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Inhumane cruelty against minority M (r)
Ko Okkar,
Every citizen in Burma is required by the township LORC (I don't know
the new name yet) to report the concerned ward-council prior to his or
her departure from their respective home town.
In Nagahills, the Baptist pastors are restricted from visiting to
different villages to do their biblical teaching. One of them alleged
that he was severely tortured for his failure to comply with the order.
Though there is no clear mentioning of the consequences for violating
this order, people have the enough reason to be fearful of exercising
their freedom at their own cost.
Such restriction on freedom of movement has been happening to the people
living beyond Rangoon.
I think you still have good memory to recall the former SLORC's
imposition of such unlawful traveling-restriction on Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi.
If such a prominent person has had to face the unwritten rules and the
unpredictable action by a bunch of trigger-happy unruling armed persons
in power, what about the rest of the entire population of Burma?
I think your office doesn't seem to be aware of what is going under your
nose.
You might ask, "who says to you?"
All I have mentioned is based upon the witnesses' testimonies. All are
are well-recorded about who did it and who suffered it. There are
thousands of testimonies for such violation of freedom of movement.
If I disclose who said to me about these unfortunate events, what will
you and your people do next? Will you be going to stop this or will you
be going shut up those who dare to tell the truth?
After all, it is difficult to wake up a person who pretends to be
sleeping.
You know it. You neglect it. You lie about it. A good example of
intellectual cowardice, Ko Okkar.
Kyaw Kyaw Htut
Indiana
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>Subject: Re: Inhumane cruelty against minority Muslims
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>In a message dated 98-04-07 01:54:19 EDT, gawdech@xxxxxxxxxxxx write:
>
>
>> 12 members of a family shot dead in Akyab?(The News Letter,March,'98)
>> RSO.
>
>> A Muslim family consisting of 12 members including two women and two
>> children secretly made their way to Rangoon in a small mechanised
fishing
>> boat by sea ruote in early February , 1998 as no Muslim is allowed
to
>> travel to central Burma.
>
> Who told you that Muslims are not allowed to travel to central
Burma.
>There are
>a lot of Muslims in Central Burma. If anybody do not believe it can go
and
>see.
>And what are the names of these Muslim family. If this really happened,
you
>aught to know at least one of the names of that 12 family members.
>
>> However, the engine of the boat went out of order and the boat was
>> intercepted by a SPDC petrol boat. Since then the fate of the
arrested
>> persons has remained in mystry. Strong rumour has it that the patrol
party
>> had not only looted the belongings of the Muslims but also secretly
shot
>> dead all the family members after sexually assaulting the women.
>
> Who can witness that SPDC petrol boat intercepted the boat of that
family.
>These are baseless rumours. It is not unusual for some activists who
post
>baseless urmours and these rumours are distributed to other newsgroups
by
>some other activists.
>
>> It may be mentioned here that the ruling SPDC has restricted the
travel
>> movement of Muslims in Arakan and none is allowed to go to central
Burma.
>> Any one found violating the movement order is liable to a penalty of
Kyats
>> 250,000 or a jail term of maximum 14 years. Some 14 Muslims who
were
>> caught at Taungup township of Arakan state while on their way to
centrl
>> Burma were also reported to have been shot dead.( News Letter
January, 1998
>> issue).
>
> I have never heard of this kind of restrictions. Shame on you both
>gawdech@xxxxxxxxxxxx who post this rumours to BurmaNet and "W.
Kesavatana-
>Dohrs" <dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> who forwarded to
social-culture-Indonesia and
>social-culture-Malaysia.
>
>OK
>
>
>
>
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