Maungdaw,
Arakan State: Maungdaw
high level officers held a meeting inviting villagers on October 19,
according to a village businessman on condition of anonymity.
“Rohingya
villagers of Alethankyaw village tract of Maungdaw south were
summoned to attend a meeting yesterday. But, some villagers
participated in the meeting as they did not interest the meeting.
So, the concerned authority sent security forces to the village and
herded all Rohingya villagers they found on the road and in the
village to the meeting room.”
The
high level officers of Maungdaw are;- Col. Maung Maung Oo, the Nasaka
Director; U Aung Myint Soe, the District Administration
officer; U Kaun Hla San, the District police officer; U Kyi San, the
Township Administration officer and Township police officer.
“No
one can bring or use any stick, sword, chopper, dagger, catapult and
spear while going on the street or inside the houses,” said the
District Police officer told the villager in the meeting.
“We
will take action according to the law and punish.”
You
have to live together with Rakhine people and must send your children
to school. You must follow the law and order which was issued by
authority, according to U Aung Myint Soe at the meeting.
The
Nasaka Director said in the meeting, “You have lived in Burma for
generations, but under the 1982 Citizenship Law, you have to apply
according to gain the citizenship.”
A
Rohingya raised up the question why authorities are arresting the
innocent Rohingyas who are not committed any crimes, in the meeting,
the officer answered that it was because Rakhines gave complaints
about those people and there are more villagers in the list to be
arrested, said another villager.
Rohingya
Muslims always intend to peacefully coexist with Rakhines as they
have lived for many years but not in the condition the authorities
described. Rohingya Muslims need equal citizenship as Rakhines. We,
Rohingyas are not aliens but citizens of the country.
We,
Rohingyas are the natives of Arakan, said a Rohingya leader from the
locality.
A
trader from Maungdaw Town said,” It is a new threat to the Rohingya
community to demoralize the Rohingyas.”
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