A Rohingya in Ngakura was extorted 6 Millions Kyats by Nasaka

Qutub Shah

RB News

January 19, 2013

(Edited by Mayu Thitsar)

Maungdaw: Yesterday, at least 10 Nasaka personnel led by Major Win Hlaing, the Head of the Nasaka Region 5 based in Ngakura village, launched a raid on the house of Mohammed Husain s/o Akhtar Kamal, 53, under the pretext of investigating illicit drugs called ‘Yaba Tablets’. Although they found nothing, they arrested him after they themselves put some narcotic drugs deliberately into a cupboard in his house. They, then, detained him until the fulfillment of burning desire of the said major. He was released after being extorted an amount of 6,000,000 Kyats.

At the same day, Nasaka Chief Inspector Tun Sein of Region 2, Kamaung Seit (Fakira Bazaar) arrested a Rohingya, local oil-seller named Jamal s/o Abdul Mabud, 35, and extorted 300,000 Kyats simply because a container with 40 kg kerosene was found in his house, selling which the poor Rohingya earns a meager income to look after his six family members.

“Everyday this Tun Sein targets 2 to 3 Rohingya houses and extorts huge amounts of money on pretext of non-permitted house construction although our houses had been built for 20 years ago or so. That’s even before the formation of Nasaka department. I believe nobody in our country suffering like us. The central government should pay attention on our plight” a villager on the condition of anonymity told to RB News.

There are nearly one hundred Rohingya families reside in Bandolla village tract under Nasaka Region 1, Aung Thapyay. Of them at least 30 families had been forcibly Bengalised nowadays by the authorities using the computerized system after taking them into a restricted place, meanwhile many other families fled.