2nd April 2014
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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.
According
to a latest report, at the displaced camps, officials from WFP, UNDP,
UNFPA and UNOCHA, international reporters, locals and the displaced
Rohingyas had a meeting afterwards.
A
conversation between a Police personnel and a Rohingya child at the
camps that you should read:
Police:
What’s your name?
Child:
Maung Rohingya (‘Maung’ is used as a title for a boy in Burmese
as Mr. Ms. MS are used in English).
Police:
What’s your father’s name?
Child:
U Rohingya (‘U’ is a title for man)
Police:
What’s your mother’s name?
Child:
Daw Rohingya (‘Daw’ is title for woman)
Police:
What’s your ethnicity?
Child:
Rohingya
Police:
What’s your religion?
Child:
Rohingya Islam
And
the Police officer left the place saying “even you children have
become Rohingya-maniac.” (Ro Myochit Report)
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A crew of Sittwe Township Administrator, 100 Military, 300 Police
personnel, 300 Census Enumerators and others arrived at DarPaing
IDP Camps and Khon Dugga IDP camps in Sittwe (Akyab) township at
8:00AM today. They inquired the people at the camps of their
ethnicity. When the people replied ‘Rohingya,’ they left the
place no further questions.
They
left these IDP camps for the camps at the village of Bawdu Pa
at 11:00AM. They asked the same thing to the people, the people
replied ‘Rohingya.’ The crew was just sitting and doing nothing.
Therefore, a Rohingya asked a member of crew “why are not you
asking any more questions and filling up the form?” The crew member
answered nothing. The crew of the enumerators left the Bawdu Pa camps
at 2:15PM today. (Saed Arkani Report)
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2-
Pauktaw Township, Arakan State
-This
morning, a group of Township Administrator, Township Police Cheif,
Township Immigration Chief , Military, Security Force and Census
Enumerators arrived the IDP camps at the village of Nget-Chaung.
Then, they summoned four incharges of Rohingya IDP representing the
people from four different villages. They said “we came here to
carry out population. Do you agree to be registered as Bengali?”
They replied “we have to discuss with our people in that regard and
will get you back soon.” Incharges of Rohingya IDP discussed with
the people. People didn’t agree to be registered as Bengali. So,
the incharges said “our people disagree to be registered as Bengali
but only Rohingya.” So, the census team left without carrying out
the census. (HD Report)
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3-
Maungdaw Township, Arakan State
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This morning, a group of census enumerators, military and security
force visited the Rohingya village of Du Nyaung Pin Gyi (Shaira
Fara) in southern Maungdaw. They entered in three houses and
inquired the women in the houses of the names of the heads of the
households. The asked the group whether or not they would regiter
them as Rohingya. The group replied that the didn’t have permission
to do so. The women, in turn, said they would not provide their
family details. Therefore, as usual, the goup left the village
without carrying out census.
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In the morning, another group of the cenus enumerators, 25 military
personnel, two lorry loads of Security Force (Hlun Htein) entered the
village of Duchiradan (Kilaidaung) to survey census on the
villagers. [Duchiradan is a village, where hundreds of Rohingyas
(Children, Women, Men, Olds alike) were massacred and households were
destroyed by Rakhine (Magh) terrorists in cooperation with Security
Force and Police in January 2014.] Military chased a few people as
they entered the village. The people fled towards the nearby village
of Gawdusara.
The
census enumerators asked the women in many households to provide the
details of the households. The women “if you register us as
Rohingya according to the standard set by the government, then we
will provide. Else, we won’t.” In some households, they try to
squeeze some details from their members asking “at least give us
some information first. “But the members asked back “you write
down ‘Rohingya’ first, then we will provide.” Thus, all of them
left soon afterwards (around 12:00 noon of the day).
Then,
they visited the western part of Duchiradan and received the same
responses from the people. Besides, a number of Rohingya children
chanted “We are Rohingya….We are Rohingya….” before the
group. (Maung Naing Soe Report)
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One crew of census enumerators together with security force visited
in each of the following Rohingya villages in northern Maungdaw this
morning.
(1)
Ngakura (Nagpura)
(2)
Dudan (Lo Daing) (where 7 Rohingya shops were burnt down recently)
(3)
Ye Dwin Pyin (Kowarbil)
In
every village, they asked Rohingyas if they wanted to be registered
as Bengali. Rohingyas demanded to be registered as Rohingya.
Therefore, the crews left the respective villages. (BH MYARF
report)
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4-
Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State
This
morning, a group of 35 military members, 35 Police Force, 35 Security
Force, 35 Immigration officers and 35 census enumerators visited the
village of Kaung Douk (Hon Daul) of Kyauktaw township. Instead
of summoning and gathering people in one place and asking their
details as they did in earlier days, today, they visited from a house
to a house. But the census team refused Rohingyas to register as
‘Rohingya,’ Rohingyas, too, didn’t provide their details.
Therefore, the team left the villages like any other Rohingya
villages in Arakan. (Kadir Report)
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5-
Buthidaung Township, Arakan State
Around
8:30AM today, a team of census enumerators together with Police and
Security Force visited the village of Pyaung
Chaung (Lo Dyin Fara) to survey census on
the villagers. As usual, Rohingyas were not allowed to be registered
as Rohingyas. Hence, Rohingyas refused to provide their family datae.
And the team left the village around 12:30PM without carrying out
their task. In other villages in the township, similar situations
took place. (BH MYARF Report)
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