Security Force Extort Money from Rohingyas under Different Pretexts

By CR MYARF

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan state- Security Force (HlunHteins) extorts money from Rohingyas as they pass through different check-posts at various high ways in Maungdaw. Besides, they extort money from local Rohingyas under other various pretexts.

Three Rakhine Extremists Attack a Rohingya in Buthidaung

By CR MYARF

Monday, April 28, 2014

A Still in Buthidaung Township

Buthidaung, Arakan state- Mohammed Yunus, administrator of the village of Du-Ou-Thay-Ma, was attacked by three Rakhine (Magh) terrorists on 25^th February 2014. His brother rushed to rescue him but by then, he had already been in unconscious state.

Compilation: Reports on Atrocities against Rohingyas in Arakan

Compiled by M.S. Anwar

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Rohingya IDP at makeshift tents in Sittwe (Akyab), Myanmar. The Ethnic Minority have been victims of institutionalized persecution and state-sponsored genocide. (Photo: VOA) 

1-    Confinements of Rohingyas in Rathedaung Township

Rohingyas in Rathedaung Township are facing severe crises for their survival due to confinements and travel restrictions by authority. They are unable to travel to markets in the downtown of Rathedaung to buy foods, medicines and other necessary stuffs. Thus, on 23^rd April 2014, some Rohingyas from the village of Aaga-Taung in Rathedaung were travelling to the bazaar of Nyaung Village of Buthidaung Township by an engine boat. However, Security Force at the village didn’t allow them to step on the land and forced them to go back. (Report by CR MYARF)

A Rakhine Building House by Intruding into Mosque Premise

HD MYARF

Friday April 11, 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan- Daw Than Than, wife of a Rakhine police officer in Kyeing Chaung of norrthern Maungdaw, is building properties by intruding into mosque premise. 

Compilation of Reports on Atrocities against Rohingya in Arakan

Compiled by M.S. Anwar

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Rohingyas have been the victims of genocidal violence by Government-sponsored Rakhine extremists

1- Rakhine Administrator Extort Money from Rohingya and Seize their Properties

a) (Maungdaw, Arakan State)

U Kyaw Sein (a Rakhine extremist), Administrator of the village of Kyauk Pandu in southern Maungdaw is extorting money from Rohingya villagers and seizing their properties by abusing his power.

Rakhine Terrorists Threaten to Attack Rohingyas in Buthidaung

By HD MYARF

Friday, April 11, 2014

Rakhine Terrorists in Action. Arakan Liberation Army runs its operation from Bandorbon of Bangladesh and some camps based in Indian territory. (Photo: parisvisionnews.com)

Buthidaung, Arakan- Rakhine (Magh) terrorists have posed an open threat against the Rohingya people living in the village of Payin Latt (Fouy Mali) on 8^th April 2014.

Security Force Extort Money from Rohingya by Means of Torture

Security Force Extort Money from Rohingya by Means of Torture

By CR MYARF

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan- Security Force from a camp based at the village of Kyauk-Pandu, southern Maungdaw, are extorting money from Rohingyas of the village and of nearby villages of by means of tortures.

Myanmar Military Gang-Rape Rohingya Woman in Buthidaung

 

HD MYARF

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Buthidaung, Arakan- Myanmar Military gang-raped Rohingya woman at Paya-Pyin-Aung-Pa monastery of Nyaung Chaung village tract of Buthidaung township on 6^th April 2014. Locals say the woman is still in critical condition.

“Around 1PM on 6^th April 2014, Military staying temporarily at Buddhist monstery in the village of Paya-Pyin-Aung-Pa, Buthidaung township, arrested a Rohingya woman called Gul Bahar (Age 40) hailing from the said village. She was forcibly taken to the monastery. There, they tight her hands and legs. Then, they raped her one after another until the midnight.

Rohingya Worried about Ongoing Illegal Firearms Trainings in Rakhine Villages

CR MYARF

Tuesday, April 2014

Some hand-made guns captured in the monastery of Allu-Daw-Byi, Myoma Kayintan, Maungdaw (Photo: CR)

Maungdaw, Arakan- Eye-Witnesses say there are many Rakhines (Maghs) going under extensive Firearms Trainings in the village of Thayet-Oak (Maangala), northern Maungdaw. The villagers are worried about a possible terrorists’ attack by Rakhine extremists.

A Pregnant Rohingya Woman Die due to Lack of Medical Treatment

M.S. Anwar

Monday, April 7, 2014

Noor Begum died due to the lack of medical treatments (Photo: Headway Group)

Pauktaw, Arakan- A Rohingya woman, admitted to Sittwe General Hospital for her baby delivery on 5^th April 2014, died due to the lack of medical treatments. The similar kind of cases have already happened tens of times. Hence, local Rohingyas view that the authority in the hospital deliberately ignore or give the wrong injections to kill Rohingya patients admitted to the hospital.

Day 7 & 8: Rohingya and Population Census in Arakan

Monday, April 7, 2014

1- Sittwe (Akyab) Township, Arakan State

- Starting at 8AM on 5^th April 2014, a group of 200 Police Force, 100 Military, 250 Census Enumerators, immigration officials and other respective authorities visited the villages of Ala-Sin (Alsang), Nga-Point-Gyi (Nappong), Nga-Point-Shay (Mush Khylla Fara) and Doon-Pyin-south (Shabok) one village after another.

They just inquired of the villagers of their ethnicity. As people replied ‘Rohingya,’ the group left the respective villages without carrying out the census. In Doon-Pyin-North, they encountered a Kaman family and the cenus team completed all of the 41 questions and census enumeration itself. (Saed Arkani Report)

Rohingya Face Travel Restrictions for their Ethnic Identity Claim

By CR MYARF

6^thApril 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan- Border Trade Department in Maungdaw started restricting local Rohingyas from travelling to Bangladesh for their ethnic identity claim in the ongoing population census since 3^rd April 2014.

Rakhine Terrorists Brutally Beat Up a Rohingya Youth

M.S. Anwar

April 5, 2014

Shafee Alam (23) was beaten up by a group of Rakhine (Magh) terrorists while he was fishing. (Photo: Aung Aung )

Kyauktaw, Arakan- Around 9PM on 4^th April 2014, Rakhine (Magh) terrorists brutally beat up a23-year-old Rohingya in the village of Pisi-Paik-Thay (Nidam), Kyauktaw township.

Day 6: Rohingya and Population Census in Arakan

 

4^th April 2014

rvisiontv.com

4^th April 2014

Sittwe (Akyab) Township, Arakan State

At 10 O’ clock this morning, Rakhine state immigration deputy head, U Kyaw Yein Oo, and other officers visited the village of Aung Mingalar Quarter, Sittwe (Akyab) township. He met some 30 Rohingya seniors and some Rohingyas to discuss on the population census. Rohingya seniors greeted and welcomed the officers. After that, U Kyaw Yein Oo, played his own mind games saying “we will come here to survey population census very soon. We will either keep blank or write down ‘Muslim’ under the ethnic category in the census form. Even President of the country officially says that there is no Rohingya in Myanmar. So, we will not register you as Rohingya. Yet if you don’t want to participate, we will not force you to do so. But if you don’t take part, you may face with some bad consequences afterwards.”

Alert: Rakhine Militants Intrude into Maungdaw

M.S. Anwar

4^th April 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan- Three groups of armed Rakhine (Magh) militants have intruded into Rohingya areas in northern Maungdaw in the recent few days accroding to eye-witnesses.

Day 5: Rohingya and Population Census in Arakan

4^th April 2014

1- Maungdaw Township Arakan State

- On 3^rd April 2014, census enumerators together with military and security force visited the villages of Lay Kun Dan in the morning and Mong Tola in the afternoon resepectively. Both the said villages fall under Alay Than Kyaw (Haisshu Rata) village tract, southern Maungdaw. The team left the villages as Rohingyas demanded to allow them to claim their ethnic identity.

- Meanwhile, around the same time, another group visited the villages of Fayzi of Quarter 2 and China Fatti of Quarter 1, Maungdaw. And yet another group visited Shitaylla village of Myoma Kayintan (shidda fara) village tract. Similar situations took place. (Tun Win Report)

Rakhine Militants Severely Beat a Rohingya Farmer

By MYARF

3^rd April 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan- A Rakhine (Magh) armed group inhumanely struck a Rohingya farmer on his way back from his farm in the village of Ye-Nok-Nga-Sar of northern Maungdaw around 2:30PM on 2^nd April 2014.

International NGO Delegates Meet Displaced Rohingya Yesterday

M.S. Anwar

3^rd April 2014

Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan- Delegates from UNOCHA, WFP, UNDP and UNFPA met internally displaced people at the camps in the village of Thakkay Pyin of Sittwe (Akyab) township around 9AM yesterday. They discussed on the severe humanitarian crises being faced by Rohingyas in the camps.

Day 4: Rohingya and Population Census in Arakan

2nd April 2014 

1- Sittwe (Akyab) Township, Arakan State

This morning, a team of census enumerators, of course with big group of security force and military as usual, visited the Rohingya IDP camps in the village of Thakkay-Pyin of Sittwe (Akyab) township. Authority threatened the displaced Rohingyas “if you agree to be registered as Bengali, we will provide you food and other necessary rations right now. Otherwise, we will cut off your channels to foods and medicines permanently.” Hence, to which an incharge of the camps replied “where on earth are we having enough food now? We are starving. The power of feeding someone or keeping someone starved is not in the hands of human beings but God. If you want to cut off channels providing rations to us, then do it. We won’t accept ‘Bengali,’ a term that is not related to us. We had better die as Rohingyas.” Therefore, the team left the village without surveying the census.

Rakhine Extremists Using Corpses to Destabalize Rohingya Areas

Sindhi Khan and CR

2^nd April 2014

Northern Maungdaw, Arakan- Rakhine (Magh) extremists in northern Maungdaw are using two dead bodies of Rakhines in different regions in northern Maungdaw to create unrest and trigger violence against Rohingyas again.

Military Extort Money from Rohingyas for Defending Properties

Sindhi Khan

1^st April 2014

Maungdaw, Arakan- A Myanmar military battalion commander is squeezing money from the villagers of Thit-Taw-Nar-Kwa-Sun and Razar Bill (Nan-Ra-Raing) in region 2, northern Maungdaw, for saving a home belongs to a Rohingya from getting torched by a group of extremist Buddhists.

Day 3: Rohingya and Population Census in Arakan

1st April 2014 

1- Maungdaw Township, Arakan State

Around 7:30AM today (on 1^st April 2014), a group of 100 Security Force (Hlun Hteins) and Police, 50 Rakhine (Magh) Census Enumertors and 20 Rohingya interpreters entered the village of Baggona in southern Maungdaw to survey census. They visited some households at the western Baggona and had conversations with the heads of the households.

The heads of the households asked “why are you here?”

The census group replied “we are here to survey census.”

Then, the heads said “we would take part in the census only when you are doing it according to the law and standard set by the government and give us the right to identify our own ethnic identity ‘Rohingya.”

To which the census group replied “we don’t have permission to do that yet. We will get the permission and come back.”

The heads of the households politely responded “we will warmly be welcoming you then. Thank you.”