Maungdaw, Arakan State: Authorities concerned –Burma border security force (Nasaka), police, army and Sarapa (Military Intelligence) - increase harassment against the Rohingya people in Maungdaw after the bigoted violence in June 2012, an elder from Maungdaw Town said on condition of anonymity.
Nasaka personnel of Lake Ya Nasaka outpost camp arrested
Maulana Hashim (50), Sayed Alam and two other villagers of Lake Ya (Kumir
Khali) village, under the Nasaka area No. 4 of Maungdaw Township over false
allegation of human trafficking on February 3 and instigated the local
villagers not to take photographs which was taking by Nasaka personnel
recently, said a close friend of Maulana Hashim preferring not to be named.
“It is just a plan to extort the money from them. The Nasaka
demanded kyat 20 million to release.”
“However, they were released today after taking grantee to
pay demanded money to the Nasaka officer. How will they pay a huge amount of
money?”
“When the indiscriminate arrest and extortion money will be
stopped?” asked a local elder from Maungdaw south.
In addition, today morning, a group of Nasaka personnel from
Nasaka area No.6 went to the villages of under its area and locked all the
mosques, Maqtabs (Arabic school for young children), Hafez Khana (Quran
memorial school) and Madrasa (Arabic school) by Nasaka. The Township
administration officer earlier ordered to the villagers to close all the
mosques and other religious schools, but villagers did not comply with the order,
said a local religious leader.
Besides, toady, at around 3:00 pm, three Sarapa from Maungdaw
exit and entry point, arrested Nozumul Hassan(25), son of Abu Taher, a
shopkeeper, hailed from Shwe Zaar village of Maungdaw, was arrested from the
market while selling goods. It is still
unknown to the villagers why he was arrested by the security personnel. But,
some shopkeepers believe that he will be punished with false and fabricated
case which will easy to extract money from him, according to a shopkeeper of
Maungdaw Town.
Moreover, army security personnel increased checkpoints to
check Rohingya travelers in Maungdaw Township --- from Shikdar Para (Myoma
Kanyoungdan) to Maungdaw and the Maungdaw-Aley Than Kyaw road. The army
increase harassment and looting goods from the Rohingya travelers. If a Rohinga
traveler from Aley Than Kyaw went to Maungdaw to sell goods,will lost 2/3 of
his goods on the way.
So far, the concerned authorities are planning how to harass
and drive out the Rohingya community from northern Arakan. But the higher authority declared to the
world that they are trying to settle the problems between two communities
---Rakhine and Rohingya, said a business man from Buthidaung.
At the first Union Parliament second regular session on 22
August 2011, President Thein Sein said, “We know what happen to people and what
people want. And we are striving our best to fulfill their needs to the full
extent. To conclude my speech, I promise that our government as a
democratically-elected government will do our best for the interests of the
people.”
“Is the government truly democratically elected and will do
for the interests of the people?,” asked a local elder from Maungdaw.
Source KPN
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