Breaking News: Forced Registration of Rohingyas as Bengali Resumed

M.S. Anwar 

RB News 

February 15, 2013 

Maung Daw, Arakan - The forced registration of Rohingyas as Bengali has been resumed in the village of Khala Defa and its surrounding villages, the northern most part of Maung Daw Tsp. Today, the NaSaKa (border security force) forced around 200 Rohingya families to sign them as Bengali. 

“This forced registration of Rohingyas as Bengali was ceased after the costly defiance from Rohingya community and the international condemnations. Instead, since then, the authority (i.e. NaSaKa) has been carrying out an operation like their regular and decades-long operations on Rohingya populations. But it was all to lessen the pressures upon them. 

No sooner were the regular operations against Rohingyas coming to the end than the forced registrations as Bengali were resumed. The so-registration is with the clear intention of the wiping out an identity of a people, Rohingya. Till date, around 200 Families were forced to sign and registered as Bengalis. All the finger-prints (all those of legs and hands) are being taken by means of the computerized bio-metric system. Threats to lives are being posed to those who refuse to sign” said a villager on the condition of anonymity. 

On the other hand, according to some reliable inside reports, Rakhine extremists and terrorists are now planning to wipe out most of Rohingyas from Arakan right before Thin-Gyan (the Water Festival of Buddhists in April). That’s why Dr. Aye Maung, the chairman of Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) and the one of the main culprits behind the Rohingya Genocide, has recently said in the parliament that there could be possibilities of resuming violence in Arakan for the third time.