Police and Military Torture and Arrest Two Rohingyas In Maungdaw For Claiming Rohingya
RB News
March 31, 2014
Maungdaw, Arakan – The police and military have been torturing two
Rohingyas from Phaung Saik hamlet in Tha Man Thar village tract of
Maungdaw Township in Arakan state since 8 am this morning according to
locals.
Today at 8 am a group of enumerators arrived to Phaung Saik hamlet in
Tha Man Thar village tract along with 15 Hlun Htaine police and 15
military men. Although the group has to conduct the census by visiting
house by house according to the rule of census, they brought all
villagers in one place and asked the people to raise their hands up if
there anyone who is going to claim Rohingya. All people put their hands
up once they were asked. A Rohingya man was then pulled from the crowd
by police, and another was pulled by a captain from military. Both
Rohingya men were asked who instructed them to claim Rohingya. The men
responded that they are Rohingyas by birth, and that their forefathers
are Rohingyas.
Both of the men were seriously beaten by police and military men in
front of the crowd. Then they were brought to the high school located in
the village and they were placed into wooden stocks. The military
captain who beat the Rohingya men is from Battalion No. (536). The men
are still being torturing by the military and police as we compile the
report. The names of the men are: Bodi Alam S/o Abu Alam and Habas Ahmed
S/o Alimodon.
