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SPDC Authorities Checking Family Lists in
Buthidaung,
April 04: Family lists of Rohingya people in
A team consisting of two
immigrations, three police and a military captain of the Battalion No.551, in
total 6 members, at first, went to Khandaung village
of Buthidaung Township on 19th March 2005,
was checking the family lists and continued to other villages, said a village
elder.
The team after going to a
village, collects the family lists of each houses, and checks the family
members according to the family lists, after getting out all the family members
from the houses, the village elder further added.
While checking the family lists,
if the team found extra family members out of the family lists, they were
arrested and sent to the police station. The extra members are those who were
cancelled from the lists by the authority before checking family lists as they
were in foreign countries for earning money or other cases at that time.
If the team finds less than the
family members in a family list, the head of the family has to pay as a fine
Kyat 20,000 per one of the absentee. If he fails to pay the money, he is sent
to jail, said a relative of arrestee referring not to mention his name for
security reason.
If the team finds a new born
child that was not enlisted in the family list, the head of the family has to
pay Kyat 10,000 to enroll in the family list. There are many new born children
who were not registered in the household lists, as the concerned authorities
delay to register the new born children, another village elder said.
When asked a village elder said,
“At least two times per year, SPDC authorities come to our village and check
our family lists. Its aims are to count how many Rohingya
people have been reduced by their systematic oppression per year and to extract
money from the villagers.”
This is the first time, after the
Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt’s sack, the
checking of the family lists is similar to former military intelligence (MI).
We believed that the situation of the country would be changed after sacking
General Khin Nyunt but nothing has been changed, said a school teacher.##
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