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231 YOUNG MEN AND 4
WOMEN DETAINED AT MAUNGDAW
By Our Correspondent:
Maungdaw, October 30: From 11th to
police arrested 231 young men and 4
women from Baggona
village, a place 2 miles south of Maungdaw, Arakan
State, said a trader of Maungdaw.
On 10th October, Maung Lun, the
Chairman of the Rwa
Thaya Village Peace and
development Council (VPDC),
friendly invited 5 young men from Baggona, an adjacent
village to Rwa
Thaya, to watch the pwe
(dance drama)
being staged at his village. They are Kabir, Kamal,
Juhar, Mohamed Yunus and Monzia
(a Hindu). While they
were watching the pwe, the duty police of the pwe,
at
the instigation of
Maung Lun, suddenly rounded the
up and arrested 4 of them. But,
Mohamed Yunus managed
to escape from the scene. All of
them were sent to
Maungdaw police custody with false
and fabricated
accusation of rape of two Rakhaing girls of the
village, he further added.
On the following day, the
11th of October, a police
team came to the village from Maungdaw. On the pretext
of looking for Mohamed Yunus, who had gone into
hiding, the police in
collaboration with some
Rakhaing goons, had arrested 15
Rohingya young men and
were sent and detained
in Maungdaw police custody,
said a villager to our source.
Again on 12th October , a 5 member
police team
together with the collaboration of
15 Rakhaing
muggers went to the said with the
same pretext and
held up16 young men, who were at
once sent to Maungdaw
police custody, he further added.
It was on 15th October, when the Western Commander
Brigadier General Maung Oo
was visiting Maungdaw, the
inspector of police of Maungdaw apprised him of the
matter, the General instructed the
police inspector to
give him detail report after making
inquiry. This made
the inspector encouraged and
, in that very night, he
dispatched a team of 12
police men with 20 Rakhaing
robbers with the alleged intention
of harassing and
extorting the villagers. The police
made house to
house searches and picked up the
young occupants. A
total of 200 young villagers
with 4 women, namely
Jahanara Begum,17,
Noor Jahan,22, Samida
Begum, 26,
and Ayas Jahan, 31, were arrested and carried to
Maungdaw police custody. All of the four arrested
women belong to a same family
and are daughters of
Sayed Ahmed, said victims’ relatives.
On
bribe of Kyats
10,000/- for each and the remaining
166 persons, including the 4 women, who are unable to
offer bribe, are still kept in
police custody and they
have been reportedly tortured. On
the other hand, the
police inspector is
threatening the villagers of more
punishment unless Mohamed Yunus is not arrested, they
further added.
An old man from Maungdaw town
said,” the arrest is
totally illegal. It is a
fabrication to intimidate and
extort the Muslim villagers. Rwa Thaya is a Rakhaing
village well known as a place of
prostitutes and
country made wine. The corrupt
army, police,
government servicemen and bad
elements used to visit
it”.
Editor
Kaladan Press Network