Dated:
Nasaka Collecting Paddy From
Farmers For Model Villagers In
Maungdaw, December 30: The Nasaka
(Border Security Force) of
Though the Nasaka authorities verbally ordered the villagers to pay
2.5 Tawn (one Tawn
= 35 kgs) of paddy per acre from the farmers,
practically, they have been collecting Kyat 2,000 per acre, he further added.
“It is doubtful that all
the collected money goes to the model villagers,” said another villager who is
afraid for SPDC authorities if his name was mentioned.
Since 1988, the SPDC
authorities have been very busy for construction of model village for the new
Buddhist settlers. The houses were built with forced labor of Rohingya villagers.This is
nothing but an attempt to destroy the economic bases and old establishment of
the Rohingya people, said a Rohingya
intellectual.
The so-called Natala villages are spotted with continued erecting of
pagodas, monasteries and community centers built with forced labor and by
forced collections of funds extracting from Rohingyas
while renovation, repairing and building of mosques and religious schools
uprooted. As a result, more and more Rohingyas are
becoming landless, internal refugees or internally displaced after their land
properties being confiscated and their homes uprooted, said a schoolteacher to
our source.
In addition to forced labor,
the poor Rohingya villagers have to supply funds and
house building materials for model villages’ constructions, even after their
lands confiscated. ##
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