tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37553750407096020412024-02-18T17:40:41.232-08:00The Voice Of RohingyaThe Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-21028705720369244242017-04-02T14:47:00.000-07:002017-04-02T14:47:13.255-07:00Kyauktaw’s Rohingya Community Rejects NV Cards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>The
Rohingya community in Kyauktaw unanimously rejected the NV Cards also
known as the National Verification Cards on Thursday (Mar 30) after
their compatriots in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Sittwe (Akyab) Townships,
it has been reported.</strong></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Mrauk-U District Immigration Chief, U Myint Thein; the Kyauktaw Township
Administrator and Immigration Chief; and other administrative bodies
held a meeting with the local Rohingyas at the village of ‘Khong Touk’
locally known as ‘Hondol’ in Kyauktaw at around 12:00 noon regarding the
issue of the NV Card.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">During the
meeting, the authorities lured the locals to accept the NV Cards. The
District Immigration Chief U Myint Thein said “if you take NV Card, you
can travel and do all other things. You can apply for citizenship, too,
after receiving the NV Cards.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Meanwhile,
an elderly Rohingya man stood up and said “the 1982 Citizenship Law has
nothing to do with us. It’s not for us. We were one of the indigenous
groups even before the establishment of 1982 Citizenship Law.” As he
continued to express his views, the authorities abruptly stopped him and
insulted him “are you a lawyer or something? You don’t need to be a
busybody. So, be quiet.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Then, the
authorities asked the remaining people in the meeting if they wanted to
accept the NV Cards, to which all of the people unanimously replied
‘NO.’</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Before
leaving the meeting at 1:30 pm, the authorities did try to coax the
people saying “those who have National Registration Cards (NRCs) can
apply for the Citizenship Cards. Those who don’t have NRCs must accept
the NV Cards.” But the people present didn’t seem interested in the
inducement.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Rohingya people as a whole categorically reject the NVC as it is meant
to issue to the foreigners recently arrived in Myanmar and valid for
only two years. Therefore, accepting these cards will automatically
deprive the Rohingya people of their indigenous status with the identity
‘Rohingya,’ disqualify their citizenship rights by birth and deny them
their full rights as citizens.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Myanmar authorities have severely restricted Rohingya movements and
access to their livelihoods since March 19 for refusing to accept the NV
Cards in order to force them cease their resistance against the NV
Cards.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-2596303594237798792017-04-02T14:46:00.000-07:002017-04-02T14:46:30.707-07:00Myanmar Armed Forces Raid Rohingya Village in Northern Maungdaw<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>The
Myanmar armed forces launched a surprise raid on a Rohingya village
called ‘Dudan’ in Northern Maungdaw this morning and have detained at
least one hundred villagers since then, according to the reliable
sources.</strong></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Approximately
1,000 members of the Myanmar military and Border Guard Police (BGP)
jointly began to round up the village of ‘Dudan’ locally known as
‘Ludain’ at around 10:00 AM and arbitrarily detained more than 100
people in the village’s school.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">While the
raids are still going on, the villagers detained are being interrogated
with at least two people reported to have been arrested thus far. They
are:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Idiris (20), s/o Mohammed Hakim </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Auli Ullah (35), s/o Sayed Amin</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“We don’t
know why the military and the BGP are raiding our houses and detaining
the villagers. It was all of a sudden. We couldn’t offer Friday prayer.
We are really terrified”, said a villager while fleeing to escape the
arrests by the military.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The exact
numbers of the arrestees can not be verified from any sources at the
moment and two people have been released from being held.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">No harassments or molestations of the Rohingya women by the Myanmar armed forces have been reported yet.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-90045227851824439052017-04-02T14:45:00.000-07:002017-04-02T14:45:30.861-07:00Border Guard Police Tortures Rohingya Villagers in Buthidaung<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>The
Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) has recently started to subject the
local Rohingya villagers in southern Buthidaung to arbitrary tortures
and money extortions, according to the local sources.</strong></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On Tuesday
(Mar 28), five Rohingya workers from ‘Mraung Na’ village were severely
tortured by the Commander of the BGP Camp based at ‘Aaka Pyan’ Rakhine
village in southern Buthidaung.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“The five
people were hired by the abbot of the monastery at a Mro village called
‘Yon Khone’ for cutting trees. While they are working on it, the ‘Aaka
Pyan’ based BGP Commander arrived at the place; and began to racially
insult them and beat them. Although the six workers said to the
Commander that they were working for the monastery, still he continued
to brutally beat them.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“Finally,
the BGP stopped torturing the people only when each of the victims
agreed to pay the Commander Kyat 60,000”, said an eyewitness on the
condition of anonymity.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victims are identified as:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Junaid (18), s/o Kadir Hussain</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Dudu Meah (25), s/o Shuna Ali</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Abdul Malik (20), s/o Mohammed Hussain </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) Mohammed Amin (18), s/o Habibullah</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) Ayat Ullah (20), s/o Khala Meah</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Of the give people tortured, Abdul Malik (30) was critically injured and hasn’t been recovered yet.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On
Wednesday (March 29) afternoon, another Rohingya man from ‘Thabbyay
Taung’ village locally known as ‘Kiyaa Zongya Fara’ was tortured by the
same BGP Commander based at the ‘Aaka Pyan’ village.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victim
identified as Shomsul Alam (28), s/o Noor Islam makes his living after
collecting firewoods in the village and selling them in the market. He
was stopped and tortured by the BGP while he was on his way to the
forest I collect firewoods.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victims suffered severe injuries on his face and mouth; and has since been vomitting blood from his mouth, reports said.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-68157621221872163312017-02-28T17:52:00.000-08:002017-02-28T17:52:01.101-08:00The Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) robbed goats belonged to a helpless Rohingya woman in northern Maungdaw on Tuesday (Feb 21), it has been reported.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">At around
12:00 noon on Tuesday, a group of the BGP personnel from the Region 6
camp in northern Maungdaw travelling towards the downtown on a van. The
BGP caught some goats grazing by the Kyikanpyin (Hawar Bil)-Maungdaw
Expressway post the Kyikanpyin checkpost, put them on the van and took
them away.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
livestock belonged to ‘Ms. Mariam d/o Noor Ali, 32, from Kyikanpyin, a
helpless mother of three children estranged from her husband when he got
jailed in Malaysia after he fled from Myanmar to escape violence.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">She, after
the BGP had robbed her goats, said “the BGP and the military are not
public servants but trained and licensed robbers.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On
Thursday (Feb 23), Sub-lieutenant Myint Kyu, the In-charge of the BGP
Camp at Maung Ni village, arrested a poor man from the village on an
arbitrary accusation of gambling and detained in the Camp. The next day,
the BGP In-charge extorted Kyat 400,000 from him for his release.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">A local man in the village said “this sub-lieutenant policeman was here as the in-charge of the cano during <strong>**Nasaka</strong>
time too. Then, also, he was notorious for money extortions. Now, he
has been enough posted here again as the BGP In-charge. So, he has
resumed his money extortion business. </span><span style="color: black;">We request the higher officials or the concerned quarters to take actions against the corrupted officers like him.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>**Nasaka</strong> is the former Border Security Force and the preceding department of the Border Guard Police.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-21300840064922677352017-02-28T17:13:00.003-08:002017-02-28T17:13:57.682-08:00More than 200 Rohingya civilians arrested in northern Maungdaw on 14th November 2016 are now facing arbitrary trials and subjected to long-term imprisonments, reports say.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black;"> <strong><br /></strong></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On the
November 14 last year, the Myanmar military rounded up the village of
‘Ye Dwin Chaung’ and arrested more than 200 innocent Rohingya men taking
refuge in the village to escape from arbitrary arrests in its
neighboring villages — such as ‘Pwin Phyu Chaung’ and ‘Kyar Gaung
Taunt.’ They were detained without sufficient foods to eat and brutally
tortured in the cells of the Border Guard Police (BGP) headquarter for
two weeks.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Afterwards,
they were transferred to the Buthidaung prison, where the authorities
have tortured them less but detained them without providing critically
required medical treatments; and regular and proper meals since then.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">It has
been learnt that the authorities are now putting the victims on
arbitrary trials under four criminal charges — such as Section 302
(Murder), Section 17/1 (Unlawful Association Act), Section 324
(Voluntarily Causing Hurt by Dangerous Weapons) and one more — and using
the office of the clerks of the Buthidaung Township Administration as
an alternative courtroom for the trial.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victims were apparently given the rights to hire their own lawyers.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“The
victims have been allowed to hire their own lawyers. But winning margin
of their cases are extremely slim, according to some lawyers, as all the
prosecutors and the witnesses are the military themselves”, said a man,
related to a victim charged under the false cases, while speaking to
Rohingya Vision on the condition of anonymity.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The man
further added “hundreds of other victims arrested and sentenced to
long-term imprisonments earlier didn’t even get the right to know under
what charges they were jailed. Neither did the lawyers working for
Maungdaw High Court. The Judge made to the place of the detention and
just read out the verdicts and terms of the imprisonments to the
victims”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">More than
1,500 innocent village men have been arrested and detained or imprisoned
since the Myanmar military and the Border Guard Police began the
so-called “Region Clearance Operation” in Maungdaw on October 9, 2016.
Many of whom have been reported to have either died by falling sick due
to ruthless tortures or been mercilessly killed after the arrests.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-24518166773785606072017-02-20T09:15:00.002-08:002017-02-20T09:15:36.996-08:00The displaced locals at the village of ‘Kyikanpyin’ will likely be able to return to their original places according to the verbal permission given by the Border Guard Police (BGP) in Maungdaw on Friday (Feb 17) afternoon, sources have reported.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Myanmar military and the BGP conducted sporadic attacks on ‘Wapeik’
hamlet of the village of ‘Kyikanpyin’ in northern Maungdaw and burnt
down the locals’ homes in October 2016, while ‘Middle hamlet’ (of
Kyikanpyin) was entirely removed with the order of the BGP Commander
‘Brigadier General Thura San Lwin’ on <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.rvisiontv.com/border-guard-police-uproot-entire-rohingya-hamlet-in-maungdaw/" style="color: blue;">October 23, 2016</a></span>, displacing several hundreds of local people in the village.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">At around
2:30 PM on February 17, ‘Brigadier General Thura San Lwin’ summoned the
displaced people from these two hamlets for a meeting and told them they
could return to their original places.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“The BGP
Commander ‘Thura San Lwin’ said that they had to burn down homes in the
Wapeik hamlet and expel people from the Middle hamlet because the
terrorists were hiding in there and we could now return to our original
places. According to him, the villagers of Wapeik can rebuild their
houses, but the villagers of the middle hamlet can only repair their
houses as they were not burnt down but damaged by the Natalas, illegal
Rakhine settlers.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Besides,
some displaced families of Wapeik whose houses were near to the BGP
headquarter won’t be able return to their original lands but will be
relocated somewhere else. He also threatened the people attending the
meeting that the whole Kyikanpyin will be wiped out from the map if
incidents like October 9, 2016 attacks happen again”, said a local, who
attended the meeting on the condition of anonymity.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“However,
we are still skeptic. We don’t know if we are permanently allowed to
return to our original places or it was just an attempt to create news
headlines on it and reduce international pressures,” he added.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">During the
meeting, the BGP Commander also accused three ordinary villagers of
Kyikanpyin as people linked with insurgents in the region. Locals have
confirmed them to be just simple and innocent people targeted and
blacklisted by the BGP because they met with the UN-led Diplomats on
November 2 and other UN representatives. They are:</span></div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">Salimullah (s/o) Abdu Gaffar, a shopkeeper from the middle hamlet</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Shafiur Rahman, a volunteer school teacher from Wapeik</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Haarsoo, a fishery pond owner from Wapeik</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Although
the BGP Commander allowed the displaced people of Wapeik to return their
home lands, the village administrator of Kyikanpyin, U Zaw Phyo Tun (a
Rakhine), stopped the people on the way to the northern part of Wapeik,
which is the main section of the village, mentioning that the village
section is near to ‘Aung Zay Zayar’ village, an illegal Natala Rakhine
settlement.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>At around 6:45 PM yesterday (on Feb 17</strong>), the house of Hussain (son of) Abdu Karim at the Middle Hamlet was <strong>set on fire</strong>.
When the neighboring Rohingya villagers rushed to the place to
extinguish the fire, they saw a group of Natala Rakhine extremists
including the one identified as U Tun Kyi (27), s/o U Thein Maung
fleeing from the scene on motorcycles. Earlier, at around 6:00 PM, a
Rohingya from the Kyikanpyin village also witnessed the group of Rakhine
extremists sitting by the road before the house set ablaze later.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-79256555841993838712017-02-20T09:14:00.002-08:002017-02-20T09:14:34.798-08:00The Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) arrested six Rohingya figureheads in southern Maungdaw for skipping a meeting held on Sunday (on Feb 19) in relation to National Verification Card also called NVC, it has been reported.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Rakhine (formerly known as Arakan) State minister, Colonel Htin Lin; and
the Maungdaw Township Administrator and his team visited the village of
‘Alay Than Kyaw (locally called Haishshu Rata)’ yesterday afternoon.
Then, they summoned the local figureheads and representatives of the
village for a meeting related to the NVC at the village administration
office at around 2:30 pm.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Some local
figureheads attended the meeting, while the most skipped it, according
to a local source. The Rakhine state minister ordered the villagers
through the meeting to accept the NVC. A Rohingya cleric as well as
other figureheads that attended the meeting questioned and opposed the
order.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">After the
meeting was over, at around 6:00 pm of the day, the Border Guard Police
from the Region 7 Camp conducted raids on the residences of the six
Rohingya figureheads that had been absent in the meeting and arrested
five of them (i.e. six figureheads). Meanwhile, the Border Guards
arrested the wife of another figurehead as he was not present in his
house at the time of the raids. They detained her in the police camp
until her husband came and handed himself over to the BGP to release
her.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Three of them released later having forced them to agree to accept the NVCs.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">They are:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Lalu (30), Jamil</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Nabi Uddin (50)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Fayazu (70), Nurul Jamal</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Meanwhile, three others have still been detained in the BGP. They are:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Dr. Rashid (75)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Sayedullah (52), Moghul (he has been detained since he surrendered himself to release his wife on February 19 evening.)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Sayedullah (70), Ali Akhbar</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Rohingya people as a whole categorically reject the NVC as it is meant
to issue to the foreigners recently arrived in Myanmar and valid for
only two years. Therefore, accepting these cards will automatically
deprive the Rohingya people of their indigenous status with the identity
‘Rohingya,’ disqualify their citizenship rights by birth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Additional Report:</strong> The <span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">Myanmar
government has severely restricted the movement of Rohingya people in
Maungdaw for refusing to accept the NVC. The BGP is not allowing the
people to go past the checkposts across Maungdaw without NVCs in their
possessions.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">[<strong>Edited by M.S. Anwar</strong>]</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-4125038232504732402017-01-30T08:58:00.003-08:002017-01-30T08:58:32.130-08:00Joint Statement on the assassination of U Ko Ni.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Date: 29 January 2017<br /><br />We, the following signatories, strongly condemn the tragic assassination of U Ko Ni, an expert in constitutional law and a legal advisor for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), outside Yangon airport today (29th Jan 2017). U Ko Ni was assassinated upon his arrival from the official visit to<br />Jakarta, led by Information Minister Pe Myint, to study peaceful and<br />interfaith life in Indonesia.<br /><br />U Ko Ni is the only Muslim, holding advisory position to NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi. In addition, he is the one who has expertise on the critical analysis of successive Myanmar government’s discriminatory laws against Rohingya and Myanmar Muslim minority. Furthermore, U Ko Ni was widely considered in Myanmar as main legal advisor who managed to penetrate the military drafted constitutions which bar Aung San Suu Kyi from being the President of Myanmar to be Aung San Suu Kyi the head of the state as State Counsellor. Therefore, we strongly believe that the assassination of U Ko Ni is a calculated political killing. We also believe this is the threat to the democracy and peaceful co-existence of multi-faith and multi-ethnic community in Myanmar.<br /><br />We are deeply saddened and shocked. We believe that the loss of such a prominent human rights champion is shocking for all peace loving people across Myanmar in general, for Muslims in particular. We offer our heart-felt condolences to the family of U Ko Ni and his friends. We assure you that we will be mourning with you during these sad days, and will pray for the healing of this deep loss. There can never be any justification for political violence and terrorism.<br /><br />We consider U Ko Ni as the champion and hero of human rights for ethnic minorities in Myanmar.<br /><br />We urge the government of Myanmar, led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, to hold a “state funeral ceremony” for U Ko Ni. We also urge Aung San Suu Kyi to form an independent investigation commission to transparently investigate the bottom of the assassination immediately. All those responsible for this assassination must be investigated and brought into justice as soon as possible.<br /><br />We also request Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the government of Myanmar to provide safety and security to all people in Myanmar irrespective of race and religion.<br /><br />For more information, <br /><br />Dr. Wakar Uddin (ARU), + 1 8147 774498<br /><br />MP U Shwe Maung (AiPAD), + 1 3307856603<br /><br />Dr. Anita Schug (ERC), + 4915750685496<br /><br />Dr. Hla Kyaw (ERC), +31652358202<br /><br />Signatories:<br /><br />Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU)<br /><br />Arakan Institute for Peace and Development (AiPAD)<br /><br />Arakan Rohingya Youth Association (ARYA)<br /><br />Burmese Rohingya Association of North America (BRANA)<br /><br />The European Rohingya Council (ERC)</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-15051931849625160032017-01-24T08:15:00.001-08:002017-01-24T08:15:14.512-08:00Maungdaw — A Myanmar Border Guard Policeman (BGP) robbed and beat a poor Rohingya woman in southern Maungdaw on January 15, a local source has reported.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
policeman robbed Kyat 60,000 and a nose ring worth Kyat 50,000 from the
victim woman identified as Shashidah (25), daughter of U Ali Hussein,
from the village of ‘Kyaung’Taung (Gora Hali)’ in southern Maungdaw.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">It has
been learnt that it was about 3:00 PM when got body-searched and robbed
by the policeman on her way back home from her parents’ home in the
village of ‘Udaung.’</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“Ms.
Shamshidah and her family is facing financial hardships. So, she went
her parents to borrow some money. On her way back home, she encountered
with a policeman from the BGP post between Gora Hali and Udaung passing
by her on a motorcycle. He stopped her and searched her body.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">So, he found Kyat 60,000 in her, which she
borrowed from her parents and one nose ring. He robbed them all. When
the woman demanded them back, he beat him mercilessly”, said a local
Rohingya in the region.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">When the
village in-charge of ‘Kyaung Taung’ asked the policeman to return the
woman her belongings, the policeman posed death threats even to him (the
village-charge).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Later, the
village in-charge lodged a complaint to the commander of the military
infantry unit (nearby the mountain) in the village, some military
personnel arrived at the (Kyaung Taung) BGP post and made the policeman
return the money to the poor lady. However, the policeman didn’t return
her her nose ring refusing that he hadn’t robbed it.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The same policeman beat a Rohingya man identified as Abdullah (son of) Abu Siddique from ‘Kanpoo’ village on the same day.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Although
they are the Rohingya people in northern Maungdaw that have been under
siege and continual assaults of the Myanmar armed forces for months, the
people in southern Maungdaw too are frequently subjected to arbitrary
arrests, tortures and loots.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-77688053127124604142017-01-19T18:31:00.003-08:002017-01-19T18:31:42.278-08:00Maungdaw — The Myanmar authorities accompanying Ms. Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar who is on a four-day visit in Arakan, duped her into visiting a wrong village in southern Maungdaw last Saturday (Jan 14), it has been reported. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><br /><strong></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On
Saturday morning, the UN Rapporteur set off to meet the villagers of
‘Koetankauk (Dounsay Fara) in Rathedaung Township as initially
scheduled. However, the authorities took her to the village of ‘Thawan
Chaung’ in southern Maungdaw bypassing ‘KoeTankauk’ (in northern
Rathedaung). </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">She came
to know she was in a wrong place when she asked the villagers of Thawan
Chaung after being in the village. Angered with the accompanying
authorities double-crossing her, she left the place and didn’t return to
‘KoeTankauk’ village again. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On Sunday
(Jan 15) morning, she visited the violence-hit northern Maungdaw region
which has been sealed off since the Myanmar military began offensives on
the Rohingya civilians in the region on October 9, 2016.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Deceived
by the Myanmar Authorities once earlier, she asked the authorities to
stop accompanying her in northern Maungdaw and instead, she chose to
visit a few Rohingya villages in the region on her own accompanied only
by her interpreters.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">She
visited the village of Kyikanpyin (locally known as Hawar Bil) and met
up with the villagers especially women. After that, she visited Wapeik
(Wabek) village but couldn’t meet anyone as the village had been
deserted by the villagers due to brutal operations by the Myanmar armed
forces (i.e. the Military and the Border Guard Police).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Post that,
she visited a few other Rohingya villages such as KyetYoePyin (Kiyari
Ferang), PyaungPaik (Haant Gojja Fara), Ngakura (Nagpura) and
Sinthaepyin (Haanti Fara). </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">During the
visits by the UN Rapporteur especially without any members of Myanmar
armed force accompanying her , the victims in the region were able to
open up to her how the Myanmar armed forces torched their homes,
unlawfully killed hundreds of innocent people, raped more than 200
women, arbitrarily arrested hundreds of civilians and plundered their
properties. It has been learnt that Ms. Yanghee Lee got chance to also
talk to some victim women who have become pregnant after being raped by
the Myanmar forces.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Some
locals in Maungdaw have raised their concerns over the possible
distortions in interpretations by a female interpreter named Ms. Khet
Khet that accompanied the UN Rapporteur during the visits. The
interpreter is a Rakhine woman known for being an anti-Muslim racist
remarks on the Rohingya during her term with UNHCR as a Community
Development Facilitator in Arakan State.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Ms. Lee’s trip to assess the human rights situation in Arakan will end today and overall it could be considered successful one.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-45456248878877344532017-01-19T18:29:00.003-08:002017-01-19T18:29:18.258-08:00Buthidaung — A Rohingya Cleric was tortured to death by the Myanmar military in Buthidaung Township last Sunday (on Jan 15), a reliable source has reported. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><br /><strong></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victim
cleric is identified as Mv. Badullah (60) from the village of ‘Ngaran
Chaung’ in ‘Taung Bazaar’ area in Northern Buthidaung. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Last
Friday (on Jan 13), approximately 30 military personnel from the
‘Battalion 552’ raided the house of Mv. Badullah and arrested him was
along with his son Hala Bodiya apparently with the accusation of
possessing weapons. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The cleric was inhumanely tortured for two days leading him to an unfortunate demise on Sunday. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On Monday
(Jan 16) morning, the military took the dead body of the cleric to Taung
Bazaar hospital for autopsy. Afterwards, the military summoned the
remaining family members of the cleric and some elderly persons from his
(the deceased’s) neighborhood and forced them to give statement and
sign (on papers) that he was an asthma patient and died because of the
disease.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">After that, the military handed over the dead body to the family members for funeral and he was buried in the evening. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Earlier,
the military arrested three more villagers of Ngaran Chaung on January 9
on arbitrary allegation of involving in the raids on the three Border
Guard Police (BGP) posts in Maungdaw on October 9, 2016. They were
publicly tortured after the arrests and taken to the Battalion 552. From
there, they were transferred to the Buthidaung Prison in the evening on
January 9 without any trial. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">They are:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">1) Abu Sufyan</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">2) and his son Burshah</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">3) Sultan Ahmed</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Myanmar military have since recently started conducting sporadic raids
on Rohingya villages in ‘Taung Bazaar’ area on pretext of searching
weapons hidden in the region. The military have ordered the villagers of
‘Ngaran Chaung’ through the village administrator, U Maung Lone, to
stay home and also threatened them (the villagers) to be shot dead in
case of fleeing from homes (in fear of arrests) during raids.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-55466053089217835822017-01-19T18:27:00.002-08:002017-01-19T18:27:55.250-08:00Maungdaw — Two exhumed mass graves at the village of ‘Dar Gyi Zar’ in Northern Maungdaw have revealed decomposed dead bodies of at least a dozen of people, reliable sources have reported.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><br /><strong></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
gruesome scenes of the skulls and skeletons found in the mass graves in
‘Dar Gyi Zar’ locally known as ‘Bor Gozi Bil’ (as shown in the pictures
below) show the shocking scale of the local Rohingya Muslims massacred
by the joint forces of Myanmar’s military and Border Guard Police (BGP)
reported between 12th-14th November 2016.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">A local in
Northern Maungdaw (as his identity can’t be disclosed for security
reasons) said “we unearthed the mass graves on January 10 in the hope
that we would show them to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in
Myanmar, Ms. Yanghee Lee, as a proof of how the Myanmar military and BGP
have committed massacres of our people. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able
to visit ‘Bor Gozi Bil’ during her visit that has left us disgruntled.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">However, we are still hopeful and want to show the pictures of the mass-graves to the world and Ms. Yanghee Lee through media.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">According
to the accounts of the surviving victims in the locality, at least 31
civilians were massacred by the Myanmar armed forces at the Dar Gyi Zar
village alone in mid November 2016.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Human
Rights groups backed with satellite images, accounts of the survivors in
Bangladesh (who fled from Maungdaw to escape from killings) , reliable
reports from the ground (in Maungdaw) and other credible sources, firmly
claim that the atrocities and crimes being committed against the
Rohingya ethnic group in Northern Maungdaw since October 9, 2016, amount
to ethnic cleansing or genocide. However, the office of Myanmar’s State
Counsellor, Suu Kyi, have always been quick to dismiss the reports and
claims of the ethnic cleansing or genocide as Fake, while successfully
sealing off the northern Maungdaw region from humanitarians,
international media and international investigation teams and keeping
the international community in dark.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-23027834106213148762017-01-14T17:43:00.001-08:002017-01-14T17:43:11.391-08:00‘Myanmar must recognise Rohingyas as citizens’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Vijay Nambiar of
India served as the United Nations’ special advisor on Myanmar from
January 2012 to December 2016. In this capacity, he played a key role in
supporting Myanmar’s transition to democracy. He was also the main UN
voice on the Rohingya issue. Previously, he served as chief of staff of
the former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, a position he held from
2007 to 2012. A member of the Indian foreign service, Nambiar served as
his country’s ambassador to Pakistan, China and Afghanistan.<br />
Prothom Alo’s special correspondent for the US Hasan Ferdous spoke to him on Sunday in New York.<br />
<strong>Prothom Alo:</strong> You have visited the Rakhaine State several times. How would you describe the situation there?<br />
<strong>Vijay Nambiar:</strong> I have not been to the Rakhaine State
for quite some time, certainly not since 9 October 2016. After the 2012
violence (against the Rohingya Muslims), I was the first international
(person) to visit the place. I also inspected the camps in Mongdaw,
where the “boat people” rescued from the sea were given shelter. Thus, I
have seen the desperation as well as the complexities of the issue.
During the (previous military government), I had been trying to impress
them that unless they were more sensitive and tackled the problem in
terms of their root causes, including citizenship and status, there was a
danger that the situation could be further radicalised.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> I believe, after your last visit, you said there have been targeted killings.<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> No, not after the last visit. I did say of
targeted killings after the 2012 visit. That year in October, there were
some targeted killings. It was very difficult to distinguish between
common civilians and others. Due to this, there was a danger of
targeted killing.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> The international press have reported
extensively about looting, burning and even incidents of rape, not just
in the past but now.<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> Yes, but these have also been denied by the
local people. It was very difficult to get accurate information which
could be verified independently. Much of the information has been
filtered through the government, and the government has fiercely denied
such accusations, especially rape. We got some reliable information
from outside, which said there were no reports of rape, initially for
the first few weeks. Then suddenly these reports started appearing. I do
agree, as repercussions, there could be attacks against women and
children. But whether these were deliberate, I have not been able to
independently confirm.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> The head of UNHCR in Dhaka called the military action against the Rohingyas a genocide.<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> No, he did not. He did say there was ethnic
cleansing, but did not use the word genocide. UNHCR later said it was
his personal view and did not reflect the position of the organisation.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> Are you saying that things have got better?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> There has not been an escalation of violence,
although the security forces feel threats of attack against them still
remain. Therefore, the lockdown they have imposed in the area has
continued. Even though they have said the media and some of the agencies
would be allowed to go in. It has been kind of an up and down
situation. There is effectively a lockdown, and the local people
continue to face anxiety and uncertainty. They are simply frightened,
they are worried how long this would continue. I think there is a need
for the government to take pro-active action to reassure the local
community. While they can legitimately take action against those who
pose a security threat, that should not be visited on the entire
population. And the civilian population needs assurance that they would
be protected.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> You briefed the Security Council on 17 November. Some reports say you advised the council members to go easy on Myanmar.<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> No, I did not say that. What I said was that the
lady (Aung San Suu Kyi) said she needed space and time, and I said,
yes, she needed time and space to address the issue. When she was at the
United Nations in September last year, she assured her support for
human rights and dignity for all the people in the country. She said she
would stand firm against violence and intolerance. She reiterated her
faith in fundamental human rights and dignity of human persons. She, in
my view, is capable of taking action that would change the situation.
She has the moral authority and political clout to bring about necessary
change. If anything can be done, it has to be done by the government
and by her. I personally feel that she would do the right thing if she
is given the confidence by the people.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> What about the army? Does she (Suu Kyi) enjoy support from the army in dealing with the situation?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> At the moment, the military is looking at it
purely as a security threat. After all, every hammer looks for a nail.
There has to be some pressure on the military to look at the larger
political dynamics, not purely as a threat. At the moment, I don’t
think Aung San Suu Kyi is in a position to push the military far enough.
But if anybody can do it, in my view, it is Suu Kyi. She would do the
right thing.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> The government has formed an investigation team that has already denied any religious persecution.<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> I think there is still institutionalised
discrimination inside the country. The current situation (of not
granting the Rohingyas citizenship) has created a (dangerous) situation.
The constitution itself recognises 135 ethnic groups. There has been
recognition — by Aung San and her father — that there is a need for the
country to come together as a nation. (Unfortunately) there is still
strong resistance among the majority groups against smaller minority
groups, and they need to overcome this.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> Former secretary general Kofi Annan who recently visited Myanmar seemed very soft on the government.<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> I agree with him on some of his positions, both
in terms of complexity of the issue and for the country, especially its
leadership, to raise its moral voice to reassure the minority community
and to allow greater access to humanitarian assistance and the media. I
also agree with him that a resolution has to be found through a
political process. It should be done through soft pressure. I don’t
think that using such labels like ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ can
help. These charges cannot be thrown around loosely. Even some senior US
state department officials have said unless handled carefully, the
situation could be infested with extremists. All efforts must be made
to avoid the situation getting worse.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> Can you explain the issue of radicalisation?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> I think the situation can be handled better if
looked at it politically. If the local population continues to feel
beleaguered and desperate, then it becomes a fertile ground for
radicalisation.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> What about a regional approach?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> The first regional approach has been through
ASEAN. The Bali Process — adopted in 2002 and supported by 48 countries
to deal with the refugee crisis — can be a useful tool. The approach
that Malaysia has taken — of sending a flotilla — does not seem to be
productive. On the other hand, Indonesia has been working with Myanmar
over the months and beyond, after the 2012 events. They have been
actively sending various humanitarian assistances.<br />
More importantly, it should be between Bangladesh and Myanmar to
discuss bilaterally. I understand the government of Myanmar has said it
would send a deputy minister to Dhaka for meetings, and they are looking
for a time when this could take place. The UN is also sending its
Special Rapporteur (on the situation of human rights in Myanmar) Yanghee
Lee.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> What would be your advice to the government of Bangladesh?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> I think Bangladesh has so far been very
constructive. It has been very careful of not allowing the situation to
aggravate. At the same time, I understand they are under pressure due to
the influx of refugees. As their number goes up, there would
inevitably be pressure to give them (the refugees) humanitarian
assistance and protection which over time could become not possible for
Bangladesh. There has to be a bilateral agreement on resettling the
refugees back in Myanmar. I believe that this was done (successfully) in
the 1990s.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> So, where do we go from here and what would be the action plan?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> The first thing that needs to be done by the
government of Myanmar — from people at the top leadership position – is
to reassure the people of the northern state of Rakhine, particularly
its Muslim community, that their protection, safety and dignity would be
ensured. And wherever there would be excesses committed, they would be
dealt with in an exemplary manner so that the locals do not feel that
they may become victims.<br />
Secondly, there has to be credible way in which (this) investigation
takes place. The people need to be reassured that all government and
security actions would be taken strictly in accordance with the law and
in a transparent way and in a manner in which the international
community is brought into the picture. Unless that happens, there will
be lingering doubts and questions of credibility.<br />
Thirdly, the government has to address the root cause, the issue of
citizenship. I understand the majority of the Rohingyas have in the
past been recognized (as citizens). That process of reassurance must
start soon. There has to be a sense of assurance among the Rohingyas
that the government recognises them as citizens, and the minority would
be given their due place in the country. Under a unified federal
structure, minorities need to be given the assurance that they are as
much part of the country as the rest. This would create a sense of
ownership and they would have participation in the governance of the
country.<br />
<strong>PA:</strong> Do you see a role for the UN?<br />
<strong>VN:</strong> The UN is willing to play a role, but it has to
be dealt with nationally. If the international community is involved —
either through the UN or regional organisations — the credibility of the
political process would be enhanced and this could lead to the
resolution of the problem.<br />
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The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-30995194438675354272016-12-30T08:20:00.002-08:002016-12-30T08:20:41.912-08:00Maungdaw — At the village of Kyikanpyin in Northern Maungdaw, 16 Rohingya men including some teenagers were arbitrarily arrested by the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) during a raid jointly conducted with the military in the early morning on Thursday (Dec 29), it has been reported.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">About 150
BGP and Military personnel besieged the Kyikanyin village locally known
as Hawar Bil at about 4:00 am and indiscriminately arrested anyone
encountered during the joint raid. All of the 16 men arrested are
innocent people, according to the locals.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Reportedly,
the administrator of Kyikanpyin, U Phyo Zaw Tun (a natala Rakhine
extremist living at Aung Zeyar village), conspired with the BGP to
launch a raid on the village to arrest the villagers whom he personally
loathes.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“Earlier,
people used to be alert of the raids and arrests by the military and the
BGP. Off late, people have begun to try to live a normal life.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“And UNHCR
and WFP provided some aids to the villagers of Kyikanpyin a few days
ago. The UNHCR was also to provide aids to the villagers of Wa Peik
(WaBek) on Thursday. So, some villagers stayed back in the village at
night with the hope of having UNHCR aids on the next day.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“Taking
advantage of the both situations, the BGP and the military acting on the
arrest-list of aubmitted by the village administrator timingly launched
a raid on the village and arbitrarily arrested 16 innocent people”,
said U Aye Myint, a human rights observer, based in Maungdaw.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The people arrested on Thursday are:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">(From the West hamlet of Kyikanpyin,)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">1) Ibadullah (20), s/o Hassan</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Faisal (19), s/o Abdu Salam</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) A 17-year-old son of Jalal Ahmed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) Anwar Sadek (17), s/o Abdul Majid</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) Kabir (17), s/o Daw Mamtaaz</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">(These four are from the West hamlet of Kyikanpyin.)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">(From middle hamlet of Kyikanpyin,)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Mohammed Salam, 47</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Karimullah (16), s/o Zakir Ahmed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Aamir Safa (17), s/o Salimullah</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">(From Wapeik hamlet of Kyikanpyin,)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Noor Islam (25), s/o Hamid Hussein</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Mohammed Johar (21), s/o Sheikh Ahmed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Sayed Ahmed (40), s/o Fazal Ahmed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) Hassan (31), s/o Rashid Ahmed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) Safar Alam (20), s/o Shomsul Alam</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">6) Iman Hussein, 50</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">7) Rafique (?), s/o Khalu</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">8) Mohammed Alam (?), s/o Daw Habiya Khatun</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The people
arrested are reported to have been being interrogated in the BGP
Headquarter. The villagers are still hopeful that they will eventually
be released as they feel that they are very much innocent.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Myanmar military began a full-on offensives on the Rohingya community at
large in northern Maungdaw on the pretext of ‘Region Clearance
Operation’ as the aftermaths of the raids by a rebel group — born out of
decades-long persecutions which has now been identified as Harakat Al
Yakin or the Faith Movement — on three Border Guard Police posts in
Maungdaw on October 9, 2016. Since then, at least 1,000 civilians have
been arrested, tortured and subjected to arbitrary detentions/long-term
imprisonments without fair trials.</span></div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-88636145855323620852016-12-30T08:19:00.003-08:002016-12-30T08:19:46.454-08:00The Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) continues to demolish Rohingya homes daily across Maungdaw district since mid December 2016, reliable reports emerge from Maungdaw. <br /><span style="color: black;"></span>
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<span style="color: black;">After burning thousands of
Rohingya homes in northern Maungdaw since October 9, the BGP began to
demolish homes in northern Maungdaw, which later spread to other parts
of Maungdaw district including southern Maungdaw and Buthidaung
Township. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The BGP, reportedly acting
on the order by the Rakhine State Chief Minister and the Commander
in-Chief of the BGP, have recently demolished homes in the following
villages (besides the reports on the demolition of homes we have
earlier).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">[Also read:<a href="http://www.rvisiontv.com/rohingya-homes-demolished-southern-maungdaw/" style="color: black;"> <span style="color: blue;">Rohingya Homes Demolished in Southern Maungdaw</span></a></span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.rvisiontv.com/rohingya-homes-demolished-across-maungdaw-township/" style="color: blue;">More Rohingya Homes Demolished across Maungdaw Township</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.rvisiontv.com/man-shot-head-refusing-demolish-home/" style="color: blue;">Man Shot at Head for Refusing to Demolish his Home</a></span>]</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">. </span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;">
<strong><span style="color: black;">In Northern Maungdaw,</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><em><strong>I)</strong> In LonDoong village on December 27,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1) 11 houses and 4 shops were destroyed at Kyun Gaung hamlet of LonDoong</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">2) 15 houses were destroyed at ‘Kyaik Chaung’ hamlet of LonDoong (some 40-year old homes were also destroyed.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">3) 25 houses were destroyed at ‘Sinthae Pyin’ hamlet of Londoong</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">4) 8 houses and 3 shops were destroyed at ‘Zaydi Pyin’ hamlet of LonDoong</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">15) 15 houses were destroyed at ‘Mya Zin’ hamlet of LonDoong.</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: black;"><strong>II)</strong> In ‘Sabbay Gone’ village on December 27,</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1) 8 houses were destroyed. </span></div>
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<em><span style="color: black;"><strong>III)</strong> In ‘Taung Pyo Lat Ya’ on December 26,</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1) 3 houses were destroyed.</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: black;"><strong>IV)</strong> In ‘Thayet Oak’ village on December 25,</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1) 6 houses were destroyed.</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: black;"><strong>V)</strong> In ‘Kyauk Pyin Seik’ village on December 26,</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1) 25 houses and 15 shops were ordered to be destroyed.<br />
</span><span style="color: white;">. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">In Southern Maungdaw,</span></strong></div>
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<em><span style="color: black;"><strong>I)</strong> In the village of ‘Padin’ on December 26,</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1) 11 houses and 6 shops</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><em><strong>II)</strong> In the village of ‘Du Nyaung Pin Gyi’ on December 26,</em><br />
1) 5 houses were destroyed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">After continuously
demolishing homes in the rural areas, the BGP has handed further lists
of homes to be destroyed over to the administrators of the respective
Rohingya villages in the outskirts of the downtown of Maungdaw.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Hundreds of Rohingya homes have been demolished in the <strong>Buthidaung</strong> Township in the recent weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"> .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The houses and shops being destroyed in
the rural villages are not modern buildings that require officials’
permission(s) but traditional country-type structures built of bamboos
and woods and covered with ‘Nipa Palm Leaves.’ These widespread
destructions of homes are now seen among the locals as yet another
attempt of cleansing their (i.e. Rohingya) population through systematic
displacement of the people.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The order to demolish homes had only been imposed on the Rohingya community, not on the Rakhine Buddhist community.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-53030322223430053392016-12-28T17:16:00.003-08:002016-12-28T17:16:32.111-08:00During a raid on December 24, 2016, the Myanmar military perpetrated sexual assaults and physical assaults targeting the Rohingya villagers at ‘Kyun Pauk Phyu Zu’ in ‘Taung Pyo Lat Wai’ Township, northern Maungdaw, according to the reliable sources.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">At least
three Rohingya women were raped by the military during the raid in the
village as many men fled in fear of arbitrary arrests, torture and
unlawful detention. The raped victims are identified as:</span>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">The 21-year-old wife of Mr. ME (real name withheld)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">A 30-year-old daughter of Mr. AA (real name withheld)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">The 22-year-old wife of Mr. SN (real name withheld)</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
military further beat and tortured the villagers including children,
young and old (wherever encountered) and plundered the villagers’
properties. Some victims seriously tortured are identified as:</span></div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">Amir Ahmed (35)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Abdul Ma’abud (36), Haidar</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
Burmese military have continued a brutal military assaults on the
Rohingya civilians in the name of ‘Region Clearance Operation’ and
indulged in the Crimes of Genocide since October 9, 2016. The Myanmar
government stick to blanket denials of any wrongdoings by its troops
despite the reports by the human rights groups like HRW, Amnesty
International and Fortify Rights; many and other reliable sources.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-44802071442086231402016-12-28T17:15:00.003-08:002016-12-28T17:15:48.192-08:00 A Rohingya man who refused to demolish his own home was shot at head by Myanmar’s Border Police (BGP) in northern Maungdaw on December 25, while the BGP continues to demolish more Rohingya homes across the Maungdaw District reportedly on the order by the Rakhine (Arakan) State Administration, it has been reported.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong> </strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
incident happened at the village of ‘Wa Chein’ (in northern Maungdaw) at
around 11 am on Sunday and the victim is identified as Zahid Hussein
s/o Aamir Hussein.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“The
victim was fortunate enough to escape death as the bullet hit at the
left side of his head but lost his consciousness and fell down
immediately. He is now in critical condition being treated in the clinic
in ‘Taman Thar’ village, according to the reliable sources in the
region.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“The BGP
ordered the villagers of ‘Wa Chein’ to destroy 30 homes on the pretext
that they were not included in the ‘Household Map.’ The villagers didn’t
demolish their homes. So, the BGP raided the village on December 25.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“They
arrived at Zahid Hussein’s home and ordered him to Demolish his own
home. He replied that he couldn’t do so without looking at the situation
and would do so only when others do. So, the BGP forced started and
torturing him and another BGP man shot him at his head from 5 yards
away.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">He fell down and became critical. He is now being treated at Taman Thar Clinic”, said a local on the condition of anonymity.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">After the
incident happened, the BGP forced other six families in the village to
demolish their home using threats and terror and then ordered to
demolish the remaining.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Some homes demolished at the village of ‘Wa Chein’ belong to the following people.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Ali Hussein s/o Noor Hussein</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Abu Ahmed s/o Noor Mohammed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Zahid Hussein s/o Aamir Hussein</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) Abu Alam s/o Sultan Ahmed</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) Mohammed Shafi s/o Abdu Jalil</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
numbers of the people becoming displaced are alarmingly increasing and
many people are trying to flee to Bangladesh as the BGP forces continues
to demolish more and more Rohingya homes across Maungdaw a2nd
Buthidaung Townships reportedly acting on the Order by the Rakhine State
Administration (controlled by NLD).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;">–</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">A list of homes and shops destroyed recently at some other villages is as follows.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On December 22, 3 houses were demolished at ‘Zuthar Hali.’ The house owners are:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">1) Mohammed Hussein (31), s/o Abul Hussein</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Fedaan Ali (25), s/o Ghaffar</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Noor Mustafa (42), s/o Nurul Hoque</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On December 22, 2 shops were demolished at ‘Faari.’ The owners are:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">1) Inayatullah (41), s/o Halimullah </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Dolu (40), s/o Abu Nu’man</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On December 24, 5 houses were demolished at ‘Maudi’ village. The owners are</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">1) Zahid Alam s/o Sayed Alam</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Noor Alam (20), s/o Mohammed Ali</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Mohammed Sharif (20), s/o Shamim Jalal</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) For Alam (24), s/o Mv Hakim Ali</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) Ayub (25), s/o Sayed Noor</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On December 24, six houses were destroyed at ‘Fulaya’ hamlet of ‘Kwan Thi Pin’ village. They belong to:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">1) Zafar (30), s/o of Rashid Ahmed </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Mohammed Rashid (25), s/o Sirajullah</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Dil Mohammed (50), s/o Rashiduddin</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) Faisal (24), s/o Islam</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) Osman (23), s/o Nooru</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">6) Mohammed Ayub (25), s/o Noor Mohammed</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">On
December 24, two mosques, two shops and 8 homes were demolished by the
BGP at the village of Kyar Gaung Taung locally known as Rabailla.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;">–</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Mostly,
the BGP have forced the Rohingya villagers to dismantle their own houses
and shops at gun-points or by means of using threats of imprisonment.
In the occasions when the locals resisted, the BGP themselves have
demolished many homes. It has also been reported that the BGP indulge in
plundering Rohingya properties and livestocks during their raids on
Rohingya villages to destroy homes.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">More than
50,000 Rohingya people have already been displaced by the brutal
military offensives in northern Maungdaw, a region which has been sealed
off from international media and humanitarians, since October 9, 2016.
Adding to that, the government actions to demolish more homes are
leaving many people without any shelter in this winter and going by the
emerging reports, many more people in Maungdaw are trying to flee to
neighboring Bangladesh for the safety of their lives.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“On one
hand, they unlawfully killed, torured and arrested hundreds of innocent
people and raped many women. On another hand, they burnt down thousands
of homes. And then, they removed fences surrounding our homes. And now,
they are destroying our homes. More people are trying to flee to
Bangladesh. Where are the laws and humanity?” exclaimed an elderly in
northern Maungdaw, while speaking to Rohingya Vision TV.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The houses
and shops being destroyed in the rural villages are not modern
buildings that require officials’ permission(s) but traditional
country-type structures built of bamboos and woods and covered with
‘Nipa Palm Leaves.’ These widespread destructions of homes are now seen
among the locals as yet another attempt of cleansing their (i.e.
Rohingya) population through systematic displacement of the people.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The order to demolish homes had only been imposed on the Rohingya community, not on the Rakhine Buddhist community.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-78907081300994807082016-12-28T17:14:00.001-08:002016-12-28T17:14:58.319-08:00Locals believe it is a deliberate sabotage of innocent people’s lives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Maungdaw</strong>
— A measles vaccine program conducted by the Myanmar health department
in northern Maungdaw resulted in one Rohingya child suffering
excruciating deaths and other five children in critical conditions,
according to the reliable sources in the region.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">In
collaboration with the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP), the Health
Department gave the tainted vaccines to many children at the ‘Maggyi
Chaung’ hamlet of Quarter 4, ‘Khamauk Seik’ Township, northern Maungdaw,
on December 23.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Six
children began to suffer from excruciating spasms of muscles as the
consequence of the measles vaccines according to a local report.
However, how the vaccine has caused the deterioration of the children’s
conditions is unidentified/unexplained yet.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">One of the children who is confirmed dead at around 10 am on December 25 is ‘Yaasin s/o Badi Alam.’</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Other five children feared to have been dead in the hospital by now are:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">1) Jannat Ara Begum d/o Shafi Alam</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">2) Khawsar Ara Begum d/o Shafi Alam</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">3) Najimullah s/o Kamal Hussein</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">4) A son of Zahid and Samuda Khatun</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">5) A son of Gura Meah and Rabia Khatun</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The Border
Guard Police (BGP) have earlier announced that the vaccination is
compulsory for all the Rohingyas in Maungdaw and Buthidaung.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“The BGP
has announced that the vaccination is mandatory for every child and
later adult too. They threatened that if we refrain from vaccinations,
we will be arrested, fined and imprisoned. They have seized ‘the
household registration lists’ from some families and would return them
only when the families get vaccinated.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“And they
said this was to prevent diseases from spreading. But hearing the deaths
of the children in Maungdaw after the vaccinations, we are afraid it
could be an attempt by the government to deliberately sobotage many of
our lives,” said a worried Rohingya elder, Buthidaung in speaking to
Rohingya Vision TV on the condition of anonymity.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
vaccination program is increasingly triggering panic among the locals
across Maungdaw and Buthidaung after the incidents in northern Maungdaw
region as they are seeing it as a new genocidal depopulation program
being implemented by the Myanmar government. Some people are even
requesting the International Community to help them find out antidotes
for the vaccine which they call ‘Poison Injection.’</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-28953990603509684742016-11-30T08:29:00.001-08:002016-11-30T08:29:23.913-08:00Arakan todayMaungdaw
– The Burmese armed forces have continuously been committting mass
atrocities against the Rohingya minority in Maungdaw, rapes against
their women and inhumane tortures of the victims the arbitrary
detentions since October 9.<br />
It has been learnt that the Burmese
military have been taking several measures to conceal their crimes as
the former UN secretary General Mr. Kofi Anan is due to visit the
region.<br /> Following are the updates on the unfolding situation on the groun<span class="text_exposed_show">d.</span><br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
30/11/16 2 pm: Hundreds of Rohingya civilians arrested in northern
Maungdaw between Nov 25 and 26 are being inhumanely tortured at
Kyikanpyin BGP Headquarter.<br />
Reportedly, many of them have been
blinded as their eye-nerves have been cut off or their eyes have been
gouged, says a detainee who has recently been released.<br />
30/11/16
1:30 pm: Burmese authorities have shifted all Rohingya prisoners
detained arbitrarily in Buthidaung Prison (after October 9) to the
nearby jungles.<br />
Now, the victims are besieged are heavily guarded
by the military in jungles. This is to the conceal crimes of the
military against the Rohingya as KofiAnnan is due to visit the region<br />
30/11/16 1 pm: Since November 26, some Burmese troops have been being
extra nice to some Rohingya villagers, whose homes had been burnt down,
in northern Maungdaw.<br />
The troops are asking the displaced
Rohingyas to resume their daily activities and return to their places
and make tents over their places instead of living outside in the field.<br />
The locals are highly suspicious of the sudden changes in the behaviors
of the military. Is it a trap to arrest more Rohingya men or because of
@KofiAnnan pending visit?<br />
30/11/16 9 am: The group of the 46
Burmese troops that gang-raped a teenage Rohingya girl at Sinthaepyin
village last night have entered the village mosque with their shoes on
since this morning are now vandalizing the Mosque and tearing off the
Holy Quran.<br />
30/11/16 9 am: A Burmese Army attack helicopter
continues to fly over Sinthaepyin village. The Rohingya villagers are
feared of air-attacks.<br />
30/11/16 9 am: A group of 46 Burmese
troops Gang-Raped a teenage Rohingya girl at Kyun Gaung hamlet of
LoneDoong VT on November 29 night.<br />
29/11/16 6 pm: Burmese Border
Guard Police arbitrarily arrested Mv Abdul Aziz Ismail, a religious
scholar, from Kan Seik hamlet of Auk Pho Village tract, Kyauk Tan area,
Rathedaung at 2 pm today (on November 29).<br />
He is being detained and tortured at Nyaung Chaung BGP camp in Buthidaung.</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-22987123937508444722016-10-29T15:17:00.003-07:002016-10-29T15:17:26.392-07:00Arakan: Military detained 3 innocent Rohingyas from ward 9 of Taugabazar, Buthidaung township on 27th October and another from Shilkali (Chinkali) Rohingya IDP village, Rathedaung township on 28th October 2016, according to local villagers.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;">Rohingyas
from ward 9 of Taugbazar were arrested by military at 6:10 PM and were
beaten and tortured brutally in front of their homes. Later they were
arrested and taken to headquarter. Reason of arrest is still unknown.
Victims are identified to be :</span>
</h4>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">Shukkur S/O Khulla Mia, 35</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Hafez Muhammed Irdis S/O Abdullah, 35</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Shunna Mia S/O Lal Mia, 30</span></li>
</ol>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">In the
same night at about 1 AM military again arrived in the same village,
where another 8 Rohingyas were beaten and harassed inhumanly. Later
they extorted 50000 Kyats from each. Victims are identified to be: </span></div>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">Salim S/O Abdu Salam, 45</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Muhammed hares S/O Sayed Hussain, 16</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Muhammed Yasin S/O Nobi Hussain, 18</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Muhammed Ayas S/O Muhammed Hussain, 18</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Yousuf Ali, 17</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Shuaib,14</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Muhammed Hares S/O Salamutullah, 20</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Ibrahim S/O Jabbar, 22</span></li>
</ol>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Similarly in the second incidence BGP’s 2<sup>nd</sup>
battalion commander in collaboration with a Rakhine (magh) village
administrator arrested another Rohingya from Rathedaung township while
passing from a local tea shop and took him to the BGP headquarter at
01:00 PM afternoon.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victim
is identified to be Ayub S/O Kadir Hussain, 38 hailing from Shilkali
(Chinkali) Rohingya IDP village and is the village administrator the
same village. Since the arrest he is in incommunicado from his family
and they are in fear of receiving his death news due to obvious tortures
of military on the arrestee. According to locals the arrest was
preplanned from 11<sup>th</sup> October for the attacks of 9<sup>th</sup> October.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-47685505687190656572016-10-28T15:16:00.001-07:002016-10-28T15:16:02.374-07:00INVITATION TO JOIN THE ROHINGYA DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (Tuesday, November 1 , 2016) The North America based Rohingya political and social
organizations have joined together to announce Demonstrations
Against Myanmar (Burma) Government and its Security Forces to Stop
Genocide of Rohingya <br /> Immediately which is to be held in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 1 , 2016. <br /> The demonstrations will demand Myanmar State Counsellor and Fo<span class="text_exposed_show">reign Affairs Minister Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led NLD government and its <br />
Security Forces to immediately stop recent extrajudicial killings of
unarmed innocent Rohingya population, gang rape of Rohingya women and
burning down of Rohingya houses in Maungdaw Township and all human
rights violations across the Arakan State. It will also demand US, UN
and International Community to raise their voices and send a UN
Investigation Commission for the recent human rights violations
including mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, revocation of
citizenship rights, civil and political rights, blocking of foods
so that Rohingyas could be saved and protected by UN Responsibility
to Protect (R2P) Principle Pillar III. In these regards, we would like
to invite all Rohingya, peace-loving American people and organizations
to join hands with us to participate in the Rohingya Demonstration in
Washington, D.C. according to the following program. </span><br />
<br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
Demonstration Program Details: <br /> (1) Demonstration in front of Myanmar Embassy in USA <br /> Location: 2300 S Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20008 <br /> Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. <br /> Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 <br />
(2) Demonstration in Lafayette Park, The White House <br /> Location: Lafayette Park-Northeast Quadrant, The White House <br /> Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. <br /> Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 <br />
Demonstrations Organized by: <br />
(1) Arakan Institute for Peace and Development (AiPAD) USA <br /> (2) Rohingya American Society (RAS) USA <br /> (3) World Rohingya Organization (WRO) USA <br /> (4) Rohingya Culture Center (RCC) USA <br /> (5) Rohingya Association of Canada (RAC) Canada <br /> For More Information, Please Contact: <br /> (1) Former Rohingya MP U Shwe Maung (Tel: +1-330-785-6603) <br /> (2) Muhiuddin Yusof (Tel: +1-716-544-1803) <br /> (3) Shaukhat U Kyaw Soe Aung @ MSK Jilani (Tel: +1-414-736-4273) <br /> (4) Anwar Shah Arakani (Tel: +1-519-781-3800) <br /> (5) Nasir Zakaria (Tel: +1-872-203-4921)</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-90297024031475782602016-10-23T09:45:00.004-07:002016-10-23T09:45:51.451-07:00The Burmese military brutally raped 8 Rohingya women at ‘Oo Kye Kyar (Bura Shiddafara) village in northern Maungdaw during a raid on Wednesday (October 19) morning, a local source confirms.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Besides,
the military looted money, gold and other ornaments from many women
taking advantage of the situation that the (Rohingya) men went into
hiding to escape arbitrary arrests, tortures and killings (by the
military).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“They
conducted raid on each and every house. During the raids, they brutally
raped 8 Rohingya women. Some rape victims are still in miserable
conditions as they can’t get medical treatment.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“On the
other hand, in some houses, the military forced women to take off their
ornaments and give away to them. In some other houses, they just
brutally pulled away earrings from the ears of the women and chains from
their necks,” said a local resident of the village.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The victims of the rapes are:</span></div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">Z…… (Daughter of) ? ……, 35</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">F…… (Daughter of) N……, 15</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">H…… (Daughter of) A……, 18</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">N…… (Daughter of) A……, 20</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">T…… (Daughter of) R……, 35</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">N……. (Daughter of) Z……., 35</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">A…… (Daughter of) N……., 15</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">R…… (Daughter of) G……., 35</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Two more women are feared to have been raped by the military, which is yet to be confirmed.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“On
pretext of ‘Cleansing Region, the Burmese military is continuously
committing atrocities, rapes and other serious crimes against the
innocent Rohingya civilians”, said the above-mentioned resident of ‘Oo
Kye Kyar’, “is Raping innocent women of the ethnic minorities really
required in the military operations of Burmese regime?”</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-39754858747192617762016-10-23T09:45:00.001-07:002016-10-23T09:45:06.110-07:00The Burmese Border Guard Police (BGP) uprooted an entire Rohingya hamlet at KyiKanPyin (Hawar Bil) village in Maungdaw Township today. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
hamlet known as ‘the Middle Hamlet’ comprises around 300 households
with over 2,000 people and is the biggest hamlet in KyiKanPyin village.
The locals in the hamlet were ordered by the BGP yesterday to leave
their homes by today, which is now leading to a mass exodus to different
neighbouring villages.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“An
officer named Colonel Thura Sann Lwin has been recently appointed as
new commander for the BGP Headquarter in KyiKanPyin. He yesterday
ordered us through our village administrator to leave our homes by
today. </span><span style="color: black;">As so, the BGP forces
started raiding our hamlet and driving us out from our homes around 11
AM today,” said a local who was also driven out of his home.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">It
has been learnt that the local residents are not even allowed to come
back to their homes even to take and pack up their properties and
belongings forgotten and left while they were being hastily driven out
once after they had left their homes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Worse,
the authorities are not providing them any other places or homes to
stay at after expelling them from their original homes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“They
don’t even allow us to go back to our homes and pack up our stuffs.
They are not relocating us but expelling us from our own homes by
force,” a local woman exclaimed while fleeing.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;">–</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">“Where
will we stay after we leave our homes? Have there been places arranged
for us?” asked a village elder to the BGP Commander this morning.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">He
(the Commander) replied by saying “I don’t know. There are such places
arranged for you. Leave wherever you can. I am just following the order
from the CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.”</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Meanwhile,
people are hopelessly fleeing to the neighborhoods without knowing
where to stay at and where to eat. And It’s heart-wrenching to see their
miserable plights.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Since
October 9, more than 20,000 Rohingya civilians have been displaced by
the continuous Burmese military assaults in northern Maungdaw region.
The journalists and the humanitarians are also blocked from getting
access to the whole region leading to a humanitarian catastrophe.</span></div>
</div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-395417961966140102016-10-13T18:40:00.001-07:002016-10-13T18:40:55.295-07:00The Burmese authorities backed by an extremist section of Rakhine society are plotting to escalate an already ongoing military violence against the local Rohingya civilians in Maungdaw tonight by using some members of the local Hindu community, who look like Rohingyas in appearances, a reliable source reports.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The Hindus
have been trained how to recite some Quranic verses and chant Takbir
‘Allahu Akbar.’ According to latest reports, around 100 Hindus have
gathered before the Maungdaw Hospital in Muslim dress-up and disguised
as local Rohingya Muslims since 9:00 PM (Myanmar Time).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">They are
expected to chat ‘Allahu Akbar’ and instigate local Muslims, who are
unaware of the plot staged by the authorities, to violently act against
the authorities tonight in the name of ‘Jihad.’ If not tonight, it is
expected in anytime soon.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">An elderly
Rohingya man said “I believe the authorities and the military are
staging the plot so that they can have the follow benefits in their
favor.</span></div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: black;">When chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and
rallying along the roads in the downtown, the government will film them
(the Hindus) and portray them as the Rohingyas to be calling for Jihad;
and in turn, with those videos, the military will portray the local
Rohingyas to the world as terrorists.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">To kill more innocent Rohingyas when
any unaware Rohingyas come out to the street and happen to join the
rallying Hindus in Muslim disguise.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">To arbitrary arrest more innocent Rohingyas</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">And to loot Rohingya-owned shops.</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Through
the different media platforms, we are letting the world know in advance
that no Muslim in Maungdaw Township is involved in such a rally (of the
Hindu people in Muslim disguise) that may happen tonight or anytime in
the future.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The local
fears that if the Burmese authorities and the military are successful in
their plot, they will have a perfect excuse to create unrests and the
local Rohingyas in the downtown of Maungdaw as well as in southern
Maungdaw.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Comparing
to the region of northern Maungdaw where the military has been
conducting full-blown offensive wars against the Rohingya civilians, the
downtown of Maungdaw and the southern outskirt of Maungdaw are
relatively quiet.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Therefore,
it is likely the Burmese authorities and the military want to escalate
the offensive war against the Rohingya civilians all over Maungdaw and
from there, all over Arakan.</span></div>
The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755375040709602041.post-20777884841406668182016-10-09T08:26:00.002-07:002016-10-09T08:26:54.965-07:00Breaking Updates: New Form of Violence Unfold against #Rohingya #Pray4Rohingya Reportedly, a Rakhine militant group -- the Arakan Army (AA) or Arakan
Liberation Army (ALA) – was behind the attack on the BGP Headquarter in
‘Kyi Kan Pyin village.’ But the Rakhine Politicians and other interested
groups are putting the blame on the Rohingya civilians and the
so-called Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO).<br /> -<span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
The world knows the RSO is no longer existent and the Rohingya people
are neither educated nor trained enough to launch such an attack on the
BGP headquarter. It’s another plot to commit another massacre against
the Rohingya people. It’s a part of Rakhine Action Plan to make the
people of Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships internally displaced like in
Sittwe (Akyab), Pauktaw and Kyaukphyu,” said a Rohingya youth in
Maungdaw.</span>The Voice Of Rohingyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822695831479486032noreply@blogger.com0