KALADAN NEWS
Dated:
SPDC Orders ‘Population Control’ in
Maungdaw,
May 18: The State Peace & Development Council (SPDC)
of
In a recent statement, SPDC
observed that ‘northern Arakan is one of the most
over populated areas in
“Due to over population,
agro-products of the area are not enough to feed the people and there may be
severe economic crisis in the future in the region that will bring people into
acute poverty,” an official with the SPDC said.
SPDC statement suggested,
from now on, people will have to work towards fighting the future population
growth.
Suggested processes of
‘population growth control’ are: obtaining official permission for marriage,
applying to the Township Peace & Development Council (TPDC) through
respective Village Peace & Development Council (VPDC), Nasaka
(Burmese border security forces) and other concerned authorities.
Polygamy of any sort will
be seriously dealt with, the statement noted.
In case of a divorce or the
death of a spouse, one will have to wait for 3 years before getting remarried.
For new couples, marriage prerequisites (as age) are set to 18 years for
females and 22 years for males.
There is also a bar on
taking more than 3 children.
However, these restrictions
are reportedly dodged by bribing the concerned authorities with hard cash or
fuel shares (petrol/diesel/kerosene).
‘Population growth’
restrictions are complimented with restrictions imposed on free movement
(imposed earlier).
Township Peace and
Development Councils (TPDC) are now ‘all busy bribery and corruption’ centering
marriage permissions and travel documents, the official added.
These moves are part of a
larger ‘Buddization and Burmanisation’
of Arakan (a Burmese state majorly
populated with Rohingyas), alleged Rohingya activists. A member of the civil society in Maungdaw concurred.
Reportedly, Buddhists from
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