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Nasaka killed another villager in Maungdaw


Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) killed another Rohingya villager on August 24, over the allegation that he had involved in money exchange, said a close relative of the victim.
“The victim was identified as Mohamed Hussain (55), son of Kader Hussain, hailed from Shwe Zaar Village tract of Maungdaw Township.”
“Hussain was arrested by  officer of  Nasaka camp No. 14 under Shwe Zaar village Nasaka out-post, Nasaka Sector # 6 of Maungdaw Township on August 21, over the accusation that he had been involved in illegal money exchange.”
“Hussain was severely tortured by the Nasaka personnel to take confessional statement while he was detained in the Nasaka outpost camp.”
However, on August 24, at around 3:30 pm, he was handed over to his relatives while the victim was serious condition. Receiving the victim, the relatives immediately took the victim to the Maungdaw General hospital for medical treatment. But, he was dead at about 5:00 pm, while taking treatment at the hospital, said a friend of the victim on condition of anonymity.
“The authority handed over the dead body to his relatives without giving any information about post-mortem report of the Doctors.”
A local said that post-mortem showed that the victim had been tortured severely.
On August 25, the dead body was buried in his village’s local graveyard.
“There is no case filed against the Nasaka personnel as fear or reprisals of the Nasaka.”
Similarly, on August 30, Nasaka had beaten brutally Abdul Matalof,60, an old men who severed as a sentry in Shweza, was dead September 1, morning at 10:00am, said a school teacher from Shweza village.
Rohingyas are killed as an animal in Arakan north by Nasaka without any judicial inquiry or proper query less giving importance than an ant, said a trader from locality.

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