On Sunday, 2nd October, a poor farmer Mohammad Yunus, 45,
son of Abdu Roshid hailing from Ward-9, Yangma village, Ngarang Chung
under Buthidaung was arbitrarily and unexpectedly arrested by Special
BGP from Taung Bazar Camp on the way of coming back home from his
farmlands in the hill-tract situated behind Taung Bazar, said a relative
of the victim on the condition of anonymity.
By the time he had already been taken to the camp, he asked the
police why he was arrested and tortured physically. In reply the police
said, “We have arrested you on the accusation of injecting and selling
medicine to people illegally in the hill-track area.”
Without any exhibit, the police were thrashing him severely in the
camp and told him to inform his family or relatives through their
informer to release him on pledge by giving 2 million Kyats, he added.
According to one of his neighbours, his family somehow could manage
700 thousands Kyats which were given at the hand of Camp-in-Charge and
released him. As he has nothing else now to feed his family, they are
starving sometimes if he cannot earn money by doing daily works of other
people.
Such starving is common among Rohingya people in Arakan due to
authorities’ tortures which eventually cause deaths and it is
undoubtedly a technique of silent genocide.
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