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Du Chee Yar Tan massacre

By Nurul Islam KPN News Du Chee Yar Tan popularly known as Kilaidong is a village 6 miles south of the border town of Maungdaw in Burma’s Arakan/Rakhine State. It is a farming society with about 4000 Rohingya people. During recent years a Buddhist Rakhine settler village with a police outpost was established alongside the Rohingya settlement. U Aung  Zan Phyu, a settler Buddhist Rakhine is the chairman of the Du Chee Yar Tan despite more than its 90% population is Rohingya. Buddhist extremists under him, time and again, carried out extortion, looting and criminal atrocities against the villagers in connivance with the police. Helpless people who complained to the authorities for redress and remedies were met with reprisals. These have been a regular phenomenon all over Rohingya homeland of North Arakan. According to the villagers, on 7 January, without any provocation, an organized Rakhine Buddhist gang had seized and looted a small group of Rohingyas who were coming from