KALADAN NEWS

 

Date: April 30, 2005

 

 

A Teenaged Girl Raped in Northern Arakan 

 

Maungdaw, April 30: Burmese police accompanied by local Rakhaing youths committed rape against a Rohingya teenaged girl in Maungdaw Township of Arakan State, Burma, said a villager who recently came to Bangladesh for medical treatment.

 

The victim is identified as Begum (not real name), 16, daughter of Mohammed Ishaq hailed from Ghunapara village of Maungdaw Township.

 

The rapists are also identified as a group of policemen numbering in three led by Sub-Inspector U Maung Maung Kyaw, in cooperation of with three other Rakhaing youths from the same village, he further said.

 

On May 30, 2005, a group police numbering in 7 including 3 local Rakhine youths headed by Sub-Inspector Maung Maung Kyaw went to the victim’s house and forcibly picked up Begum out of her house in front of her parents without saying anything. While her parents and her herself resisted the police, the police officer said, “She is only carried to the police camp for some queries. I am the responsible man for her full security and she will be returned home in time. However, her parents did not dare to halt her daughter to go with them, said a relative of the victim preferring not to mention his name.

 

In fact, they didn’t bring her to the police camp, but, she was brought to nearby field and  raped her there till mid night and kept her on the roadside in senseless condition, said another villager from the village.

 

The next day, early in the morning, villagers found her senseless on the roadside and took her to the Myoma Hospital of Maungdaw for medical treatment. While she got back her sense after taking treatment, she said, “A group of police and Rakhaing youths rape me routinely till mid night. They forcibly bring me from my house to ask some questions in the police camp but they do not take me to the camp and rape me routinely with gun point. However, medics of the hospital give good treatment for my relief.”

 

On information, the village elders dared to put a complaint against the rapists to the concerned authority of the police camp but they did not take any attention. Later, all the villagers put a complaint to the State Police authority against the culprits again.

 

As a result, the police officer Maunag Muang Kyaw together with a police and a Rakhaing youth were arrested on 10th April 2005. But two policemen and two other Rakhaing youths were freed from the arrest said a local man who also came to Bangladesh for personal matter.

 

Police and Hlutin (riot police) in the local camps are mostly Rakhaings, who deliberately commit to robbery, rape, extortion and etc against ethnic Rohingya by different means after the sack of Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt, though we try to bring peace and justice in the area, restoring the ancient history of Rakhaing-Rohingya unity, said an elite Rohingya from Maungdaw. # #

 

 

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