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Quarrel Occurred Between a Rohingya Student and a Local
Rakhine Youth But benefit for Police and MI
Akyab,
February 2003, between a Rohingya Student and a local
Rakhine youth at Nazirpara
capital of
benefited to the police and
Military Intelligence
(MI-10) to extract Kyat-11, 00,000/- from the elder
brother of the student, according
to our
correspondent.
Source said, a group of local Rakhine youths led by
one Maung Mya always make
disturbance to a High School
student named Md. Hashim, 18, son
of Roshid while he
was going to school. On 10th
February, he met Maung
Mya lonely on the way to home from school and was a
brief altercation between them and
its carried into a
quarrel. In one stage, Maung Mya
received a severe
blow on the left-eye and hurt
seriously.
Hearing the noise, some Rakhine youths nearby the
village and policemen came on the
spot to rescue the
victim and he was sent to the
hospital for medical
treatment, but, the student managed
to escape from the
scene, said another source.
On the following day, a team of policemen accompanied
by some local Rakhine youths went
to the student’s
house to search him. But, their
attempt to make arrest
the student was a total failure.
So, they arrested the
Sayed Alam, elder brother of the student and severely
tortured by the police. However, he
was freed with the
bribe of Kyat- 100,000/- to the
police officer,
according to our sources.
At the same day, at about 8.00 pm, another team
including MI (10) and police,
numbering 8 went to the
same house and again arrested Sayed
Alam and his wife
and asking them to pay Kyat-20,
00,000/-for their
release from the arrest. However,
they were set free
after giving Kyat- 10,00,000/-to
the MI officer, said
a local ex-teacher to our
correspondent.
“ How can the Rohingya people would
survive in future
because of such a minor case,
brought into a big
amount of money was extracted by
the SPDC
authorities”, a local leader told
our correspondent.
Editor
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