Narinjara news
Clash with police
leave several Burmese Muslim refugees hurt
Cox’s Bazaar, 23 Sep. 03: At
least fifty Burmese Muslim refugees were injured in a clash with police on
Sunday in a refugee camp in southeastern part of
According to UNHCR-run Burmese refugee camp officials at Kutupalong
under Cox’s Bazaar district, close to the western Burmese border, the clash
followed the arrest of two Rohingya camp-dwellers Azim
Ullah and Jasim Uddin. The police arrested the two on allegations of
being involved in criminal activities.The refugees
tried to snatch away the arrested when they got locked into an hour-long clash
with the police and paramilitary troops.
In the aftermath fifty-eight Rohingya refugees suffered injuries while the
police demanded that four policemen were also injured though they named only
three.
Seven women members of the refugee camp were arrested while most of the men
fled to avoid arrest and police harassment.
The refugee camp houses about seven thousand Rohingyas in makeshift thatched
huts who are waiting to be repatriated to their homes in
“We don’t want to go back to our homes as the Burmese junta cannot guarantee us
of citizens’ rights” a resident of the camp said. He added, ”
even if we go back we don’t get the right to earn our own livelihood like other
non-Muslim residents there. We can’t even travel to the nearest town without
the compulsory ‘pass’ from local village chiefs.” #