Maungdaw,
Arakan State: A
joint security forces – police, Hluntin and Burma border security
force (Nasaka) – had surrounded a Rohingya village from midnight
1:00am till morning 11:00am today, according to a politician from
Maungdaw.
The Nasaka Director Col. Aung Naing Oo, the district police officer Kaun Hla San and the officer in charge of Hluntin arrived at nyaung Chang early morning and checked all the Rohingya villagers who were kept by security forces at night and released all the villagers, said a villager from Nyaung Chang.
“The security forces had surround the Nyaung Chang
(Khadir Bill) village- situated near the three miles checked point –
at about 1:00 am midnight and blocked every points where all the
villagers are not able to escape the village. The security forces
kept all Rohingya villagers who are living in the farms and not allow
to go to the village.”
The Nasaka Director Col. Aung Naing Oo, the district police officer Kaun Hla San and the officer in charge of Hluntin arrived at nyaung Chang early morning and checked all the Rohingya villagers who were kept by security forces at night and released all the villagers, said a villager from Nyaung Chang.
“The
security forces entered the village and checked one by one the houses
of Rohingya villager till 11:00am. But, the security forces didn’t
arrest any Rohingya villagers from the village.”
The security
forces are looking some 18 Rohingya villagers, but they didn’t
found them in the village and the security forces asked the villagers
– children and female- about any strangers in the village,
according to an official.
“The
authority searched the village as there are some people who are
aliens.”
“The
villagers – children and female- become afraid while the security
forces searched the homes inside the village.”
An elder from
Maungdaw said, there is a so-called arrest warrant issued by Maungdaw
court which was not published to the public and whenever police want
to extort money from Rohingya, the police mention the so-called
arrest warrant. But, there was not happened like this, it is look a
operation to us.
“We
fear that Rohingya community might the face the similar situation
sooner or later.”
Source KPN:
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