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Arakan Army troops on parade in Laiza, Kachin State, in April 2014. (Photo: Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy) By Lawi Weng /The Irrawaddy January 8, 2015 RANGOON — A commander and “several” other members of the Burma Army have been killed in recent fighting with the Arakan Army in Kyauktaw Township, according to state-run media, which on Friday reported that the military intended to “remove” the ethnic armed group from Arakan State.

Teknaf, Bangladesh : Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Bangladesh Coastguards arrested 14 Rohingyas from different entry points of Bangladesh- Burma border and handed over to Teknaf police station on October 21, Didar, a local from Teknaf town said. “A patrol team of BGB arrested nine Rohingyas from the Naff River on October 21, at about 3:00 pm while they were entering the Bangladesh through the entry point of Teknaf Jadimura by a small row boat.” According to BGB sources, members of BGB arrested one male, four women and four children after being conducted operation. They all belong to Khunna Para (village) of Maungdaw Township. After arrest, they were brought to Dumdum Meah BGB outpost of Teknaf Battalion No. 42 for further investigations. The BGB women checked their whole bodies and got more than 7,000 pieces of Yaba tablets, BGB sources said. A relative of a victim Hamida (29) said on condition of anonymity that they crossed Burma-Bangladesh border by a row boat, but ...

Tekanf, Bangladesh : Twenty two Rohingyas were pushed back to Burma by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on August 12, Jafar Alam from Teknaf borderTown said. “They BGB arrested 8 Rohingyas from Jaliapara (village) entry point under the Teknaf Police Station at about 3:00 pm while entering Bangladesh.” The operation was led by BGB officer Awtadin of Nilla out-post. Later, they were sent back to Burma the same way in the evening, according to BGB officials. Besides, BGB members of Whykong check-post arrested another 14 Rohingyas from different vehicles  while going to Cox’s Bazar from Teknaf on August 8. They were also pushed back to Burma. However, the concerned authorities of Bangladesh have been giving tight security along the Burma-Bangladesh border because of restriction of Rohingyas from entering the Bangladesh from Burma, according to sources. The members of Whykong BGB check-post investigated the whole bodies of passengers and gave harassment to the Rohingyas i...

By Kyaw  Win TSR News  August 14, 2014 A reliable source said by Osman, Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar: A 17 years old Rohingya girl was gang raped and kept her in abduction place for three days at Thaingkhali of Bangladesh border. Rape victim Zubida Begum is a heart patient and a resident of Dhayboina village of Myanmar (Burma) was taking her to Bangladesh by her father Mohammed Eilyas for treatment of heart disease on 10th of August 2014. When they came to Thaingkhali of Bangladesh, a gang of Bangladeshi hooligan robbed all 4500 Bangladeshi taka that was brought for the expenditure of treatment and travel. The hooligan demanded extra 20,000 taka in order to release. In that circumstance, Mohammed Eilyas could not effort and unable to fill the hooligan demand.  The notorious hooligan separated daughter from father and said that we will release your daughter when you bring the 20,000 taka.  The father victim could not stop crying and beseeched for release of his d...

By KPN News July 14, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : Three villagers had been killed by a gang of robbers in Maungdaw south recently, said a close relative of one of the victims. The victims were identified as— the village Administration officer Zakoria (35), son of Manzur, his wife and Moulvi Sayed Azim (25), son of Abdu Zabber. They all hailed from Thinnbaw Kway( Kuloon) villag e of Maungdaw south. The gang of robbers are identified as— Abdul Hakim, Nazir Ahmed, Boshir Ahmed and Monir Ahmed. They are all brothers from Thawin Chaung (Basara) village of Maungdaw Township, and fled from their home land three years ago because of harassment by local village chairman and took shelter in Bangladesh, said a villager from inside Arakan preferring not to be named. They occasionally went to Maungdaw south and killed some of their opponents and looted their properties and came back to Bangladesh and living at Teknaf in hiding position, Kalu from Shapuri Dip of Bangladesh. ...

Rohingya in Thailand suffer abuse from human traffickers By  Phuketwan July 11, 2014 PHUKET : Thailand and Burma have agreed to ''facilitate the safe return'' of 130,000 displaced persons to their homeland, General Prayuth Chan-ocha said tonight.  He also said the issue of the Rohingya boatpeople had been discussed with Myanmar's Commander in Chief of Defence Forces, General Min Aung Hlaing, in Bangkok this week.  ''The gist of the meeting is that Thailand and Myanmar (Burma) will cooperate in helping displaced persons from fighting in Myanmar,'' the general said in his weekly national telecast. He took charge of Thailand in a coup on May 22. Details are likely to emerge in the next day or two about precisely what the two countries plan for the large number of refugees from Burma now living in Thailand. ''These people have been staying in temporary shelters with certain restrictions for a long time,'...

Photo TSR By KPN  July 09, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : Army personnel have been increasing harassments recently against the Rohingya community day by day in Maungdaw south, Delu, a local from Maungdaw said. On July 7, at about 5: 00 pm, a group of army personnel from Buhamuu Para patrolled on Maungaw-Aley Than Kyaw highway while a Rohingya youth was riding on the road with his motorbike. The army personnel tried to arrest him without any reason, but he ran away leaving his motorbike on the road, Delu said. The victim was identifies as—  Motowlaf (30),  son of Rabiz Ahamed, hailed from Khonza Bill under the Aley Than Kyaw village tract  of Maungdaw township. Army personnel seized motorbike and brought it to their camp. Later, the village administration officer of Khonza Bill village went to the army camp of Buhamuu Para,to solve the problem, said Ashu, a village elder from Khonza Bill. However, the motorbike was released after giving Kyat 100...

By KPN July 05, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : District police officer U Shwe Than issued an order to arrest a drug dealer from Bomuu para (village), under block number 4 of Maungdaw, but the police arrested a driver of drug dealer on July 4, at about 12:00 noon, said Hasu Meah, an elder of the village.Mohamed Salam is the person -  a closed drug partner of District police officer and a well-known drug dealer in Maungdaw who is working with high level officers from Maungdaw, Hasu said. On that day, the police personnel along with two block administration officers went to Salam home and arrested Salam’s driver Faisal only. The police neither entered the home nor searched the home, just arrested the driver Faisal and showed a mobile phone with two Bangladeshi Sim cards, according to a village administration officer member of block #2. Salam’s driver Faisal was  released  within an hours after giving 700,000 Kyat, the member said. Two block administration o...

Officials of Border Guard Bangladesh, in the right row, and Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) at a deputy director general-level (DDG) flag meeting in Myanmar's Maungdaw yesterday, as tension flared on the border after a BGB nayek, Mizanur Rahman, was shot dead by BGP in an unprovoked attack on May 28. The two sides were led by Cox's Bazar Sector Commander Col Khandker Farid Hasan and Maungdaw's Director Police Brig Thin Ko Ko. Photo: BGB .................................................................................................................................................. Returns his SMG, ammo at a BGB-BGP flag meeting; claims they mistook him for Rohingya separatist Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) yesterday returned the sub-machine gun (SMG) of slain Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Nayek Mizanur Rahman along with 120 bullets and four magazines following a flag meeting between the two forces. In an unprovoked attack, BGP shot at ...

Myanmar Border Guard Police along Myanmar-Bangladesh Border By MYARF Rvision TV June 2, 2014 Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) or Security Police Force in different township in Arakan state have recently started to commit atrocities Rohingyas in order to extort money from them. The BGP has been going rampant for weeks and arresting people under arbitrary accusations. Following cases have taken place recently. …………………………………………………………………………. Case #1: Border Guard Police Arbitrarily Arrested Young Rohingya Boy in southern Maungdaw for Money There is a Border Guard Police (BGP) station based at Ye-bun-pying (Boddil) Village of Padin village tract in southern Maungdaw. Around 10PM on 30th May 2014, Ten Police Personnel from the station arrested ‘Rahimullah (son of) Shomshu (of Age 23) from his house at the village of Kayintan (Gojjon Dia) of Padin village tract. When other people in the village came out of their homes to ask why he was arrested, the Police shot warning-shots...

By Ibrahim Shah  Burma Times June 02, 2014 Yangoon, Burma : It is reliably learnt by a Major from Yangoon who concealed the name for security that the Burmese united armed unit (BUAU) is well prepared to confront the western gate, Burma- Bangladesh border if the Border Guard Bangladesh Patrol Team (BGBPT) move forward following the most recent incident in which a member of BGBPT was killed by Burmese Border Police(BBP). Moreover, Burmese troops are well prepared to severely confront with Bangladesh which is proportionally one-fourth of Burma. Burma draws policy of zero-tolerance in border-tensions and Burmese ‘Tatmadaw’ (army) determined to occupy from Teknaf to Chittagong hill tract if Bangladesh moves forward against the Burma, he added. According to Nay Pyi Taw(Central government) source, the Burmese united armed unit—paramilitary, police force, border guard police, navy, army and intelligence department— already mobilized in western gate in order to prot...

Photo: BD Military Staff Correspondent,   BDNews24 June 01, 2014 Myanmar has returned the body of a border guard, missing since a border firing at Bandarban's Naikhangchharhi. Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed, the head of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB), said the trooper missing since Wednesday was identified by a BGB team on Saturday evening. “He was identified as our Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman .” The 10-strong team completed all formalities to bring the body back at 6pm, he told reporters at BGB headquarters in Dhaka. Earlier, Myanmar border police officer Tun Oo confirmed to Irrawaddy, a Myanmar news portal that a BGB personnel had been killed by his unit during the border skirmish. “They told us last night that they would bring the body to the 52 border pillar between 11:00 to 11:30 am today (Saturday). They set the ground rule, saying ten of our men, led by a major, should meet ten of them,” said the BGB chief. But Myanmar’s border police did not b...

By BD news24 ,  May 29, 2014 Bangladesh has summoned Myanmar’s ambassador in Dhaka to protest against the detention of a border guard by Burma’s border police. Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) remained missing since Wednesday morning following “an indiscriminate firing by the Myanmar Border Guard Police”, the foreign ministry said. Dhaka has demanded his release and also “a thorough investigation” into the incident to prevent a repeat. Secretary (Bilateral) Mustafa Kamal handed over a “note verbale” to envoy Myo Myint Than on Thursday. He also protested against the indiscriminate firing along the border. The BGB member was patrolling along the Bangladesh-Myanmar international border with the team when he went missing amid indiscriminate firing. According to the foreign ministry, the Myanmar ambassador promised that the matter would be immediately conveyed to the Myanmar authorities. He also said “he would revert back to B...

By Burma Times May 29, 2014 Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Today Wednesday, on 28th may, around 9 am, 7 Bangladesh Border Guards (BGB) were attacked by Burmese Border Patrols. The Burmese patrols premeditatedly attacked the BGBs entering Fansori territory in Bangladesh crossing the Border post 52 at Bendula( Aantala Bottala in Rohingyalish) in Burma. According to source from Bangladesh, the Burmese border patrols killed one BGB, and seized two guns and abducted one BGB personnel.Afterwards, the BGB Sector Commander Farid contacted the responsible personnel of Burma Border Patrol Department to set free the abducted BGB personnel with the seized guns unconditionally. According to local news, the border area of Burma and Bangladesh is in tense situation and armed units are deployed in both sides. The Rohingya residents from Bendula territory dread the tense situation because the Rakhine thugs might could trigger violence in the name of protection border from attack by...

By Tin Soe KPN News  May 26, 2014 Chittagong, Bangladesh : Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) organized an international seminar on Enhancing Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations at BIISS auditorium on 21 May 2014 to discuss “the problems in the bordering area” under the Dhaka’s proposal of “security dialogue” and Naypyidaw agreed it, said Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque. The Secretary said under the security dialogue “we will focus discussion on security issues which is hurting the relationship including irregular movement of people in that area”. “Once we have security dialogue, we would have close, intense discussion between two bordering forces,” Haque speaking at seminar that he said Bangladesh and Myanmar are set to break the ice in their relations by narrowing the decades-old “trust deficit” between the two neighbors. Dhaka had allowed Burmese frigate for the first time last year to use Naaf River to go into their part of t...

By KPN  May 24, 2014 Naikonchari, Bangladesh: A Sector level flag meeting for border security between Burma and Bangladesh was held at Dusori nearby pillar No. 50 of Naikonchari upazila under the Bandarbon district, Bangladesh May 21, according to a BGB aide, who did not say his name. Highlevel-flag-meeting“The meeting especially discussed the border security issue which the Burma alleged to Bangladesh that unknown troops entered to Burma from Bangladesh and attacked the border guard police camps,” the aide said. In the meeting, Col. Tin Ko Ko, the director, Burma border guard police headquarters of Maungdaw appraised that — a group of unknown troops entered Burma through the pillar No. 37, on May 13, and on May 17, through pillar Nos. 51-52 and attacked border guard police camps and also they fired at around 450- bullet, according to a BGB officer from the meeting. The border guard police Battalion Chief also said, “If any group attacks Burmese security for...

Teknaf, Bangladesh: Members of Bangladesh Coastguard detained 10 people –possibly traffickers or boat drivers of Burma – from the Bay of Bengal near Saint Martin’s Island while going to Malaysia with rickety boat on May 20, according to official of Coastguard of Saint Martin. They also arrested four traffickers (agents) namely—Zabet Hussain (28), Gura Meah  (35), Mohamed Anwar (29), and Mohamed Shahin (28) and seized two trawlers during the raid. They all belong to Teknaf upazila under Safran union, coastguard sources said. Lt. Col Harun-ur-Rashid, coastguard  commander of Saint Martin’s Island, said a patrol team of coastguard intercepted two trawlers with passengers aboard on the Bay, about 8km off the island, at around 4:00am. “As the people on board the trawlers were going to Malaysia without valid documents,” Commander Harun added. The arrestees are in interrogation cell for investigation said Dildarul Alam, the  Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the Tekn...

By KPN News May 20, 2014 Cox’s Bazar: Bangladesh : The authorities of Bangladesh had arrested over 1173 Rohingyas in special drives along the Bangladesh-Burma border since 2014, according to official source from Cox’s Bazar. According to BGB official’s statement, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested Rohingya, 322 in January, 287 in February, 211 in March, 196 in April and 157 in May 20, 2014 after being conducted different operations along the border. Most of Rohingyas come to Bangladesh from Burma after sectarian violence in 2012, the BGB statement said. According to different sources, the Rohingya Muslims are being persecuted on different kinds- rape, killings, arbitrary arrest, torturing, extortion money, harassment and looting by the police, Hluntin (riot police), army along with Moghs (Rakhines). On May 18,  A group of twenty four Rohingyas were arrested from Shapuri Dip under the Teknaf police station by BGB while they were entering the Banglades...

By TSR News March 26, 2014 Gundum,  Cox's Bazar: Recently, 23 Bangladeshi Rakhine Moghs of Gundum, Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar were arrested by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on March 24th 2014 at 11:00pm while they were crossing the border of Bangladesh who were entering from Myanmar. BGB sadly said that 12 more Rakhine Moghs were ran away from their hands. When BGB asked them "which is your country". Rakhine Moghs said "we are Bangladeshi citizens and we are coming from Arakan Myanmar after we helped our Rakhine Moghs brothers."  BGB said that they are not only citizenships of both countries, but they are also trained by Myanmar military to attack minority. Even though Bangladeshi Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs, Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing (MP, Awami League) ordered the cornel of BGB to release the arrestees, the cornel of BGB refused his decree. It is well known that higher authority of both countries are involved in the ethnic cleansing of R...