KALADAN NEWS
Date:
Crackdown On Rohingya
Villagers
Maungdaw, September 25: The Nasaka and police are terrorizing the Rohingya
people in the
The Nasaka troops and police started crackdown on the
villagers on September 15 in retaliation for the death of a Nasaka
Junior officer Rang Aung who had raped a young girl and injured a
villager by gunshot, Sayed further continued.
The story of the incident is that: “On September 3, Ran Aung with a Nasaka soldier had seized and raped Amina,
13, a daughter of Noor Hussain
of Thet Kaine Nyar village, while she together with her younger sister
were tending cattle on a hillside grazing ground of the village. When the
incident was informed by the younger sister 4 villagers, including Shafiqul Alam S/o, Gulam Hussain who is a cousin of
the rape victim, rushed to the spot whereupon Ran Aung opened fire with his
revolver on them injuring Shafiqul Alam. Despite firing the four angry villagers continued
chasing the two culprits. At one stage Ran Aung could escape away while his
fellow soldier was caught up, he further added.
After that the villagers took the rape victim Amina
and her injured cousin Shafiqul Alam
together with the held up soldier to nearby Nasaka
camp at Ye Nauk Ngatha
and the officer was apprised of the incident. At once the officer sent Amina and Shafiqul Islam to Mya Waddi Nasaka camp at Kyein
Chaung (Bawli Bazar) from where they were sent onward to Maungdaw hospital for treatment, said another villager who
also crossed the Burma-Bangladesh border.
During search the dead body of Ran Aung was found in a creek after two days on
September 5. The villagers believe that the drunken Rang Aung had jumped into
the creek and was swept away by the current of the water and drowned. It
infuriates the Nasaka, he further added.
It was almost after 12 days on September 15, under the instruction from higher
authorities, the Nasaka troops and police began to
brutalize the villagers in Thet Kaine
Nyar and its neighborhood. They made house-to-house
search and seized and carried to Kyin Chaung Nasaka camp about 60
villagers, including 10 teenaged girls, where the girls were gang raped. The
following morning it was learned that one of the girls died of rape violence.
But the police refused to hand over the dead body to her relatives and after a
postmortem they themselves buried it in total defiance of Muslim funeral rites.
The medical examination report has still been kept secret. Although dead
bodies were handed over to relatives in earlier cases why they refused to do so
in this case is a mystery, another villager who crossed the border later.
On 14th September, an unidentified dead body of a Rohingya woman of about 25 years was found in a paddy field
of Auk Pyeu Hma
(Kasari Bil) village. Under
the pretext of enquiry of the case, about 15 youths of the villages have been
arrested. But the villagers comprehend that Nasaka
had killed her after committing rape and then thrown her dead body in the paddy
field to incriminate and punish the villagers the villager added.
Meanwhile, on September 17, the villagers found three dead bodies of the Rohingya girls floating at the mouth of the Pyuma Chaung (creek) close to a Nasaka camp. They could not be identified as their faces
were badly bruised with violence marks. People believe that they might be from
among those 10 girls who were earlier picked up. On the other hand, the fate of
the other girls is still unknown as no one is allowed to approach the Nasaka camp where they have been made captive, said a
villager named Sultan.
Excepting women and small children all the villagers have gone into hiding to
avoid arrest. Even the nearby villagers have been warned of dire consequences
if they provide shelters to the fleeing villagers of Thet
Kaine Nyar. Many people,
some with all members of their families, had crossed the border over to
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