Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingya are losing their farmlands for building a road – joining from Natala village to main road (Aley Than Kyaw- Maungdaw highway) - on Rohingya farmlands by authority, a villager said on condition of anonymity.
“The road is going
to main road - Aley Than Kyaw-Maungdaw – through Rohingya farmlands where most
Rohingya community lost their farmlands around 100 acres.”
According to
sources, the Natala villagers were using the road which was pass the Udaung
village before sectarian violence between Rakhine and Rohingya last year, but,
now the Natala demanded to concerned authority to build a road for them
separately for their movement from village to main road. The authority are
building the road on Rohingya farmlands
which made Rohingya landless and will become starvation for shortage of foods.
Some owners of
lands have been identified as Kamal (45), son of Hussain Ahmed of Khonza Bill
(village), Abdu Goffar (40), son of Azhar Meah, Eliyas (40), Fozaran, Sultan
(60) and Ali Zuhar (50), son of Lalmat, four persons hailed from Udaung village
of Maungdaw township.
Sultan has some
arable lands, these lands had already seized by the concerned authority for
road construction. So, he will face starvation for shortage of foods in future
and he will not able to cultivate paddy in the next coming rainy season, said a
member of village admin office.
Many Rohingya
farmers like sultan, will be facing with the shortage of food in the village.
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