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By Aye Myint ׀ RvisionTV November 07, 2014 Kyauktaw, Arakan State : An innocent Rohingya youth was shot by some unknown armed Rakhine terrorists in Kyauktaw Township tonight and is now said to be in critical condition, according to the reliable sources. The youth is identified to be 26-year-old Shakir (son of) Ali Johar hails from Let Saung Kok village, Kyauktaw Township. He earns his livelihood as a fisherman and was attacked while he was fishing in Kaladan River. “Shakir (son of) Ali Johar, age 26, went for fishing in Kaladan river (also called Kissapa Nadi) yesterday (on 7th November) evening. He hails from Let Saung Kok village. While he was fishing in the river around 11:00PM, some unknown armed terrorists from a Rakhine village from the other side of the river called Kyauk Dan village started shooting at him using guns. One of the bullets hit at the lower part of his neck resulting him in critical condition. Fortunately, he didn’t die but it has become too...

By Aung Naing Oo  November 01, 2014 rvisiontv.com Buthidaung, Arakan State : Myanmar’s Police arrested three innocent Rohingyas in relation to firecracker explosions in Buthidaung Township on Friday night, which the police have arbitrarily labelled as Bomb Blasts, according to the reliable sources. The sources further say that the Chief of the Buthidaung Township Police in cooperation with the local Rakhine extremists themselves plotted the explosions of the heavy firecrackers and labelled them as a bomb blasts, which the domestic media and other Burmese Program Media abroad blatantly bought. The three victims of the arbitrary arrests are said to be shopkeepers at the place where the explosion had occurred. “It was around 9:00PM on Friday night, some heavy firecrackers exploded before some Rohingya owned shops at the Byuha Goong village in Ward 4, Buthidaung Township. Since they were mere firecrackers explosions, there were no naturally any injuries o...

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...

By Saiful Rohin  Rvisiontv.com October 19, 2014  Rathedaung, Arakan State: Rakhine extremists blocked WFP’s access to the few remaining Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township leading the hundreds of innocent Rohingyas to face starvation, according to a source of WFP. Post the state-sponsored violence against ethnic Rohingya in 2012, only few Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township survived from destruction. Two of them are Anauk-Pyin village and Muzair (Nyaung Pin Gyi) village. “The Rohingyas in the villages of Anauk-Pyin and Muzair have been besieged and economically crippled by the majority Rakhine extremists. WFP, the UN’s World Food Program, has been providing them starving people with some food rations monthly. Now, the Rakhine extremists have blocked the WFP’s access to the villages by building an unnecessary bamboo bridge in an attempt to starve the boycotted people. WFP asked the Rakhine community to dismantle the bridge as it was blocking t...

By MYARF Rvisiontv.com October 16, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Myanmar’s tyrannical Border Guard Police (BGP) has been arbitrarily arresting and detaining innocent Rohingya people all over Maungdaw Township since late September, the local Rohingyas report. The police raid Rohingya villages and vandalize and ransack their homes. Besides, they harass Rohingya women and beat and torture Rohingya men passing by different police-check posts located at every-three-mile on high ways. Most of the arrests of the innocent people have been being made under the false allegation of having links with *RSO in Bangladesh.   Myanmar's Border Guard Police Raid and Vandalize Rohingya at Any Gven Time (Photo: MFQ/ Rohingya Vision) “BGP arrested a 16-year-old Rohingya teenager, Sadek Hussain (son of) Aamir Hamza, in Ngakura (also called Nagpura) village around 11AM last Monday. He was (falsely) accused of using Bangla SIM Card and having links with RSO. He was severely...

By MYARF  Rvision TV August 28, 2014 Buthidaung, Arakan State: The Myanmar Military arbitrarily arrested and severely tortured an innocent Rohingya at Paya-pyin-aung-pyaa’ village in Buthidaung Township for Ransom, say the reliable sources.Buthidaung The military arrested the Rohingya man last Friday night upon a false complaint against him by the village administrator who is Rakhine extremist named Maung Chan Thar. “Noor Ali (son of) U Islam (of age 25) is a local of Paya-pyin-aung-pyaa village in Buthidaung Township. The village administrator, Maung Chan Thar, arbitrarily accused Noor Ali of abusing him (the administrator) on August 22. Then, he beat him up. Even yet, on August 24, the village administrator complaint to the military of Battalion 263 (based in Nyaung Chaung village) that Noor Ali had abused him. Around 10:00PM of the same day, the military raided Noor Ali’s house and arrested him. He was detained and severely in the military detention. Then, the milit...

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...

By Rohingya Eye Rvision TV  August 13, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan : The Myanmar Border Police (BGP) in southern Maungdaw arbitrarily arrest and torture innocent Rohingyas for ransom, causing severe difficulties among the local Rohingyas, according to the sources. Similarly, the Police arrested three innocent Rohingyas on August 5 in Thawan Chaung village and released them only after extorting huge amounts of money from them. “Border  Guard  Police  (BGP)  of  Inn  Dinn  (Aan  Daang)  station  arbitrarily  arrested  three  Rohingya  passers-by  at  Thawan  Chaung (also called Bossara Village)  village  in  southern  Maungdaw  around  10PM  on  August  5.  Having  extorted  humongous  amounts  of  money  from  each  of  them,  the  police  released  them  on  the ...

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...

By Sallam Oic ׀ Monday, August 4, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State ׀ Rvisiontv.com Sittwe District Police Chief is trying to use two notorious criminals as witnesses in desperate attempts to prove two Rohingya prominent leaders [in Sittwe] guilty in court, says a local source. Advocate U Kyaw Hla Aung was arbitrarily accused of inciting conflicts in IDP camps in Sittwe The two prominent Rohingya leaders of Sittwe, Advocate U Kyaw Hla Aung and U Hla Myint, arbitrarily accused of inciting conflicts in IDP camps in Sittwe, were arrested in Thakkay Pyin (also known as Sakki Fara) on April 26, 2013. They have been locked up and prosecuted since then. “Fourth August was the date of the hearing of the cases of U Kyaw Hla Aung and U Hla Myint in the Sittwe District Court. They were supposed to be proven innocent by the court and released from the prison since there are evidences for the cases charged on them. However, the Sittwe District Police Chief, U Thit San, due to reportedly so...

By Rohingya Eye & MYARF Rvision TV July 17, 2014  Maungdaw, Arakan State: A Rohingya has been killed by unknown assailants in northern Maungdaw and Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) has gone rampant to arrest innocent Rohingya in the region, whereas the BGP has arrested two innocent Rohingya in two separate incidents in the same region, according to reliable sources. BGP Headquarter in Taung Pyo Sub-Township, Northern Maungdaw “Junaid (son of) Noor Bashar, 28-year-old Rohingya hails from Quarter 2 of Taung Pyo sub-township team in northern Maungdaw, set off for fishing to river on June 30. Since then, he had not come back home. On June 6, however, his dead body without several injuries and bruises was found on a river bank. We feel some Rakhine extremists operating in the nearby forests have killed him. Therefore, his villagers informed the authority and requested for the dead body for the burial. After being requested several times, the authority allowed...

By U Kyaw Myint- Sallam Oic Rvision TV July 10, 2014 Sittwe (Akyab): The newly appointed Rakhine State Chief Minister U Maung Maung Ohn and his team met Rohingya Community in Sittwe on Tuesday, sources say. Former Deputy Border Affairs Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Ohn has been recently appointment as the Chief Minister Rakhine State represented the state parliament as a Military MP. (Photo: DVB) The meeting was Maung Maung Ohn’s first meeting with local Rohingya community since he has been appointed as the chief minister of the state. Accompanying him in the meeting were 1)     Western Military Command Maj-Gen Aung Lin Htwe and his team, 2)     Rakhine State Border Affairs Minister Colonel Htin Lin and his team, 3)     Chief of the Rakhine State Police Force Colonel Nay Myo and his team 4)     and Rakhine State Immigration Minister U Kyaw Yein Oo and his team. U Maung Maung Ohn held preliminary talks on class...

By M.S. Anwar  Rvisiontv.com July 08, 2014 Entrance to Taung Gote Township Myanmar Police arrested at least six Rakhines in two townships of Arakan State for Drugs Peddling in recent days, according to Narinjara News Agency. Taun Gote and Man Aung Townships have, as a result of decades-long systematic and institutionalized ethnic cleansing, become two Rohingya Muslims free zone. At the same time, these two regions are also notorious for being hotspots for drug-smuggling. “On June 1, Man Aung Police said that they had arrested four Rakhines red handed with ‘48 Cards of Yaba Tablet and Kyat 4.2 Million drug money. They are: 1)     Ko Thar Khaung Gyi @Ko Ko Aung, hails from Annauk-Su Quarter 2)     U Tuan Min Hlat 3)     U Pho Htuu 4)     One more person The former is the main drug peddler and the latter three were arrested because they were found together with the former. One of them was released later...

By Rohingya Eye ׀ Maungdaw, Arakan State Rvisiontv.com July 06, 2014 Maungdaw Police has banned local Rohingya Muslims to send foods and daily meals to the Muslims detained in Maungdaw Police detention during Muslims’ fasting month, Ramadhan, according to locals of Maungdaw. Most of the Rohingya Muslim detainees have been arbitrarily arrested and in the detention without any charges and prosecutions since the violence in June 2012. “In earlier years, we were to send donated foods and meals twice daily to the Muslim detainees in Maungdaw Police Detention during Muslim Fasting Month Ramadhan. However, on June 30, deputy chief of Maungdaw Police Station, Lieutenant Myint Lwin, said that they won’t allow the detained Rohingya Muslims to receive food from outside in this year’s fasting month. The police officer said ‘no need to feed anything to them. All are criminals. If a detainee escapes meanwhile you provide them food, who will bear the responsibility for that.’ ...

By Maung Z June 14, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan: Maungdaw Police arbitrarily accused Mv Siddique of theft and arrested him subsequently on 13th June 2014. He is a religious scholar and trader hails from the village of Italia in Maungdaw Township. “Mv U Siddique (of age 55) is a local of the village of Hla Tha Augh of Italia Village Tract, Maungdaw. He trades used motor vehicles in the village. Around 11:30AM on 13th June 2014, a Rakhine (Magh) man hails from Quarter 3 of Maungdaw arrived at his shop to buy a used jeep car. The Rakhine was looking around in his shop. All of a sudden, he started claiming that his 4 Million Kyats kept in the box under his motorcycle seat got stolen. Then, the Rakhine man phoned Maungdaw Police Station. 16 Police Personnel arrived at the place of the incident by eight motorcycles. The police arrested and detained him in Maungdaw Police Station. He is said to have been being tortured and not released yet” said an eyewitness. “...

By MYARF & RS  Rvisiontv.com June 9, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan: On June 8, 2014, Maungdaw Township Administration announced that Curfew Order under Section 144 extended once more for two months. Therefore, the curfew order from 11PM to 4AM will be in effect in Maungdaw Township until August 8, 2014 The curfew order was first imposed on June 8, 2012, a day when violence against Rohingyas took full-fledged form starting in Maungdaw. However, the curfew order has never prevented Rakhine extremists from roaming free to cause destructions to Rohingya communities in the region. Many Rakhines together with Police and Security Force (Hlunhtein) have torched Rohingya homes and robbed their shops during the curfew period. On the other hand, when authorities find Rohingya people outside their homes even before the time of the curfew period, they (authorities) beat them up, they (authorities) arrest them, they (authorities) extort money from them, and they (authorities) imp...

By JND Rvision TV June 07, 2014 Kyauktaw Township, Arakan: On 6th June 2014 afternoon, a gang of 30 Rakhine extremists severely beat up a Rohingya fisherman fishing in Kaladan River in Kyauktaw Township. And then, the extremists robbed his fishing net. Rohingya fisherman hails from the village of Paikthay (Zaillya Fara) and the extremists do from the village of Wa-Maing. “Rohingya people at the village of Pakthay (Zaillya Fara) in Kyauktaw Township depend on Fishing in Kaladan River as a means to their livelihoods. Rohingya people mainly live at the western coast of the river and Rakhine people do at the eastern coast. Since the violence against Rohingyas started in June 2012, Rohingyas face several harassment and dangers while they go for fishing. Hence, they can’t go very far. If Rohingya fishermen encounter with Rakhine extremists while fishing, they (Rakhine extremists) strike them with marbles and sharp-and-small arrows using catapults. Besides, they rob Rohi...

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...