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EIGHT ROHINGYA
VILLAGERS STILL DETAINED FOR BRIBE MONEY
By Our Correspondent
Buthidaung, June 28: Eight
Rohingya villagers
implicated in a false case of
beating a Nasaka
personnel are still detained, as
they could not afford
the bribe money being demanded by Nasaka officer for
their release, said a relative of
victims yesterday to
Kaladan Press. Earlier on 19th
March and 1st April
2002, the said eight Rohingya villagers had been
arrested by Nasaka
authority of
from Atwin
Nget Thay village, a place
about 6-miles
South-east of Buthidaung town in
further added.
Those who had been arrested on 19th March and 1st
April are as follows:-
1) Mohamed S/o Anu Mea, 25; 2) Salamat Ullah S/o
Mohamed Hashim,37; 3) Jaffor Hussain S/o Nur Ahamed
,18; 4) Mia Hussain
S/o Sami Ullah, 55;5)Hashim Ullah
S/o Mia Hussain, 20; 6) Kalim Ullah S/o Mia Hussain,
23; 7) Mrs. Hussain Banu D/o Mia Hussain, 33; 8) Mrs.
Katiza Begum D/o Mia Hussain, 30; all of them are
belong to Atwin
Nget Thay
township.
According to villagers of Atwin Nget Thay, for
nearly 4 months, beginning from mid
March 2002, they
have been facing increased
harassment and agony of
Nasaka. On March 18, at about 3.00 pm two Nasaka
personnel equipped with knives and
swords trespassed
and looted the house of Mia Hussain (55), S/o Sami
Ullah of the village, after beating the house owner.
Hearing the hue and cry of the wife of Mia Hussain,
the nearby villagers rushed to the
spot and captured
one of the two culprits red handed
while the other
managed to escape from the scene,
the villagers
further said.
The incident was coincided with a tour of a police
team came to the village from Buthidaung for colleting
paddy .The villagers after
apprising the police of the
incident handed both the house
owner and the Nasaka
personnel to them. Then the police
sent the victim Mia
Hussain to
while the Nasaka
culprit was detained in police
custody, the villagers further
added.
On information, a section of Nasaka
under the command
of commander of camp No. 23 rushed
to Buthidaung and
picked-up the culprit Nasaka soldier from the police
custody and the victim from the
hospital and carried
them together to their Nasaka camp No. 21. After that
the victim was detained at the Nasaka camp and the
culprit Nasaka
soldier was set free, said a source in
the Nasaka
camp.
The following day, on 19 March, by the order of the
Nasaka
to the victims house and carried
his whole family,
such as his wife, two young
daughters aged 20, 23 and
daughter-in-law, 25,while in
detention they pronounced
under duress that the enlisted in
their earlier
prepared list of the Nasaka had been involved in said
incident, the source further said.
However, on 20th March, the wife of Mia Hussain
was
released in serious condition while
her two daughters
and daughter-in-law were in
continuously kept
detention. According to Mia Hussains wife, she with
her daughters and daughter-in-law
had been gang-raped
routinely every night in the Nasaka camp.
In addition, on 20th March, the Nasaka
commander of
Atwin Nget
Thay in the incident
of
were arrested and tortured
while they were detained
in the Nasaka
camp. However, they were later released
on payment of ransom on 30th March,
said another
relative of the victims.
1) Monir Ahmad S/o Amir Hamza, 75, Kyat.
200,000;
2) Hamid Hussain
S/o Sami Ullah, 46, Kyat.
300,000;
3) Shahab Uddin
S/o Abdul Ali, 20, Kyat. 100,000;
4) Salim Ullah
S/o Abu Siddique, 22, Kyat. 150,000;
5) Abdul Gaffar S/o Wahid Baukshu, 76, Kyat. 200,000;
6) Mrs. Hussain Ara Banu D/o
Amir Hussain, 40,
Kyat.100,000; 7) Daughter-in-law of
Mia Hussain, 22,
Kyat.100,000; 8) Miss Shaju D/o Habib Ullah, 17,Kyat.
100,000; 9) Mohamed Rashid S/o Habib Ullah, 38,
Kyat.200,000; 10) Kala Bada S/o Musa
Ali, 22,
Kyat.250,000; 11) Abdul Ali S/o Gura Mia, 40,
Kyat.200,000; 12) Ilyas S/o Abdul Ali,25,
Kyat.100,000; 13) Nurul Islam S/o Monir Ahamed,40,
Kyat. 350,000;
Total Kyat. 23,50,000.These villagers
are from Atwin
Nget Thay village
under the township
of Buthidaung.
Meanwhile, the Nasaka has
continued its harassment of
villagers to take huge ransom under
the pretext of
involvement in the incident of 18
March. Thus many
people have gone into hiding.
Villagers have been
continuously arrested, who include Nur Hussain (32),
son of Ibrahim
and Japanya (22), son of Dowlamiah
of
Atwin Nget
Thay village, the two youths
were
ordered to be shot at sight.
However, the following
villagers were set free on
ransom, said another relative of
victims.
1)Kamal Hussain S/o Abu Sayed,25, Kyat.250,000;
2) Jamal Hussain
S/o Mohamed Hussin,37, kyat.150,000;
3) Dil Mohamed S/o Abu sayed,200,000; 4) Ali Juhar S/o
Kala Mia,25,
Kyat. 100,000; 5) Shaker S/o Hamid
Ali,25, Kyat.300,000; 6) Shah Alam S/o Karim Bokshu,
27, Kyat. 150,000; 7) Mohamed Kamal Hussain S/o Sami
Uddin,26, Kyat.200,000. Total Kyat
13,50,000. These
all are belong to Atwin Nget Thay
village of
Buthidaung
township.
On
(28), son of Haji Abu Mia and a
girl named Miss Juma
Khatun (20), daughter of Ayub Ali without any
reasonable ground .However, Abu Nasir was released on
6th June, on payment of a ransom of Kyat 140,000 but
Miss Juma Khatun
who was supposed to be released on
the same day was freed on
villagers, she had been kept four
more days in the
camp for unholy purpose.
Editor
Kaladan Press Network