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By MYARF & Rohingya Eye ׀  RvisionTV October 25, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State : Myanmar’s Border Guard Police brutally beat up and killed a Rohingya Religious Scholar in northern Maungdaw Township on Thursday night, according to a reliable source in the region. The victim is identified to be the 40-year-old Mv Hussein Ahmed (son of) Zahir Ahmed hails from the western hamlet of Kyi Kan Pyin (also called Khawar Bil) village, northern Maungdaw. “The Myanmar Border Guard Police known as BGP frequently raids and besiege Rohingya villages. They arrest random people under false and arbitrary accusation of having links with *RSO. Then, they torture and kill the people in the detentions. They commit extrajudicial killings with impunity. Mv Hussein hails from Kyi Kan Pyin village was on a visit to his sister’s home in Kyauk Pyin Seik (also known as Naari Bil) in northern Maungdaw on October 23. Unfortunately, the BGP and around 30 Rakhine extremists raided the villag...

Mohamed Farid, 35, a Rohingya from Kha Moung Zeik (Fakira Bazar) was tortured to death by the Burmese Border Guard police (BGP) at their headquarters in Maungdaw, Arakan State between 3rd October and 5th October according to Halim, a Maungdaw based human rights watchdog. Halim said that Farid, who lived in BGP area No. 2, was arrested on 3rd October by the BGP who alleged he was linked with the rebel group the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO). He was then sent to BGP headquarters in Maungdaw where he was tortured to make him confess to being a member of the RSO. Farid refused to admit being a member of the RSO or to name any other RSO members. He told the BGP he was a trader and had no links to the RSO. The BGP then tortured him from 3rd to 4th October until he was seriously injured. He was then sent to Maungdaw hospital during the night of 4th to 5th October and he died there on 5th October according to a village administration officer who wishes to remain anonymous. ...

By MYARF & M.S. Anwar 1:00AM (Myanmar Time), Monday, August 25, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State ׀   Rvisiontv.com The Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) opened fire at a Rohingya farmer in southern Maungdaw last Saturday night as they failed to arrest two other bypassing Rohingyas for ransom, hence causing the poor man’s death, say the locals of Maungdaw. The victim is identified to be U Abdul Hoaque (son of) U Mohammed Jalil and a father of two children. He hailed from Zaydi Pyin hamlet of Kyauk Pandu village tract, southern Maungdaw Abdul Hoque (Age 35) was deliberately killed by Myanmar’s Border Guard Police “U Abdul Hoque, a farmer, owned few acres of agricultural lands. It was around 9:30PM on August 23 that he was going to another part of the village to hire some farmers so as to cultivate paddy on his lands the next day. There were two more people, unknown to him, bypassing him and along the village street at the same time. The Border Guard Police (BGP) ca...

Aftermaths of a licensed crime against a Rohingya by Myanmar's Security Force. (Pic Left, the Gruesome Scene where Shomsul Alam was killed.) By  M.S. Anwar Rvision TV 3:00 AM (MST) Thursday, August 7, 2014 Sittwe, Arakan State : An outbreak of arbitrary shooting by Myanmar Security Force killed a Rohingya man and critically injured two more at Thandawli IDP Camps in Sittwe yesterday, whereas at least 15 innocent Rohingyas were also said to have arrested according to a local source. The situation is still tense and many people are said to have hiding and running to and fro in order to escape the arrests. “Three vans loaded with approximately 100 *Security Force arrived at the camps of the internally displaced Rohingyas of *Thandawli village at Mansi Junction (nearby *Raba Gwin) in *Sittwe Township around 10:00PM yesterday (August 6). They started raiding the IDP camps, harassing and torturing people sleeping at night time for no reason. Having arbitrarily accused s...

Ukhiya, Bangladesh : A refugee girl from the Kutupalong official refugee camp was killed by a speedy Mini bus at Teknaf-Cox’s Bazar Highway nearby Kutuplong camp, on May 18, Hasan, a refugee from the Kutupalong camp said. “The refugee girl has been identified as— Minara Akter (9), daughter of late Aman Ullah, block-E of Kutuplong official camp, under the Cox’s Bazar district.” She was killed on the spot while crossing the road yesterday at about 11:00am.  The mini bus was going to Cox’s Bazar from Teknaf with passengers, according to sources. On information, the police of Ukhiya police station rushed to the spot, but, the driver managed to escape from the police arrest, according to official. However, Mv Jalal –the uncle of Minara – had filed a case against the driver regarding the matter. The dead body was buried in the refugee cemetery yesterday evening after autopsy in Cox’s Bazar hospital, Mv Jalal from the camp told the Kaladanpress. When asked the vic...

By Zeyar RvisionTV May 17, 2014 Mrauk-U (Fatthar Killa), Arakan state- On 16th May 2014 afternoon, a military motor vehicle hit a trishaw violently at its back on a road in Shan Taung village, Mrauk-U (Fatthar Killa) Township. It left the driver of the trishaw, a Rohingya, with severe injuries. “Mongola (son of) Khala (fahther) and Faatoli (mother) of age 42 is a Rohingya trishaw driver in Shan Taung village, Mrauk-U (Fatthar Killa) Township. While he was driving his trishaw on 16th May 2014 afternoon on a road in Shan Taung, a military motor vehicle hit his trishaw violently at its back. That left the trishaw driver with critical injuries. The military vehicle didn’t stop to look into his situation and send him to hospital. The vehicle quickly ran away. However, onlookers sent the Rohingya man to hospital” “Doctors asked the people not to worry. The trishaw driver required total 9 stiches to his head injuries. He is now feeling better” he continued. Mongola...

By M.S. Anwar RvisionTV May 4, 2014 Some of the people injured during the shootout by armed terrorist. Maungdaw, Arakan - Around 1:40AM on 3rd May 2014, a group of armed terrorists in disguise of robbers killed the administrator of the village of Thinbaw Kway (Kullon) and other two villagers in southern Maungdaw. They injured 9 other people as well. Authority blames some armed robbers in a nearby forest for the killings. However, locals strongly believe that they were not just the robbers but militants from Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) and some member of Security Force also involved in the killings. “There is a gang of robbers in a forest in southern Maungdaw. Leader and some members of the gang are Rohingya themselves. Gang leader is called Abdul Hakim. They often kidnap wealthy Rohingyas in the region and extort millions of Kyats (Myanmar Currency) from them. Local Rohingyas frequently complain to the authority to take action against the dacoits. However, inste...

By Khan S RvisionTV April 29, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan state- A Rakhine (Magh) Police officer severely beat up an elderly Rohingya man in the village of Kyein Chaung, northern Maungdaw yesterday. And that killed the elderly man this (on 29th April 2014) morning. “Rakhine Police squeeze money from every Rohingya vehicle that passes through or stops at the market of Kyein Chaung (Bawli Bazaar), northern Maungdaw. On 28th April 2014, a Police Officer and a collaborator of his started was beating up a Rohingya lorry driver as he (the lorry driver) was not paying the mount of the money that the Police officer had demanded. The Police Officer is U Kyaw Kyaw Win, a Corporal, from Kyeing Chaung Police Station. Meanwhile, Liakaut Ali (son of) Fauzu (of age 65) asked them why they were beating the driver and requested them not to beat him up. Liakaut Ali is an elderly Rohingya man that runs a small grocery shop nearby the place of the incident. Upon that, the Policeman and his coll...

By Aung Aung  February 09, 2014 A Rohingya of Manzi  Refugee Camp in Sittwe when he prevented a Rakhine police from robbing him in 30th December 2013, he was beaten severely. At the times, a Shan police requested to Rakhine police to spare innocent Rohingya, but Rakhine police did not hear him. Meanwhile, another 2 Rohingya came and fought with Rakhine one, but innocent Shan police was accidentally injured and sent  him to the hospital.  The next day, Rakhine authority announced Shan police had died in the hospital. We had doubt that Rakhine authority  killed him intentionally to create violence and to remove a good police.  On same day, two Rohingya teenagers were arrested: Muhammed Karim, son of Elyas, 12 years old and Amir Husein, son of Abdul Shukkur, 13 years old, are both cousin brothers.  Two weeks ago, a Police told a Rohingya that both of them died in police lock-up. I tweeted that information when I was informed by a Ro...

January 21, 2014, I just received a call from Maungdaw: The present situation in Kilaidaung, Arakan, Myanmar is very serious that the township head called the Buddhist villagers and forces this morning and told them to do more violences against muslims. "We do not care about UN, US and OIC because this is our country we can do whatever we want", said the Township Officer. So,Monks and security polices with guns and weapons are still seized the village, so nobody is allowed to enter the villages nor come out except Buddhists to loot the properties and rape female of muslims. Some alive people of that village are estimated that at least 200 hundreds muslims people of that village have murdered by Buddhists and polices. According to previous record the Kilaidaung village was very rich, but presently the whole village is totally destroyed by Myanmar government forces and Buddhists. This types of mass massacre are daily happening in Myanmar where Muslims live because the governme...

MYARF Report |Written by M.S. Anwar 19th January 2014| Maungdaw, Arakan Rvisiontv.com Around 3AM on 14th January 2014, a joint force of Myanmar Military, Security Force (Hlun Hteins) and Rakhine terrorists made a brutal assault on a Rohingya village called Du-Chira-Dan (Kilai-Daung) in Southern Maungdaw, Arakan state. Since then, they have killed many innocent villagers, arrested many others and raped many women/girls. They have literally deserted the village. The village has been totally blocked and declared to be No-Entry Zone for Rohingyas and observers. The brutalities are beyond one’s imagination. I- Below-mentioned are the numbers of innocent Rohingyas massacred, gone missing and women/girls raped since the brutal military assault started. a) 30 women/girls, 6 men/boys and 5 children have been massacred. b) 200 Women/girls, 120 men/boys and 65 Children have gone missing since then. Some of the people massacred were: 1) Musana (Daughter of) Sayed Ahme...

The daughter of Daw Aye Kyi, a partly paralyzed 94-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in the village of Thabyu Chaing. (Photo: David Hogsholt for The New York Times) By Thomas Fuller The New York Times November 09, 2013 THABYU CHAING, Myanmar — Paralyzed from the waist down, Daw Aye Kyi was too heavy for her daughter and granddaughter to carry into the surrounding jungle when a Buddhist mob stormed through this rice-farming village hunting for Muslims. Three men brandishing machetes and knives ignored pleas for mercy and lunged at Ms. Aye Kyi. Her daughter and her granddaughter fled. Several hours later, Ms. Aye Kyi’s body was discovered, slumped next to the smoking cinders of her wooden house. The police say she was stabbed six times. She was 94 years old.  Ms. Aye Kyi was one of five Muslims killed in the attack on Thabyu Chaing last month, a rampage that also destroyed more than a dozen homes. So far, in a year and a half of sporadic Buddhist-Muslim v...

M.S. Anwar | November 4, 2013   rvisiontv.com You have earlier been reported on the killings of internally displaced Rohingyas [from Sin-Htet-Maw (Sandama) IDP camps, Pauktaw Township] by Rakhine terrorists, Myanmar military and Security Force (Hlun Hteind) on 2nd November 2013 (Report HERE). Below are the updates: 1- The person inhumanely slaughtered by Rakhine terrorists in the forest on 2nd November 2013 morning was Noor Hussain (Son of) Saleh Ahmed (Age 40-55). He was from Sin-Htet-Maw Camps, Pauktaw. 2- Later, many people from Sin-Htet-Maw IDP camps went to pick up his dead body. Myanmar Military and Hlun-Hteins-Security shot at the crowd around 2PM of the day. The military are under Battalion 233 in Pauktaw. 3- Due to the shoot out, another internally displaced Rohingya from Nget-Chaung IDP camp called Mohammed Syed (Son of) Ali Ahmed (Age 25) died instantly. Four other injured. 4- The four injured Rohingyas were admitted to the Sittwe General hospital...