Kaladan Press Network
Dated.
MORE LAND
CONFISCATION FOR BURMAN
BUDDHIST
INCOMERS ON THE ORDER
OF WESTERN COMMAND
By Our Correspondent
Maungdaw, June 22: The Commander
of the Western
Command Brig. Gen. Maung Oo, accompanied by Da Sa Ka
Commander of Akyab (Sittwe), visited the northern
Arakan on
officers to confiscate 750 acres of
Rohingyas’ farm
lands from Nwa-Ron-Daung
(Khoror Dale) village tract
in Maungdaw
North, told the Kaladan Press by an owner
of the confiscated land.
On arrival at Maungdaw
on the day of 1st June, Brig.
Gen. Maung Oo held a meeting, in the Na Sa
Ka
headquarters, with Lt. Col. Soe Twe, the chairman of
District Peace and Development Council
(DPDC) and Lt.
Col. Aung Ngwe, the commander of
Na Sa Ka headquarters
in
discussion were not known, it was
reported that they
had discussed mainly on the
progress of works for
so-called model villages (so-called
Natala villages)
that have been established by the
military
authorities, he further added.
Brig. Gen. Maung Oo, accompanied by Col. Khin Naing
Thein, the Commander of Military
Operation Command
(MOC) No.15, visited the two townships of Buthidaung
and Rathedaung
between 2-3 June, and inspected the
progress of works of the projects
related to Natala
villages for new Burman Buddhist
settlers.
On 4th June, they came back to Maungdaw
and, after a
halt, proceeded their journey to a
extreme border
in Maungdaw
North, where they hurriedly discussed with
local Na Sa Ka officers for a few
minutes and then at
once proceeded to Alaythan Kyaw, a place 12 miles
south of Maungdaw,
under the Na Sa Ka sector No.7, to
see by themselves the condition of
the Natala villages
that have recently been established
by them, a source
in the Na Sa Ka said.
On 5th June, Brig. Gen. Maung Oo and team left
Maungdaw for Akyab in a speedboat. 3 days
after their
departure, the commander of Na Sa
Ka sector No.6,
Maj. Than Tun, as per instruction
of Brig. Gen. Maung
Oo, had confiscated about 750 acres of Rohingyas’
lands from Nwa-Ron-Daung
(Khoror Dale) village tract,
a place about 4 miles north of Maungdaw. Earlier, on
May 13, about 300 acres of lands, belonging to both
Rohingya and Rakhaing communities,
had already been
confiscated by the Na Sa Ka, and so
this confiscation
of lands, for the second time, from
the same village
tract is done within a span of two
months, sources
said.
Now is the season for paddy cultivation. However, most
of the Rohingya farmers have become
landless while
their remaining farmlands are being
progressively
confiscated. Being landless and
jobless and having no
opportunity to work except forced
labour, the Rohingya
farmers are now in acute
difficulties and miserable
condition. This is a deliberate
policy of the ruling
junta to cause the people of Arakan
into serious
famine-like situation in future.
Burman Buddhist
settlers have been regularly brought
into northern
Arakan from
confiscated lands and to grab more
lands of the local
people and thereby to gradually
pushing the Rohingya
inhabitants either into the
internally displaced
people or refugees, said a retired
government servant.
Editor
Kaladan Pres