Report by
MYARF | Written by M.S. Anwar
18th
December 2013 | Northern Maungdaw
On 11th
December 2013, 10 Military personnel from the Sub-MOC base in
Taung-Byo Sub-township (north-western Maungdaw bordering Bangladesh)
raided Rakhine houses at the (Rakhine) village of Thaya-Gone of
Thay-Chaung village tract (in the Taung-Byo sub-township) as the
village is notorious for illegal weapons and drugs smuggling. [(The
Sub-MOC base is operating under MOC (ာငူာငာmilitary
operation command) 15 in Buthdaung Township.] They
stopped four Rakhines suspected to be drug and weapon smugglers at a
sentry post at the village. The military found a few sachets of drugs
and a pistol in the suspects through body cavity search. Therefore,
the military arrested them on the spot and started to interrogate
them.
As the
Rakhine smugglers were interrogated severely, they revealed a name of
a place (between the Rakhine village and a Rohingya village) where
more illegal materials such as weapons and drugs are stored. The
military seized a gun, some pistols, some grenades, around 30 swords
and many packets of drugs after they had raided and searched in the
store-house at the mentioned place. The store-house belong to U Than
Htaike, a rich Rakhine man living in the same village. The military
arrested him as well and took him to the Sub-MOC cantoment base.
When
interrogated,
U Than Htaike admitted that Rakhine
Woman Union (RWU) smuggled the weapons from Bangladesh and stored in
his store-house. Rakhine Woman Union (RWU) is based in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, and led by Daw Saw Mra Raza Lin who is also a
central
executive member of Arakan Liberation Party (ALP). Therefore,
this
led Vice
Regional
Military Commander of Western Command (Du-Taing-Hmuu),
and Military
Operation Commander
(Tet-Maha-Hmuu)
in Buthidaung Township
to
visit the region the
next day (i.e. on 12th
December 2013).
After
a few hours, they left and the military started raiding other
Rakhine
villages such as Kan Pyin and Ye Myat Taung in region 5, northern
Maungdaw. Kan
Pyin is a village where many Rakhine terrorists from both inside and
outside the country gather and plot to carry out terror activities in
Arakan state.
The
above-mentioned village hamlet, Thaya-Gone, comprises around 20
Rakhine households. These are Bengali Rakhines brought in and
established by Gen. Ne Win in 1978. Rohingya' lands and farms were
confiscated by the government and handed over to the then
newly settled Rakhines.
Nowadays,
many Rakhines are getting arrested red-handed
with weapons
all over Arakan especially in Maungdaw township bordering
Bangladesh. The ultimate motive of Rakhine extremists behind killing
Rohingyas and their simultaneou rebellions
against the government of Myanmar is to have an independent Rakhine
nation exclusively belong to Rakhine Buddhists.
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