Kaladan News
Dated:
Barbaric Killing of a Religious Teacher in
Nasaka Custody
Maungdaw, April 28: A barbaric
killing of a religious teacher in Nasaka (Border
security Force) custody was occurred on
On 1st April 2004, Maulavi Sayed Ahmed, 35, son of Sayedul
Islam of Duden village of Maungdaw
Township was arrested by the Nasaka from his Madrasa (Religious School) and carried him to Ngakura Nasaka Sector No.5 camp,
a place about 12 miles north of Maungdaw town. He was
a young religious teacher and the Head of the Academic Affairs of the religious
school of "Madrasa Tauhidia"
of the
On that day, together with him, three others namely Maulvi
Abdullah son of Haji Khalilur
Rahman, who is Burmese and English teacher of Longdun Madrasa, Obaidullah son of Abdus Salam, a clerk of the same Madrasa
and Mohammad Amin son of Sultan Ahmed, a former
village chairman of Duden village. They were all
arrested from the Lundun Madrasa
by a team of 30 Nasaka forces from Sector No.5
camp of Ngakura village, he further added.
All of them were arrested under false and fabricated charges of having link
with an insurgent group and running the Madrasa with
fund of the insurgents, said a Village Peace & Development Council (VPDC)
member of nearby village who is very close to authorities and prefers not to
mention his name.
From April 1 to 21, they had been inhumanly tortured them day in, day out in
the Nasaka camp to extract confession. As a result, Maulvi Sayed Ahmed succumbed to
his injuries in the fateful night of
Next morning, on 22nd April, the Duden
villagers came to know about the custodian killing, the surrounding villagers
in grief went to get the corpse for burial, but the Nasaka
denied to hand it over to them. When more villagers with students were headed
towards the camp in confrontational mood, the situation became very tense the Nasaka threatened to shoot at the public. After sometime,
the Nasaka under instruction of the Nasaka Hqs handed the dead body
over to the angry villagers.
The deceased body was covered in blood with marks of serious injuries and
bruises. His tongue was cut off and sex organs were destroyed while testicles
were squeezed. The deceased was declared a "Shaheed"
(martyr) by religious leaders. On the same day, this dead body was buried
at the graveyard of Duden village without giving it
funeral bath as a martyr needs not be given funeral bath according to Shari’a (Islamic Law). The funeral prayers
were joined by thousands of Rohingya villagers.
However, on 22nd April, the three other victims were brought to Nasaka Hqs and were released on
23rd April from the headquarters of Kyigan
Pyin of
According to an elite Rohingya from inside Arakan, " We have no choice
to practice our religion under the present ruling military regime. They have
been carrying out various kinds of humiliating attacks on the religious
institutions, centers and persons, as well as religious sentiments of the
Muslims. It is a part of the SPDC’s design to
threaten the entire Rohingya Muslin community in Arakan. There is no specific law for the Nasaka forces towards Muslim Rohingya
community in Arakan." ##
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