Arakan News Updates: NaSaKa (Border Security Force) Threatened Rohingya Women
M.S. Anwar
RB News
December 7, 2012
Maung Daw, Arakan: We reported you here [1] on 5th December 2012 that NaSaKa torched around 40 Rohingya Shops at Baggona village, Maung Daw, Arakan state and why. Of the 40 shops torched, some shops were totally burnt down and some others were partially burnt. The following day (i.e. 6th December 2012), NaSaKa from the mentioned camp raided the village and arrested 30 or so Rohingya women because Rohingya men were hiding. Later, in the evening, they were released after imposing threats to lie. They were threatened, upon investigations on the case by any higher officials, to lie that their men have torched the shops by themselves instead of saying what has really happened.
“Yesterday morning, NaSaKa from camp base 15, Region
(Nay Myay) 7, raided the village and arrested about 30 Rohingya women. They
were locked up in the school all the day. In the evening, they were released
after threats had been imposed against. They threatened, if any higher
authority come and investigate the case, to lie that Rohingya men have torched
the shops by themselves and not to say that the shops were torched by NaSaKa. If
they don’t follow it, they will later be persecuted.
Besides, they looted money and some valuable assets
totally worth Kyat 22 Lakhs from a Rohingya house in the village. The owner of
the house is reported to be Hazara (age 49), the wife of Jamal. And today, Head
of the NaSaKa Administration (Htana-Chouk) came to the village and called on
the villagers for a meeting. But for the fear being persecuted as usual in the
name of the meetings, the villagers dared not attend the meeting. But he
assured through Mr. Jahangir, a teacher and MP, that Rohingyas will be safe in
the meeting which will again be held on the day after tomorrow. Yet, Rohingyas
in the village are still afraid of attending the meeting” said a Rohingya Elder
from a nearby village on the condition of anonymity.
This is the Rule of Law in Burma. And this is the
justice. A whole community is being wiped out and the world is not taking
effective actions to save these people yet.
