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Lands Confiscation And Forced Labour For Model Villages:
By our correspondent
Maungdaw, Arakan, June 08: The
commander of the Sector
No. 6 Major Than Tun has
confiscated about 300 acres
of Rohingyas’
lands from “Khoror Dale” (Nwa-ron-daung)
village, a place 3.5 miles north of
Maungdaw while
extracting forced labour for
constructing 80 tin
roofed houses for the new Buddhist
settlers. This has
been done by the order, dated May
13, of Lt. Col. Soe
Twe, the chairman of the District
Peace and
Development Council (DPDC) and Lt. Col. Aung Ngwe, the
Commander of Nasaka headquarters
of
said a trader to the Kaladan
Press.
Major Than Tun has selected 12
village tracts around
“Nwa-ron-daung” village compelling
each village to
construct 7 houses. The government
is reported to have
been supplying most of the
house-building materials,
including tins for roofing. The
settler village is
named “model village” which will
have a school, pond,
Buddhist religious centre, he further added.
It goes without saying that these installations imply
additional forced labour and
increased expenses for
the neighbouring villagers.
“Since1991, the situation has been harder and harder
day by day. Today, there are so
many model villages,
which have already been built. More
such villages,
each with 80 families, are now
under construction in
various places of northern Arakan.
For the Rohingyas,
each new settlement means land
confiscations, forced
relocations, and economic losses.
The authorities have
seized the rice fields and hill
side lands for the new
Buddhist settlers,” said another
villager.
Editor
Kaladan Press
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