Yet Another Rohingya's House Raided Arbitrarily

RYM 

RB News 

April 18, 2013

Maung Daw, Arakan - At 8PM, on 17th April 2013, a group of NaSaKa (Border Security Force) from POE camp of Maung Daw raided the house of Zafar Ahmed @Laydu S/o Rashid Ahmed at the village of Lamaar Fara (Awk Rua) in the Italia village tract, Maung Daw. The raid was carried out under the false allegation of involving in narcotic drug business. 

"NaSaKa raided the house of Zafar Ahmed at 8PM. Some NaSaKas were in their uniforms and some were in Police uniform. Normally, in legal raids, Police or NaSaKa etc is accompanied by the respective village administrator. However, for unknown reasons, they were, in this raid, accompanied by an unrelated person, the administrator of Quarter 5. Worse, NaSaKa were from POE Camp but the village is under the commandment of 3 Mile Camp. Although they found nothing in the search, yet they extorted Kyat 200,000 from his wife. And the husband, Zafar, is also under 10-year-imprisonment with false charges" said a villager.

"It was an unofficial, illegal and arbitrary raid. These kinds cases against Rohingyas are very usual today. The authority is just behaving like dacoits" he added.

(Edited by Maung Aurther)