KALADAN NEWS
Date:
Two Killed Over the
Rape of a Teenaged Girl in
Maungdaw, Sept
12: Two people including a Nasaka (Border
Disciplinary Control Force) were killed over the rape of a teenaged Rohingya girl in
On September 3, 2004, at about 2:00pm a group of 3 Nasaka personnel headed by Sub-inspector Rang Aung, Camp-
in-Charge of Myawadi out-post including Hla Myo and other one were going to the out-post from Aung Zu village (Shikdar Para) of Nasaka Sector Command Area No. 2, officials further said.
Nasaka are combined forces of
army, police, immigration, customs and military intelligence service (MIS). It
was formed on
On the way, they found alone the teenaged girl named Amina Khatun (13) daughter Nazir Hussain from Thet Kaine Nyar
village (Shatkania Para) under the Maungdaw Township, Arakan State,
was grazing her cattle in a field nearby village. Then the girl was forcibly
dragged to an isolated place and raped, said a villager from the locality.
Hearing of the screaming of the victim, nearby Rohingya villagers rushed to the spot. Seeing the villagers
coming towards them, the three culprits ran away from the sight, but the
villagers chased until to catch them. In one stage, Rang Aung became tired and
couldn’t able to run away. For his safety, he fired 5 rounds of bullets to the
mob, threatening the people but the bullet hit the victim’s elder brother Shafi Alam, 26, and was dead on
the spot and another villager was seriously injured, Nasaka
officials continued.
This made villagers very angry, and a Nasaka
could manage to flee from the spot while Hla Myo was
caught and severely beaten by the villagers. Afterwards, the arrested Nasaka police was handed over to the Nasaka
Camp. But, the officer Rang Aung jumped into a creak for his safety and could
not appear for whole day. The next day, the decomposed body of the Nasaka officer was floating in the creak and the Nasaka took away the dead body to their camp, said
villagers.
The Nasaka officials further said
that, the officer Rang Aung was beaten to death by villagers and his revolver
was taken. But, villagers said that his revolver was lost while he jumped into
a creak.
Relating to the death of Rang Aung and his revolver villager
said, “We are being oppressed by the Nasaka and
continued arrest. So far, about 60 people are arrested and the village would be
evacuated in future. Now, we are feeling unsecured. But we have no place to go
rather than suffering.”
Nasaka officials said, “ They do not rape the teenager but attempt to violate. The
victim shouts while she is dragged to nearby jungle. So, they cannot able to
rape her”.
The injured villager and the victim of the rape were sent by
the Nasaka officials to Maungdaw
hospital for medical treatment but not known any situation upgraded till
writing of this report. # #
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