Narinjara news
ARGUMENT OVER THE ARREST OF A
UNHCR EMPLOYEE
IN SOUTH WESTERN MYANMAR
Maungdaw, 6th February 02: There has been an argument between a
UNHCR officer and a Nasaka immigration and security
forces major on the arrest of a local Muslim UNHCR employee without any
information either to the UNHCR office or to the arrested person's family in
the border town at the south-western state of Myanmar, creating a lot of
speculations among the local residents as well as the international NGOs
working in the area, our correspondent quoted an unnamed source within the
local Nasaka forces.
On 22nd January this year, the
Co-ordinator of UNHCR in the northern part of Maungdaw
Mr Narasima Rao and interpreter U Kyaw Tint
went to Nasaka Area No. 2 headquarter, Aung-ju village, and met a Major Naing Lin, the
commander-in-charge of Nasaka Area 2 for the second
time after their earlier visit on 18th
January.
On asking the major about Jafar Alam,
a UNHCR local employee from Khamaung-seik village, the
major replied that, though Jafar Alam
had a legal wife, he allured and enticed an unmarried girl, making her
pregnant, a serious charge according to the existing
law of
Mr Rao also hoped that, the
case of Jafar Alam be given
proper hearing and investigation, and justice should be meted out to him, or
else, the international community may bring to question the legality of the
legal system prevalent under the State Peace and Development Council junta in
Myanmar.
Jafar Alam is now kept
under custody in the police lock-up room in Maungdaw,
the border town of
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