Date:
Maungdaw, June 20: Nasaka (Burmese Border Security Force)
authority has been extracting money from villagers of Maungdaw
and Buthidaung townships of
After
forming some committees comprising with Nasaka,
Immigration, Army, Military Intelligent (MI), police, Village Peace and
Development Council (VPDC) members showing legal projects such as--- taking
photographs and checking family lists of villagers extracting money , said a
trader from Maungdaw.
When
asked a villager of Naqakura
According
to previous order of Nasaka, to enlist new born
children in government office, the parents of the children went to the
concerned Nasaka and immigration office before. But,
the concerned authorities deliberately delayed to register them. As a result,
most of the new born children were not enlisted appropriately in concerned
departments, said a village elder that refused to mention his name.
Occasionally,
while the concerned authorities checked the family lists and met some new born
children have not been properly registered in their family lists. Accordingly,
the concerned authorities blame to the head of the family and have to pay money
to enlist the new born children in their books, he further added.
The
authorities collect Kyat 500 to 2,000 for photographs per family according to
their family status and to enlist a new born child they have to pay Kyat 1,200
to the concerned authority. Besides, the villagers have to pay Kyat 20,000 to
30,000 per head whose family has a member left for foreign countries for
works. But, they were exempted from the
family list, said a family member whose son left for foreign country for
supporting of his family.
We
are checked at least 2 times in a year by concerned authorities but they never
release Rohingya population data for public to know.
So, there will be some things behind them, said a politician of
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