Security forces see nothing except bullets!

·         Dear world!

Due to blaze of Buddhists arson attack

Aren’t you became still flaming?

How easy to incinerate and burn down

Muslims’ houses, shops and mosques

Robbing and collecting the cash and jewels

A mob of miscreants destroy and perish Muslims shelter

To which are closed with theirs

And fire all those which aren’t near

Old and weak are burnt alive in there

Infants and kids are thrown into fire

When devastation knows so bound

Then emergency is declared

Not because to control

But because to inflate many more

Police and Hluntin add fuel to fire

Military and NaSaKa make blood boiled

Security forces sharpen Buddhist swords

And government’s absent for Muslims protection!

·         Dear world!

Due to scream of Rohngyas’ chronic agonies

Aren’t you became still deaf?

For NRS Burmese forces

How easy to rape and kill

Poor Muslims ladies

Not only military and police

But also NaSaKa and Hluntin

Firing and deporting the men

Rape and molest innocent women

Take all belles to camp and forest

And use them there as sex slaves

Some are killed in sexual violence

Due to whole night insult and harass

Even be an in adolescent

The forces commit sexual brunt

Even be a lactating woman

The gang of forces rape and stunt

What thing Rohingya doesn’t face?

Or more any for an ethnic to hamper?

                                            Azaad Bin Arakan

Arbitrary Arrest And Merciless Torture, Maung Daw

Yestarday at about 11:10pm, the Nasaka Commander of Region (5) Bomo Than Sai Aung, accompanied by 18 Nasaka personals and village admin of Auk Phyuma (Hansarirbil) village tract, named U Ba San, raided on Koddon (locally known as Kuduk Khali) village of Atet Phyuma (Furma) village tract. They basically entered the village from west side of arable land no usual road is available that was thought to be making the people unconscious of their arrival.

          On their way in the village they arrested a Rohingya old man named Abdul Habib (55Yr), after being handcuffed he was compelled to show them the dwelling of Iliyas (50Yr) s/o late Sultan Ahmed hail from the same village tract. They then with no criminal offence, arbitrarily arrested and mercilessly tortured four innocent Rohingyas; Iliyas and his two nephews namely Mohammed Amin (20Yr) and Ajmal Hasan (18Yr) sons of Abul Hashim and Olamiya (32Yr) s/o Nurul Islam. They also insulted girls and women's dignity during the operation there. Today at around 9:00am the two young were handed over to the police custody in Kyien Chaung(BaliBazar) village tract. However, Iliyas and Olamiya are still under detention in Nasaka camp in Ngakura.

Authorities Make Rohingyas Scapegoat, Maung Daw

Than Than Oo, a two star ranking police officer on 19th April launched a mass arrest in Aung Saik Pyin (called Reeda by Rohingya) and Kyien Chaung (known as BaliBazar) village tracts. After the victims were being subjected to inhumane torture in the police custody, nine of them were released extorting 2640000Ks.

The victims were identified as follows:

Name           Father           Village Tract             Extorted Money

Idris             Abdu Jalil       Kyien Chaung           1200000Ks

Abdul Munaf   Dudumia        Kyien Chaung           500000Ks

Nurkamal       Fetan Ali        Kyien Chaung           150000Ks

Nurul Amin     Rafiq             Kyien Chaung           150000Ks

Abdul Habib   Nagu            Dumbai                   30000Ks

Kalu              ....?              Dumbai                   20000Ks

Ayas             Md Husain     Dumbai                   20000Ks

Elyas            Sayyad                   Dumbai                   15OOOOKs

Abdul Jabbar  Bakhshu        Dumbai                   150000Ks

          On 18th April 2013, at about mid night, 10-15 armed Rakhines extremists from NaTaLa (modern village locally known as Mattoilla) of Dhom Bai village tract had gone to attack on the nearby Muslim village. However, as soon as the news went spread, the local Muslims on the spot rushed in order to make them run away without combat because they know that whenever this kind of attack carried out by Rakhines or other Buddhist groups against Muslims in Burma, no matter if they fail or success, the authorities often turn the burden on the Muslim locality.

          Accordingly, the next day, some Rakhine community leaders including one of the extremists who had a wound in his leg he got when they were running off. When they were resisted from attack, they went to police camp in Bali Bazar to make the Rohingya guilty of the incident. The police then began a mass arrest of innocent Rohingyas. Of the arrestees one was Idris s/o Abdu Jalil hails from Kyien Chaung village tract, who had been extorted 1200000Ks.

          After the organized attack on Rohingyas in June last year which is unfortunately being publicized widely as communal violence in Rakhine state by state and overseas media in exception of some.

          The Burmese government formed a collective youths from Rakhine, Mro, Chakma(Dyina) and other Buddhist ethnic groups, 90% of them was manned with extremists Rakhine particularly those who are sworn enemies of Rohingyas. They then appointed 6-8 security forces to safeguard Buddhists in each ethnic village and unleashed them of persecution, atrocities and violence against Rohingyas in the whole northern Arakan. For instance, on 14th April 2013, the armed Mros of Taring (Toryin) village made an attack on Sammoina of Chaung Pouk village tract nearly 5 km west to Boli Bazar(Kyien Chaung) village tract, and after looting a Rohingya house and torturing the owner Amir Husain s/o Abul Husain seriously, they ran away. When the authorities were informed about the incident, they demanded 30000Ks from the victim who lost everything.

Bangladesh prepares strategy paper for Rohingyas

Chittagong, Bangladesh: The ministry of foreign affairs, under the direction of the government, already prepared a draft strategy paper on the Rohingya issue, putting forward a total of 25 proposals and sent the strategy paper to the relevant ministries for their opinion, foreign secretary (in-charge) Shahidul Haque told the reporters on May 24.
“We are preparing the strategic paper at our own efforts on how to handle the Rohingya refugees and illegal intruders coming from Myanmar.”
The foreign secretary more added, “We are waiting for feedback from the ministers concerned on the draft. After getting their views we will finalize it for our next course of actions.”
A draft of the paper now awaits review by the inter-ministerial coordination body, prior to its approval by the cabinet soon. Replying to a question; Mr. Haque said the refugee issue will be discussed during the second, two-day Bangladesh-United States partnership dialogue, beginning from May 26.
“But we will not have any discussion on the strategy paper in the meeting,” he said.
The cabinet division suggested the foreign ministry should finalize its proposal for a special law to punish those who are providing shelter and support to Rohingya Muslims illegally entering and living in Bangladesh and made some amendments to the proposals of the draft strategy paper and included new one, according to foreign ministry official.
According to Bangladesh report and proposals;- NGOs that are working on Rohingya issues should not be allowed to work in that area without prior permission from the government officials entitled to work there; the government may form different taskforces for districts and upazilas under the leadership of deputy commissioners (DCs) or upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs), one of the amended proposals said.
The taskforces will visit the area once or twice per month to reinforce the provision strictly and resist the illegal entry of Rohingya, says the strategy paper.
“Those who provide shelter and support to Rohingya people must be brought under the law, stressing the need to empower officials working at the Rohingya camps with magistracy power by incorporating it into the mobile court act.”
According to Bangladesh report, some 500,000 Rohingyas entered Bangladesh following ethnic and religious conflicts during 1978-79 and also later 1991-92. Of them, most of the refugees were repatriated but some 30,000 are still staying in two refugee camps---Nayapara and Kutuppalong.
Some 300,000 more Rohingyas entered Bangladesh during the last seven years on grounds of being subjected to torture in Burma. Besides, many Rohingyas tried to enter Bangladesh amid violence from the Arakan State, during the period between June and October 2012.
Every year, Bangladesh government spends more than Tk 300 million to provide food and other facilities to the refugees living in the two camps, according to officials.
For the cause of Rohingya refugees, this has cast many negative impacts on the country’s image, they observed. As a result, the government has decided not to allow any more refugees from Burma and stop their entrance, in the greater national interest of Bangladesh, the draft mentioned.
The draft paper also recommended for installation of barbed wire fence on the Bangladesh side of the border and construction of a 50- kilometer embankment on the bank of the Naf River so that law enforcers can patrol the areas through motorized vehicles.
The draft paper also recommended for engaging Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and local non-government organizations (NGOs) in place of foreign NGOs in the refugee camps.
The paper suggested that a survey should be carried out to prepare proper estimates about the number of refugees of, and illegal entrants from Burma, now staying in Bangladesh. After the survey, they would keep in several shelter centers for the purpose of repatriation.
It also stressed the need for continuous diplomatic negotiation for repatriation of the refugees to Burma origin and those who illegally entered from Burma into Bangladesh.

Will Myanmar’s Extermination Campaign Ever End?

Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Long time ago I learned never to say ‘never again’ when it comes to Myanmar’s savagery. The latest mayhem against the Muslims in the Shan state, far away from the western Rakhine state – bordering Bangladesh, once again shows that for this religious minority Myanmar is proving to be hell on earth. Seemingly, there is no conscientious Buddhist living inside this den of hatred and intolerance that is bold enough to challenge this status quo. Daw Suu Kyi, once darling of the West, has long shown her despicable hypocrisy when she tried to ignore the monumental crimes of her Buddhist people and the government against the Rohingyas of Myanmar, considered the worst persecuted people on earth.
For years the Rohingya people living in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, formerly known as Arakan, have been subjected to ethnic cleansing practices, and denied every right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Now that racial hatred and religious bigotry is spreading like a cancer all across Myanmar to include other Muslims in the country.
Rumors now seem to have become a major weapon to justify elimination of a persecuted minority. Last year (May-October), we saw result of this evil concoction: with the rumor of an alleged rape and murder of a Rakhine woman, the brainwashed Rakhine terrorists went on an extermination campaign that witnessed the gruesome murder and rape of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, and the wholesale destruction of Muslim properties, schools, madrassas, mosques and shrines. Nothing of value was left intact by the marauding Buddhist savages. This ethnic cleansing drive resulted in internal displacement of some 140,000 Rohingyas within Myanmar who are living in wretched refugee camps. At least thirteen thousand Rohingyas have fled the country by sea with some seven hundred losing their lives while trying to brave the ocean to find refuge elsewhere.
In March of this year, the extermination campaign moved to towns in central Myanmar, including Meiktila, which is located nearly 1oo miles north of the capital city Naypyitaw. There mobs of men, including Buddhist monks hacked to death at least 44 Muslim women and children. And all these savagery under the pretext of a rumor that a Muslim gold shop owner in Meiktila had harassed his Buddhist customers, which spiraled into a street brawl. Soon thereafter Buddhist mobs roamed the streets with sticks and swords and set Muslim-owned buildings including mosques ablaze. Rioting and arson attacks spread to 11 townships and villages outside Meiktila, as mobs of Buddhists, some led by monks, continued a three-day rampage through Muslim areas. Eight hundred Muslim homes and five mosques were torched. The violence ended with another 12,000 people displaced.
In his report in the New York Times Thomas Fuller wrote, “Images from Meiktila showed entire neighborhoods burned to the ground, some with only blackened trees left standing. Lifeless legs poked from beneath rubble. And charred corpses spoke to the use of fire as a main tool of the rioting mobs.” President Thein Sein later declared a state of emergency.
The latest manifestation of extermination campaign came last week in the northern city of Lashio, where terrified Muslims were sheltering under army guard after their homes, shops and mosque were burned down. The unrest in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio, a city located nearly 430 miles from Myanmar’s commercial capital of Rangoon (Yangon), shows how far anti-Muslim extermination campaign has spread in this Buddhist-dominated country. For years, the Shan state bordering China has been a peaceful state. And now in clear reminiscent of Meiktila, its Lashio city witnessed swarms of Buddhist men roaming Lashio's crumbling streets, armed with rocks and sticks and machetes. Before police and army troops stepped in, the Buddhist mob had torched scores of Muslim-owned shops, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky. The crowd then rampaged through the town, setting fire to Lashio's largest mosque. The mob also set fire to a Muslim school and orphanage that was so badly charred that only two walls remained
According to official report, one Muslim was killed and five people wounded including a journalist attacked by a Buddhist mob in Wednesday’s clashes. Some 1,200 Muslims were moved to Mansu Monastery after Buddhist mobs had terrorized the city – again showing government’s slow response to anti-Muslim pogroms.
As reported by Reuters, Thein Maing, who took shelter at the monastery with his family, said they only dared to leave their house when they saw soldiers patrolling the streets on Wednesday. “I approached the soldiers and said, ‘We are afraid and we don’t know where to go. Please help us’, and they sent us here.” Khin Kyi’s family hid in the house of an ethnic Chinese neighbor, while Buddhist men with sticks and swords prowled the area. “We were very scared. This has never happened before,” she said.
The violence was sparked by a rumor last Tuesday that a Muslim man had badly burnt a Buddhist woman who sold fuel by the side of the road. After police detained the man, Buddhists surrounded the police station and demanded that he be handed over for public lynching. Badanta Ponnya Nanda, head monk of Mansu Monastery, said he tried to reason with the crowd, telling them to respect the law. “After that they went and burned the mosque,” he said.
As I have noted before, it would be wrong to think that these are isolated events. These are, in fact, part of a highly organized eliminationist policy in which Myanmar government and its Buddhist community are joint partners. For years their neo-Nazi intellectuals and bigot monks have been playing the role of Julius Streicher selling, rather very successfully, the poison pill of racial and religious purity in a country that has been multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-religious for hundreds of years.
Pale-skinned and shaven-headed Buddhist monk Wirathu has become the public face of a Buddhist campaign, called ‘969’, to exclude and isolate Myanmar's Muslim minority. Wirathu is a self-confessed admirer of neo-Nazi groups like the English Defense League of the UK. He says that his goals and methods are intended to counteract what he regards as growing Muslim power and numbers. His "969" campaign calls for boycotting Muslim-owned businesses and opposes intermarriage with Buddhists.  He insists that 22 per cent of the nation's 60 million people are Muslim - the official estimate is only 4 per cent.
There are many Buddhists in Myanmar who take this hateful monk as their spiritual guide. It is no accident, therefore, that his 969 campaign has coincided with a surge of bloody violence in which Muslims have become the main victims. Wirathu is such a diabolical figure that he has no problem in lying or talking with a twisted tongue. When hundreds of Muslim villages and townships were burned in the Rakhine state, he had an explanation: "The Rohingya there burned down their own houses so that they could live easily in the refugee camps." As to the burning and killing by the Buddhist mob in Meiktila, he said their crimes were "forgivable”. He added, "As far as Muslims go, a snake is a snake. Snakes are dangerous, so we shouldn't let them be."
As I have noted elsewhere Wirathu – the evil preacher - however, is not alone justifying the elimination campaign against the Muslims of Myanmar. There have been depraved ideologues like Aye Chan, (late) Aye Kyaw and Khin Maung Saw who for years have been parroting the government’s negative stereotypes against the minority Muslims to deny their ancestral ties to Burma. As Dr. Shwe Lu Maung (Shahnawaz Khan) and other objective researchers have repeatedly shown the first settlers of Arakan were the darker-skinned people who are now known as the Rohingya. Simply put, their ties to the soil of Arakan are older than those of the Rakhine Buddhists. Obviously, facts are never important to an ultra-racist and bigot, but myth-making is to justify their eliminationist policy against a targeted minority. Thus, the indigenous, and yet endangered, Rohingya are conveniently dumped as the illegals from Bangladesh and denied their citizenship rights in Myanmar - the last apartheid state of the 21st century.
"Ahimsa," meaning not to harm others, once considered fundamental to Buddhism, has become a forgotten principle in today’s Myanmar. The denial of existence has meant denial of rights for the minority Muslims, which in turn, has translated into their extermination in which from top to bottom every Buddhist of Myanmar is intimately linked as part of a national project to that end. What the past military governments have always wanted in terms of the minority Muslims is now done by its civilian partners in crime. After all, what was possible in a military dictatorship is no longer kosher in a hybrid civil-military government, run by a reform-minded Thein Sein! What a mockery with people’s intelligence! It is, therefore, no accident that the government security forces are silent witnesses, if not active participants, in such an eliminationist project, and are always the last ones to arrive at the crime scene when the cleansing task has already been accomplished by their fellow Buddhist terrorists. It is also no accident that while the victims are always Muslims, those jailed for taking part in clashes with marauding Buddhists – whether in the Rakhine state or in central Myanmar – are always Muslims. Not a single Buddhist has been convicted so far. What a mockery of justice in Thein Sein’s Myanmar!
In spite of decades-long campaign to eliminate the Muslim minorities of Myanmar, they are still there. It is not the Rohingya Muslims alone, there are Kaman Muslims, there are Karen Muslims, and there are Shan Muslims, there are Panthay Muslims and many others who call Myanmar their home. And this realization has made the hateful provocateurs and their local agents very angry, and more determined than ever before to finish off the eliminationist project. So, the persecuted Rohingya must now adhere to the two-child policy in clear violation of their human rights.
Ignored once again in this immoral order is the fact that Myanmar has ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which obliges State parties to respect and protect the right of women and men “to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education and means to enable them to exercise these rights.”
Tomás Ojea Quintana, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, has condemned the order: “These orders provide further ammunition to local authorities, including the border security force Nasaka, to discriminate against and persecute the most vulnerable and marginalized group in Myanmar.” “Only by addressing this discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities can the Government of Myanmar hope to forge integrated communities that live together in equality, peace and harmony,” he underscored.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has also called on the Government not to restrict the number of children of Rohingya people.
As to the recent pogroms, the UN has voiced concerns about violence against the Rohingyas and has adopted a resolution in the General Assembly (Number 12-59569) on “The Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar,” which urged the Government of Myanmar to accelerate its efforts to address discrimination, human rights violations, violence, displacement, and economic deprivation affecting various ethnic minorities and, expressing particular concern about the situation of the Rohingya minority. Unfortunately, the UN fell short of either proposing any action to save the victims or punishing the major culprits who are responsible for the tragedy of this unfortunate people. The nuclear Brahmins, shamelessly, are more interested in getting their shares of the pie of Myanmar than punishing the rogue, apartheid state for its monumental failure to protect the lives and properties of minority Muslims there. More sickening is the attitude of the ASEAN, which as a regional power, has failed to chastise one of its own. They must demand a stop to this extermination campaign against the minority Muslims with a definite timeline. They must ensure full citizenship and human rights of these Muslims. Otherwise, the local problem will not remain local and become a regional one endangering regional security and stability, if it has not already reached that magnitude.
Can ASEAN afford such a catastrophe in the making? How about South Asia?

New tactics to extort money from Rohingya

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Commanding officer of Nasaka area number 7, Maungdaw south, has used new tactics to extort money from Rohingya villagers under his commanding area recently, according to a trader on condition of anonymity.

“The Nasaka Commanding officer ordered the villagers and village admin officers - have to build toilets and poultry farms inside the Nasaka commander camp.”
But, some admin officers are taking advantage of Commander ordered and taking more money from villagers -1500 kyat per rich family and1000 per poor family – and it is very difficult to pay the money by very poor and widow. The collecting are more than to build build toilets and poultry farms inside the Nasaka commander camp.”
“Syed Alam, the admin officer of Khonza Bill village is the officer who collected money from everyone who are not able to pay and harassing the villagers for money,” according to villagers.
“After conflict, Rohingya community are not able to earn money from their culture jobs- fishing, farming  and business- as the authority imposed the Rohingya for moving and working. But, the authority tried to extort money from these people when ever they (authority) wish.”
“We are not able to fulfil the demand of authority-police, army and Nasaka- and they started to harass and arrest us for money, but using false and fabricate case to extort money, said a dailylabor from Maungdaw south.  
According to different sources, the concerned authorities frequently arrest the innocent Rohingya villagers over allegations and extorting money every day and night in northern Arakan Sate.

Rohingya fisherman missing in the Bay of Bengal

A Rohingya fishermen has been missing in the Bay of Bengal on May 27 evening after capsizing a fishing boat accidentally while they were returning from fishing, said a close relative of the fishermen who denied to be named.
The missing fisherman has been identified as Shah Alam of Leda unregistered refugee under the Teknaf police station.
According to fishermen, five fishermen with an engine boat went to Bay of Bengal for fishing on May 27 morning.
The fishing boat was turned over (capsized) suddenly by high tide of water, but four fishermen reached to the bank after swimming and the rest was missing, the fishermen said.
The owner of boat namely Noor Mohamed from Teknaf said that the missing refugee Shah Alam including other four local fishermen went to Bay of Bengal for fishing but the incident was occurred on their return way.
Ayub, a refugee committee member from Leda camp said that Alam is a fisherman; he feeds his family members after earning money from fishing because he and other refugees don’t get any support from Bangladesh authority and UNHCR. So, his family will  face the starvation at camp in future.
The meteorological department has advised all maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal number three. It says a deep convection is forming over northern Bay of Bengal, which could result in squally weather in the adjoining coastal area.
Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, and Mongla have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number three.