Narinjara News
Killing of police officer heightens tensions in northern Maung Daw
Maung Daw, September 24: Tensions between the locals and the
authority are running high in the northern part of
On the 2nd of September, a group of local Muslim villagers
from the Thakan Nya village
attacked a police office, Sub- inspector Ran Aung and Private Hla Myo. The two are from the Myawadee
Post in the Region of Nasaka the border security of
The villagers accused the two police officers for attempting
to rape a girl from the village, who was attending the cattle. Sub-inspector
Ran Aung was killed, and Hla Myo was seriously hurt.
The uncle of the girl, Chowbe Allum
was also seriously wounded since Ran Aung fired a shot into the crowd who were
gathering to attack him, a police officer said in the area.
Due to Nasaka officials trying to
arrest those assumed to be involved in the incident, schools, shops and even
mosques have closed.
“No students come to schools. No one comes out to buy from
the shops, and no one attends the mosques. Everyone is on edge, wandering what
will happen next. We should close the school, since this is a very tense
situation” says a school teacher.
The girl who was supposed to have been almost raped by the
police officers, Amina Khatu
(aged 13) and the Secretary of the Village Peace and Development Council, Nobee Hussein have fled from the region.
“People living in the areas guarded by this Myawadee Post are really scared and all fields are even
left unattended. If there is something wrong, Nasaka
officers punish whoever they think may be involved, whether they were really
involved in it or not. That is why people don’t want to go outside,” said a
villager.
Since Amina has run away, it is
impossible to know whether the two police officers really tried to commit rape
or not. However, Nasaka has arrested some people who
were thought to have been involved in the killing of Ran Aung.
Last year, four police officers from Lonne
Done were also killed for having sex with a Muslim
prostitute, who herself was also decapitated. The culprits escaped to
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