Reports
by Aung Aung (@aungaungsittwe) and Saman Leesanee
Compiled by M.S. Anwar
RvisionTV.com | September 29, 2013
Ming-Byaa Township, Arakan State:
27th September, 2013
1) Around 2PM on 27th Septemeber 2013, two Myanmar military raped
a 18-year-old Rohingya girl named Zaitun Bahar @Gulubi daughter of Habibullah
at the village of Sangyi Pyin in Min-Byaa Township, Arakan state.
2) Around 3PM of the day, the same Myanmar military personnel
arrested innocent Rohingya named Ba Kyaw @Ahmed Sayed S/o Mohammed Amin (Age
27) from the same village.
3) At 3:30PM, Military called
up the girl’s parents to their camp and forced them to say that Ba Kyaw had
raped their daughter. The military officer tortured Ba Kyaw and forced his family
to pay a ramsom amount, Kyat 800,000, to let him be released. However, despite
the extortion of humungous amount of money, the military have not freed Ba Kyaw
yet.
Then, the military paid Kyat 500,000 to the girl’s parents and
treatened not to tell anyone who the actual rapists were. They threatened the
girl’s parents “if you tell the truth, your family will be in danger.”
4) Some Rohingyas in the village reported the incident to
their friends in other parts of the country. At 5PM of the day, some military
personnel raided the village and attempted to arrest 7 Rohingya men suspected
for reporting the case. When the men fled, the military beat up their family
members and threatened to punish anyone who would try to report the case to
anyone.
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Ming-Byaa Township, Arakan State:
28th September, 2013
1) At 3PM on 28th September 2013, the
above-mentioned military arrested two more Rohingyas, Abdullah (Age 22) and Ali
Ahmed (Age 35), from the village. They started torturing the two Rohingyas to
reveal the names of the people who had reported on the rape case.
2) And Ali Ahmed (Age 35) mentioned above DIED at around
7PM on 28th Septemebr 2013 due to the tortures by the military.
3) Military started raiding house by house in the said
village to find out the people who reported the rape case. Therefore, the lives
of the few people who have mobile phones are facing life-threatening danger.
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Ming-Byaa Township, Arakan State:
29th September, 2013
1) At 1AM today (i.e. on 29th September 2013), the
military and Rakhine Security Force broke down the bridge to the village of
Sangyi Pyin, Min-Byaa to prevent anyone from going to the village. They blocked
the village. It looks like they are going to commit massacres of innocent
Rohingya villagers.
2) At 2PM of the day, a Rakhine Terror Network in the
township robbed Kyat 400,000 from Rohingyas’ houses at the village of Paikthay,
Min-Byaa Township. Then, the robbed money was said to have been donated to the
monastery of Dhamma-Yun in the township. Similar things have been happening in
the township since June 2012.
3)At 3:30PM today, two from the village of
Paikthay, one fromRohingyas from the village of Sandali Fara and
another from the village of Thaddar (Sic) were on their way to
the neighboring villages in order to buy some food rations. Meanwhile, the
Rakhine Terror Network attacked them and robbed their money. They are
critically injured now. Two of them are: 1) Hussain (Age 28) from the
village of Paikthay and 2) Azizurrahman (age 25) from the village of Thaddar
(sic). The other two are from the village of Sandali and Paikthay respectively.
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Epilogue
Min-Bya, Mrauk-U, Mye-Bun, Thandwe, Rambre are a few
ships where Rohingya and Kaman people are
minorities and persecuted like nowhere else. Yet, the atrocities against
Muslims in these township have largely unknown to the world. Hardly any international
observer or reporter is given access to these regions. On top of
that, Rohingya and Kaman community in the townnships have been systematically
blocked and being starved to death. These aresome of the modern-day
silent-killing fields.
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