Dated:
Cox’s Bazar,
October 13: A Burmese Rohingya refugee woman has
been missing from refugee camp since September 21, after being clashed between
refugee women and police, according to a victim’s parents.
On
All 7- wounded
women were arrested and taken to Ukhiya police
station and six of them were released on their agreements with authorities for
repatriation excluding Sajeda Begum. The health
conditions of the wounded women are awful because of lacking of proper medical
treatments. Hussain Ali, husband of Dil Bahar, seeing of his wife’s
serious condition, he became crazy and wandering here and there. One of the
camp officials gave some money to console him, said a refugee leader.
Besides, the
parents of Sajeda Begum are living out of the camp to
avoid arrest and harassment of police. “Though Sajeda
Begum was sent to Cox’s Bazar jail after the
incident, she is not found in the jail now. While asked the UNHCR about their
daughter, they got dissatisfactory answers from them,” said the victim’s
parents.
While UNHCR visits the refugee
camp, the wounded victims are carried to the Cox’s
Rohingya
refugees are barred from listening to the radio and meeting together even two
refugees after the incident, said a refugee teacher.
The
camp-in-charge Mohamed Yasin told to refugees that
the present ruling Government of Burma is the best handling for the Rohingya people. So, we have to imitate the methods of the
Burmese government to squash the Rohingya refugees,
he added.
In fact, the incident was broken
out while the camp-in-charge accompanied by police and workers, forcibly picked
up the refugees from their sheds to sign on affidavits as Declaration of
Voluntary Repatriation (DVR), which made refugees angry and then the women
refugees resisted the police, believing less repercussion from them. ##
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