Breaking News: Five Internally Displaced Rohingyas Shot in Sittwe (Akyab)
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M.S. Anwar
RB News
December 01, 2012
Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan: At 4:20 PM today, five internally displaced Rohingyas at Thay-Chaung Refugee Camp were gunshot by Police. These IDPs have been taking refuge there since the state-sponsored ethnic cleansing against them started in June 2012.
RB News
December 01, 2012
Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan: At 4:20 PM today, five internally displaced Rohingyas at Thay-Chaung Refugee Camp were gunshot by Police. These IDPs have been taking refuge there since the state-sponsored ethnic cleansing against them started in June 2012.
A Rohingya Elder from
Sittwe said “the Police, all of sudden and without informing in advance, came
to the Thay-Chaung Refugee Camp and started to force internally displaced
Rohingyas (IDRs) to shift to Say Thar Ma (Sandama) Camp located in a remote,
isolated and deserted area. In the area, it is very difficult to get access to
clean water, food and medical facilities and transportation is also very bad.
When IDRs had refused to
move there fearing the desperate situation of the place, it led to heating
disputes and arguments between Police and IDRs. Police, without any hesitation
opened fired at them. Five Rohingyas were seriously injured. Of them, a person
called Shafi Rahman S/o Khala Meah (28) from Narzi quarter Block 3 is in
critical condition fighting for his life in State General Hospital as the bullet
remains deep inside his chest.
The other four injured people are:
The other four injured people are:
- Ziabul Haque S/o Hamid Hussein (25) from Narzi Quarter Block 1
- Mawnura Begum D/o Mohammed Rafique (23) from Narzi Quarter Block 3
- Salim S/o Bodi Rahman (22) from Narzi Quarter Block 4
- Anwar Begum D/o Ahmed Hussein (20) from Narzi Quarter Block 11.”
Elsewhere in Arakan, “Hla Maung@ Rahmatullah
S/o Fawzil, a Rohingya figurehead from the village of Khadir Bil (Nyaung
Chaung) of Maung Daw Tsp, was killed NaTaLa Rakhine extremists from a nearby
village. He is the head of 100 households in the village and a Fire-Brigade
Staff in Maung Daw. Besides, he works as security guard in the big yard owned
by the judge of Maung Daw Tsp. His body was cut into five pieces” said Rahim
from Maung Daw. Besides, it was also reported that the chairman of this village
and his other three companions were sentenced to 10-year-imprisonment. They
were arrested on 1st July 2012 for not handing over some 100
Rohingyas, from the village, to be killed in lock-ups by the authority.
So, they are carrying out nothing but a slow GENOCIDE against Rohingyas and Kamans through various means.
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