A Rohingya University Student Killed by Rakhine Extremists

Matali

RB News 

March 12, 2013

(Translated into English by M.S. Anwar) 

Buthidaung, Arakan- Around 12:30 AM today, a Rohingya youth was inhumanely killed by some terrorists from a Rakhine terrorist group in the village of Tha-Yet-Pyin, Buthidaung Township. He was a second year university student and after being killed, his dead body was thrown in the river of Saing-Tin in the township. 

“U Ali, a staff at the department of the forestry, together with his son, Iliyas @ Maung Than Hlaing- a second year university student, went to serve his duty at the forestry security post in Tha-Yet-Pyin. Meanwhile, around 12-Armed-Rakhine Terrorists came down from the side of Saing-Tin waterfall and attacked the father and the son. U Ali managed to escape the murder, while his son, Iliyas, was hacked and stabbed by swords. The terrorists tightened his hands and legs as he was taking his last breathe and threw him in the river of Saing-Tin” said a villager of Tha-Yet-Pyin. 

The dead body of the inhumanely and brutally killed, Iliyas, has not been found out yet. 

“The twelve Rakhine terrorists have been identified as Aung San Thein from Immigration Department, Buthidaung Tsp., Than Tin from Settlement and Land Records Department, Hla Tuan, Tin Soe @Thein Soe and Aung Myint from the the Department of Forestry, Buthidaung Tsp., Zarni Aung and Nay Lin from the Department of Agriculture, Buthidaung Tsp., San Thein from the department of the General Administration of Buthidaung Tsp and other four terrorists are unidentified yet. Their leader was the above-mentioned Aung San Thein” he continued. 

Majority of those who are, at the moment, in the front line of attacking innocent Rohingyas in order to create a third-time violence against Rohingyas are Rakhines working at different departments in the government. Of all, Rakhines working at the immigration department are the worst and taking the front seat to trigger violence. 

Since President Thein Sein gave green signal to root out Rohingyas on 7th July 2012, Rakhine terrorists have often been committing massacres of Rohingyas if they (Rohingyas) are found lonely and isolated all over Arakan. And their dead bodies are destroyed to conceal the crimes. 

Since the central government of Myanmar set the Rakhine terrorists free without taking any actions against them, the lives and properties of Rohingya civilians are under extremely insecure condition. Rohingyas in Buthidaung Township are living in grave fear because of the lawlessness in the region and the barbaric killings often carried out by Rakhine terrorists.